Welcome to Wells Inspections, LLC Website	Home Inspections by a Graduate Engineer with almost 40 years Experience. Wells Inspections, LLC is a full service home inspection company in Lakeland, Florida. We service the Lakeland and surrounding area. We are licensed to provide services in Polk County and the City of Lakeland. We are locally owned and operated - not a franchise. We live here and our reputation is our best advertisement. Note: Florida requires all home inspectors be licensed as of 01 Mar 2011.  They started taking applications July 01, 2010. I have applied for a license July 15, 2010.  Wells Inspections, LLC 362 Lake Harris Drive Lakeland, FL 33813 (863) 944-7972
HOME INSPECTIONS BY A GRADUATE ENGINEER AND CERTIFIED MASTER INSPECTOR We are Nationally Certified, experienced and capable. Check out the "About the Inspector" page. We do a Full Inspection and give you a 32 page detailed report with photographs. Our fees are competitive. But we are not the "low bidder". If you desire a "cheap" inspection please contact one of our competitors. And we want to insure that your home inspection meets your needs.	Our inspector is a CERTIFIED MASTER INSPECTOR.  As of January 1, 2007 there were only 5 so certified inspectors in all of Polk County Florida.  Master certification requires over 1,000 hours of documented technical instruction, along with other requirements.  It is not easy and only a few qualify. We are proud to be a member of the National Association of Certified Home Inspectors and follow their Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. To review these please feel free to click on the link below: nachi.org We are also members of the Florida Association of Professional Home Inspectors. We are FEMA Certified Disaster inspectors. We are HUD certified FHA Inspectors # B796. We do Construction Progress Inspections for Residential and Commercial sites (new construction, additions, extensive remodeling) under subcontract to Granite Construction Inspections or banks and other lenders.  Granite is a nationwide firm who provides services to lenders. These are done to certify progress for payments by a lender. Inspection Warrantee; You may see advertizements from some inspectors promissing an Inspection Warrantee. These cost the inspector $17.00 or less and have a maximum payout of $1000.00 and tons of exclusions. Basically they are a marketing ploy and worth little.  We stand behind our inspections with a double your money back guarantee - as good as it gets in the home inspection business.
Feel free to contact us by telephone at (863) 944-7972. This is a mobil phone and we are generally available. If not leave a message and we will get "beeped". You may also call us at home at (863) 644-3932. Another very effective way is via email. Just click on the link below: jwells@fl.nachi.org Or call today: (863) 944-7972 Our Rates for 2009 & 2010:   Residential up to 1200 square feet        $250 Residential up to 1600 square feet        $280 Residential up to 2000 square feet        $300 Residential up to 3000 square feet        $350 Residential up to 4000 square feet        $400   Add –Ons:   Multi Family Dwellings – add $80 per unit Each Outbuilding with Electrical Service – add $50 Pool and Spa Inspection – add $100 Older or Historic home (prior to 1960) – add $100 Abandoned older homes are more. We will look and quote. Construction progress inspections. Please call.  Our rates are based on the time necessary to inspect and report.   Mold Sampling: airborne   4 tests minimum, incl lab fees, @ $75 = $300. Additional tests after minimum - $75/test.	We do all types of home inspections. One special type that is becoming an important part of our business is the new home warrentee inspection. Most new homes have a 1 year builder's warrentee. Just prior to this year ending, many homeowners want a professional inspection so that they may get the builder to fix defects before they are faced with fixing them at their own cost. We also do inspections of brand new homes to uncover construction defects. We also do insurance 4 Point (roof, electrical, plumbing, heating/air conditioning)inspections that many insurance companies now require.  Insurance companies are getting real picky. Fuse panels and old wiring must be replaced and we do certification inspections providing the documentation required for insurance renewal.   Note: a 4 point inspection is almost a full home inspection although the report is much simpler. Field work takes 80% of the time that a full inspection takes if done right.  Roofs, electrical, plumbing and HVAC inspections require instruments and experience - especially electrical evaluations. My rates for a 4 point inspection are $200 within 25 miles of South Lakeland. Sorry but the rates reflect the work involved. There are also wind mitigation inspections. These are difficult and time consuming if done right.  One of the things that must happen is that an inspector has to get up in your attic, crawl out to the eves,  and check to see exactly how the roof trusses or rafters are attached to the side walls in the main home and in the garage. NO inspector can do a complete wind mitigation inspection without doing this.  Since State regulations limit the fee that an inspector can charge, I will not do only wind mitigation inspections at this time.  The work required and the working conditions in an attic just make it unprofitable.  I do, however, include wind damage susceptability in my full home inspections since I must check out the attic anyway in a full inspection.
Jack Wells, CMI - Owner	National Association of Certified Home Inspectors