Ludlow Engineering and Land Survey

Modular Home Foundation Inspection

Get your modular home inspected by a Registered Civil Engineer.  These inspections, commonly required by FHA can be done completely and efficiently in only a matter of a phone call.  Don’t let your closing be held up because of long wait times for services that are required.

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Hoa Inspections – Modular Homes

Hoa Modular home foundation inspections are completed within 48 hours.  That is our commitment to you.  Once we have a completed contract and the transaction has begun, we are determined to provide you the report you have requested.

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Home Inspection is necessary for the life of your home

A home inspection is a non-invasive visual and physical examination of specific components in a residential property. The general components observed or evaluated are the structure, mechanical systems and grounds.

Many states now prefer home inspectors to be licensed and insured. Licensed Home Inspection is considered professionals. So, before selecting a Home Inspection, ask for their credentials and find out whether your state licenses home inspectors. The licensing state will generally require that the Home Inspection have a certain number of classroom hours (some actually take correspondence), attend a specified number of “dead inspections”, attend a certain number of “live inspections”, and have to pass a national test.

In many states, after the test has been passed but before the home inspector performs a home inspection on any property for resale, the home inspector must obtain Errors and Omissions and General Liability insurances.

Home Inspection may contain items greater than the typical Standards but they should never be less. Home inspector can always do more than the Standards of Practice. The cost of a home inspection varies widely by location of the property, size of the buildings inspected, and the depth of the Home Inspection. As a general statement, Home Inspection inspectors must inspect certain systems in the home. They must also describe certain features of the home or house as well.

Lower priced Home Inspection may be as equally thorough as a higher priced Home Inspection but this is not always the case. Do keep in mind that a higher price does not necessarily mean less value in the home inspection. Home Inspection inspectors should provide a thorough evaluation of your home as defined above. After inspecting your home, Home Inspection inspectors will give you a home inspection report. These reports will generally outline each area that the home inspector reviewed and, more importantly, those that he did not for any reason.

Limitations are outlined in Home Inspection report. Limitations of your home inspection are those items that are prevented a thorough inspection. Home Inspection does not involve moving furniture or rugs and many do not remove items such as child proof receptacle covers. Given that a home inspection is a visual examination, furniture or grass around the foundation can really obscure the Home Inspection inspector’s view.

A typical home inspection report will contain a detail section as well as a summary page or pages of the report. Many useful tips may be buried within the text of your home inspection report. It is always good to take some time to sit down and review whole report once again. Some reports may be in excess of 35 pages. Home inspection reports typically will explain the deficiencies found in your home as well as offer some of very useful tips. Some Home Inspection reports can be viewed as mini homeowners.

Most home inspectors pay for a report template from the third parties. This template may be either on paper template that is completed by hand or a computerized template that is completed on the computer. There are advantages to each kind of report, most of which deal with the speed that the client receives the home inspection report. The typical turnaround time for a home inspection report may be as quick as the inspection is complete to as long as 24 hours or more.

The more the client interrupts the Home Inspection inspector, the more likely the home inspector is to overlook things. That is not necessarily a deficiency in the home inspector but normal quality of being human. The home inspector is concentrating on doing a good job for the client but the more interruptions, the more likely any error will occur.

Home Inspection inspectors generally welcome questions from the client but most like them asked all at once at the end of the inspection. Don’t be afraid to ask but also remember that the inspector is not necessarily going to tell you all that want to hear.

Modular Home Inspections

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Here is a quick article for Modular Homeowners.  We hope you find it useful.

Modular Homes are Guaranteed!

So you’ve heard that modular homes are better built and are superior to site-built homes, but can modular homes back it up? Absolutely. Warranties are routinely available for modular homes. At ZN Custom Homes, we utilize the knowledge and experience of Bonded Builders Warranty Group. In general, your warranty for your new modular home covers defects in materials, workmanship, electrical systems, plumbing systems, and mechanical systems that are within standard performance standards for the industry. This enables you to be rest assured that your investment is secure.

But what might not be covered? While the details are in each individual policy, the warranty covers the above systems well and any major structural defects. If damage results from an appliance, a fixture, or other faulty equipment, this does not reflect the home’s quality; therefore this is not typically covered under a manufacturer’s or builder’s warranty. For instance, let’s presume your home is in perfect quality condition, but the range you just bought has an electrical fault and starts a fire. The faulty piece of equipment is the range, not components of your modular home. Therefore, this would fall outside the warranty. Likewise, the warranty does not replace appliances and fixtures added to the home. These are usually covered under their own manufacturer’s warranty.

Major structural defects are defined as actual physical damage to a load-bearing portion of the home that causes the home to be unsafe, unsanitary or otherwise unlivable. This could relate to problems with the interface between marriage walls, underlying defects in plumbing systems or electrical systems, or other structural problems that make the risk for home damage or personal injury high. However, because modular homes are so well built, agencies are happy to warranty their product. Being that modular homes are inspected thoroughly throughout the process of construction, and because they meet the highest building codes, modular homes have had no difficulty finding warranty companies to back them on a routine basis.

In the building process, other agents likely perform other services outside the home itself such as landscaping work, pool installation, and other finishing touches. Your modular home warranty essentially covers the components of the modular home itself as outlined above and the associated work to those areas performed by your builder. If you have problems with other facets of your home, individual subcontractors or product manufacturers may have additional coverage to address these issues. If not, standard home insurance policies may be another potential source of coverage.

The bottom line is that we stand behind the quality of your new modular home by providing warranty coverage for 10 years! This demonstrates our confidence in our homes. If the quality was poor, it would be difficult to find high standard companies like Bonded Builders Warranty Group to provide this coverage. But this is not the case for the modular home industry. This reassurance not only helps you sleep better in your new home, but also helps make your decision to build modular much easier.