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Could you please recommend good house inspector in Raleigh NC? I need someone who will not miss on things and is especially good at roof inspections and etc..Thanks a lot!
truly, if you hired an experienced Realtor as you posted earlier, then they can recommend a quality home inspector. If you're looking for one that either will physically walk a roof or uses a drone to check the roof out and take better photos, then you need to talk to a few.
The NC Inspection requirements no longer require them to climb a ladder and get on a roof. I'm assuming that is for safety purposes. Expect this service to cost you up to $100 extra. You might also just separately get a quality roofing company to come take a look at an equivalent cost.
truly, if you hired an experienced Realtor as you posted earlier, then they can recommend a quality home inspector. If you're looking for one that either will physically walk a roof or uses a drone to check the roof out and take better photos, then you need to talk to a few.
The NC Inspection requirements no longer require them to climb a ladder and get on a roof. I'm assuming that is for safety purposes. Expect this service to cost you up to $100 extra. You might also just separately get a quality roofing company to come take a look at an equivalent cost.
Wait, guys are charging an extra $100 to look at a roof?
I've seen it for a drone, and I know a qualified roofer will charge about that to do a separate inspection.
Are you still climbing on roofs?
If I can I will. Unfortunately many, I cant. Lots of houses are too tall or have roofs too steep to climb. (there are plenty of inspectors who brag about going on 9/12 pitch roofs on Facebook, I'm not one of those guys unless I can walk up a valley). Many new construction houses the builders don't let their superintendents and project managers go on roofs and they usually don't want me on there. I have been known to sneak out onto a porch roof to check it and any other parts I can access from there anyway as long as they didn't explicitly tell me not to. Especially because porch roofs tend to take a ton of construction related damage. Then there are condos where the association really owns the roof. Some, where the singles are in bad shape. (the worst I’ve scared myself was a little single story house in Apex. Roof was maybe a 6/12, but the shingles were more worn than I realized. I got up it fine, but coming back down I was like wow, what did I do. )
So, I ended up getting a drone because I felt bad that I wasn't able to do a good job for people in certain situations. It's maybe 95% as good as being up there in most cases. It takes longer to do it right than if I just climbed, but not that much longer and I hadn't considered charging people more for it. Maybe I'm crazy.
If I can I will. Unfortunately many, I cant. Lots of houses are too tall or have roofs too steep to climb. (there are plenty of inspectors who brag about going on 9/12 pitch roofs on Facebook, I'm not one of those guys unless I can walk up a valley). Many new construction houses the builders don't let their superintendents and project managers go on roofs and they usually don't want me on there. I have been known to sneak out onto a porch roof to check it and any other parts I can access from there anyway as long as they didn't explicitly tell me not to. Especially because porch roofs tend to take a ton of construction related damage. Then there are condos where the association really owns the roof. Some, where the singles are in bad shape. (the worst I’ve scared myself was a little single story house in Apex. Roof was maybe a 6/12, but the shingles were more worn than I realized. I got up it fine, but coming back down I was like wow, what did I do. )
So, I ended up getting a drone because I felt bad that I wasn't able to do a good job for people in certain situations. It's maybe 95% as good as being up there in most cases. It takes longer to do it right than if I just climbed, but not that much longer and I hadn't considered charging people more for it. Maybe I'm crazy.
Let's do a rancher.
Get on up the ladder, cuz I'm coming right behind you.
The whole "Don't walk on the roof because you'll damage the shingles," is just a dodge, IMO. Any roof where that is an issue probably needed replaced 2 years ago.
Our inspector wouldn't get on the roof. Binoculars only. Thought it was pretty lame.
I didn't really care because the roof is 20 years old, but the boots around the vents needed replacing. Something that I could have had the sellers do.
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