HOME INSPECTIONS


For quality housing, look past the surface


BY NIKKI JAMIESON insight magazine


that it is riddled with issues. When asked why they didn't have a home inspection to catch it, they replied they didn't have one done. Typically conducted during the home- buying process, home inspectors perform visual inspections of the property, examin- ing it from the roof to the foundation for signs of problems. “The best description I've ever had is a non-invasive visual examination of the property, which basically means without consent of the homeowner obviously,we can't open up walls, that kind of thing.A lot of what we do is based on looking for signs, different things, if that makes sense, and kind of falling on that to find a bigger


W


e have all heard the horror stories; a friend-of-a-friend buys a seemingly perfect house, only to discover


problem,”said Bryan Henschel,owner and CEO of Great Plains Home Inspections. “Our job,bottom line, is watch out for the homebuyer.”


Although they can’t open up walls, there


are tools at their disposal that help them get around that, such as thermal imaging, which allows them to view a picture of cold spots in a room. “The big thing we use (thermal imagin-


ing) for is looking for moisture. Like if there's moisture in the ceilings, the walls, the windows are leaking, that kind of thing,we'll see big cold spots,” said Henschel.“Anywhere where we know we find water problems, thermal imaging is very good at finding that.At the same time, thermal imaging (helps us) find electrical problems — shorts inside the walls, switches overheating,breakers run- ning out side their tolerance,


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