Silver_fox
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Hello Folks, We have our final walk through in couple of days.
Wondering what to check, can anyone share their experience please.
Wondering what to check, can anyone share their experience please.
It's great piece of mind. Steve from Bilt-Rite is your man if you are looking for a new home inspector.Silver_fox said:Thank you. not sure for new home if it is a good idea to take professional home inspector with you?
woodburyowner said:If it's a new house, you generally have a 1 year warranty from the builder. No need to try to find everything wrong right now.
Silver_fox said:Hello Folks, We have our final walk through in couple of days.
Wondering what to check, can anyone share their experience please.
jmoney74 said:Silver_fox said:Hello Folks, We have our final walk through in couple of days.
Wondering what to check, can anyone share their experience please.
just be as picky as you can be. Who is your builder? They are pretty thorough with inspections these days on the major stuff.. but all the little stuff can be missed. Dry walls, etc. Also make sure it's easy to open each and every window. If there is a slight issue.. tell thenm about it.
Silver_fox said:Thank you. not sure for new home if it is a good idea to take professional home inspector with you?
@bones:bones said:But as picky as you can be to what end? If your windows have a major issue (like all of them have problems) then sure, but if one or two catch, you can always get them to fix it at the 1 month or at random. I guess my point is, as you move in and get settled, you'll find all sorts of new minor things. For my walk, I focused on major things I knew they wouldn't necessarily fix after COE and "major" things that my inspector found. As an example, one of my wood planks had a big dent/scratch in it - so I insisted it get fixed before COE bc after close, they can blame it on movers, etc. I also made them rip out and redo my kitchen backsplash BC it was not installed up to "standard". Again, insisted this be done before COE. They most likely won't do it after.
irvinehomeowner said:Silver_fox said:Thank you. not sure for new home if it is a good idea to take professional home inspector with you?@bones:bones said:But as picky as you can be to what end? If your windows have a major issue (like all of them have problems) then sure, but if one or two catch, you can always get them to fix it at the 1 month or at random. I guess my point is, as you move in and get settled, you'll find all sorts of new minor things. For my walk, I focused on major things I knew they wouldn't necessarily fix after COE and "major" things that my inspector found. As an example, one of my wood planks had a big dent/scratch in it - so I insisted it get fixed before COE bc after close, they can blame it on movers, etc. I also made them rip out and redo my kitchen backsplash BC it was not installed up to "standard". Again, insisted this be done before COE. They most likely won't do it after.
Not sure by how you posted this but did you hire a 3rd party inspector or are you talking about the builder's inspector?
bones said:woodburyowner said:If it's a new house, you generally have a 1 year warranty from the builder. No need to try to find everything wrong right now.
Yea I agree with this. For the final walk through, you want to focus on the big things that you want fixed before close of escrow. Minor things can wait. I call my service ppl out all the time to fix minor items. And they respond pretty much ASAP so don't stress out about the minor stuff. Just focus on the big items during the walk.
Irvinecommuter said:bones said:woodburyowner said:If it's a new house, you generally have a 1 year warranty from the builder. No need to try to find everything wrong right now.
Yea I agree with this. For the final walk through, you want to focus on the big things that you want fixed before close of escrow. Minor things can wait. I call my service ppl out all the time to fix minor items. And they respond pretty much ASAP so don't stress out about the minor stuff. Just focus on the big items during the walk.
I somewhat disagree. We had minor/moderate issues in the house, some we caught at the walkthrough, some we didn't. Our builder was very responsive and timely but it was a big hassle having subcontractors come in after movein to do repairs.
Personally, the things I would look out for are the windows (scratches/manufacturer defects), lights, paint, drawers, and faucets/hot water. Run each faucet for like 30 seconds and test if the hot water comes on. Everything can wait but it's not all that fun to have no hot water on the day you move in.
bones said:We scheduled them to come all in the same morning. All were taken care of in a 3 hour span.
bones said:I focused on major things I knew they wouldn't necessarily fix after COE and "major" things that my inspector found.
qwerty said:bones said:We scheduled them to come all in the same morning. All were taken care of in a 3 hour span.
but lucking out like this is not always the case. most of the time you will have to be home for several days.
bones said:qwerty said:bones said:We scheduled them to come all in the same morning. All were taken care of in a 3 hour span.
but lucking out like this is not always the case. most of the time you will have to be home for several days.
Yea. Another reason to buy early or mid phases in new construction. Chances are, during most of that 1 year warranty period, the builders are still on-site finishing up the last phases. It's really easy for them to pull a dry wall guy, an electrician, a plumber, etc off the job down the street to come take a look at your issue.
AA said:Is it typical to have a final walkthrough the day before the projected close of escrow date? I don't want to close escrow if I find stuff that needs repair. Is this typical process for newly constructed homes? Thanks for your help.