Ridgefield WA Home Inspection

Home Inspection Ridgefield WA

Slopeside Home Inspections Serves Ridgefield, Washington Offering Certified Home Inspections With Professionally Trained & Certified Inspector, Andrew Tewson

Ridgefield, Washington’s trusted home inspector is
Slopeside Home Inspections

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Ridgefield, Washington Areas Served
Bella Noche, Bellwood Heights, Canyon View, Canterbury Trails, Cassini View, Cedar Creek, Cloverhill, Columbia Hills, Discovery Ridge, Garrison Ridge, Green Gables, Hawks Landing, Helen’s View, Heron Ridge, Hillhurst, Hillhurst Highlands, Kennedy Farms, Laurel Heights, Osprey Pointe, Pioneer Canyon, Pioneer Place, Pleasant Ridge, Quail Hill, Ridgefield Woods, Royal Terrace, Royal View, Seven Wells, Taverner Ridge, Teal Crest, The Village at Canyon Ridge, Wishing Well Estates, 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:

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Home Components & Structure Inspected Ridgefield WA
  • 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. Ridgefield, 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 Ridgefield, WA with thorough, professional home inspections. Ridgefield Washington, formerly named Union Ridge by the many Union U.S. Army veterans who settled there after the Civil War, was renamed as Ridgefield in the late 1800s. Interestingly enough, U-Haul, the well known rental equipment moving company, got its start in Ridgefield. The city boasts a refuge for nature in the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge, which is a group of islands between the Columbia River and the city of Ridgefield. More recently, Ridgefield has become a haven of housing for the continually growing greater Vancouver area, experiencing an explosion in new construction housing, such as that at the time of this writing, it is the fastest growing city in the state of Washington. The drone view, from above, reveals larger neighborhoods full of new residential homes. The city government has kept the commercial growth of Ridgefield to a minimum, so its citizens enjoy a rich experience of community without the full barrage of brick and mortar buildings, which isn’t a problem since those are a short drive away in neighboring cities. Home values in Ridgefield WA had nearly doubled in the past 5 years, but it has tailed off considerably in the last 7 months to an approximate market value increase of 30%.

The topography of Ridgefield poses a range of home building options with different styles of houses, with mostly flat land along with smaller zones where houses are closer to creeks and near or on hills or slopes. Homes built below or on the precipice of hillsides or near creek drainages are constructed with unique engineering techniques to allow homes in such locations to maintain a solid foundation where soils can shift. Homebuyers can benefit from a quality home inspection in Ridgefield WA from Slopeside Home Inspections with Andrew Tewson, the certified and licensed home inspector who will thoroughly inspect the home you are purchasing in Ridgefield Washington.

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Home Inspection Certification With InterNACHI

Ridgefield could be considered a northern bedroom community of Vancouver, in southwest Washington, with approximately 3,000 households and close to 10,500 people. New home construction continues at a fast pace, but that is tempered by open, less developed, rural lands lying a few minutes drive in any direction from town. The Ridgefield Washington neighborhoods are comprised of a large percentage of newer homes, with styles to fit most any taste. If you need a home inspection in the neighborhood of Bella Noche, Bellwood Heights, Canyon View, Canterbury Trails, Cassini View, Cedar Creek, Cloverhill, Columbia Hills, Discovery Ridge, Garrison Ridge, Green Gables, Hawks Landing, Helen’s View, Heron Ridge, Hillhurst, Hillhurst Highlands, Kennedy Farms, Laurel Heights, Osprey Pointe, Pioneer Canyon, Pioneer Place, Pleasant Ridge, Quail Hill, Ridgefield Woods, Royal Terrace, Royal View, Seven Wells, Taverner Ridge, Teal Crest, The Village at Canyon Ridge, or Wishing Well Estates, 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 Ridgefield 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.

If you live in Ridgefield, you’ve likely noticed the tremendous speed in which whole housing developments are completed. Homes built and completed in such quick fashion can give rise to a host of issues, from something being overlooked, to something not being completed to standards, or to a crucial element simply not being installed. 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. Of minimal concern with housing in the city of Ridgefield, Washington, is a home’s waste or sewer drain lines being vulnerable to the invasion of roots growing into and clogging the lines; but, some of the older homes with older drain line design may be prone to this malady. 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.

Ridgefield WA Home Radon Testing

Radon Testing In Home Inspections For Ridgefield WA Homeowners, Realtors, Buyers And Sellers

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Radon Gas Testing Home Inspection Ridgefield Washington

Due to the composition of the soil deposits in Ridgefield, Washington, the homes in Ridgefield WA are rated by City-Data as having some of the highest levels of radon gases, of all cities in the state of Washington. Radon is an odorless, tasteless, potentially deadly radioactive gas that is a known contributing cause of lung cancer. The radon gas in some of the homes in Ridgefield originates 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.

Ridgefield WA Home Mold Sampling

Mold Sampling In Home Inspections For Ridgefield WA Homeowners, Realtors, Buyers And Sellers

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Mold Sampling Home Inspection Ridgefield WA

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.