We are the oldest independent home inspection company in Calgary and the surrounding area. HomeCrafters has been a Calgary home inspection company since 1991. HomeCrafters was locally founded and is still locally owned. We provide you with a home inspection company that not only was born and raised here, but knows Calgary homes and Calgary climate.
Your Calgary Home Inspector will show you any defects he finds and can advise you on how harmful or not they may be. He can also advise you on what are the best steps to maintain or repair items. You will receive your printed home inspection report on site and a full copy, including digital photos of any discrepancy, the following morning in your email.
Your Calgary Home Inspector will show you any defects he finds and can advise you on how harmful or not they may be. He can also advise you on what are the best steps to maintain or repair items. You will receive your printed home inspection report on site and a full copy, including digital photos of any discrepancy, the following morning in your email.
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HomeCrafters, a Red Seal Journeyman Carpenter with 23 years inspecting with HomeCrafters accumulating over 15,000 inspections in and around Calgary. Our Home Inspection Team is among some of the most experienced Inspectors in Calgary today! HomeCrafters Inspectors must meet the highest of standards before becoming a member of our Team.
HomeCrafters Calgary Home Inspections has a mission to provide home buyers, sellers and owners with inspections and recommendations that are knowledgeable, thorough, fair, realistic and impartial. Before Home Inspections were a recognized service in Alberta, HomeCrafters saw a real need to protect Home Buyers from large investment loss.
The inspector takes digital images as well of any discrepancies he finds and our office staff puts those into your draft report to email, with the photos inserted, the next morning! Your final copy is sent electronically and will include all photos relevant to the discrepancies found during the inspection.
ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) has put together a fun and interesting Virtual Home Inspection Tour to show clients in a visual sense what an inspector will be looking at during the course of the home inspection. See the full scope of inspection in the CAHPI (Canadian Association of Home & Property Inspectors) Standards of Practice to see what our Inspectors look for.
Before your home inspector comes to do your inspection you may want to prepare beforehand to help the inspection go smoothly and also to get the most bang for your inspection buck. Acquire and review the Strata documents to see where the reserve funds are being allocated to. If, for example, the documents show there is a fund being reserved for Roofing repairs, you can have your home inspector look at the roof to see what state it is in.
Reviews (8)
Spenny
Jun 10, 2020
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Jim is exactly the kind of inspector you want when buying a house. He inspected two homes for me. Both times he was 15 minutes early and got right to work. Within the first 15 minutes of the first inspection, Jim brought to my attention some major issues with the home that my realtor, partner and myself missed. Thanks to Jim's expertise, we avoided buying a home that would have cost us a lot of money to repair. Jim is very thorough and goes through the entire house as well as up on the roof and in the attic. He takes photos of everything he sees and prints off a professional initial report in the
Yiely Ho
Jan 29, 2019
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Kai S. H.
Jul 05, 2017
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Does not paying attention to details. Kitchen faucet has obviously been leaking for a while as rots started to develop under the sink and bathroom faucet also leaked when in use, but they failed to pick these up. There were signs of water ingress into the basement but also missed. Inspection comments about the roof was that the 'condition is consistent with its age"...whatever this means!!! Bad inspection; would not use them again.
Steven Engler
Feb 03, 2017
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Kat Dornian
Jan 14, 2017
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Our inspector did the job quick, but after moving into the house and hiring some contractors and trades to do some of the repairs he suggested, we realized there was A LOT that was missed in the inspection. I was really shocked and disappointed. The home inspector was polite and respectful, but he got through everything much too fast (an hour and a half), and now I know why. I wouldn't recommend this company to any friends of mine.
Mike Cave
Jan 05, 2016
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I have been in contact with Jim Hamilton, the owner of Homecrafters and we have come to a resolution over the issues mentioned below. I want to thank Jim for his assistance and for going beyond what I would have expected from a company. Jim and I were able to come to a resolution that we are both satisfied with.
WARNING...DO NOT USE!!! I spent $450.00 to use their services and we have been in the house for about 6 weeks and I have to put in over $10,000.00 worth of repairs on items that they should have caught. I called Jim Hamilton and all they did was point to their Limitations and Liability
WARNING...DO NOT USE!!! I spent $450.00 to use their services and we have been in the house for about 6 weeks and I have to put in over $10,000.00 worth of repairs on items that they should have caught. I called Jim Hamilton and all they did was point to their Limitations and Liability
Jennifer Wells
Jan 18, 2015
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This experience was terrible and I would never recommend Homecrafters to anyone. I hired them to inspect the condo I was thinking of purchasing because I do not have the knowledge to do this myself. Based on this inspection I bought the condo only to find out the inspection was worse than useless, it was dangerous. The inspector, Ken Beagle, indicated only a couple of minor issues. Within hours of moving in I found out that the ensuite bathtub did not work nor did the fan above the stove. There were several faulty electrical outlets. The plumber I hired was unable to find the main water value shut
Justin
Jun 11, 2012
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Ridiculous is the only way to describe this company. Let me start off by saying the only reason we hired an inspector is because we did not know a whole lot about warning signs or anything of that nature. This man came in, and for almost $400 he was in an out in an hour, and this was one of their most experienced inspectors Ken Beagle. He ha said he checked every plug, and every switch and made sure every light came on, LIES. The previous owners had taken a wall out in our house and the switch for the dinning room was run in behind a cabinet and left inside the cabinet. It took us 2 months of trouble
