Roof Inspection: Spotting Amateur Repairs
If you are purchasing a new home, a roof inspection to spot amateur repairs and other potential problems will be important. Are you familiar with the parts of a roof and chimney? Would you be able to spot a sloppy repair to your potential new home? One important part of a chimney is the flashing that is a roof flashing. You should find roof flashing at the base of a chimney that creates a waterproof seal to protect your chimney and roof from water damage and penetration.
Any damage to the flashing on the chimney or even a sloppy repair to the flashing may overtime allow water to penetrate to the roof and cause damage to the home. Always use an experienced professional to make roof or chimney repairs.
At Tri-County Inspections, a home inspection company in the Cleveland area, we set aside time to inspect the roof in all our Cleveland home inspections. We're looking to make sure that you won't be buying a home with roof leaks and unknown damage happening in an area that isn't typically noticed by the sellers. So whoever does your home inspection, ask them about the roof. Are they getting up on the roof? Are they sending a drone? How does the chimney look and the flashing around it? Is there any leaking around the chimney? What's their plan to make sure you don't put an offer on a house without knowing you have a substantial repair right away? The purpose of a home inspection is to make sure you can negotiate with the seller and prioritize your upcoming repairs based on your budget.
If you have to waive the home inspection, which we do not recommend, but we posted about it in, "Should I Waive the Home Inspection in a Seller’s Market to Win a Multiple Bid Situation?," then get the home inspection after you win the bid. Roof issues will sneak up on you without a roof inspection. If you know the issues, you can plan when to make a repair and save money on a completely new roof or chimney.
Roof Inspection: Spotting Amateur Repairs
In this short video Cleveland area home inspector, Mike Vakos, shows you a roof inspection at an Amherst Home Inspection. This roof inspection highlights how spotting amateur repairs can save you money in the long run. The Inspector shows a chimney on a worn roof that has a sloppy flashing repair. You can easily see that there is roofing tar sloppily layered around the base of the chimney. Can you imagine buying a home without knowing that something like that could be going on?
Just another reason to make sure you get a home inspection! And that the home inspector inspects the roof.
Amherst Roof Inspection: Spotting Amateur Repairs
Cleveland Home Inspector Saves You Money
At Tri-County Inspections our goal is to inform you in an honest, easy-to-understand, down-to-earth and friendly manner of things going on in the home we're inspecting. So whether we're inspecting a home before you sell it, a pre-listing home inspection, to prepare you for what buyers may uncover OR if we're doing an inspection of a home you're considering buying - we take the approach of giving you information to make your best decisions and likely save money in the long run.
Home Inspectors Cleveland
Contact Mike Vakos, Cleveland home inspector and owner of Tri-County Inspections for your home inspection services:
- Full Home Inspection
- Pre-Listing Home Inspection
- Commercial Home Inspection
- Radon Inspection
- Mold Testing
- Lite Home Inspection for Investors
- Walk-Through Home Inspections
