Right now your house is an open book — framing, wiring, pipes and ductwork all sitting in plain view. In a few days the drywall goes up and every one of those systems disappears behind a finished wall. A pre-drywall inspection is the last chance anyone gets to look.
A house is built by many different trades — framers, plumbers, electricians, HVAC crews — all working the same walls at different times. Things get overlooked in the handoffs. Most of them get covered up the day the drywall goes on, and stay covered for the life of the house.
Every stud, joist, pipe run, junction box and duct is visible and reachable. A defect found today is a correction, not a demolition.
The same defect is now behind finished, painted wall. Finding it later means opening that wall back up — and paying to close it again.
Plumbers, electricians and framing crews all pass through the same space on different days. Nobody sees the whole picture at once — which is exactly where things slip through.
The cost of a fix isn't the fix — it's the access. Correcting a mis-run pipe or a notched joist is straightforward while the wall is open and a different conversation entirely once it isn't.
Later inspections are thorough, but they can only assess what's visible. This is the one phase in the entire build where the bones of your house can actually be examined.
The point of this phase is leverage over time: a small correction now instead of a large one later, and a record of the structure you'll never be able to photograph again.
Every finding, in plain language, organized by system and location — delivered fast, because drywall crews don't wait.
Photos of what's behind your walls, taken while it's still visible. Useful for the correction now, and for every renovation you ever plan later.
Fewer problems surfacing after you move in, and fewer of them requiring someone to cut into a finished wall to reach.
With the structure open, your inspector works through the systems that will shortly be permanently concealed.
The bones of the house. If it's about to be covered up, it's part of what we look at.
Critical components need to be installed correctly the first time, because nobody is going to check them again. A joist notched too deep to run a pipe through, a junction box that ends up buried behind drywall, a missing metal clip — none of these announce themselves later.
They're also all completely obvious right now, to someone whose job is to look for them. That asymmetry is the whole argument for this inspection.
Everything is easy to fix while you can still see it.
Joists, studs and structural connections are all open to view — and every one of them is load-bearing for the next hundred years.
Every run, box and connection can be traced end to end. After drywall, all you can check is whether the switch works.
Pre-drywall is the second of four. Here's where it sits — and what the phases either side of it cover.
The footing supports the foundation and the slab the entire house rests on. We check for deficiencies before the concrete is poured — the one moment these elements are still visible and still correctable.
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Framing, plumbing runs, and electrical routing are all still exposed. Once the drywall goes up, deficiencies here become expensive to find and harder to prove. This is the window to catch them.
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The home is finished and you haven't signed yet. We document defects while your builder still has every incentive to resolve them before closing — the punch list that precedes your keys.
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After a year of living in the house, new issues surface that no walk-through could have shown you. This inspection catches them while the builder's warranty still covers the repair.
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Drywall goes up fast once it's scheduled, so this is worth booking as soon as your builder gives you a date. Book online in a couple of minutes — or call and we'll find you a slot.
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