After countless hours of searching and looking at houses you’ve finally decided to go with brand new one. Congratulations! Buying a new house is a very wise choice. The fact is houses have never been built better, safer or more efficient than they are today. A well built new home should provide years of comfort, convenience and happiness.

So, it’s new, surely you don’t need a new house inspection do you?

The fact is a house is a very complex machine. Hundreds of people will assemble thousands of items to produce the final product you will be paying for every month for the next 30 years.

Realistically, things get missed and forgotten during construction. Builders, no matter how competent or diligent, will miss things. This is simply inevitable given the tight profit margins they must work under in today’s highly competitive new house market.

But the county building official inspects the house as it’s being built so I don’t need a new house inspection do I?

True, county building inspectors will oversee the general construction of your new house. But, like most things with government agencies these days, there are budgets to meet and in the end something must suffer. If we can barely manage to fund schools for our children or police to keep us safe how much effort do you really think goes into any individual house?

So, what does a new house inspection from Island Local Home Inspections cover?

Your new house will be inspected from top to bottom. The following are the general systems that will be evaluated:

• Building Envelope
• Structural Components
• Roof and Gutters
• Site Grading and Drainage
• Crawl Space
• Attic
• Interior
• Appliances
• Heating and Air-Conditioning System
• Electrical System
• Plumbing System

So, once you realize how valuable a new house inspection is, why use Island Local Home Inspections?

I have performed thousands of new house inspections over the past 20 years. I work with many builders, property developers, and local real estate agents that deal exclusively with new houses. Island Local Home Inspections has the experience and knowledge to provide you with a thorough new house inspection.