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Tips for Keeping Your Home Sale Ready

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When it comes to real estate, first impressions matter. That’s why you want to make sure your home looks its best before you put it on the market. Potential buyers want to see themselves in a fresh, clean home that’s been well-maintained. Here are some tips to help you keep your home sale ready inside and outside without doing any major or expensive upgrades. Consider Curb Appeal When you decide to list your home, aesthetics are everything. Be sure your house looks attractive from the street by completing these minor improvements to the front exterior: Care for the Backyard Buyers like a well-maintained backyard that they can see themselves spending time in, so consider these updates: Freshen Up Interiors Potential buyers love walking into a home that feels bright, clean, and airy. Here’s how you can create that feeling in your home:  Minor Repairs People want to see a home in good condition, so little things like these matter: Once you’ve completed these tasks, you can call a professional home inspector to get more information about the systems in your home that aren’t visible to the naked eye. Call South Sound Inspections to schedule a pre-listing inspection that will give […]

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Thermal Imaging FAQs

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What is Thermal Imaging and What Qualifies an Inspector to Use It?  A home inspection is an important step in the process of buying a house, or if you’re determining what repairs need to be done in your current home. Thermal imaging is a type of technology that amplifies the typical home inspection by providing detail and information about a home’s components that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Thermal imaging can help detect energy loss, moisture, hot spots, plumbing leaks, and more. Because these issues usually take a while to present themselves visually, thermal imaging can catch warning signs so you have time to complete necessary repairs. Read on to learn how thermal imaging works, why it’s important, and what qualifies a home inspector to use the technology in your next home inspection.  What Is Thermal Imaging? Thermal imaging is a non-invasive technology that detects temperatures and moisture levels on surfaces like walls, ceilings, floors, and around windows and doors. As an inspector passes a camera over certain areas, it produces a color-coded “heat map” to show where a home may be losing heat through door and window cracks. Hot areas are usually indicated by yellow, red, white […]

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Tacoma Side Sewer Inspections

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What Local Homeowners Need to Know If you live in Tacoma, WA, and you’re planning to schedule a home inspection, you should know about a recommendation from the city of Tacoma regarding your side sewer, or lateral sewer: the part of the sewer system that connects your private property to the public, city-maintained sanitary sewer main. In order for the city to better maintain its public sewers, it’s important for individual homeowners to do their part in ensuring that their property’s plumbing systems are in good condition. Read on to learn more about what this kind of inspection requires and how it can benefit homeowners. What is a side sewer inspection? A side sewer inspection is a detailed examination of a privately owned sewer pipe that sends wastewater away from a home’s toilets, laundry room, drains and sinks and into the city’s main sewer line that’s usually located in the street. This kind of inspection looks at a home’s drainage and plumbing system up to the point where it joins the public sewer. Some cities, like Tacoma, recommend that homeowners get a side sewer inspection to ensure that their private line doesn’t have any issues that will impact the home […]

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SOUTH SOUND INSPECTIONS ANNOUNCES NEW SEWER SCOPE SERVICE

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(Tacoma, WA) Beginning January 1, 2023, South Sound Inspections will offer sewer scoping services. South Sound Inspections serves Seattle-area homeowners with thorough, expert inspections that provide critical information about the condition of their home. South Sound Inspections’ sewer scoping services give homeowners a glimpse into their sewer lines to identify blockages, leaks, or damaged pipes. These inspections are done with a high-quality camera affixed to a flexible line that is drawn through sewer pipes to provide real-time footage of the pipe’s interior. Sewer scope inspections can help to spot damage otherwise invisible to the naked eye and may prevent expensive plumbing repairs.  South Sound Inspections founder Robert Jones believes that launching this new service will benefit local homeowners. “Our goal at South Sound Inspections is to give homeowners the most accurate information about the condition of their property. By expanding our services into sewer scoping, we can help people become more knowledgeable about the plumbing and sewer components on their property.”  South Sound Inspections was founded in 2002 to serve Seattle area homeowners with expert, unbiased property inspections. For more information, contact 253-820-9650

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Seller Inspections

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What Is a Pre-Listing Inspection and Why You May Want One You may already be familiar with the need for scheduling a home inspection if you’re buying a home as a way to get more information about the property. But if you are planning on selling your home, it may also be a good idea to get your home inspected before putting it on the market. Although pre-listing seller inspections are not currently as popular as buyer inspections, there are certain benefits for sellers who get their homes inspected. Keep reading for more information about why you may want your home inspected before you sell. What is a pre-listing inspection? A pre-listing inspection is a home inspection that a seller schedules before listing their home. This kind of inspection is similar to a standard inspection that a buyer requests before purchasing a home; but, the major difference between the two is that the seller pays for the inspection. A pre-listing inspection includes detailed observations of a seller’s home’s major systems: electrical, plumbing, HVAC, foundation and structure, floors and windows, roof and siding. The inspection can reveal what repairs the seller can make before listing. When a seller wants to better […]

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What is a Home Warranty Inspection?

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What You Should Know About Home Warranty Inspections You may already know the answer to the question “What is a home warranty?”, but you may not be familiar with the details surrounding a home warranty inspection. No home is perfect, not even a newly-built home, so a home warranty can help to cover repair costs. But in order to get those repairs complete and covered by your warranty, you need a home warranty inspection. Quite often, new construction homes come with the builder’s one-year home warranty to guarantee that materials and systems in your new home are correctly installed and functioning. Read on to learn more about why you may need a home warranty inspection, what it can entail, and when you should get one, especially if you have a newly constructed home. WHY YOU NEED A HOME WARRANTY INSPECTION If you have a home warranty, you need a home warranty inspection to assess the need for repairs. These inspections are needed after you’ve lived in your newly constructed home for one year, so you should schedule an inspection 10 to 11 months after you have moved in. A home warranty inspection is not too different from a standard home […]

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4227 S Meridian Suite C #290
Puyallup, WA 98373

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Seattle 206.930.6740
Tacoma 253-820-9650

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