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Expert New Construction Inspections
Through our Professionalism The Home Buyer Advocates New Construction and Warranty Inspection Team Have Developed and Maintained a Successful Working Relationship with MOST of the builders and their Site Superintendents in Lake, Cook and Mchenry Counties and well as a close working relationship with MOST code officials and municipal and county field inspectors in the area. As Builders ourselves we are intimately familiar with all national building standards and local and national codes in all communities in this area. We found because we are builders as well we can relate to the developer and site superintendents and code official at a higher, more productive scale. These skills sets, relationships and this knowledge base allows us to better serve you by ensuring the best possible inspection results, builder correction levels, the best possible response from the builder and to insure long term integrity and a better build for you.
A recent Boston Globe Spotlight news team news investigation had this to say: "Already faced with escalating home prices, unwary buyers are often victimized by questionable sales practices, slipshod construction, and home builders who cannot be found to correct problems once the builder has the closing check in hand. Many major builders often will not sell homes to buyers unless they sign away in advance their right to bring lawsuits." "During the nationwide building boom of the 1990s, the growth in housing starts has been eclipsed only by greater growth in the rate of complaints about builders. Much of the anger is directed at major national companies that have grabbed an increasing share of the lucrative home building market." "For the most part, the victims of substandard home construction nationwide are working-class families buying into huge housing tracts developed by national builders" "Walter Blair Adams, a Wellesley architect and building code expert who was retained by the Globe, said the serious flaws he documented at Toll's most expensive Massachusetts subdivision in Hopkinton ( see below) illustrate that wealthy buyers are just as likely to be victimized as those who buy starter homes elsewhere." Professional, detailed Inspections should be done at various times throughout the construction process by an experienced, professional, independent inspector. At least four detailed inspections should be done from foundation to final walk through insure sound, safe construction built to the highest available industry standards & using the highest quality materials available. Most people have a tendency to think " It's new construction what could go wrong, or " It's new so it must be the highest quality and won't have problems unlike existing homes" The unfortunate reality is nothing could be farther from the truth.Please ask our new construction clients about the many upgrades we have required and received from 95% of the builders in Northeastern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin areas In defective materials and poor workmanship. Our inspections result in a Better, Higher Quality Home for you.. Unlike other inspection companies Home Buyer Advocates New Construction Inspections are done by inspectors with extensive and specific new construction, code and building official experience. Our inspections are comprehensive, productive, inexpensive and a good value. From foundation excavation to final walk through we work with you and your builder to give you a better, safer house built to higher standards with the highest quality workmanship using the highest quality materials possible. Not built to just minimum code standards, using defective materials and poor workmanship, that far to many production builders provide. By far our longest lists of repairs and upgrades on materials, workmanship and installations is in new construction and remodeling. This is because many times, low grade or defective materials are used, manufactures recommended installation methods and procedures are not followed, poor workmanship or unsafe installations exist primarily to just get the job done as fast and inexpensively as possible and to close the house, many times using unsupervised, unskilled, un-trained or under trained crews. 90% of the new homes and major construction projects we inspect have a minimum 30 item list of necessary repairs and upgrades needed from misplaced, missing foundation anchor bolts, cracked wall and load bearing support lumber, poorly installed roof deck and sub flooring, miss installed siding, sheathing, roofing, flashing, window wells, and much more. Poor workmanship and defective materials are unfortunately altogether to common. We suggest a minimum of four site inspections starting with the foundation, next rough structural, then mechanical, then finally a finish inspection prior to your final walk through with the builder. We have one set low inspection fee regardless of the number of site visits required to ensure a better, safer build for you and your family. It is not unusual for us to visit the site 20 or more times during the build process. Please read some of our actual new construction inspection report summaries below that have helped our clients move it to better, safer homes. If possible call or email us before you have contracted to buy a new home or begin any remodeling projects. Some of the areas inspected in detail are: Click Here For more Detail on STAGES New Construction should be inspected.
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