Business as usual – with a few extra precautions
We’re taking action to protect buyers and sellers in response to COVID-19
We’re committed to keeping up business as usual, with a few extra precautions in response to COVID-19.
We know you may be uncertain about the home inspection process at this time, but please know we’re taking steps to make sure everyone involved is safe and comfortable.
Here’s how:
- We’re happy to video chat with buyers over FaceTime or Zoom during the inspection. We can also do our end-of-inspection summary over the phone. This allows buyers to skip the inspection without missing a beat.
- We’ll answer as many phone calls, texts or emails as needed to ensure all questions are answered.
- We’ll be wearing gloves throughout the inspection and masks upon request.
- All surfaces our team touches will be wiped with disinfectant.
- Any inspectors with symptoms (or general flu-like symptoms) will not be working.
- Our team will be working from home when not inspecting.
- We encourage sellers to stay in their home and will work around them. We can guide ourselves through the home and do not expect them to “host” us.
- We will follow rules of social distancing and will ask buyers and agents in attendance to do the same.
- We will be sending a questionnaire ahead of all inspections asking all parties about their comfort level and potential exposure to the virus.
For an overview of our approach, take a look at this video:
Improper Exhaust – Don’t Breathe This!
Can you tell what’s wrong with the exhaust in the picture above? I put a nice red arrow to show the problem area so it should be pretty obvious. The unfortunate truth is that this hazardous setup can appear perfectly normal to the untrained eye, but can be deadly if left uncorrected.
This Harmless Looking Panel is a Fire Hazard
This blog focuses on an electrical problem that can look perfectly normal, even to some electricians. In the panel pictured above all breakers work properly, none of them are loose, there’s no sign or scorching, and conductors are wired just as they should be, so what’s the problem?
Grand Home Inspection vs Handymen – Sample Findings Inside
A few people think they can self-inspect, have a friend or family member that is fairly handy around the house, or might even know a contractor, so they could be tempted to make the mistake of doing a simple walk-through themselves or with that friend or family member in place of a professional inspection.