New Construction Inspections in Central Arkansas

What a new construction inspection covers

Timing is what separates this from every other inspection. A finished house hides its framing, wiring, and ducts behind drywall and paint. A house still going up hides none of it. Catch it at the right phase and a trade fixes the problem with a screw gun, not a saw.

Nothing here is worn out yet. The whole job is workmanship. A plumber bores a hole through a floor joist bigger than the joist depth allows. A flex duct gets kinked behind a truss. A boot works loose in the attic. Kickout flashing gets skipped where a roof runs into a wall. That one stays quiet until the ceiling stains.

A new house hasn't been through a season either. Nobody's run the cooling through an Arkansas August or put water down every drain. So David runs the fixtures and cycles the heat, plus the cooling if the day is warm enough for it, then looks at the grading the first hard rain will test. The municipal code inspection runs on its own schedule. It isn't a punch list written for you.

• Pre-drywall framing

  Bearing points, hangers, and any joist or truss a trade cut or bored through, while the fix is cheap.

• Roof and flashing

  Valleys, step flashing, and the kickouts, since water behind siding lands in framing nobody sees again.

• Weather barrier and windows

  Housewrap laps, window flashing, and penetrations, since siding and brick hide it for good.

• HVAC rough-in and startup

  Duct runs, boot connections, the condensate line, and what the equipment does when it's started.

• Electrical

  Panel labeling, breaker sizing against the wire it feeds, cable support, and GFCI and AFCI where they belong.

• Plumbing

  Drain slope and venting, the water heater relief valve and discharge, every fixture run for leaks.

• Grading and drainage

  Fresh backfill settles, so David checks the slope away from the foundation and where downspouts let go.