Inspections

Visual Inspections

  After repairing stucco properties for over 20 years, we understand what causes most damage to stucco properties and can often find defective conditions by visiting the property and visually inspecting the stucco. Most stucco failures start with a defective installation of the materials, rotted wood trim, or caulking failures. These are easy to locate. If you just want to know if you have any of the defects that cause or can lead to most stucco damage, just call us. We will visually inspect your property and provide a basic written report of our findings to you for no charge. Customers can purchase a more detailed written report of our findings related to this inspection for $100..

Invasive Moisture Tests

  If you want to know for sure whether you have any hidden problems, we must conduct an invasive moisture test. This test checks to see if there has been any moisture related damage to the structure of your property. Using a moisture meter, probes are inserted into the wall at specific locations to determine whether moisture is present, but more importantly, to see if the wood framing under the stucco has sustained any damage. Moisture enters into the walls at predictable locations. Knowing where these locations are allows us to check to see if excessive moisture is present. We can also tell if the wood has been damaged by moisture, termites, or ants by measuring the amount of resistance the wood has when the probe is inserted. The deeper the probe can be inserted into the wall framing, the more damage that area has.

  Each invasive moisture test that we conduct comes with a detailed report listing the findings of our inspection. We also guarantee our findings. If within 12 months of our inspection another inspector finds hidden structural damage that we missed, we will fix that damage for free. Call for details. No one else offers that kind of confidence in their inspectors.