Home inspections in Hamilton

Lower city and Mountain homes

Older lower-city houses often have rubble-stone or early block foundations, original wiring that has been partly updated, galvanized or lead supply lines, and chimneys that have been abandoned or relined. On the Mountain, the common items are aluminum branch wiring in homes built from the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, original furnaces and water heaters near the end of their life, and finished basements that hide moisture at the slab edge.

Pools are common in Stoney Creek and on the Mountain, and we inspect them with the house. WETT inspections for wood-burning fireplaces come up in every part of the city when a buyer or insurer asks.

Rural Flamborough, Glanbrook, and Ancaster

Rural Hamilton properties are where cisterns are most common in Southern Ontario. Much of Flamborough, Carlisle, Freelton, Binbrook, and Mount Hope sits on bedrock groundwater that is hard, sulphurous, or low-yield, so many homes store trucked water in a cistern instead of using a well, or use both. A rural Hamilton inspection from us covers the house, the septic system with a loaded flow test, the well or cistern with a water sample, and any wood stove or fireplace.

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