Thursday, November 18, 2010

New Home roofs

Even new homes should be inspected by an independent home inspector. New roofs can have damaged shingles due to tools dropping on them or careless workers. All new homes should have a whole house inspection. Even those being built in Jerome Village.



Monday, November 8, 2010

New homes need home inspection

Even newly built homes should have a home inspection. This is an image of a new home's roof vent. This was from a Delaware Ohio home inspection As you can see it is damaged. The builder even stated that this is normal. He claimed that they do this because "birds remove the end caps".

After eight years of home inspection that was a first. I asked a roofer I know if he had ever herd of that and he said no. I like to double check. I was correct in my first thought that it was a crappy installation. The home buyer was about to be taken advantage of if they had not hired me as a home inspector.