Plumbing Inspections
What does it take to be a residential home inspector? The
time it takes to get cards printed up at Kinko's! Remember,
these are not inspectors from the city's department of
building and safety. These are private entities with no
licensing or regulations. Check out their contracts and how
they usually absolve themselves from not finding costly
problems in your plumbing system that you paid them to find.
Although there are a few home inspectors that have an
impressive general knowledge of building codes, it has been
our multi-decade experience that when it comes to safety
related plumbing codes and sewer and sewer lateral video
inspections, most residential home inspectors are usually
both negligent and guilty of malpractice.
As an example, most homes original sewers and sewer laterals
attaching to the city sewer street in the center of the
street are on their way to failing. This is analogous to car
engines which don't last forever. Sewers and especially
private residential sewer laterals can cost in the thousands
of dollars to replace with the required city permits.
Before you sell or put an offer in on property, wouldn't you
like to know if the sewer systems will give you decades of
service or shortly result in thousands of dollars of badly
needed replacement services because the drains are about to
catastrophically fail? Would this information affect your
offer, or would this information assist you in having the
seller resolve the problem instead of you finding out about
it after it is too late and spending thousands of your own
money?
Almost every property we've been retained to perform a
plumbing inspection upon we've found plumbing code
violations and often times plumbing safety related hazards.
This even includes after properties have been giving a clean
bill of plumbing health by home inspectors.
ALWAYS have a plumbing professional inspect your property's
potable water system and plumbing drain and sewer system
with a video camera all the way out to the city sewer
connection in the street before you buy or sell a property
so you don't get stuck with retaining us for procedures like
this new homeowner did in this photo.
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| Your technician was
outstanding! He was prompt, paid attention to his
work-knew what he was doing and it showed. -
N. Shaffer |
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