Home inspection reference
What a home inspection is, and what it is not
Many buyers think a home inspection is a warranty on the house. It is not. It is a visual check, and the written standards say exactly what it covers and what it does not. This site explains that, in plain language.
It also preserves the original ALLSAFE Home Inspection Service website, a Massachusetts inspection practice whose pages are kept online here as an archive.
Guides
Written references on inspection scope and limits.
Scope and limitsWhat a home inspection actually covers, and what it does not
The ten systems the standards require an inspector to examine, the exclusions almost every buyer is surprised by, and why "visual and non-invasive" is the single most important phrase in the document.
The ALLSAFE archive
ALLSAFE Home Inspection Service, Inc. was a Massachusetts home inspection practice run by Bob Mulloy, an ASHI member based in Bellingham. Its website is preserved here as captured between 2006 and 2016. Those pages describe a business that is no longer operating: their phone numbers, prices, service areas and offers are historical, not current, and nothing on this site is an offer of inspection services. They are kept online because the reference material on them, particularly the Massachusetts standards and the inspection outlines, is still worth reading.
Original pages
- Original ALLSAFE homepage (2015 capture, preserved as-is)
- Original ALLSAFE homepage (2006 capture)
- Outline of an inspection what the practice covered on site
- Services available
- The final report
- General questions
- Health issues radon, water, lead
- Hiring a general contractor
- Areas serviced
- Fees historical
- Articles
- Seminars and workshops
- For inspectors
- Massachusetts trainee program
- Testimonials
- Website legal notice
About this site
This domain now runs as a home inspection education resource. It publishes plain-language explanations of inspection scope, standards, and limits, and it keeps the original ALLSAFE Home Inspection Service website online as an archive.
It is not an inspection company. No one here is a licensed or certified home inspector, no inspections are performed or sold, and nothing published here is a substitute for hiring one. To find an inspector, start with the member directories at the American Society of Home Inspectors and InterNACHI, and check your state's licensing requirements: in Massachusetts, home inspectors are licensed by the Board of Registration of Home Inspectors.