Comprehensive Home Inspections

All home inspections in Arizona are, by law, required to comply with the "Standards of Professional Practice
and Code of Professional Conduct for Arizona Home Inspectors' as adopted by the Arizona Board of
Technical Registration. Why, then, does it matter which inspector performs your inspection?

Just because all inspections should comply with Arizona standards does not mean that all inspectors have the
same level of experience, knowledge and professionalism which allows them to fully comply with the standards.
Two inspectors can look at the same system or component. One inspector may not see the problem while the
other more experienced and knowledgable inspector will see the problem, understand its significance, and be
able to report the problem so you can understand how to deal with it. Ask yourself: "Which inspector do
you trust with the purchase of your largest single asset?"

Our Comprehensive Home Inspection is a thorough examination of the property that provides both sellers and
buyers with the information they need to sell and purchase their Dream Home with confidence and peace of
mind.

For sellers, our Comprehensive Home Inspection provides valuable information that helps you make informed
choices to either repair defects or to gather repair cost estimates to use during negotiations and when setting the
asking price. A Comprehensive Home Inspection helps satisfy your disclosure obligations and clearly shows
prospective buyers that you are a contentious seller who is interested in complete and fair disclosure. It also
reduces the chance that a purchase contract will be cancelled because of inspection findings.

For buyers, our Comprehensive Home Inspection also helps informed decision making and helps you make fair
and reasonable requests for repairs or concessions based on independent expert analysis of any defects not
disclosed by or unknown to the seller.

Our unsurpassed thoroughness, experience, knowledge, and professionalism, helps us comply with Arizona
and ASHI Standards of Practice. These standards require us to inspect the following visible and accessible
systems and components:

* Structural, including the foundation (e. g., concrete slab), basement or crawl space, floors, walls, ceilings,
and roofs,

* Exterior, including wall coverings (e.g., stucco, siding), sidewall flashing, all exterior doors and trim, decks,
stoops, porches, patios, stairs, railings, eaves, soffits, fascia, vegetation, grading and drainage, walkways,
driveways, and retaining walls,

* Roof, including roof coverings (e.g., tile, shingles), gutters and downspouts, flashing, chimneys, vents, and
other penetrations (e.g., skylights),

* Plumbing, including interior water supply and drain pipes, water heating equipment, vents, flues, chimneys,
fuel storage and piping, drainage sumps, sump pumps, and related piping,

* Electrical, including electrical service wires and equipment, service grounding, the interior of electrical
panels, electrical wires, ground fault circuit interrupters, and a representative sample of switches, receptacles,
light fixtures, and ceiling fans,

* Heating and Air Conditioning, including furnaces, air handlers, condensers, vents, flues, chimneys, ducts,
and other distribution systems,

* Interior, including walls, ceilings, floors, stairways, garage vehicle doors and openers, counter tops, and a
representative sample of, cabinets, doors, and windows,

* Insulation and ventilation, including crawl space and attic vents, and attic and crawl space insulation,

* Fireplaces and solid-fuel burning appliances, including firebox, chimneys, and vents.

Even the best inspection has limited value without a thorough and professional written inspection report. We
take great pride and care to ensure that our reports comply with Arizona and ASHI Standards of Practice. For
this reason and others we do not use checklist style reports and we do not issue reports on site. We find that
taking the extra time required to carefully consider and report about our inspection findings makes our reports
more useful to all involved and makes them more difficult to dispute. Our reports:

* Identify systems and components that are not functioning as intended, significantly deficient, unsafe, or near
the end of their service life,

* Provide a recommendation about whether you should repair, replace, monitor, or seek additional information
from a qualified contractor regarding identified systems and components,

* Explain the nature of the problem with the identified system or component (e.g., the risks caused by the
indentified system or component),

* Cite, where appropriate, the current accepted standards upon which we base our finding and
recommendation.

What a home inspection does not include is perhaps as important as what it includes. Examples of issues,
systems, and components that are not part of a home inspection include those which: are not visible or
accessible, are shut down, involve cosmetic defects, and involve risk to persons or property. Please refer to
our inspection agreement and to the Standards of Practice listed below for a more complete discussion of
inspection limitations.

Please click here to see the Arizona Standards of Practice.

Please click here to see the ASHI Standards of Practice.