Find a licensed home inspector in Palm Beach County

Hiring an inspector in Palm Beach County

Three hurricanes crossed this county in fourteen months. Frances came ashore just to the north in September 2004 and did about half a billion dollars of damage in Palm Beach County; Jeanne hit nearly the same spot three weeks later as a Category 3 and tore up roofs across the inland half of the county; then Wilma in October 2005 damaged more than 55,000 homes here. A great many roofs, windows and screen enclosures in Palm Beach date from the repairs that followed, which puts them at roughly twenty years old now, and roof age is the first thing a four-point inspection reports.

The code line matters here in a way it does not one county south. Broward and Miami-Dade sit inside the High Velocity Hurricane Zone; Palm Beach does not. The coast falls in the wind-borne debris region instead, so newer construction has protected openings, but an older house may have none, and the same storm hits both. A wind mitigation inspection is the document that says what a specific house actually has, and it is worth getting at purchase rather than at the first renewal.

Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, Lake Worth, Boynton Beach and Jupiter each have deep rosters of their own, so start with the city page closest to the house.