Plumbing Inspection in Jacksonville Beach, FL

At an ordinary rate of turnover, the housing here divides fairly evenly between homes inspected in the last few years and homes that have not been looked at since the previous sale, whenever that was.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038 (tenure by year householder moved into unit), 2023 release. Universe: 12,742 occupied housing units, of which 8,760 are owner-occupied. This counts when the CURRENT occupant moved in, so it measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock — not a rate of sales per year.

Fire suppression and sprinkler systems are outside the inspection. In a house that has one, the system most likely to matter in an emergency is the one nobody was asked to look at.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

Both standards cover the interior drain, waste and vent system, and ASHI asks for the predominant material of the service, distribution and DWV pipes to be described. A report naming one material is describing the majority of the house, not every run in it.

What is actually covered — because silence in a report means one thing about a covered system and something completely different about an excluded one.

Where a report says a condition was observed but its extent could not be established, that is the sentence to act on. It means the boundary of the inspection was reached, not that the problem is small.

Everything above comes from documents you can read yourself: the exclusions, the requirements, and why a camera down the lateral is never part of it.

• North Fort Myers 31% of owners moved in since 2018
• Key Biscayne 23% of owners moved in since 2018
• Plant City 21% of owners moved in since 2018
• Saint Petersburg 27% of owners moved in since 2018
• Saint Augustine 35% of owners moved in since 2018

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Florida licenses are issued by the Florida Department of Business and Professional Regulation, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins. Florida distinguishes state-certified contractors from registered contractors, who are limited to particular counties.