Clyde 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 Clyde 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.
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$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 Clyde Township and across St Clair 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 Clyde 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 reportClyde Township housing stock
Clyde Township has roughly 2,283 housing units and about 94% of them are single-family detached. Age is the most useful single fact about a house before anyone has seen it. It narrows down what is worth checking first, and it is why two places of much the same size can need quite different inspections.
If the town has a defining decade it is the 1970s, which accounts for 761 homes, around 33% of the housing stock. At 94% single-family it is almost entirely detached houses, so the inspection is nearly always of a whole building rather than one unit inside one.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $217,300. 92% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
Treat this as a starting list, not a diagnosis. A Clyde Township home inspector checks these things early in a home of this age and then records what is genuinely there, which is often not what the era would suggest.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Clyde Township was built
64% of homes here run on utility gas, and 86 still heat with oil. If yours is one of them, the tank is the thing to ask about — where it is, and whether it was ever buried. Another 454 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Clyde Township publishes its own residential well permit application and residential septic application, which tells you most of what you need to know about how properties here handle water and waste.
It also points residents to something we have not seen elsewhere: a county-run 24-hour anonymous hotline for reporting failing septic systems, illegal dumping, beach closings and water quality concerns.
That line covers a range of things and it is a county service rather than a township one, so it is not evidence of any particular problem here. But its existence is worth knowing about, and it makes a practical point: on a township where properties treat their own waste, a failing system is everybody’s problem, not just the owner’s.
For a buyer, that puts the septic evaluation where it belongs — near the top of the list rather than as an afterthought. It is specialist work carried out by or through the county health department, it answers questions no visual inspection can, and it needs arranging early because it takes its own time.
The township does have a water department, so not every property is necessarily on a well. Confirm the arrangement for the specific address in writing rather than assuming from the neighbors.
The housing is strikingly concentrated: 761 of roughly 2,283 units — a third of the township — were built in the 1970s alone, and 1,513 between 1970 and 1999.
Before you buy
Water and waste
The environmental health page is short and practical. It publishes a residential well permit application and a residential septic application, notes that the township is a zoned community where permits are required, and directs residents to the county health department for the reporting hotline.
Where a property is on a septic system, the evaluation is the single most consequential thing you can arrange. It looks at the tank and the drainfield, and it tells you whether the system is actually working — something no amount of looking at the house will establish. Where there is a private well, a water test belongs in the same conversation, and after any well repair it is worth testing before drinking.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of the system inward: the accessible supply and drain lines, the vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave when the system is loaded, and the visible condition of any pump, pressure tank and treatment equipment. We report what we observe about drainage performance during the visit.
Surface water matters more on a septic property than most buyers expect. A drainfield working in ground that is also receiving every downspout and a sump discharge is being asked to do two jobs at once. We report where the downspouts terminate, where any sump pump discharges, whether there is a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the building.
On a lot that was graded in the 1970s and has been landscaped, planted and re-graded since, that fall is often no longer what anyone intended — and correcting it is usually the cheapest useful thing an owner can do.
The housing
Clyde Township is a 1970s township in a way few places are. About 761 of its housing units — a third of the total — date from that single decade, with a further 375 from the 1980s and 377 from the 1990s. Only 159 units predate 1950, and only 216 have been built since 2000.
That concentration makes the findings unusually predictable, because systems installed in the same decade reach the end of their service lives at roughly the same time. A 1970s house is now fifty years old, which puts almost everything mechanical and electrical into its second or third generation.
Electrical is the first question. A service panel from the 1970s is often at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, and fifty years of circuits added in stages by different hands is normal rather than exceptional. We report what the panel actually contains, how the accessible wiring is arranged, and where work appears to have been added piecemeal.
Plumbing follows the same pattern: renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving transitions between materials at the joins, which is where problems concentrate. Roofs are on a second or third covering. Heating equipment is two or three generations from the original, and a newer high-efficiency appliance fitted into an older chimney or vent arrangement is a common and specific thing we check.
Windows are commonly on their second set, and the quality of that replacement work varies enormously. Insulation and ventilation reflect 1970s standards, which usually means a real and worthwhile improvement is still available in the attic.
At 94% detached housing on St Clair County land, outbuildings are common and deserve proper attention rather than a glance. Pole barns, detached garages and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions.
Radon testing and mold inspection and testing can be added to any visit, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard are available for commercial property.
Permits
The building department works differently from most we deal with. Rather than routing everything through a clerk, it lists a building inspector, an electrical inspector, a mechanical and plumbing inspector and an ordinance officer, each with their own direct line.
That is genuinely convenient once you know it, because it means a specific question can go straight to the person who can answer it rather than through a switchboard. It also means you should be clear which trade your question belongs to before you ring.
The township office keeps normal weekday hours, though the building inspector himself holds two short windows a week, on Monday and Wednesday. If you need to speak to him specifically inside a contingency period, plan for that rather than assuming you can drop in.
The township publishes its building permit requirements, permit application, plot plan and address application as documents. We have not read them and will not characterize what they require — but they are published, and on a township where a third of the housing dates from one decade, the permit history for later work is worth requesting.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and cannot tell you whether a permit was pulled. What it does is tell you what was actually done to a property and how well, so the questions you put to the right inspector are specific ones. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on what it says.
Drainage
On a township of this age, most of what we report on the outside comes down to where water goes once it leaves the roof.
We record where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls or drop it at the foundation, where any sump pump discharges and whether it has a backup, and how the ground falls away from the building. On a 1970s house, all three have usually been altered at least once by somebody who was thinking about the garden rather than the basement.
Inside, we look for what water leaves behind: staining and tide lines on foundation walls, efflorescence and mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment. Equipment raised up on blocks is usually a story about something that happened once, and it is always worth asking about.
None of that is exotic and most of it is straightforward to put right. It is simply the difference between a dry basement and a recurring problem, and it is far better known before you own the house than after.
On a property with a septic system, the same water management matters twice over, because the ground that has to absorb the drainfield output is the same ground taking everything off the roof.
The buried line
The line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On a 1970s house that pipe has been in the ground half a century, under a lot whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Clyde Township laterals are generally made of, and a guess in a report is worse than no statement at all.
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 septic property it documents the building drain out to the tank — the owner’s pipe, and the part a septic evaluation does not examine.
That gap is the whole point. A septic evaluation looks at the tank and the field. The run between the house and the tank is nobody’s job by default, and on a wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees it is exactly where roots go.
A camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately. You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Clyde Township.
Local information from Clyde Township — environmental health: well and septic applications and the county reporting hotline · Clyde Township — building department and its separate trade inspectors · Clyde Township — departments · Clyde Township — zoning ordinances. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Clyde 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
I 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, MIThis is one of the finest companies I have come across - that means serious customer service and professionalism. Justin was the inspector and he was very thorough yet very kind to answers all the questions that came in my mind during inspection. He took enough time, no rush, and a very detailed inspection was conducted. Extremely competitive pricing and timing from the company. 100% recommend to anyone looking for any kind of property inspection!!
Chirag R MiyaniMichiganWhat happens
Questions
Quite possibly, but confirm it in writing. The township publishes its own residential well permit and septic applications, but it also has a water department, so not every property is necessarily on a well. Do not assume from the neighboring houses.
The county health department runs a 24-hour anonymous line for reporting failing septic systems, illegal dumping, beach closings and water quality concerns. It covers a range of things and it is a county service, but it is worth knowing exists.
No. A septic evaluation is specialist work carried out by or through the county health department, and it should be arranged alongside the home inspection rather than after it. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing and report how fixtures behave under load.
Because it is. About 761 units — a third of the township — were built in the 1970s, with 1,513 built between 1970 and 1999. Systems installed in the same decade wear out at roughly the same time, which makes the findings here more predictable than most.
The service panel and what "upgraded" actually means, then partial plumbing renewals and the material transitions at the joins, second or third roof coverings, and heating equipment two or three generations from the original — sometimes fitted into venting that has not kept pace.
Whichever inspector covers the trade. The township lists separate building, electrical and mechanical and plumbing inspectors plus an ordinance officer, each on a direct line. The building inspector himself keeps two short windows a week, so plan around that.
Yes, and on a township that is 94% detached housing they are common and worth including. They often carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and are frequently where informal work has accumulated.
Yes, and on a septic property it covers a real gap. A septic evaluation examines the tank and the field; the run between the house and the tank belongs to nobody by default, and on a wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees that is where roots go. A camera inspection is added to the same visit.
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