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.
Contact Richard and Carol Anne
Buying a home is the biggest investment most people will ever make. You think you have finally found the home you’re ready to call your own, but did the sellers take care of the maintenance? Is the home to the point of needing costly repairs? Approx. 80% of all home buyers never get a home inspection, and never know exactly what they are buying, not for sure. Hiring Leeds and Grenville’s highly rated and trusted inspection team will give you the answers you need. Richard and Carol Anne provide their detailed home inspections at very reasonable rates. For years 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, using equipment most other inspectors do not have.
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 before, 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.
“Armada are absolutely wonderful to work with. Lovely people and very professional and do such a detailed great job! We’ve used them on a couple of occasions now and they are so easy to work with. I highly recommend them. Richard and Carol Anne are fantastic! Ron Kunitzky, Dec-2023
Our home inspections serve one purpose, to help our clients know the true condition of a property inside and out, without influence from other parties.
With the limited time windows allowed to complete a home inspection, do you think a single home inspector on site can match the thoroughness and detail Richard and Carol Anne provide together as a team? Our clients will be the first to tell you the answer is No.
Richard is a Dalhousie University Certified Home Inspector, and is a member of the Canadian Association of Home and Property Inspectors (CAHPI). He is a Certified National Certificate Holder (NCH), as well as a Certified Registered Home Inspector (RHI), the highest level of Certification. He is a also a Certified Radon Measurement Inspector, WETT Technician, Chimney Sweep, and System Advisor, one of only 3 Home Inspectors in Ontario who are WETT Technicians.
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 follow-up inspections for very upset home buyers.
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.
Honesty, Integrity, and Trust
To us, trust, honesty, and integrity matter. Even after 6 years, and being one of the highest rated inspection providers in the area, the majority of realtors in this area actively avoid us, and they make sure their clients do to. We are told it is because we are ‘too difficult to deal with’. Being ‘difficult’ means that we do not write soft reports, we do not overlook issues, we do not answer to them, and we do not answer to anyone other then our client. So yes, we are very difficult.
By the time you are booking a home inspection, you already have an accepted offer and the home inspection is a ‘condition’ that needs to be taken care of and removed in order to firm up the purchase and virtually guarantee that all important ‘commission’. Unfortunately, for too many, they will not take a chance with you being provided information by an honest inspection company so you can make your own decision. Realtors with Integrity simply want their client to be happy with the property they purchase, no matter how long it takes. Realtors with Integrity know exactly who we are, they will still give you multiple company names, but you have to decide for yourself.
For the rest, they simply want your home buying experience to be a profitable experience for them, so they will always try to set you up with the inspector they have in their back pocket and gets all of their business in exchange for NOT being difficult.
We will never be the minimum standard just so we can be popular with realtors, we strive to set the standard as high as we can, the same way we would if we were inspecting a property for family, friends, or ourselves.
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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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 6 years to become a WETT Certified Technician. Only 3 Home Inspectors in all of Ontario are WETT Certified Technicians. Richard is one of them, and he is also a Certified 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.
Armada Inspection Services proudly supports Movember. Raising awareness of men’s health issues, such as prostate cancer and men’s suicide prevention. This year Richard grew a stash to remember the 80’s. What will he grow next November?
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