Should You have a 30 Day New Home Warranty Inspection?

A New Home Warranty Inspection is designed to help you catch the problems that may exist in your new home within the first 30 days of your ownership.  If this date has passed, then a 1 Year New Home Inspection should be undertaken anytime up to, and including, the last 30 days of the first year of possession.

The inspection helps to identify deficiencies and concerns such as:

• Defects in work and materials such as items that are broken, damaged, missing and installed incorrectly at the time of occupancy (non-cosmetic);

• Unauthorized substitution of materials;

• Building Code violations including health & safety violations that are potential hazards to your family;

• Water penetration through the foundation and into the basement;

• Defects in electrical, plumbing or heating systems;

• Defects in the exterior cladding;

• Major defects.

 

Eight key areas of your home will be inspected:

 

  √ Roofing                   √ Exterior           √ Structure         √ Insulation & Ventilation,

  √ Electrical                 √ Plumbing        √ Interior            √ Heating & Cooling

 

A HomeStar Inspection checks over 500 items in your new home and finds, on average, over 60 – 80 outstanding issues and defects with each new home, excluding cosmetic defects in drywall, trim and paint.

 

Homeowners will receive a detailed, on-the spot, independent HOMESTAR INSPECTION report, outlining outstanding observable concerns that will help to ensure that defects, damages and omissions are corrected at the builder’s expense.   Pictures taken by the home inspector will be downloaded to your email address on the same day as the inspection. These pictures can be inserted into your Tarion report. Please allow a minimum of 5 hours for your inspection.  Items of concern listed on the inspection report should be added to your 30 Day or 1 Year TARION Statutory Warranty Forms, along with any outstanding items from your initial Pre-Delivery Inspection Report. For an additional $75, your list of deficiencies will be typed up as a Word document under the headings used by Tarion. This word processed list can be cut and pasted into your 30 Day Tarion Warranty report.

 

Call today to schedule your New Home Inspection by a professionally trained and certified home inspector who is an Associate Member of CanNACHI, Canadian National Association of Certified Home Inspectors.

 

Submitting your warranty forms to TARION on time will ensure you don’t lose your warranty rights. The most convenient way to stay on top of your coverage is to register for TARION`S web-based service, MyHome, at www.tarion.com.  Remember to always submit a copy of your TARION Warranty Forms to TARION by the established deadlines, and to your builder, so he/she can repair or resolve the items.