About Rigney Home Inspections:

 

     Owner Mike Rigney’s background in construction is extensive. The son of a contractor he worked with his dad building homes through his school years. He worked out of Carpenters local 470 in Tacoma for eight years completing 8000 hours as an apprentice carpenter. He worked as a journeyman carpenter and foreman on many types of building construction, commercial, new home, and remodeling.

 

     Mike started Rigney Construction and Pest Control in 1977. As a contractor he majored in home remodeling and structural pest WDO repairs. As a Pest Control Company he majored in inspecting homes as a structural pest inspector.

 

Neither the owner or any employee of Rigney Construction shall do repairs to any home inspected by Rigney Home Inspections.

 

We know many real-estate agents in Pierce and Thurston Counties. We recommend agents give their clients a list of home inspectors with information readily available, to let their client decide which inspectors are best qualified.

 

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Mike….

1. Has performed many thousands of home and structural pest inspections.

2. Has performed thousands of chemical treatments for Carpenter Ants, Termites, and Wood Boring Beetles etc.

3. Has held a WSDA PCO Structural Pest Inspector license # 378 since 1977.

4. Is a member of the Washington State Pest Control Association since 1977.

5. Is a certified home inspector and member of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors.  

 

This is just some of his experience for home buyers and sellers in need of a home inspection. 

 

It is our business practice to inform our clients of all that is possible about the home they are considering making such a large investment in.

 

What you get for your $: Depending on the home, two-three hours on site inspecting and four to eight hours in our office preparing the comprehensive reports, a home inspection and a separate structural pest inspection report.

The comprehensive reports are from twenty eight years experience preparing reports for clients.

 

Click here: Sample Inspection Reports    Click here: Photos

 

Rigney Home Inspections include: structural, electrical, plumbing, hot water, heating and air conditioning, kitchen and appliances. General interior including ceilings, walls, floors, windows, insulation and ventilation. General exterior including roof, siding, guttering, fireplace/chimneys, drainage and grading, a structural pest inspection WDO report on WSPCA forms complete with a diagram of the home.

 

The client will be sent the original report by USPS. We fax or e-mail an Adobe attachment of the report as soon as the report is completed. E-mail can save valuable time plus you will be able to print, email to other interested parties, and save the file in your computer. We will provide a copy of the report to client’s agent.

 

We meet and exceed the national standards by professional home inspection organizations and are members of:

National Association of Certified Home Inspectors and Washington State Pest Control Association. 

 

                                                  

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Definition of a complete wood destroying organism inspections:

A complete wood destroying organism (WDO) inspection is done for the purpose of determining evidence of infestation, damage, or conducive conditions as part of the transfer, exchange, or refinancing of any structure.

 

If a home inspectors report includes Carpenter ants, Termites or any wood destroying insect. This type of reporting requires a complete structural pest inspection report by a licensed SPI-Structural Pest Inspector. The report will have an assigned ICN number with a diagram attached or available upon request.

 

This diagram helps a contractor look for the WDO findings by the inspector; you will receive a competitive bid because the contractors will be looking at the same issues. Contractors do not have any responsibility or license to perform any part of a structural pest WDO inspection of a home.

 

Web site of laws click here: Structural Pest Inspecting WDO Laws

 

Licensed structural pest inspectors click here: Licensed Inspectors

 

Note to Home Buyers:

 

The process can be stressful. A home inspection is supposed to give you peace of mind, but often has the opposite effect. You will be asked to absorb a lot of information in a short time. This includes written reports, photographs, and what the inspector himself says during the inspection. All this combined with the seller's disclosure and what you notice yourself makes the experience even more overwhelming. What should you do? (No home is perfect) Most of your home inspection will be maintenance recommendations, life expectancies and minor imperfections. These are good to know about for your knowledge of future upgrades. However, the issues that really matter will fall into five categories:

  1. Major defects.  An example of this would be a structural failure.
  2. Things that lead to major defects.
  3. Things that may hinder your ability to finance or insure the home.
  4. Safety hazards, such as electrical issues.
  5. Wood destroying organisms and or conducive conditions of the home. 

 

Anything in these categories should be addressed. Often a serious problem can be corrected inexpensively to protect both life and property. Most sellers are honest and are often surprised to learn of defects uncovered during an inspection. Realize that sellers are under no obligation to repair everything mentioned in the report.

Keep things in perspective. Don't kill your deal over things that don't matter. It is inappropriate to demand that a seller address deferred maintenance, conditions already listed on the seller's disclosure, or nit-picky items.

 

 

Note to Home Sellers:

 

Having an inspection performed ahead of time helps in many ways:

  • It allows you to see your home through the eyes of an unbiased third-party.
  • It helps you to price your home realistically.
  • It permits you to make repairs ahead of time so that any defects won't become negotiating stumbling blocks later.
  • You have the time to get reasonably priced contractors or make the repairs yourself, if qualified.
  • It may alert you of items of personal concern, such as fungus-rot, electrical-plumbing-roof deficiencies. 
  • It may relieve prospective buyers concerns and suspicions.
  • It reduces your liability by adding professional supporting documentation to your disclosure statement.
  • Alerting you to immediate safety issues before agents and visitors tour your home.
  • Copies of the inspection report along with receipts for any repairs can be made available to potential buyers.

 

Price List Click: Inspection Price List

 

To order a home inspection call or click here: Inspection Request Form 

 

 

Tacoma: (253) 474-3515       

Olympia: (360) 456–4000

Fax: Toll-Free (866) 658-0160