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Antique and Old Home Inspections
By Bruce Czech ACI
Member Historic Building Inspectors Association
Older homes require special attention, both at purchase
time and during the ownership. For my business, I
charge more to inspect home that are older than 50
years old. I do this because these older homes require a
higher degree of skill and significantly mor detailed
reporting. But even a home that is 30 years old can take
a lot more time to decades and centuries of occupation,
these homes will experience many diferent levels of
home maiantainance. Construction methods will also
change. Practices that are taboo in residential
contruction now, were many times common practice in
the past. The elements will take their toll too. So a home
inspector must sift through the attributes of a house and
determine which is character, and which is important
information that a home buyer must know.
Another problem for home inspectors is that they use
standardized home inspection report templates that aren’t
suitable for old and antique homes. While these templates
help a modern home inspector manage their time by
having a wealth of cookie cutter comments about modern
homes, they often don’t have a comment library that
accurately describes conditions and systems used in the
last century and before. In general, old and Antique home
inspectors require a narrative report style and a comment
library that accurately describes the vast universe of
conditions and systems found in these homes.