Longview WA Home Inspection
Home Inspection Longview WA
Slopeside Home Inspections Serves Longview, Washington Offering Certified Home Inspections With Professionally Trained & Certified Inspector, Andrew Tewson
Longview, Washington’s trusted home inspector is
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Longview, Washington Areas Served
Abernathy Creek, Beacon hill, Broadway, Bunker Hill, Carnival Market, City View, Clark Creek, Columbia Heights, Columbia Heights East, Columbia Valley Garden, Downtown, Evergreen Terrace, Fair Oaks Park, Eufala Heights, Hillside Acres, Industrial Way, Northlake/Corman, Olympic, Olympic West, Olympic East, Highlands, St. Helens, Old West Side, New West Side, Cascade City View, Downtown, Northlake – Carman, Valley View, West Side, Longview Heights, West Longview, Industrial Way, Third Avenue, Mint Farm, Memorial Park, Barlow Point, public and city governments and all associated neighborhood areas.
Home Inspection Services Available
Thorough inspections with comprehensive evaluation and easy to understand, same-day inspection report.
Inspected home components and structure include:
- Roof
- Attic, Ventilation, & Insulation
- Foundation, Basement, & Crawl Space
- Exterior (doors, windows, cladding)
- Interior (doors, windows, floors, walls, ceilings, stairs)
- Decks
- Fireplaces & Wood Stoves
- Heating & Cooling Systems
- Plumbing System
- Electrical System
- Built-in Kitchen Appliances
- Infrared Thermal Imaging as needed
Slopeside Home Inspections is owned and operated by certified home inspector, Andrew Tewson. Andrew is certified through InterNACHI, the International Association of Certified Home Inspectors, the world’s leading association for home inspectors. Longview, Washington and the surrounding area is one of the cities Andrew serves, providing client-oriented realty agent & broker home inspections as well as homeowner initiated home inspections. A home inspection can give you a clear understanding of a home’s safety, soundness, and whether or not the home will fit the needs of your family.
Andrew offers home inspection appointments 6 days per week to accommodate the busy schedules of realtors agents, brokers, and homeowners. Andrew’s trained eyes give Slopeside Home Inspections a tremendous advantage—providing you with a truly exhaustive home inspection that’s unparalleled in its attention to detail. Clients are always invited to attend their inspection, and afterward, Andrew will take the time to answer any questions they may have.
Home Inspection Reports Straight To Your Inbox
HIGHLY-DETAILED SAME-DAY DIGITAL HOME INSPECTION REPORTS
Easily accessed by a computer, tablet, mobile device, or available as a PDF. Your report will be carefully reviewed before being delivered to ensure that the findings are accurate, easy to read, and exceptionally detailed.
Our user-friendly and easy to understand professional home inspector reports are made available the same day as the home inspection. Pictures are attached when needed to clarify the nature of defective home components. As a certified professional home inspector, during a home inspection, Andrew reviews all of the major components and systems of a home, from foundations and crawlspaces to attics and roofs, to ensure you end up with a detailed inspection report including pictures, and radon testing or mold sampling when needed.
HIGHLY-DETAILED SAME-DAY DIGITAL HOME INSPECTION REPORTS FOR REALTOR AGENTS & REAL ESTATE BROKERS
Clear reports that are easily accessed by a computer, tablet, mobile device, or available as a PDF, combined with helpful service for realtor agents or real estate brokers and their home buyers and listing clients. The built-in features of our intuitive inspection reports help the homeowner and the real estate agent build a repair-request document with ease, where they can include their customized comments about seller concessions and repair details.
Our home inspection reports give realtors, and their clients, the information they need to make an informed decision when buying or selling a home.
Slopeside Home Inspections serves Longview, WA with thorough, professional home inspections. Longview is the city of the Missouri timber baron, Robert A. Long. Over a hundred years ago, Robert Long decided to move his timber business to the west coast where forests had plenty of resources for a lumber company. He planned to build a city, and fund its development himself, that would have two lumber mills. Many of the buildings in Longview were built with Robert Long’s own funds. Once a bustling mill town, Longview has suffered with a slow economy since the 2008 recession. The market value of homes in Longview WA has increased by over 45% in the past 5 years.
The topography of Longview poses a fairly flat terrain, except in the northern section of town, where the terrain is hilly, so the foundations of most homes will be engineered for flat terrain while the northern homes may include foundation engineering designed to sustain the possibility of shifting soils. Homebuyers can benefit from a quality home inspection in Longview WA from Slopeside Home Inspections with Andrew Tewson, the certified and licensed home inspector who will thoroughly inspect the home you are purchasing in Longview Washington.
Longview is one of the larger cites in southwest Washington, with nearly 16,000 households and a population of under 40,000 people. New home construction is minimal in Longview WA due to the sluggish economy. The economy being slow for so many years, with low level of new construction, means the majority of homes are older homes with many having been built in the 1960s and 1970s. If you need a home inspection in the neighborhood of Abernathy Creek, Beacon hill, Broadway, Bunker Hill, Carnival Market, City View, Clark Creek, Columbia Heights, Columbia Heights East, Columbia Valley Garden, Downtown, Evergreen Terrace, Fair Oaks Park, Eufala Heights, Hillside Acres, Industrial Way, Northlake/Corman, Olympic, Olympic West, Olympic East, Highlands, St. Helens, Old West Side, New West Side, Cascade City View, Downtown, Northlake – Carman, Valley View, West Side, Longview Heights, West Longview, Industrial Way, Third Avenue, Mint Farm, Memorial Park, or Barlow Point, consider looking carefully to ensure your inspector has the knowledge and the experience to inspect your home thoroughly for the structural issues relevant to the terrain, for potential environmental hazards, for dilapidated home components, deteriorating structure, and the potential issues associated with aging, built-in appliances, and more.
If you are selling or buying a home in Longview WA, a home inspection can serve you as a protective investment. A home inspection report provides you with a written record of the status of the home’s components and its structure, providing honest evaluations for items such as structural integrity, construction techniques, foundation stability, insulation rating, and ventilation adequacy, and more.
Older homes can sometimes have issues due to homeowners, through the years, repairing the home on their own without knowing of city building code specifications that need to be adhered to. If a home has an electrical, a plumbing, or a drain line problem, you want to know about it before you sign on the dotted line. Some of the historically older homes in Longview, Washington, may have waste, sewer drain lines made of materials which can make the lines prone to the invasion of roots growing into and clogging the lines. Slopeside Home Inspections can provide you with a thorough home inspection, as Andrew crawls the crawlspaces, ventures into the attic, climbs a ladder to thoroughly inspect the roof, and opens cupboard doors, vents, and closets, to inspect what lurks there.
Longview WA Home Radon Testing
Radon Testing In Home Inspections For Longview WA Homeowners, Realtors, Buyers And Sellers
The soils in Longview, Washington do not pose a high radon gas danger, so the homes in Longview WA are rated by City-Data as having low levels of radon gases. Radon is an odorless, tasteless, potentially deadly radioactive gas that is a known contributing cause of lung cancer. Radon gas can originate from the decomposition of rock and soil deep underground. When radon escapes the surface, it is possible that the gas can concentrate inside a home. Andrew Tewson, with Slopeside Home Inspections, is trained to properly inspect homes for radon with the tools which accurately detect its presence in a home.
Longview WA Home Mold Sampling
Mold Sampling In Home Inspections For Longview WA Homeowners, Realtors, Buyers And Sellers
Mold in a home can cause numerous health problems for homeowners and their families. The presence of mold isn’t always readily visible, and the moisture that facilitates it can go undetected. Slopeside Home Inspections is certified to test homes for mold to help ensure they are a healthy living environment.
When mold causes property damage and presents health hazards, it can spread on walls and ceilings, or on and under floors, in a widespread and visible fashion; or, it can go undetected when it crops up inside of walls, attics, closets and cabinets.
Potential mold trouble spots in a home can include crawl spaces, basements, and attics, when insufficient ventilation and high humidity create the optimal environments for mold to grow. Other possible mold locations are the interior and exterior edges of windows and along window trim where condensation accumulates, as well as behind exterior wall siding where cracks allow water to enter the home, slowly, over time. Rooms with water sources, such as kitchens, bathrooms, pantries, utility rooms, or garages, are hot spots for mold if plumbing, faucets, pipes, or appliances leak and contribute to an environment that allows mold growth to become established.
Some of the symptoms that can result from exposure to mold can range from nose, throat, and lung irritations to itchy skin or eyes. If hay fever symptoms exhibit themselves, outside of the hay fever season, but when inside your home, that can be a sign that mold is present.
Including mold testing with a home inspection can be helpful. Mold that spreads can make a home dangerous to live in. If mold is present, it can be costly to both remove the mold and repair the affected structures.
Historic Buildings In Longview Washington
According to Wikipedia, “Longview has many historic buildings, many of which were built in the initial growth period from 1923 to 1934, prior to the worst effects of the Great Depression. Ranging from Georgian-revival style with the major public buildings, Tudor and craftsman style homes, commercial vernacular, and Art Deco, there are many contributing properties. A park, a bridge, and many buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, along with the Civic Center, that is a National Register Historic District.“
Longview WA Buildings On The National Register of Historic Places
Berwind-Purcell House
Big Four Furniture Building – Built in 1924 for Lumberman’s Bank.
Columbia Theater
First Christian Church
Lake Sacajawea Park
R. A. Long High School
Longview Bridge – Also known as the Lewis and Clark Bridge.
Nutty Narrows Bridge – Is a squirrel bridge in Longview.
Longview Civic Center Historic District
Longview Community Church
Longview Community Church-Saint Helen’s Addition
Longview Community Store
Longview Women’s Clubhouse
Mills Building
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Building
Pounder Building
Schumann Building
Sevier and Weed Building
J. D. Tennant House
Tyni Building
US Post Office – Longview Main
Washington Gas and Electric Building
Willard Building