Does anyone know how much it costs to have the electrics checked out in a house?
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008 at
6:38 pm
Corby asked:
I am in the process of buying a house. The Home Buyer’s Report from the surveyor is saying we should have the electrics “checked out.” Does anyone know how much something like this would cost? Even a rough estimate would be handy.
Thank you.
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brighton electrics
You need a home inspector. A home inspector will not only inspect your electrical system but all important aspects of your new home that you may not have been aware of. I bought a brand new, never lived in, freshly built house and I hired a home inspector for about $300.00, in the New Mexico market. This is no guarantee that he will find everything but he or she will catch a lot of the real important stuff that will save you a lot of grief later on. For example our inspector found that the air conditioner had not been bolted to the concrete slab outside the house. Nor had the wires and cooling pipe running through the attic been strapped down to the house structure. We would have heard vibrations all through the house when the air conditioner was running and the air conditioner could have slid off its foundation and brokent the cooling lines connecting the air conditioner to the furnace blower motor area. Electrically he found switches improperly and hurriedly connected so that we would have been constantly replacing light bulbs in one particlar socket. It was money well spent on a brand new home. The builder grumbled and objected but we held his feet to the fire and said we would not finalize the sale until these and several other items were fixed.