At MAKO Home Inspection, our home inspectors complete one inspection per day to maintain focus and precision. Each inspection involves three main tasks: examining the home, communicating with the client, and preparing the report. Performing all three simultaneously on-site would compromise the quality of each task. Therefore, we do not complete the report on-site. Instead, our inspectors focus on your home and use equipment to conduct a thorough assessment. For most houses, we spend around 4-6 hours on the inspection and documenting the findings. Our inspectors do not perform evening inspections, as this is a full-time job, and they prioritize time at home with their families. Some companies handle two to three inspections in a day, which typically results in one to two hours spent at each property. Moving quickly between jobs can lead to missed issues, which may later become problems for the homeowner. Our approach ensures we examine each home carefully and completely.

Yes, we encourage clients to attend the home inspection. Attending allows you to observe the process, ask questions, and gain a better understanding of the property's condition. It is one thing to read a written report, but the real value is having the conversation about the issues in the home and discussing those issues with the home inspector when everything is right in front of you. It's an excellent opportunity to learn about maintenance and potential issues firsthand. If you cannot attend in person, you can still participate by scheduling a report walkthrough via zoom or phone call with our inspector. We aim to make the inspection process as transparent and informative as possible to ensure your peace of mind.

Yes, we do. At MAKO Home Inspection, we make every effort to enter crawl spaces whenever there is an accessible and safe entry point. Crawl spaces often reveal critical information about a home’s foundation, plumbing, electrical systems, insulation, and potential moisture intrusion or wood-destroying organisms. By physically entering these areas, rather than just peering in from the opening, we ensure that our clients receive the most thorough and accurate understanding of the home’s condition.

At MAKO Home Inspection, our inspectors make every attempt to walk on a roof. Plain and simple, It’s just the best way to inspect it. Sometimes, however, this is not an option. Height, slope, snow, winds, and rain can make going on the roof dangerous. If the inspector cannot walk on the roof, we will take a series of high-resolution pictures from different angles so our inspectors can document the conditions.

This is an item that truly makes us stand above all others. After our home inspectors performed the inspection and delivered the report, you will get a text/email to make an appointment with one of our seasoned home inspectors over Zoom. We have very experienced inspectors who focus their energy to dwell deeper into the report and have a good discussion about the issues found in a home. The problem that I found in our profession is that inspectors will give you a list of things wrong and let you ask questions on site for a very short period of time, that is a recipe for failure. Our Zoom appointments are scheduled for 1.5 hours. Many times we finish earlier, sometimes we have to schedule another appointment. This is where we will talk about the seriousness of an issue, offer options as to different methods of cures, and show you how to use some free cost estimating services to get cost to cure the issues. We won't tell you what to negotiate for, that is best left for the real estate agent. In real estate, "the principle" of something has no bearing, what does matter is how much leverage you have to negotiate. Example: If there are 5 other people who want to buy this house, you really don't have any leverage to negotiate, if the house has been on the market for many months with no offers, now you have quite a bit of leverage. This we don't know, but if we can help you understand the severity of the issue, cost to cure the issues and have some sort of a plan of what needs to be done right away, that should give you a lot of information to open a dialog with your agent as to what you want to negotiate for with the sellers of the home.

Absolutely. This tool is designed for seeing temperature differentials between different objects. You might be thinking "soooo, what does that mean?" Let me tell you. This is the best way to scan large areas to find water leaks and missing insulation. When water is present, it will evaporate. The water will absorb heat during the evaporation process and allow us to easily see where that water is located. We confirm, or deny the "suspected" water presence with a moisture meter.

We scan exterior walls, exterior ceilings, ceilings under bathrooms, and ceilings under kitchens. If our home inspectors find cold spots with the thermal imagers, or water stains, we will place the moisture meter in those locations to prove, or disprove an active water leak. The readings will be documented in our report. Our goal is to give you a definitive knowledge of any problems. An example would be if the roof was leaking and we saw stains in the drywall. If it rained recently and the area is dry, we can safely say that it was repaired. If moisture is there, well, then it wasn’t.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves in our profession. This is in our state law that we must do at least one of the above items in each room and at least one of the above items on each exterior wall, but "representative sample is the BARE MINIMUM. The reason for this limitation being in our standards is to provide an excuse for not testing items behind a china cabinet. Taking a chance on damaging property is also not that smart. We will test every outlet, switch, window, and door that we can get to. I assure you that the one that we don't test is the one that will need to be repaired, and quite frankly, our job is to tell you the condition of your property. Nobody can see everything, neither can we, but that doesn't mean you should just ignore it and do the minimum. Be cautious if someone answers yes to the representative sample question.

Most home inspectors only use the gas detector when they smell gas. On every inspection our home inspectors will use a gas detector to test the joints out in the open. We cannot check for pipes that are behind drywall, but we will at least check the pipes that are out in the open.