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Protecting your investment begins with having and understanding all the facts. After a thorough inspection, we’ll go over the results and give you all the information you’ll need to make the right decisions.

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Home Inspection Services

Whether you’re a long time Wisconsin homeowner safeguarding your investment, a seller or a potential buyer of a northern Wisconsin home or waterfront property, a comprehensive home inspection will help you to determine immediate maintenance/repair needs, update/remodel potential and the overall safety and health of your financial investment.

Upon completion of the home inspection, you will receive an easy-to-interpret, photo rich, data driven report. I’ll walk through the results to help clarify and align the findings with your desired outcome.

Our home inspection service area includes much of northern Wisconsin including Spooner, Hayward, Cable, Shell Lake, Gordon, and Clam Lake.

Home Inspection Services - Structure

Structure

Inspection of the foundation, support structures, roof lines, framing, sheathing, etc.

Summit Home Inspection Services Exterior

Exterior

Inspection of siding, trim, doors, windows, decks, patios, soffits, fascia, decks and porches. Drainage, grade changes, impacting root and foliage interactions, retaining walls, stairs, driveways, walkways (outbuildings and fences not included unless pre-arranged).

Home Inspection Services Roof

Roof

Check materials, gutters and downspouts, chimneys, flashed penetrations (e.g., vents, skylights, etc.).

Home Inspection Services Insulation Ventilation

Insulation and Ventilation

To determine how the ventilation affects rot, mold and air quality, we’ll inspect attics, walls, floors, crawl spaces, ventilation fans (e.g., whole house, bath exhaust, etc.).

Summit Home Inspection Services Electrical

Electrical

Service entrance, disconnects, main and sub panels, grounding, bonding, breakers, switches, outlets, ground fault circuit interrupters, smoke detectors.

Summit Home Inspection Services Plumbing

Plumbing

Water and gas supply lines and shut-offs, water pressure, water heaters, safety valving, fixtures, traps, drains, functional flow and drainage.

Summit Home Inspection Services HVAC

HVAC

Heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) controls, thermostats, and components (e.g., furnaces, heat pumps, etc.), supply and discharge lines, venting, filters, ductwork, registers, fireplaces and inserts, heat lamps.

Summit Home Inspection Services Interior

Interior

Ceilings, walls, floors, doors, fireplace (flue, draft, blockages), basement, attic, cabinetry, windows, stairways, countertops.

Summit Home Inspection Services Appliances

Appliances

Washers, dryer, dryer vents, ranges, refrigerator/freezers, dishwashers, disposals, built-in microwaves, ceiling fans.

Radon Testing

Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that occurs naturally in soil, rocks, and even some building materials like concrete or granite slabs. Excessive exposure to radon decay products is a significant cause of lung cancer around the country. Radon can pass through and enter the home through walls, basements, crawlspaces, and most building materials.

Note: Radon appears in varied patterns – if the house next door is clear of radon or has radon present, that has no bearing as to whether your house has radon. All individual houses should be tested. To learn more about short or long term radon testing and remedies, please call.

Complete Home Inspection and Testing Services

We provide home inspection and well and septic testing services throughout northern Wisconsin, including Ashland, Bayfield, Burnett, Douglas, Price, Rusk, Sawyer and Washburn counties.

Home Inspections

Radon Testing

Septic System Evaluations

Water Testing (Bacteria, Nitrates, Arsenic)

Property Transfer Well Inspections

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About

About You

It’s generally a given. When you hire a home inspector, you assume that they’re certified, well trained and competent.

Anyone can learn a skill and perform the service you need – but when you’re dealing with your largest financial investment and the safety of your family, you need more. You should have an advocate that deliberately approaches every project as if it was their own.

Steven E. Smith

About Me: Steven E. Smith

My goal is to provide you with the data needed to make confident, well-informed decisions. You should experience transparency, easy to understand explanations and options, and the feel of working with an ally that’s passionate about helping you take the right course of action.

Before having a home inspection business, people came to my insurance agency to protect their assets. I approach home inspection just as I did when I sold insurance policies – by consistently giving the same attention to detail and measured approach that I would want.

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Steven E. Smith
WI License #3049-106

P.O. Box 547
Hayward, WI 54843
(715) 577-1034
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