Chesterfield Township, Michigan
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Services
For buyers, sellers, and homeowners keeping an eye on the place they already own. On new construction we also do pre-drywall inspections and 11-month builder’s warranty inspections. Our certified inspectors walk every major system in your Chesterfield Township home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
Following the InterNACHI Standards of Practice:
Included free with every home buyer inspection— and none of them require us to sell your information.
SatisfactionIf you are unhappy with your inspector on the day of the inspection, before you have seen your report, tell us and we will make it right — or you owe us nothing.
30-Day WarrantyA free 30-day Guard home warranty trial, negotiated for you with no obligation. Activate it whenever you are ready.
$100 OffThe buyer’s protection guarantee: if the first home we inspect for you does not make it to the closing table, for any reason, we take $100 off any further home buyer inspection within 30 days of the original.
Optional services at an additional cost — not part of a standard inspection. Tap one to see what it covers.
A camera down the main sewer line, watching its condition from the inside — roots, breaks, bellies and blockages no visual inspection can find. More about sewer scope inspections
The wood-destroying organism report VA buyers are typically asked to provide, on the federal NPMA-33 form. Carried out during the same visit. More about Veterans WDO inspections
Up to five air samples sent to an accredited laboratory, added to the same appointment rather than booked as a second visit. More about mold inspection and testing
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Offices, retail, multifamily and warehouses in Chesterfield Township and across Macomb County. Know what condition a building is in before you sign — or stay ahead of problems in the one you already own. Reports in 24 to 72 hours depending on size.
Following the CCPIA commercial standards:
Commonly added to a commercial inspection at additional cost.
Commercial laterals are longer, older and carry more. A camera is the only way to see the condition of the one you are buying. More about sewer scope inspections
Air samples to an accredited laboratory, which matters most in buildings that have sat empty or had a roof or plumbing leak. More about mold inspection and testing
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Add either to a Chesterfield Township home or commercial inspection, or book it on its own. We test and we never remediate, so there is nothing to sell you on the back of a result — the number you get is just the number.
Radon measured in house on a professional continuous monitor; mold samples to an accredited laboratory:
The other things worth testing while somebody is already there.
Carried out after remediation on the treated area and the areas next to it, to confirm what was found. More about mold inspection and testing
A damp basement can have several causes, and the buried sewer line is the one a visual inspection cannot check. A scope rules it in or out. More about sewer scope inspections
View a sample reportChesterfield Township housing stock
Chesterfield Township has roughly 18,668 housing units and about 63% of them are single-family detached. The year a house went up decides more about what an inspection turns up than almost anything else about it, which is why it is where we start rather than where we finish.
More of it dates from the 1990s than from any other decade — 4,976 homes, roughly 27% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $258,200. There are around 1,050 manufactured and mobile homes in Chesterfield Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement. Around 798 homes sit in two-to-four unit buildings, where a shared roof, a shared wall and sometimes a shared furnace mean the report has to be clear about where one unit stops.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where a Chesterfield Township home inspector starts in a home of this age — and whatever we actually find, it goes in the report with photographs.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Chesterfield Township was built
90% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 307 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
You can learn a great deal about a community from the permits its building department bothers to publish, and Chesterfield’s list is unusually revealing.
Alongside the ordinary applications for decks, fences, sheds and re-roofing sit a Seawall, Dock and Boat Hoist application, a Waterproofing application, a Foundation Repair application, a Basement Egress Window application and a Repair application specifically for fire, flood or structural damage. The department also publishes flood plain maps. That is the profile of a township with waterfront property and with basements that people take seriously.
The housing itself is modern. Of roughly 18,668 units, about 27% date from the 1990s and 21% from the 2000s — something like half the township built since 1990 — with a median build year of 1992 and around 63% single-family detached. So the postwar concerns that dominate places like Redford or Garden City are not the story here.
What is the story is water: where it sits, how a property is protected from it, and what has been done about it already.
Before you buy
Water
Neither of these facts is dramatic on its own. Together they tell you what to pay attention to here.
The Building and Code Enforcement department publishes a Seawall, Dock and Boat Hoist application among its standard forms, which establishes that waterfront and water-adjacent property is common enough here to warrant its own permit. It also publishes flood plain maps, and offers a repair application specifically covering fire, flood or structural damage — flood sitting in that list as a named category rather than an afterthought.
What we will not do is turn that into a claim about any particular property. Whether a house sits in a flood plain is a question for the Township’s maps and your insurer, not for a home inspection, and we would not pretend otherwise. Nor does the existence of these forms mean flooding is common here.
What we do assess is how the property in front of us handles water: accessible grading, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, and sump equipment where present — documented as found. On a waterfront or water-adjacent lot those are worth more attention than usual, and where a seawall or dock is part of the property, its condition is worth asking about separately.
Basements
A township that issues a standalone Waterproofing application is telling you something, and it is worth listening to.
Most municipalities in this region fold basement waterproofing into a general building permit or do not permit it separately at all. Chesterfield publishes it as its own application, alongside a Foundation Repair application, a Basement Egress Window application and a Basement Finish application. Read that as a set and the pattern is clear: work below grade is something this Township expects to see, review and inspect.
For a buyer, that turns into a practical question. If a basement has visibly been waterproofed, or a foundation repaired, or an egress window cut in, there should be a permit behind it here. Asking is straightforward and the answer is informative — though the usual caution applies in both directions: a permit does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that it was done badly.
During an inspection we look at what is actually there: the basement or crawlspace, evidence of past water, the condition of any sump equipment and its discharge, foundation conditions, and whether a finished basement conceals anything we cannot reach. Where moisture is a live concern, mold inspection and testing can be added to the same visit with samples going to an accredited laboratory.
What the Township does and does not check
Chesterfield does run a Township Certification Inspection, and the name makes it sound as though it might apply to a house sale. It does not.
The form is titled for commercial and industrial properties, and the Township’s certification policy links a Commercial-Industrial Occupancy Inspection form. We found no residential point-of-sale requirement here. Confirm the position for a specific address with the Building Department, but do not plan a timeline around a municipal inspection of the house that may not exist.
One form on the list is worth knowing about if you are buying at the harder end of the market: the Township publishes a Foreclosure Inspection application. If the property you are considering has been through foreclosure, ask the Township where that process stands.
Where no municipal inspection happens at sale, a home buyer inspection is the one looking at the property on your behalf — roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, photographed and written up with how urgent each finding is. If you are booking permitted work afterwards, note that the Township takes inspection requests on a voicemail line with the address, permit number and type, and that the cut-off for next-day inspections is three in the afternoon.
The buried line
With a median build year of 1992, most of Chesterfield is newer than the housing we usually write about. That shortens the odds on the sewer lateral without removing them.
The line runs underground from the house to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it, whatever the build year. Three decades is long enough for trees planted with a subdivision to reach a joint, for ground to settle around backfill and leave a belly, or for a line to be damaged during later work in a yard — and in a township where seawalls, docks and waterproofing get permitted, there is often a fair amount of ground being moved.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Chesterfield laterals are generally made of. A sewer camera inspection records what is actually inside — roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. On a newer property it often confirms a clean line, which is worth having in writing. It goes on the same visit.
Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property, and radon testing can be added to a residential or commercial appointment.
Local information from Chesterfield Township — Building & Code Enforcement · Chesterfield Township — Township Certification Policy · Chesterfield Township — township permits. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Macomb County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. That puts Chesterfield Township at the calmer end of Michigan’s radon picture, which is worth saying out loud rather than glossing over.
We place a continuous monitor for 48 hours and read the result on site — no mail-in kit, no lab wait. How radon testing works · Macomb County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Chesterfield Township home inspector.
Family owned since 2009, more than 16,000 inspections completed and over 2,000 five-star reviews across Michigan. We also handle home buyer inspections, commercial building inspections, mold testing and radon testing.
We do not sell mold remediation or radon mitigation, so there is nothing to gain from a result that comes back bad. The number you get is just the number.
Radon, mold, sewer scope and wood-destroying organism inspections go on the same appointment as the home inspection rather than costing you a second morning.
Most people do, and it is the most useful hour of the whole purchase. Ask anything while we are standing in front of it.
InterNACHI and CCPIA certified, with four Certified Master Inspectors and National Home Inspector Examination passes on the team — none of which Michigan requires. The standards we inspect to are published and you can hold the work against them.
Including weekends, because inspection windows sit on closing dates and closing dates do not care what day it is.
Reviews
Mitch did our inspection for the sale of our home and he was professional, efficient and friendly. The report was sent to me and my agent in a timely fashion and I appreciated how quickly the appointment was made and everything was finished! Would recommend to others.
Kendra AllenRoseville, MII recently hired Trademark for a full home inspection on a new purchase, including sewer scope and radon testing. It was a phenomenal experience from beginning to end. Our inspector, Mitch, did a fantastic job explaining all the findings, and the digital report with photos and videos was superb. Would definitely recommend without hesitation.
Salina HamiltonOak Park, MIWe had Mitch inspect our prospective house and he was amazing. He was thorough, patient to answer my questions and provide feedback on what areas he would recommend having a follow up expert and why. The office was responsive and I was able to book multiple services to be done in the same visit (inspection, radon test, sewer scope).
Chris PlaweckiOak Park, MIWhat happens
Questions
The Township publishes a combined Seawall, Dock and Boat Hoist application among its standard building department forms, so this is permitted work rather than something to arrange informally. For a buyer the useful consequence is that if a property already has a seawall, dock or hoist, there should be a permit record behind it — and if you are planning to add or replace one, the Building Department is where that starts. Its condition is worth asking about separately from a home inspection, which covers the building rather than shoreline structures.
The Township publishes a Waterproofing application as a form in its own right, which most municipalities in this region do not — they usually fold it into a general building permit or do not permit it separately. It sits alongside a Foundation Repair application, a Basement Egress Window application and a Basement Finish application. If a basement has visibly been waterproofed or a foundation repaired, it is reasonable to ask whether that was permitted. As always, a permit does not prove the work is sound today and its absence does not prove it was done badly.
That is a question for the Township’s flood plain maps, which its building and code enforcement pages publish, and for your insurer. A home inspection does not determine flood plain status and we will not suggest otherwise. What an inspection does cover is how the property itself handles water: accessible grading, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace and any sump equipment. On a waterfront or water-adjacent lot those deserve more attention than usual.
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement. The Township does run a Township Certification Inspection, which sounds as though it might apply — but the form is titled for commercial and industrial properties and the certification policy links a Commercial-Industrial Occupancy Inspection form. Confirm for a specific address with the Building Department, and in the meantime plan on your own inspection being the one examining the house on your behalf.
Newer than most of the region. Of roughly 18,668 housing units, about 27% date from the 1990s and 21% from the 2000s, with a median build year of 1992 and around 63% single-family detached. Roughly half the township has been built since 1990. A house from the early nineties is now over thirty years old, which is past the expected service life of an original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater — so the useful question is which of those have been renewed, not what the build year was.
It is worth considering. Three decades is far less exposure than eighty years but it is not none: trees planted with a subdivision have had time to reach a joint, ground settles around backfill and can leave a belly, and later work in a yard can damage a line — and in a township where seawalls, docks and waterproofing are permitted work, there is often ground being moved. The lateral is buried and no visual inspection sees inside it, and we would not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line answers it directly and is added to the same appointment.
Yes. You can book a Chesterfield Township home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Macomb County too.
A home inspection report reaches you within 24 hours. Commercial buildings are 24 to 72 hours depending on size, a radon result comes at the end of the 48-hour test, and mold samples come back from the lab in one to three business days.
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