Our affordable and thorough home inspection with easily understood, plain English explanations and 'no fee if not satisfied' guarantee, is fair, honest and professional.

Whether buying or selling a home in the London area, you'll need information about its condition and advice on how to correct any problems. We tell you this, and how to look after your home in the future.

• Shopping for your new home
• House comparison guide
• Condition Checklist
• Do-It-Yourself Inspection Checklist

• Condo Neighbourhoods
• What will it be like as a home?
• What will living there be like?
• Can I afford the cost?
• What will I own outright?
• What are my obligations?

An affordable & thorough home inspection with a 'no fee if not satisfied' guarantee

We help you feel comfortable about buying your next home and allay any fears or concerns that you may have by inspecting the condition of the house and explaining our observations. We take the time to listen to your concerns, to thoroughly inspect the house, to explain our observations in depth and suggest solutions, and to discuss possible improvements to make the house more suitable for your needs. Then we'll advise on maintenance steps you can take to protect and keep up the value of your investment.

We uniquely offer a 'no fee if not satisfied' guarantee. Both you and your agent, if you have one, must be satisfied with the inspection before we'll take our fee. Of course, if there's something we can make good at the time, we'll do so. We complete the inspection and review the report with you before we ask you to pay.

Ease the stress of shopping for Your New Home

If you're moving to London, you might spend many evenings looking for a new home, something in a "nice" neighbourhood, perhaps close to a "good" school, and one that won't cost an arm and a leg! This could mean an older, established neighbourhood, but many of the houses, being older, might have quite a few flaws and need some improvement. You look until you find a house that has features that you really like, and either no work needed or work that you can handle. It sometimes takes a while, but you only need find one!

We've put together advice to help you through the buying process. Read this advice in our Home Buyers section.

• Know what you want
• Know where you want it
• Don't compare the features of the house you're viewing with the best features from all the houses you've seen
• Keeping track of houses you've viewed
• Key answers to key questions
• Possible improvements

Consider these thoughts when shopping for a condo

Buying a condo is different from buying a house - you get to own part of the neighbourhood, and see and meet your neighbours much more often. Unlike a house, you may not be able to do everything you want, if the rules don't allow it.

See what you need to consider, and relevant questions to ask, in our Condo Buyers section.

• Checking out the condo neighbourhood
• What will a condo be like as a home?
• What will sharing the building be like?
• Can I afford the cost?
• What will I own outright?
• What are my obligations?

ICI Considerations

Buying an investment property includes buying its past history and future obligations. You need to identify relevant information and assess it to the best of your ability before making your decision. We can help you.

Whether you intend to buy a a warehouse, residential, industrial or commercial building, our detailed condition survey identities as many as possible of the issues that you'll need to consider, as well as providing advice on important maintenance issues.

Your Inspection

Under this tab we describe what is included in your home inspection, and what your home inspection can, and can't do. We answer many of the frequently asked questions relating to inspections, and provide a glossary of the terms used in home building and home inspecting.

Call us to arrange your home inspection for a convenient time. We work on Saturdays, and can often start an inspection to suit you, after your workday has ended.

We'll ask you about your next home, and any concerns you might have. You can download a work sheet on which you can prepare your answers before you call, and note any concerns you might have about the house.

If you want to check out your own home, or even do an inspection yourself of a house you're thinking of buying, our Do-It-Yourself Inspection Checklist is a very helpful starting point!

What's new this month...

If your home is to be inspected, learn about the areas to which a home inspector will need unobstructed access when your house is inspected for a Buyer. Read these simple tips to prepare your home, and follow these simple safety suggestions.

Articles on all too common fire and electrical safety issues, as well as other areas of interest to homeowners.

Contacting Us

We want contacting us to be as easy as possible, so we provide phone, email, regular mail, and web site links.

Please call us at (519) 317-0108, between 8am and 9pm Mondays to Fridays, and on Saturdays until 5pm.

In fairness to our Clients, we avoid taking lengthy calls during an inspection. If we are not available or are on the telephone please either leave a voice message for us to return your call as soon as possible, or try again in a little while.

If you have questions or comments about inspections or house problems, you can contact us by email. You can email us at HomeInspections at CMACInspectionServices.ca or through .

If you have any comments about our web site, have noticed any broken links, or find any part that doesn't work properly for your browser, please let us know by email to webmaster at CMACInspectionServices.ca or by

If you prefer to write, our mailing address is:
   CMAC Inspections Services
   Box 44034 - 141 Dundas Street
   London, Ontario
   N6A 5S5

Helpful Links

Visit this tab for links to other sites that will help your search for a new home, providing information about living in London, and links to Realty companies, other home inspectors, and sources of listings of houses for sale.

We provide links to information about schools in both London and St. Thomas, bus routes within London, and other City of London services.

You can find links to the major realty companies serving London, St. Thomas and area, as well as links to publications where real estate listings can be found.

We also provide links to the websites of our competitors to assist you in finding the inspection service that is best suited to your needs.