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So instead, you hire a home inspector, for $300-$500, and they will tell you that you need further investigation from two of those professionals, but you don\u2019t need the other nine.To take this thought one step further, it\u2019s important to also understand that when you bring those trades people and other professionals in after the home inspection, they of course, will go deeper than the home inspector did. It\u2019s common knowledge that if you brought in an environmental expert in or a structural engineer in, that their analysis will go deeper and be more thorough than that of the home inspector, but that is also true for electricians, plumbers, and roofers. Those trades people are also the ones who will tell you what requirements will be needed when you make repairs, or renovations: in order to be brought up to the most current building code requirements. A home inspector should always defer current requirements to the people that do those things for a living.The only time this is not the case is when you hire the first company on the Google ad words, who shows up in the big truck, with the big vehicle wrap, and scares you into thinking that you need a whole new HVAC system, or you need a whole new electrical system, when in reality, you may only need a small couple hundred dollar repair.\u00a0If you\u2019d like to see what is and is not inspected in a home inspection, check out: www.NACHI.org\/SOP, and email us for a copy of the sample report so you can see the basic information that we deliver along with how we deliver the defects that we find.ng at a home inspector or a home inspection company. It\u2019s just as important that they catch everything, as it is that they don\u2019t make things up and send people chasing down a rabbit hole, only to find out that nothing was wrong in the first place.Before we ever get to writing a report, technical writing, dealing with people, different personalities\u2026 Evaluating a property, properly, is the main focus of the training. Many techniques have been developed over the last 15 years to ensure that all inspectors inspect the property the same way, which is in a manner we are all parts of the house and the systems are seen multiple times from multiple angles.But equally as important as the actual inspection itself, is that that thoroughness is presented appropriately in the inspection report. And presented in a manner that is easy to use. We worked very hard to make IOC inspection reports as user-friendly as possible.\u00a0\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t"},{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org\/","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Everything And The Kitchen Sink: What’s Inspected at a Home Inspection","item":"https:\/\/homeinspectionsovercoffee.com\/what-is-all-inspected-in-your-home-inspections\/#breadcrumbitem"}]}]