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What is A Home Inspection?
A lot of people have the wrong idea about home inspections — they believe that these reports are somehow predictive of the future condition of the home, the quality of the construction or the longevity of the systems. While this information may be able to be extrapolated from a home inspection, that’s not the primary function of this particular service. A home inspection is simply a snapshot of your home at one moment in time.
While a home inspector worth their salt will be able to give you general information about systems, the condition of your future home and how long you can expect materials to last, they’re not gypsy fortune-tellers. Your home inspector cannot see the future, even an hour or two beyond their departure from the home. What they can see are existing structural or system failures, signs of pests or recurrent problems, and the condition of the home at the time they observed it.
Unfortunately, like people, materials in buildings age at irregular rates. Your roof may look great today, but the tree that overhangs your home and continually sheds onto it could age it prematurely. In the same vein, even though the air conditioner is 10 years old, it might have a lot of life left if it has been well cared for over the years and protected from the elements. The various materials and systems in your home have average expected life spans, but there’s no such thing as an average h