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New and 1 year Home Inspections in Ohio

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Home Inspector with Inspector Mike #2116

 UNDERSTANDING NEW HOME INSPECTIONS IN OHIO

 

Inspecting new homes in Ohio requires an understanding of the 2006 Residential Code of Ohio (RCO).

When selecting someone to inspect your new home you may want to ask the Home Inspector if they have any of the certifications offered by The State of Ohio for new home construction inspections.

Before choosing someone to inspect your new home, ask them if they are going to perform an electrical inspection of the home. If so, ask them if they hold a Certificate of Competency as an Electrical Safety Inspector. If not, are they just going to flip light switches on and off?

Ask them if they are going to use the construction documents to insure that the home is constructed per code. Chances are good that they will claim that they are not "code" inspectors. If they make this claim ask them what exactly are they inspecting?

Are they just opening and closing windows and doors? If so, tell them that any 5 year old can perform that task.

Are they checking to see if the plumbing is installed properly? Again they will tell you that they are not "code" inspectors.

Let me ask you. If home inspector not inspecting your new home to insure that it is built properly, which would be to "code", what is being inspected?

If you want a company that is certified in ALL areas to inspect your new home then please contact us. We have proven that we are qualified to inspect your new home.

 

 

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Alix Pinzon
Open Mortgage, LLC NMLS # 2975 - Downey, CA
(562)743-6086

Wow, you appear to be highly qualified with all those designations.  Good luck to you.

Feb 07, 2009 01:53 PM
Mike (Inspector Mike) Parks
Inspector Mike - Circleville, OH
Inspector Mike

Gregg

Thank you but I do not need luck. I am just trying to show the public that a home inspector is not qualified to do this type of inspection.

Feb 07, 2009 01:57 PM
Not a real person
San Diego, CA

Home inspectors here in California aren't qualified to do anything. I keep writing my legislators seeking to get one of them to sponsor home inspector licensing, but no luck, even after seven years. One of them, an extremely Republican conservative, even had his assistant write me to ask me to stop sending monthly letters to his office. Whatever.

Feb 13, 2009 09:58 AM
Michael Greenwalt
MGI Home Inspection - Junction City, KS

So I take it the state of Ohio has established a minimum standard that home inspectors be "Electrical Safety Inspector" qualified? Your post makes me think that I am unqualfied to conduct inspections.

If a home inspector inspects only to "Code", they are missing a lot of imoprtant information. A home can be built to "Code" and be unsafe.

I most certainly am not a "Code Compliance" inspector, and I would never hold myself out to be. I am however a Home Inspector, and proud of it.

Jul 03, 2009 12:46 PM
Denny West
Top To Bottom Inspection Services - North Baltimore, OH

Again Mike Wow you seem to challange everything . If You go to many training web sites you will find that many offer extensive training in electrical and plumbing , heating and A/c . structueral. roofing . ect. That means they equip the Home inspector with knowlage of a certian areas . And as long as they pass the exams then they are certified.  and I find nothing wrong  with that . I dont call Out code cause  I am not a code inspector , How ever  no ground , Open Ground, Hot reverse Nueteral , Improper vented furnace . or bath room vents . wet damp basements or crawlspace  dont call for us to be code inspectors . Only generalist who point out  problems . then request that the Lisc. Guys do the repairs and estimates .

Oct 29, 2009 02:31 AM
Mike (Inspector Mike) Parks
Inspector Mike - Circleville, OH
Inspector Mike

Denny

You are not allowed to inspect the electrical installation of any structure in the State of Ohio. That is my point.

You are OK with the examples that you gave.

Oct 29, 2009 12:51 PM
Anonymous
Michael Greenwalt, CRI

Mike,

  Actually home inspectors are qualified in Ohio to conduct inspections, within the scope, standards of practice, and code of ethics of all National Associations for Home Inspectors, and in accordance with any State that currently licenses Home Inspectors.

You are completely misleading to clients in regards to the term "inspections" and mixing apples with oranges.

Home Inspectors do NOT conduct "Code Compliance" inspections; although current and applicable codes are certainly a reference for us. Your use the term "Inspect" in context with the current ORC 3783.06 does not apply to Home Inspectors unless they are issuing a report stating that a finding is not in compliance with code. And any inspector who does this not only violates the law but also violates the general accepted practices all over the country and sets themselves up for a lawsuit.

As well, the OSHA regulation is not applicable in the case of a sole proprieter conducting  an inspection and in most cases not for multi-inspector firms depending on the working relationship and the nature of the business partnership. Your assertions elswhere are definately misleading.

 

The bottom line is: Home Inspectors are allowed to inspect Electrical components in accordance with accepted Home Inspector practices and Standards. If you declare different I challenge you to provide one single case against a home inspector that shows otherwise. I know several well qualified inspectors in Ohio and so far as I know, and they know, your assertions that they cannot is incorrect. If you can prove otherwise then certainly the national associations need to be made aware of this.  

When a home buyer wants the home inspected they are going to be best served by going to one of the national association web sites such as ASHI or NAHI and using the search enging to find a qualified home inspector. If they want to hire an electrician, a plumber, a roofer, an engineer, etc, that is certainly thier choice but the cost is generallly prohibitive. Home Inspectors are still thier best bet.

Oct 30, 2009 12:56 AM
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Mike (Inspector Mike) Parks
Inspector Mike - Circleville, OH
Inspector Mike

Michael

I respect ASHI and NAHI, the only two that I do.

This is from someone (his credentials) teaching a NAHI course in Ohio this weekend.

"· Is certified in residential electrical systems and National Electrical Code through the state of Ohio."

I looked for his name here: https://www.comapps.ohio.gov/dic/dico_apps/bbst/ElectricalSafetyInspectors/ but quess what? He is not listed.

I hate people who claim to be what they are not.

I will let you take this to NAHI rather than me take him to the State of Ohio.

Nov 06, 2009 08:40 AM
Denny West
Top To Bottom Inspection Services - North Baltimore, OH

Theres nothing wrong with NACHI inspectors , and I am proud to br one thank you .

Jan 19, 2010 11:12 PM
Mike (Inspector Mike) Parks
Inspector Mike - Circleville, OH
Inspector Mike

Paper mill.

Need I say more?

Jan 21, 2010 11:15 AM
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