Home Inspections Halton Hills

Professional Home Inspections for residential and commercial clients, as well as real estate professionals in and around Halton Hills and the Halton region.

Halton Hills Home Inspections is or core business. We have the experience of hundreds of residences ranging from very large multi million dollar estates to basic housing and condo units. We have extensive experience including country properties with septic systems and wells. We are also very familiar with older homes with stone or brick foundations, knob and tube wiring, galvanized water lines and asbestos.

Home inspection is a unique discipline which requires special training, knowledge and communication skills that differ substantially from those of other building professionals in Halton Hills area.

A home inspection is an opinion of the present condition and safety of your Halton Hills home based on a visual inspection of the readily accessible components of the building, weather permitting. We endeavour to identify all evident major repairs and as many minor items as are possible in the time and inspection conditions available based on a visual inspection of your Halton Hills home using the operating controls available to an occupant. We provide our best guidance and advice on the expected costs for any major remediation of your Halton Hills home.
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We provide digital photos to confirm the existing condition & equipment and to provide a quick visual summary of our findings and recommendations. The majority of home inspectors in Halton Hills do not provide this!

We prefer the client attend and remain with our Halton Hills home inspector during the survey portion, however we review the home on a laptop photo by photo with the client to ensure we have communicated thoroughly and that the client understands the issue.

We use digital thermometers to measure water temperature, ambient temperature, electronic moisture meters to measure the degree of moisture behind wall and floor surfaces and hydrometers for interior humidity.
We use 10 power telephoto lens digital cameras to photograph areas which are difficult to access during the home inspections in Halton Hills.

Depending on the visual clues discovered we will scan your Halton Hills home with a thermal imaging camera to look for significant insulation voids, or areas where mold may have developed.

We provide a home owners manual (not a repair book), which explains how the electro mechanical systems within the home function, including the primary construction of the excavation, foundation and framed structure.

We provide a CD with all of our photos, handouts and construction diagrams to the client.

We provide a cost estimator, (updated every 18 months) covering every imaginable renovation or repair to the home in order for the client to determine the approximate cost of future renovations or repairs.

We can provide, air sampling (mold testing), radon gas testing, and a complete thermal imaging report for heat loss reduction at optional cost.

We remain available to our Halton Hills Home Inspection clients for future support should they wish to make significant remodeling or changes to the home.

We are available to inspect the work performed on your Halton Hills home by contractors following major renovations or additions or to resolve single issue problems such as leaking roofs, wet basements, electrical problems, foundation and wall cracking.

The entire Ontario home inspection report on your Halton Hills property is delivered to the client on site at conclusion, the client does not have to download and review the report in isolation without the benefit of the Home Inspector's insight and comments.

All of our residential home inspections in Halton Hills conclude with a review of the digital photos on our laptop, along with completion of our written Home Inspection Report. We augment our home inspection reports with a home operators manual (not a repair book), construction diagramsand concise explanations and suggestions for quick understanding of our findings and economical solutions for remedy. The entire collection of digital home inspection photos are reviewed with the client on a laptop along with presentation of a selection of the photos actually printed on site with comments added.

We have assembled a sampling of pages from our Written Home Inspection Report available to view online.

We provide a CD containing all of the digital photos taken during the Halton Hills home inspection, plus our handouts and construction diagrams to aid you in the repair and or correction of any specific deficiencies identified during the inspection.

A summary page identifies components of the home in need of major attention within the first year and as many minor items as we can identify during the inspection, and how the general overall condition of the home compares with others of the same vintage and type in the Halton Hills area.

We provide a renovation cost estimator guide, (updated every 18 months) covering every imaginable renovation or repair to the home in order for the client to determine the approximate cost of future renovations or repairs.

The report is for the exclusive use of the client and no use of the information by any other party is intended. We provide our best guidance and advice on the expected costs for any major remediation.

Please Note: The Home Inspection Contract and the Home Inspection Report are one in the same. The contract terms are detailed on page 1 of our comprehensive 35 page / 500 point Home Inspection Report.