The most important things to inspect when purchasing a property.

Many home inspectors visually inspect several pieces and components of a home, property, or a building but, are limited in their expertise and abilities to evaluate the most important components.

The Most Important things to Inspect when purchasing a home, commercial property, or a building are the following:
1. Foundation / Structure

2. Sewer / Septic / Waste line


Foundations / Structure:

As a concrete contractor and foundation expert we have been retained to design, build, and evaluate foundations and building structures for clients ranging from homeowners, brokers, and property owners. 

The most common foundation / Structural deficiencies for homes and buildings are as follows:

Seismic Deficiencies: Homes and Buildings lacking the type of construction components that will enable a structure to withstand an earthquake of a significant magnitute.

Foundation Settlement: Many older structures were constructed without the use of any structural engineering combined with any geological recommendations. Many older structures were not built deep enough into good soil and or was inadequately designed to support the size and weight of the structure. This in turn leads to floors settling, wall cracking, foundation separating, walls leaning, framing molding or rotting.

While there is always a solution to almost every situation, cost is a factor that may limit or inhibit the financial worthiness of a repair to a property.

We have on several occasions advised our clients not to make purchases or provided them with a budget proposal they can use to negotiate the cost of the repairs prior to removing their contingencies.

Sewer / Septic / Waste Line

As a General Engineering contractor we monitor, inspect, repair, and restore sewers / septic systems as well as designing and installing them. While many cities and counties require the inspection of septic systems, many if not almost all of them do not require any one to inspect the sewer system.
 
Both Septic Systems and Sewers can be expensive to repair or replace because of the amount of work involved to access and replace them. While there are several methods to repair them, their are limits, which many times turn into costly replacements.

More detailed posts to follow on both Foundations /Structures and Septic / Sewers.

Thank you for the opportunity to inform you about the two most vital inspections when purchasing a property.


Prieto Engineering
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