Newly built houses need inspections, too

Home inspection isn't just for buyers of old houses. Some buyers of newly built homes get inspections, too.

The bread and butter of the inspection business remains the examination of houses that have been lived in. The inspection report then is a narrative of an aging house: leaky roof, crumbling mortar in the chimney, wheezy furnace, and so on. In contrast, the inspector of a newly built home focuses on finding the inevitable errors and omissions that occur during months of construction by laborers of varying experience and language.

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