Also called a Final Walk-Through Inspection
The house is finished. You haven't signed yet. That gap is the single strongest position you will ever hold with your builder — and a pre-settlement inspection is how you use it. We document what the walk-through missed while there's still every incentive to fix it.
The same defect costs you nothing today, becomes a warranty claim next month, and comes out of your pocket a year from now. Nothing about the defect changes — only when you find it.
Findings go on a punch list your builder works through before you take the keys. You haven't signed, so the incentive to resolve them is at its highest.
Still covered, but now it's a claim: you submit, you wait, you schedule around your own life in a house you already live in.
Once the builder's warranty expires, the repair is simply yours — the same defect, now at your cost.
Your builder runs their own walk-through. Ours is independent of them, works to the same standard we apply to every home inspection, and answers only to you.
You walk into the final walk-through holding a written report with photographs and locations — not a memory of something you thought looked wrong in the second bedroom.
It's also the natural moment to raise anything you're unsure about with your builder — how a system works, why something was done a particular way, what's covered from here.
The goal is simple: move into a new home with as few outstanding problems as possible — and have the record to make that happen.
Every finding, in plain language, organized by system and location. Delivered fast, because settlement dates don't move for anyone.
Defects photographed where they are, so there's no ambiguity about which window, which wall, or which fixture needs attention.
Formatted so your builder's team can act on it directly — which is usually the difference between "we'll look into it" and a scheduled fix.
Your inspector checks the finished home top to bottom, inside and out — every system the builder is handing over to you.
Every system, every room. If your builder is handing it over, it's part of what we look at.
A final walk-through is largely a visual pass through a clean, empty, freshly painted house — which is exactly the environment in which problems are hardest to notice. Everything looks finished because everything is new.
Our inspectors operate the systems rather than look at them. Appliances get run. Outlets get tested. Fixtures get opened. The difference between "it's installed" and "it works" is the entire point of the visit.
New doesn't mean correct. It only means nobody has used it yet.
An oven that was installed and an oven that reaches temperature are two different findings. We confirm the second one.
Wiring faults and GFCI outlets that don't trip look identical to working ones from across the room. They don't survive a test.
Pre-settlement is the third 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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Get the inspection on the calendar with enough room before closing for your builder to actually work the list. Book online in a couple of minutes — or call and we'll find you a slot.
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