The recent super storm Sandy left many people in surrounding areas wondering if their home is safe and whether it will withstand the next big storm. With Sandy, many homeowners faced high winds, heavy rain, and danger from falling trees and tree branches.

An infrared home inspection performed by an experienced Chicago inspector can help a homeowner understand where their home may need repairs before the next big storm.

What’s a maintenance home inspection?
A maintenance home inspection is geared toward finding those items or systems that a homeowner should be maintaining as a matter of routine. Routine home maintenance should be done on windows, heating systems, gutters, etc.

Many homeowners, however, don’t have the time, the skills, or the patience to perform such regular maintenance. If you’ve let your home’s maintenance slide – for whatever reason – it’s a good time to get an infrared home maintenance inspection to find those areas of your home that need a little work – before they become big and expensive problems to fix.

What’s inspected with an infrared home inspection?
When you request an infrared home inspection for your home, we’ll check the exterior of your home for a number of problems that you may not be able to see:

• Water leaks in the roof, walls, or flooring that can lead to mold and moisture issues
• Overheating electrical panels and electrical connections that can cause fires
• The presence of pests or rodents seeking shelter for winter
• Windows that are leaking heated or cooled air and wasting your money

What’s in our home inspection report?
When we finish our inspection, we’ll deliver a home inspection report that will provide the details you need to understand your home’s current condition and what repairs you may want to make. Some of those repairs may need to be done sooner rather than later, but as they say ‘forewarned is forearmed’ and you can get your home prepared for the next storm.

See a sample home inspection report.

What’s the value of infrared?
The value of an infrared home inspection is in our ability to isolate and identify problems that are not readily visible. Less than half of all Chicago area home inspectors are equipped with or trained in using infrared technology as part of their home inspection process, but we’ve found that an infrared home inspections gives homeowners invaluable information that simply couldn’t be discovered any other way.

Give Andrew MacDonald a call at 855-420-8550 to schedule your infrared home inspection today.
No home inspector can predict what will happen to a residence when a strong storm blows in or a large amount of snow falls, but an infrared home maintenance inspection can help a homeowner safeguard against things like leakage, electrical problems, and more to ensure that their home is as safe and secure as possible before a storm.