Cornerstone Inspection

Shady at best. A homebuyer hired Cornerstone to inspect the home I was selling. The home was in immaculate shape. I can only imagine, that due to the condition of the home, the Inspector was forced to conjure up deficiencies. He/​she stated that the furnace safety switch was taped down. He also reported damage to some shingles on the roof without physically inspecting the roof. Here merely took his camera, zoomed-​in and snapped a few pictures. He also faulted the deck, stating warped wood.
The entire inspection report lead us to think that this was nothing than a complete joke and a really unprofessional way of forcing money out of our hands and into the buyer’s. Being the nice guy that I am, I obliged to the buyer’s request for additional service requests to be completed on the home. All 3 of the companies I hired to complete these bogus tasks as listed by the Home Inspector, discounted me and went on to state in their reports that initial findings were false.

We hired Cornerstone Inspection to inspect my home before purchase. We met with the inspector Todd.
He found a few things, but missed some huge huge huge problems.
Typical stuff he spotted:
— Garbage disposal wire missing ground clamp
— Tripping hazard (crack in concrete floor in one room)
— Poorly routed furnace and water heater ducts
— Improperly grounded gas pipes
Typical stuff he missed:
— Concrete floor being cracked was because there was no foundation under an addition built onto the house (counted in the square footage). The concrete slab that the addition was built on was sinking. To properly repair this room required a complete teardown and rebuild, roughly $ 20k!
— Furnace was improperly configured and was putting out heat 30 °F below the typical range. It was an easy wiring fix but crazy that he didn’t even check the output temp of the furnace during inspection.
— Termite damage that was clearly visible in floor joists.
— Electrocution hazard — a wire was routed and spliced *resting on* the bathtub drain *outside of a junction box* (funny thing is, there’s a picture of the splice in the inspection report under «water stains on subfloor», but no mention of the extremely dangerous wiring).
— The entire electric system had no ground.
When I met with a contractor to look at repairing cracks in the concrete floor he was pretty funny — suggested that had he done the inspection he’d expect me to have him in court.
I’ll give him one star for showing up on time and spotting a few things, saving us a few bucks. Frankly though, you would be better served by reading a book on home inspection for a day, and then doing the inspection yourself over hiring these guys.

Cornerstone was recommended to me to use as an inspection company. I was here during the inspection. According to the representative from Cornerstone — little was really needed to be done…
6 weeks later I find that there is no furnace filter cabinet or place for a furnace filter. What is here is a nylon mesh filter crammed in between the blower and furnace or air duct… not at all professsional for today’s needs. I will have to pay a HVAC company to install a filter cabinet.
A couple of windows are broke…80% of my windows dont have screens which I will have to pay to get fixed…
The dryer vent had not 1 but 3 bird nexts lodged in there which I had to pay a company $ 200 to clean out. Dryer was not adaquately drying clothes — would take 3 times or cycles to dry… so I investigated.
My licensed electrician friend had to rewire the breaker box in order to make sure power was out to the AC unit — this was not at all right.
Obvious and major needs that should have been noted so that I would have had the seller pay for these.
I would not recommend Cornerstone to anyone for future home inspection.

Cornerstone had been recommended to us by two friends who had previous experience with the company. Tony came out and performed an inspection on a house we are looking at. I am not too experienced in home inspections, but he was very thorough, knowledeable and helpful. He was more than willing to explain any of his findings to people who don’t have a clue what knob and tube wiring is. Price seemed right on par with competition. Would use this company again.