Why Your Home Needs an Electrical Inspection Before Buying or Selling

What Does an Electrical Inspection Entail?

If this is your first time buying or selling property, you may feel less than certain about what an electrical inspection consists of. What does this kind of thing entail? 

During an electrical inspection, a professional will come over and check all of the wirings of a property. Their goal is to ensure that all the electrical work in the home is up to standard and presents no potential danger to the residents. 

There is a lot of work to be done in this type of work. The inspector will need to ensure proper permits have been pulled, check fuse boxes, and look at all the wiring within the home. They will ensure all wiring is anchored properly and presents no chance of causing an electrical fire.

They will also ensure that everything within the home is up to code. If there are issues with the home, an inspector will create an itemized list which will allow these issues to be resolved quickly.



Once the issues are fixed, the inspector can return to ensure that all has been done correctly.

Importance of an Inspection Prior to Purchasing a Home

The last thing you would want to do is purchase a home before having a proper electrical inspection done. Failure to have an inspection done could result in electrical problems revealing themselves down the line.

In the best-case scenario, these issues will be expensive and complicated to fix. In a worst-case scenario, they might produce damage, fire, and danger that could result in damage to your property or injury to your loved ones. 

If the previous owners of the homemade any modifications to the home's original wiring, mistakes could've been made. These mistakes should not be yours to worry about, they should be the responsibility of those selling the home.

However, failure to have a proper inspection take place could result in these problems falling on your shoulders instead. The costs associated with them too, of course.

Electrical issues tend to be even more common in older homes, where different standards have been the norm over the years of the home's existence. Wear and tear is often more common as well in these types of homes.

There is a chance an inspector might find that nearly the whole electrical system of a home might need to be updated in order to get up to code with modern specifications.



This kind of update is certainly not something you'll want to learn about once the property is already in your name.

Importance of an Inspection Prior to Selling a Home

Getting ready to put your home on the market? A serious electrical inspection might be worth considering for the many of the same reasons we mentioned previously.

While you may have your fingers crossed that there are no major issues with your home, this might not always be the case. It's important to take the time to ensure that you're handing over a secure property before putting all the work into finding a buyer.

Failure to do so could leave you on the rocks with a potential buyer later down the line. You might have already spent a lot of time and money on listing your home and connecting with a reasonable buyer.

However, if an electrical issue is turned up by an inspection they bring on, the sale might fall through. You'll then have to lose a lot of time and money figuring out the problem with your house already on the market.

This can be quite a headache (and that's an understatement!). Especially so, seeing as you could've avoided the situation by looking for these issues yourself far earlier in the process.

With an electrical inspection out of the way, you can rest easy going into your sale that you're putting a home on the market that has no serious issues. This means your sales process should be able to proceed without a major hitch.



The sooner your sale can proceed, the sooner you get the funds for your home and move onto the next big step of your life journey. 

Importance of a Home Electrical Inspection

Getting ready to buy or sell a home? This is a big moment and it's worthy of your full and proper attention. Ensuring this momentous occasion goes off without a hitch will require a thorough check of the property in question.

An electrical inspection of the home electrical system will be an important, if not downright essential, part of this process. With an inspection out of the way, you can proceed with your purchase or sale with the peace of mind that you require.

Have more questions about securing an electrical inspection of your home? Contact us anytime at Buell Electric for further assistance and information.