Home and Structure Inspections

Work was completed promptly and a report (with pictures) provided before the end of the day.

We originally hired Tom to inspect the crawl space under the house in which we were closing on. Our lender had requested an inspection of the foundation. Tom was very willing to help us out and even offered a complete home inspection. We had already received a home inspection months before this, but we thought it wouldn't hurt for someone else to take a look at it since the home was over 100 years old. From our previous home inspection we were told that the waves in the roof were okay and that we had another 10 years left on it. Also we were told that the bowing in the floors were okay and that it was just because of the age of the home and that the foundation was solid and nothing to worry about. When Tom looked at the house he really helped us out. He went in the crawl space and checked out the entire foundation and let us know that the foundation needs quite a bit of work. He was very honest with us and made sure we knew what we might be getting into with the house. He even warned us that it probably would not be passed by our lender which was very crucial. Tom also showed us all the bowing in the floors and let us know how concerning this was (which was completely different from what were were previously told by a different home inspector). Tom also went over the roof with us and warned us of the waves of the roof and that it might take a substantial amount of money to fix (this is the same roof that we were told previously was fine and that we had 10 more years on). Tom even took his time to give us suggestions and went over additional areas of the house where it was shifting because of the foundation, which were things that were not pointed out to us by our previous inspector. He actually did us a huge favor and let us stop the inspection early and dropped the price of the inspection from $500 to $250 while still giving us a lot of information on the house. To put it into comparison, I was quoted by 3 other inspectors $275 just to check the foundation in the crawl space and nothing else. We paid Tom $250 and got the foundation inspected along with information on the roof, flooring, electrical work, furnace, plumbing, and overall structure of the home. We ended up canceling the loan on this home thanks to Tom! When we find our next home we will definitely be hiring Tom for the home inspection!!

Concerns or problem areas werected found and discussed with me...I was given a book with all the details and then emailed a summary and pics.