Most builder warranties run twelve months. Most owners remember around month thirteen.
A year in a house reveals things a walkthrough at closing never could — how the foundation behaves through a full freeze-thaw cycle, whether the grading actually moves water away from the house in a real storm, whether doors and windows still operate the way they did on day one, whether a roof penetration is holding up. Most builder warranties cover a defined list of items for one year, and once that window closes, a defect that would have been the builder's problem becomes yours instead.
Timing this inspection at eleven months rather than twelve leaves enough runway to get a written claim submitted before the warranty expires, rather than discovering something in month twelve with no time left to act on it. It is the same visual, non-invasive process as a standard inspection, but the report gets read differently — every item is checked against what the warranty is likely to cover, so nothing that qualifies gets missed simply because nobody was looking for it before the deadline.
Tell us the property and the timeline. We will match you with an inspector who reports to you and sells you nothing afterward.
Schedule an InspectionA property address and a rough timeline is enough to start — we will follow up to confirm the details.