Avon, CT
Home Inspections in Avon, CT
Home inspections and well water testing for Avon buyers, from the town center to the wooded hillsides.
Home inspections and well water testing for Avon buyers, from the town center to the wooded hillsides.
Avon sits in the Farmington Valley between Talcott Mountain and the Farmington River. Much of its housing went up from the 1960s onward: colonials, capes and contemporaries on wooded lots, larger newer homes on the hillsides, plus condominiums and some older houses near the town center. Jim Angell, CMI® inspects all of them and walks you through what he finds as you go.
Jim is a Connecticut-licensed home inspector (#HOI.0000991) and an InterNACHI® Certified Master Inspector. Angell Home Inspection Services is veteran owned, Jim performs every inspection himself, and your digital report with photos arrives the same day.
Water testing is the service Avon buyers ask about most. Parts of town are on public water, but many homes away from the center draw from a private well drilled into bedrock. Once you own the house, the well is your responsibility, and what is in the water cannot be seen or tasted: bacteria and nitrates from the surface, or naturally occurring arsenic and uranium from the rock.
Jim collects the samples during the inspection and a certified laboratory runs the analysis, and comprehensive well water panels are available. Results come back in a few days, compared to EPA action levels, so you can plan for treatment before your contingency runs out. On public water, a first-draw lead test makes sense in homes built before 1986.
Connecticut's granite bedrock puts many homes at elevated risk for radon, and many Avon houses have full basements, often finished as family rooms or offices. Jim is an IAC2 Certified Radon Measurement Technician and runs a 48 to 96 hour test with certified continuous monitors, with results compared to the EPA action level of 4 pCi/L, and the test runs while you are still within your inspection period.
Bigger houses mean more to check: multiple heating and cooling zones, more than one water heater, large roofs with valleys, skylights and chimneys, and the decks and patios that come with wooded lots. Jim pays attention to how those decks are attached to the house, to drainage on sloped lots, and to equipment that is nearing the end of its life, so you can budget for it.
Thermal imaging is included with every inspection and helps Jim find moisture, missing insulation and electrical hot spots that are not visible to the eye.
Homes on a well are often on septic as well. A septic system evaluation is not part of the home inspection, so build it into your timeline early; our guide to septic systems in Connecticut explains what to expect. Jim also inspects in the towns around Avon, including Farmington, Simsbury and West Hartford.
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