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Home Inspections For Your Peace of Mind
“I highly recommend Crampton Inspection Service. John is extremely knowledgeable and very experienced, as well as thorough and patient.”
– Karen L.
Based in Moraga, we proudly serve the San Francisco Bay Area, focusing on the following areas:
Home inspections can help you buy or sell your home with confidence. As trained professionals we have seen it all, and we'll provide invaluable help in turning you into a knowledgeable consumer. As a result of having an inspection performed, home owners can identify problems in the making and take preventive measures to avoid costly repairs. Sellers can understand conditions the buyer’s inspector may point out and put the property in better selling condition by making repairs. Our inspection services include:
In both new and older homes, the best way to ensure that you are well informed about the strengths and weaknesses of a property is to have us perform a professional home inspection for you. We are trained to identify problem areas both small and large that may have been overlooked by the previous owners, and to identify which require immediate attention. The end result is that you save more money. Most contracts allow negotiations with the seller to make repairs or give you credit at closing. So the more defects our inspector finds, the more money you save. See our Inspection/Report Overview for more details.
Each of our complete Buyer’s Residential Inspections include FREE consulting for as long as you own your home.
Whether you are selling your home on your own or using a Realtor, it’s always a prudent idea to have a professional home inspection. Knowledge is power. All homes have strengths and weaknesses; we help you answer how serious the problems are, and which must be immediately addressed and which can wait. The more you know about your home, the more prepared you will be for negotiation. See our Inspection/Report Overview for more details.
Reasons to Get an Inspection Before You Put Your House on the Market:
Most builders provide a one-year warranty for new construction. After that, the home owner assumes responsibility for repairs. Generally during the first year, the buyer develops a “punch list” of corrections for the contractor to repair under the warranty coverage. Some defects will not be obvious to the untrained eye and it is important to get an inspection performed by a trained professional who can search out such items. It is good to have this inspection done between the 8th and 11th month.
John Crampton has extensive experience in all phases of construction and has built homes from the ground up. He is uniquely experienced and qualified to perform warranty inspections, and always looks out for his client’s best interest.
Each of our complete Builder’s Warranty Residential Inspections include FREE consulting for as long as you own your home.
Why Get A Warranty Inspection?
A lot goes into building a new home. It requires many people and involves various subcontractors working on different parts and systems of the house. It is nearly impossible to complete such a complex process without missing something. Experience tells us that most major construction defects go unnoticed for 3-5 years. By this time, the defects could cost many thousands of dollars to remedy instead of a few hundred. It is unfortunate that most of these defects go unnoticed by the homeowner until it is too late and damage has occurred. Failures in workmanship and/or building materials can, and often do, occur. Hiring a home inspector to inspect your home before your warranty expires allows issues to be found so you can bring them to the builder’s attention and they can be repaired under the warranty. Having a third party, unbiased inspection report in hand that was completed by a professional home inspector also provides some leverage when the builder does the one-year walkthrough. Just a few items that John has found during warranty inspections in the past include:
Mobile/manufactured homes are built in a factory and transported to a property site. They are not the same as conventional “stick-built” homes and are regulated by a different agency, and have different building standards. While quality control is high at the factory where these homes are built, quality control is not consistent at the site where these homes are assembled. Different contractors hired to put these homes together are often doing several jobs at the same time and this can leave room for error. As you can see, it is very important to hire a certified mobile/manufactured home inspector that has been trained to inspect these unique homes.
John Crampton is certified as a mobile/manufactured home inspector by the American Institute of Inspectors (AII).
Some of the things that make mobile/manufactured homes different:
A few reasons to get a home inspection on a newly constructed home:
Making the right decision regarding a commercial property investment often requires knowledge about the physical condition of the property. Whether you are a building owner, property manager, leasing agent, investor, lender or tenant, you can trust Crampton Inspection Service to provide the property condition information you need for optimal decision making. Some of the light commercial properties we inspect are:
Here are just a few reasons why Realtors like working with Crampton Inspection Service and referring us to their clients: