My name is Thomas Herbst I am a Home inspector in Brighton Ma area. I started Clayton Home Inspections in 1994 with the purpose of delivering a thorough home inspection in Brighton Ma so, homebuyers can feel good about moving into their new home. Prior to that, I was in construction since 1979. I started from the ground up and have a Pest Certification License over many years and Certified Wood destroying certification for many years now and retained my pest license and Home inspector License ever since.
This knowledge and Experience is useful when inspecting the structure also electrical system, plumbing system, heating system and looking for signs of active insect or damage, as insects can cause significant damage to a house. It is highly unlikely that you will find another home inspector with that much experience in House construction and pest damage Identification, along with that much experience in home inspections. Also, I’m not just talking about having a Home Inspection license. I’m also talking about having the genuine experience as a Contractor who has overseen multi-million dollar house constructions. Anybody can get a Home improvement license.
If you want to find some of the best home inspectors near me in Brighton Ma, you certainly need to do some research. There’s nothing worse than moving into a house and then recognizing that you need to drop $10,000-50K into it immediately, all because of an unskilled home inspector.
First, go to the State’s Board of Home Inspectors’ website and make certain the inspector’s license is still effective. Also, check the inspector out at the Better Business Bureau and Check for complaints and read any reviews that may be posted.
Don’t go for the inexpensive home adviser home inspector. In this industry, oftentimes you usually get what you pay for. Whatever you’re spending for that house, it’s a lot of money and searching for a home inspector with a “bargain-basement hunter’s” mentality is certainly not the right method. Hope to hear from you soon.
This is a significant part of a home inspection, as water is a home’s “worst adversary”. I am additionally inspecting the gutters and downspouts to safeguard they are taking the water far enough away from the structure.
Exterior
I’m also examining the walls/siding, fascia’s, rake boards, soffits, and windows. I’m also checking the structural integrity of the building. In addition Inspecting for structural integrity and safety. Also Inspecting underside, as well (if possible) and Examining the condition of the roofing material (ie: shingles, etc.). Also inspecting vent pipes, exhaust vents, and skylights.
In addition Confirming fundamental reliability of the roof. Also making sure the attic is appropriately vented and insulated and examination support system and for signs of water infiltration. Inspecting chimney (if present) and making sure there is a sufficient amount of insulation.
Walls, Floors, Ceilings, Doors & Windows Inspection. The State regulations only require that we operate one door and window per room. I go well beyond that.
State regulations do not require us to inspect appliances. I do not inspect and operate dishwashers, ranges, microwaves and trash compactors.
Inspect plus operate all toilets, sinks, tubs, and showers, checking for leaks and proper functionality. Also, inspect any exhaust fans.
Ensuring structural integrity, looking for signs of water penetration and also inspecting bulkheads.
In addition Inspect and operate all boilers, furnaces and air handlers. Also check each rooms heat source and Inspection of oil tanks is not mandated by the Home Inspection State included in my home inspection.
In addition Inspect and operate all cooling systems in-season (ie: condensers, compressors, evaporator coils, heat pumps, etc.).
In addition Inspect plus operate all plumbing fixtures. also Observing for leaks in supply and drainage pipes everywhere. Inspecting there are no clogged pipes (backups). Water heaters inspected.
Extremely important part of a home inspection from a cost standpoint, as well as safety. In addition Inspecting all electrical panels. Also ensuring proper grounding of an electrical system and Inspecting all visible wiring throughout the building for loose and/or exposed wires. The Home Inspection State regulations only require us to check one outlet per room. I go way beyond that.
I am also looking for any kind of insect damage (ie: carpenter ant, termite, etc.) and my 15 years (previous) experience as a contractor and my 24 years experience as a home inspector not matched. If you or someone you know has more experience than me in each of these two fields (and can prove it) then I will gladly remove this claim.
This test is recommended for any house Well water. I can test for up to 26 items in the water (ie: bacteria, lead, iron, VOC’s etc.).
Radon Testing (add’l fee)
Radon
If there is a finished basement or if you plan on finishing it, this test also recommended. There are also other situations that would constitute performing a radon test.
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Introduction to Brighton, Massachusetts
Introduction to Brighton, Massachusetts
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History of Allston-Brighton
This article by Allston-Brighton historian Dr. William P. Marchione appeared in the Allston-Brighton Tab or Boston Tab newspapers in the period from July 1998 to late 2001, and supplement information in his books The Bull in the Garden (1986) and Images of America: Allston-Brighton (1996). These articles are copyrighted in the name of the author. Researchers should, however, feel free to quote from the material, with proper attribution.
Allston-Brighton has a long and distinguished history. For its first 160 years it formed part of Cambridge.
In 1646, the Reverend John Eliot, the “Apostle to the Indians,” converted the local natives to Christianity and established a “Praying Indian” village, Nonantum, on the present Newton-Brighton boundary.
The first Englishmen to locate here permanently – the families of Richard Champney, Richard Dana and Nathaniel Sparhawk – crossed the Charles River from Cambridge a short time later, establishing the community of little Cambridge, as Allston-Brighton was known before 1807.
Allston-Brighton has a long and distinguished history. For its first 160 years it formed part of Cambridge.
In 1646, the Reverend John Eliot, the “Apostle to the Indians,” converted the local natives to Christianity and established a “Praying Indian” village, Nonantum, on the present Newton-Brighton boundary.
The first Englishmen to locate here permanently – the families of Richard Champney, Richard Dana and Nathaniel Sparhawk – crossed the Charles River from Cambridge a short time later, establishing the community of little Cambridge, as Allston-Brighton was known before 1807.
Before the Revolution, Little Cambridge was a prosperous farming community of fewer than 300 residents. Its habitants included such distinguished figures as Nathaniel Cunningham, Benjamin Faneuil and Charles Apthorp. Cunningham and Faneuil were wealthy Boston merchants. Apthorp was paymaster of British land forces in North America. All three maintained elaborated country estates here in the 1740 to ’75 period.
Little Cambridge contributed Colonel Thomas Gardner to the Revolutionary cause. An important political figure in the years just before the Revolution, Gardner was killed at the battle of Bunker Hill. The town of Gardner, Massachusetts was named in his memory.
The establishment in 1775 in Little Cambridge of a cattle market to supply the Continental Army, then headquartered across the Charles River in Harvard Square, was a key event in the history of this community. John Winship I and II, father and son, initiated the enterprise. The cattle trade experienced rapid growth in the post-war period. By 1790, the Winships were the biggest meat packers in Massachusetts.
When Cambridge’s town government failed to repair the Great Bridge that linked Little Cambridge to Harvard Square and points north, and made other decisions that threatened the well-being of the local cattle industry, the residents of Little Cambridge resolved to secede from the parent town. They won legislative approval of separation in 1807, choosing the name Brighton for the new corporate entity.
In the decades that followed, Brighton became a commercial center of the first magnitude. In 1819,, the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture established its exhibition hall and fair grounds on Agriculture Hill in Brighton Center. For the next decade and a half, Brighton was the site of the largest agricultural fair and cattle show in Massachusetts, held every October.
In 1820, another key industry was introduced into the town – horticulture. This industry also flourished. By the 1840’s, Brighton was one of the most important horticultural and market gardening centers in the Boston area. A partial list of local nurseries includes the Winship Nursery in North Brighton, Nonantum Vale Gardens at the corner of Lake and Washington Streets, Breck Garden’s in Oak Square and Horace Gray’s grapery on Nonantum Hill.
A huge hotel- the Cattle Fair -and elaborate stockyard facilities were constructed on the north side of Brighton Center in 1832. The Cattle Fair was the largest hotel outside of Boston, containing 100 rooms. The construction of the Boston & Worcester Railroad through the town in 1834 reinforced the community’s hold on the cattle trade. By 1847, the Brighton cattle traders were doing almost $2 million of business a year. By the 1860’s, the town also contained an estimated 50 to 60 slaughterhouses.
With the growth of Boston in the 1850 to 75 period, Brighton’s land owners saw great opportunities for profit making in residential development. The groundwork for the transformation of Brighton into the streetcar suburb was laid in the 1870’s and 80’s.
In 1872, all slaughtering activities in the town were consolidated in a single facility, the Brighton Abattoir, situated on the banks of the Charles River in North Brighton, Thus freeing up the valuable land in the central part of the town for house construction. A short time later the Brighton Stockyards also moved to North Brighton. Most decisively, the town’s leaders convinced the people that annexation to Boston would foster desirable growth and in 1874 Brighton was absorbed into the City of Boston, thereby losing political self-determination. The introduction of electric powered streetcars in 1889 spurred suburban development. Allston-Brighton’s population grew tremendously in the next half century, rising from 6,000 in 1875 to 47,000 in 1925. Much of the development of these years was of an extremely high quality. Turn-of-the-century Allston-Brighton contained many prestige neighborhoods.
The post-World War II period was a time of great crisis for Allston-Brighton. A variety of factors generated mounting frustration – an increase in the number of motor vehicles, the intrusion of institutions into the neighborhood and the pressures they exerted on the local housing stock, the flight of many long-term residents to the outer suburbs, high density/low quality development, and especially (in the absence of political self determination) the inability to control undesirable development. In 1990, the population of Allston-Brighton was 70,000.
While Allston-Brighton has not solved all of its problems, or even very many of them, it has organized to speak out for itself. It was the goal of giving effective expression to Allston-Brighton’s concerns that the Allston-Brighton Journal was founded in 1987 and disbanded in 1995. The Community Newspaper Company, Inc. published it first edition of the Allston-Brighton TAB in 1996