Inland Empire Electrical Safety Inspections
Home electrical safety inspections make excellent sense whether buying, building, or selling a new home. Understanding your Inland Empire home’s systems and components are critical when it comes to purchase, repair and maintenance decisions.
The one system that is of greatest concern to home buyers and home owners is the electrical system. Very few home inspectors are qualified to make a complete detailed assessment of an electrical system. Our basic home safety inspection already includes an inspection of the electrical system that exceeds industry standards for home inspections.
Removal & Inspection a Select Number of Wiring Devices
- We check for open grounds
- We check to see whether it is properly wired
- We check for proper polarity
- We check the integrity of the connections
- We check the wire feeding the device
- We check the condition of the device
A representative number of devices will be checked. Typically, we check 10-15% of the devices but if we find problems in some of the devices, we increase the number of devices that we check so that we can better assess the likelihood that the problems exist in other areas.
Inspection of Electrical Panels
- We check critical area for potential corrosion
- We check for proper grounding of supplemental systems, such as telephones and cable television
- We check for the presence of a ground rods and the connections
- We check the operation of all GFCI breakers