Randy Noon from BPG Inspections walks through a pre-drywall inspection on a new home, checking exterior weatherproofing, interior framing, roof trusses, and all mechanical rough-ins like ductwork and plumbing. The inspection catches damage or misplaced work before drywall goes up, and the report comes back within 24 hours so the builder can fix problems.
Hey gang, it's me Jay, and my hair's all messed up because it's hot out here. I am here with Randy Noon with BPG Inspections, and he is doing a new home inspection for one of my clients, and I thought it might be really interesting to find out what is it that a new home inspection consists of. So I'm gonna flip around the camera and ask Randy to explain to us.
Alright, so hey, great that you asked because a lot of people don't realize that they should have an inspection done on a house that's being built. So at this stage, prior to drywall, we're going to go around the outside of the house and look at the concrete block. We're going to look at the windows and if they're caulked in properly, the weatherproofing on the outside of the house, if there's house wrap on the front of the house. We're going to go through the inside, look at the studs, make sure they're straight. We look at all the truss system, make sure it's all strapped down to the house properly for wind uplift standards. Make sure there's no damaged trusses. A lot of times that happens during handling. We're going to look at the truss engineering package and make sure all field-installed bracing is there. And then we're going to look at all the mechanical systems too— ductwork, plumbing, electrical rough-ins, all of those different systems— to make sure at this stage everything's done properly. Nothing— no contractors come behind another one, maybe had to move something or something got damaged during those processes. We're also going to look at any type of termite treatment that has been done, and you can see there's no green on the bottom of these studs, so nothing has been done there for the termite treatment at this stage. point, but those are just a few of the things we're going to look at during the framing inspection. There's usually a list of things because there's a lot of components that go into a new build, so there's usually a few things that need to be worked on prior to hanging drywall.
That sounds great. And how long does it take for the customer to get the inspection report?
So we turn our reports around within 24 hours always. So yeah, we're Friday today, so they'll have this one over the weekend so they can look at it and get it over to the builder, and then he can get to work Getting anything corrected that needs to be done.
