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Plumbing Inspection in Kentucky

Across the 297 Kentucky towns we route calls in, 20% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later. Every one of those sales came with an inspection, and every one of those inspections excluded the same list of things.

The one-paragraph answer

Across the 297 Kentucky towns covered here, 20% of owner households moved in during 2018 or later. Nearly every one of those sales involved an inspection, and every one of those inspections excluded the buried sewer lateral.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.

PresalePipe is a referral service, not a contractor or a home inspector. We connect homeowners and buyers with independent contractors. Contractors are required to hold whatever credential their state or municipality demands. Every state page sets out who licenses plumbers there and where to check, so you can confirm before work begins. We carry out no inspections and no work, we do not set prices, and we never charge homeowners anything — the contractors in our network pay us when we route them a call.

Turnover across Kentucky

Towns in KentuckyCount
Change hands often (28% of owners or more since 2018)25
About the middle (16–28%)109
Rarely change hands (under 16%)163

The spread inside the state is the point. Fort Knox is highest at 100% of owners having arrived since 2018; Bonnyman is lowest at 0%. A state figure describes neither of them.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038, 2023 release. Weighted across 1,071,860 occupied housing units, of which 718,209 are owner-occupied. This measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock, not sales per year.

The largest towns we route in Kentucky

TownOwners who moved in since 2018Occupied homes
Louisville21%323,771
Lexington24%138,089
Richmond27%26,046
Frankfort20%22,685
Elizabethtown23%21,991
Georgetown26%19,524
Nicholasville20%16,992
Ashland19%15,780

What is excluded, everywhere

The exclusions do not vary by state. Both InterNACHI and ASHI describe the inspection as covering readily accessible, visually observable systems and state that it is not technically exhaustive. Both exclude wells and pumps, septic and wastewater treatment, water quality and potability, fire sprinklers and gas leak testing. InterNACHI additionally names water flow and pressure, floor drains, shower pan testing and polybutylene piping.

What varies by town is how many people here have recently had a report in their hands to read the exclusions in. The full list is on its own page.

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

Checking a plumber in Kentucky

Checking a credential in Kentucky

Kentucky licenses are issued by the Kentucky Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction, Division of Plumbing, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.

Towns we route in Kentucky

Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Inspections are the theme here; calls of every kind are routed.

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