Chandler Inspections brings the same thorough, plain-spoken home inspection service we are known for in West Michigan to Orlando and the surrounding Central Florida metro. Orlando is not one housing market but several stacked on top of each other, and the age of the house tells you most of what to expect before we ever open the panel.
The bungalows and mid-century blocks around College Park, Audubon Park and the Delaney Park area were built when cast iron drain lines and undersized electrical services were standard. Those homes are often beautifully kept above the finish line and quietly overdue below it. Move outward into the 1980s and 1990s subdivisions and the story changes: polybutylene supply piping was installed in Florida homes from roughly 1978 until it was pulled from the market in the mid-1990s, and it is one of the first things we look for in a house of that vintage. Newer construction east and south of the city brings its own list, usually unfinished work rather than worn-out work.
One thing applies to every Orlando house regardless of age. Under Florida law an insurer cannot refuse to write or renew a policy solely because a roof is under fifteen years old, and once a roof passes fifteen the homeowner has the right to an inspection instead of an automatic replacement demand. That makes the true condition and age of the roof one of the most financially consequential findings in the whole report, and we treat it that way.
