Mr House Inspector

In late September we hired an inspector to come look at the house. At first, we were planning on getting an inspection done right before we moved in, but we decided to do it during the building process since this would really be our only chance to have the bones and guts of our house looked at before the walls went up. For the stuff on the surface, we could always do another inspection later on.

 We used the same gentlemen who did our home inspection on the first house we were going to buy, Chad from Cardinal Home Inspections. He did a great job on the house before, and we were not disappointed this time either, he was great to work with!

We did the walk through with the inspector and Nathan, our builder, and it worked out well as Nathan answered a number of questions as we went. There were a few things he pointed out that needed adjustments, and Nathan marked me as we went.

They forgot to frame in a linen closet upstairs, so when they went back to do it, the vent that was supposed to be in our walk-in closet was instead in our hall closet - whoops!

This wall was free-floating and wasn't secured to the beams above.

There were 2 studs that were a little warped, so our walls weren't flush.

The great news is that we went back about a week later and everything we could see was fixed already! Our builder tacked a to-do list up in the house, and was very receptive to everything the inspector had noted, which we appreciated. The even greater news was that after the inspection, Chad told us overall, he was really impressed with the the house and the build, and we had some great  things going for us. Hooray!

Here is a picture of our house around inspection time.