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What turns up on inspections around Orange County, and what it actually means for the people buying the house.
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Can a House Fail a Home Inspection?
No. There is no pass, no fail, and no grade at the bottom of the page. It is a common enough expectation that it is worth explaining what happens instead, because the...
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Home Inspection or Appraisal: What's the Difference?
Both land in the same few weeks of a purchase. Both produce a document. Both cost money. It is entirely reasonable to wonder whether you need two, and the answer is yes, because...
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What Do Home Inspectors Look For?
People often picture an inspection as either more or less than it is: a forensic teardown of the whole house, or a quick walk-through with a clipboard. It is neither. It is a...
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What Does a Home Inspection Cost in California?
The honest answer is a range, because the price depends on the property. But the range should be published, and you should be able to see it before you call. Here is ours.
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What Is Radon, and Should You Test for It?
Radon is the one home hazard that gives you no warning at all. It has no colour, no smell and no taste, it produces no immediate symptoms, and a house can hold elevated levels for...
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Smoke Detector Basics and Troubleshooting
Every once in a while, Ingraffia Home Inspections likes to browse around the Internet and find interesting articles on subjects that a Home Inspector in a different area may have...
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FLIR Imaging
You are buying a house, and you have the seller's word for its condition. A home inspection is how that stops being something you take on trust. An infrared camera is one of the...
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What Is a California Home Inspection?
"Home inspection" gets used loosely enough that people arrive with quite different expectations of it. Here is what it is, and what it is for.
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Construction Oversight
Clients buying new construction reasonably ask why they would pay to inspect a house nobody has lived in yet. Shouldn't a brand-new home be finished?
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Home Inspections and What We Discover
There is a step in every inspection that explains most of what an inspection is for: the interior cover comes off the electrical panel.
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New Website!!
Come check out our new updated website… Let us know what you think.
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Have a Great Christmas!!!
Thank you for being there throughout the year! Have a great Christmas.
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Inspections by city
Notes written for specific Orange County cities.