Home Inspections Across the Northwest Suburbs

McHenry County · 60013

The terrain through Cary means a lot of homes are cut into a grade. We look hard at negative grading, downspout discharge, window well drainage, and retaining walls that are starting to lean or lose their backfill.

McHenry County · 60102

Algonquin homes built into the grade above the river live and die by their drainage. We check grading, downspout extensions, window wells, sump discharge and retaining walls, and use thermal imaging to look for moisture in finished lower levels.

McHenry County · 60012, 60014

Crystal Lake has a deep stock of 1960s and 1970s housing. That is the era of Federal Pacific and Zinsco panels and of aluminum branch circuit wiring. Both are real safety findings and both get documented clearly in the report.

McHenry County · 60142

Roughly 5,500 homes built 1999-2013 means a very large number of original furnaces, condensers, water heaters and roofs are now at or past expected service life. We document the age and condition of each so you know what is coming.

McHenry County · 60156

When a neighborhood is built in a three-year span, its roofs, furnaces, condensers and water heaters all age together. We give you the actual age and remaining life on each major system rather than a pass/fail check.

Lake & Cook Counties · 60010, 60011

Most Barrington Hills homes are on a private well. No municipality tests it, and at closing that responsibility becomes yours. We offer lab-tested water quality analysis for bacteria, nitrates, lead and other contaminants.

McHenry County · 60050, 60051

Homes built for summer use and later winterized often have retrofitted heat, patchy insulation, undersized electrical and additions built without permits. We evaluate what was done and how well, rather than assuming.

McHenry County · 60098

Original knob-and-tube wiring, often partially replaced and partially buried in insulation, is a genuine safety and insurability issue. We document what is present, what has been updated and what has not.

Kane County · 60120, 60123, 60124

This is the highest predicted radon potential tier, one level above the McHenry County towns nearby. Our 48-hour LTE monitors capture 288 readings, six times what a standard monitor records, for $275.

Cook County · 60173, 60193, 60194, 60195

Common in homes built roughly 1965-1973. Aluminum branch wiring is a recognized fire hazard at connections when not properly mitigated. Given Schaumburg’s build era, this is a primary check on the electrical system.