ARMADA INSPECTION SERVICES
Certified and Insured Home Inspection Services
Available 7 Days a Week with Scheduling to Fit Your Needs
Our clients receive their Home Inspection Report as quickly as possible, typically the very same day, and always within 24 hours.
We include Thermal Imaging and use specialized diagnostic equipment to complete every inspection.
Contact Richard and Carol Anne
Buying a home is the biggest investment most people will ever make. You think you found the home you love, but did the sellers take care of the maintenance? Is the home to the point of needing costly repairs? Hiring Leeds and Grenville’s highly rated and trusted inspection team will give you the answers you need. Richard & Carol Anne have been helping home buyers discover whether they have picked out a great home by investigating the property from top to bottom, and providing a truly independent third party assessment of the properties condition. Everything can be fixed, but you need to know what needs attention first.
Our typical home inspection takes an average of 3 hours on-site, then 5 to 8 hours completing your report in the office. Being prepared with our detailed and informative inspection report, and the information it provides, means you can be confident in the decision you make.
A gentleman called us, “I wanted to call you, but my wife booked the inspector our realtor highly recommended. We think we were lied to.” We visited the property outside Brockville and found multiple issues that were clearly identifiable, but were never reported. Two pellet stoves were run until they failed, then cleaned up to look nice. They paid extra to have these inspected. $2,000 to repair these stoves. The sellers said they never used them. The sellers lied. The homes two gas fireplaces both had significant code violations, and both were only repairable by replacement at an estimated cost of $10,000 each. This couple would have never purchased the property if they were told the truth about it’s condition.
They used a Realtor and a Home Inspector they will never use again.
Over the last 6 years Richard and Carol Anne have become the highly recommended home inspection service by clients who did their own research. Their Yellow Pages and Google reviews clearly speak to that.
Richard and Carol Anne inspect every property as if it were for Family, Friends, or Themselves.
Why We Test For Carbon Monoxide (CO) and conduct Combustible Gas leak testing
Exposure to CO is extremely dangerous, it is odorless, tasteless, it can make you very sick, and it can kill.
A home inspector that reports “the furnace is 27 years old and worked the day of the inspection” is putting your families safety at risk, and it ends up costing you after you own the $7,000 problem.
We know. We see these reports when we conduct inspections for very upset home buyers. A second inspection is the first step in the long legal process.
Natural Gas contains Benzine, a compound tied to Leukemia and other blood related issues.
Richard knows what he is looking at and looking for, including appliances leaking carbon monoxide into the home due to a failure like the perforated primary heat exchanger he found here.
The 30 Minute Inspection (True Story)
We arrive in Brockville to complete a home inspection. Our clients agent asks us if it possible to complete a home inspection in 30 minutes. The answer, “Absolutely Not”.
It turns out an inspection was completed two days prior at one of their listings. The buyer hired the highly recommended inspector their agent told them to use. The listing agent knows when the inspection will begin so they go by just before to make sure the house is ready. 40 minutes after the inspection was to start the listing agent sees the ‘Inspector’ on the other side of town. They call the buyers agent to see if the inspection was cancelled. They are told that everything went well. Turns out the buyers agent was never at the property. The clients? Well, they received a bogus looking report of some sort.
Honesty, Integrity, and Trust
To us, Honesty, Integrity, and Trust matter. 30 years in the military can have that effect on you.
We didn’t cash in $85,000 in savings just to pass the time once we retired. We started this business because there is a serious need for it. We experienced our own sorry inspection here in 2016. It was a disgrace, Our realtor made excuses, saying “they are the only ones around”, so we thought we would try to do something about it by offering an honest and trustworthy alternative. We thought that the areas realtors would appreciate a quality service being available to their clients. Boy we were so wrong. 8 years later and that very same agent has never mentioned our name to a client. Guess who they recommend.
The morally compromised sure stick together.
So, even after 6 years, and being one of the highest rated inspection providers in the area, the majority actively avoid us, and they make sure their clients do as well. We are told it is because we are ‘too difficult to deal with’. Being ‘difficult’ means that we do not write deceptive reports, and we do not overlook deal breaking issues. We simply provide our clients with honest information so they can make up their own mind. So yes, we are very difficult.
We will never be the minimum standard so we can be popular with local realtors. Reputable realtors know who we are, which explains why we travel so much.
Unfortunately though, people often spend more time picking out a new cell phone case than they do their realtor and their home inspector.
The Things Realtors Say and Do
- We were speaking to our clients, waiting for the realtor to arrive at the property. When the realtor got out of their vehicle they took one look at Richard and said “I’m wasting my time here, they’re not going to buy anything!” The agent knew there were issues with the property, they knew we would find them, and they knew we would inform our clients.
- We are inspecting a property and the listing agent shows up out of the blue. Our client asks me to explain to the listing agent that the gas furnace is 23 years old and is leaking Carbon Monoxide into the house. Once a Gas Technician looks at it they will attach a TSSA Red Tag to it and disconnect the gas. A replacement will cost around $7,000. The listing agent says that we do not know what we are talking about, and storms out. The furnace was just the start of a long list that day. Our clients purchased the property for $42,000 below the list price, and they did it knowing exactly what was wrong.
- A client looking to purchase a new home, has known their agent for approx. 30 years. They are friends. Before our client arrives at an inspection the realtor tells me “Don’t scare them off, there are 3 deals depending on this”. So, this agent who is a friend of their client is willing to throw them under the bus because there is $25,000 – $30,000 in commissions on the line. Never underestimate the morally compromised.
Our Home Inspection Team uses the toughest and most inclusive Home Inspection Standard in Canada.
CSA A770-16 Home Inspection Standard
Our Home Inspection reports detail the condition and any defects found related to:
* Roofing Systems *Exterior Components *Structural & Foundation Components *Electrical System
*Heating Systems *Air Conditioning & Heat Pump Systems *Insulation & Barrier Components *Interior
*Ventilation Systems *Mechanical Systems *Plumbing Systems *Attached Garages *Life & Safety Systems
*Pool & Hot Tub Safety *Pool Fencing & Gates *Primary Detached Garage
*Other Detached Structures (clients option)
Due to client requests, we have adopted a much larger service area. Not sure if we go there? Give us a call.
Main Service Area: Brockville, Gananoque, Lansdowne, Merrickville, Perth, Prescott, Smiths Falls, Spencerville, Westport, and anywhere in between.
Zone 2: Expands our service to Carlton Place, Howe Island, Iroquois, Kemptville, Kingston, Morrisburg, Sharbot Lake, Wolfe Island areas.
Zone 3: Expands our service area to include Arnprior, Calabogie, Cornwall, Kanata, Napanee, and Winchester areas.
We provide our reliable service 7 days a week.
Just give us a call, 613-802-8068, or send us an email and we can confirm the address and availability for you.
“We’ve used inspection services in the past and can honestly say this was the most knowledgeable and complete one we’ve had. Richard was thorough and didn’t leave any stone unturned. Money well spent. “
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- In Wall Radiant Heating
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- Broken Truss
Do You Need a WETT Inspection?
A few homes will have a fireplace, wood stove, wood furnace, or even a pellet stove or two. Were they installed properly? Do they even work? Are they safe? Anyone can install their own wood burning appliances and it happens every day, with no inspection ever being completed. All appliances are also not made equal. An Inspection by a Certified Technician will tell you what you have, if it’s certified, and most importantly if it is installed correctly and safe to use.
Almost every home inspection company offers WETT Inspections. “We do WETT Inspections”. Makes it sound like there is only one standard. There are actually three levels of WETT Inspections here in Canada. The vast majority of home inspectors are certified to complete only Level 1 WETT Inspections. A WETT Level 1 (Visual) Inspection is the lowest standard. This is a popular level of certification to get as a home inspector, as they can provide their own company letter of reference. That’s convenient. The WETT Level 1 inspection does have its place and use, but not as an appliances primary inspection.
It took Richard 8 years to become a WETT Certified Advanced Technician. Only 2 other Home Inspectors in Ontario are WETT Certified Technicians. Richard is currently the only Home Inspector who is a WETT SITE Comprehensive Inspector, and he is also a Certified Advanced Chimney Sweep, Installer, and Solid Fuel Burning System Advisor. Richard will switch from a WETT Level 1 (Visual) inspection to a WETT Level 2 (Technical) Inspection when he sees the need at no additional cost. If Richard sees enough during the home inspection to tell him there are issues, he will tell you beforehand, saving you the cost of the WETT Inspection. He will discuss the issues found, along with his concerns, and you can decide how to proceed.
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