Davisburg, 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 Davisburg 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 Davisburg and across Oakland 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 Davisburg 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 reportLocal knowledge
Davisburg is an unincorporated community in Springfield Charter Township, and it is easy to forget that it is not a municipality in its own right — not least because the township’s offices are on Davisburg Road, in Davisburg. The township is the government here, and every question about a property routes to it.
The genuinely unusual thing about this place is geographic, and the township sets it out on its own page. Springfield Township sits within four major watersheds and at the headwaters of three major river systems. Not near them. At the start of them.
The Clinton River’s main branch begins in the northeast of the township and drains southeast to Lake St. Clair. The Huron River begins near Big Lake, at the intersections of Scott and Big Lake roads, and runs south through Ann Arbor to Lake Erie. The Shiawassee River begins at Shiawassee Lake, near the same crossroads, and runs north and west and north again to Saginaw Bay and Lake Huron. Parts of the northern border sit in the uppermost reaches of the Flint River watershed.
Read that again, because it is remarkable: two major rivers begin within sight of the same road junction and then travel to opposite ends of the state. Rain falling a few hundred yards apart here ends up in different Great Lakes.
A home inspection is not a code inspection, a flood risk assessment or a wetland determination, and we do not present it as any of those. What we establish is what is physically there and what condition it is in.
Before you buy
Water on the ground
Being at the top of a watershed means the water near a property is small water — streams, wet ground, ponds and swamp rather than one big river. The township names some of it: Bridge Valley at the Clinton River headwaters, the Great Huron Swamp at the Huron River headwaters, and the Long Lake Natural Area. It describes these corridors as containing some of southeast Michigan’s finest natural areas, and it maintains a whole natural resources section covering water quality, invasive plants and protection planning.
Here is where we stop and are careful, because this is exactly the point at which it would be easy to write something that sounds knowledgeable and is actually invented. We have no flood mapping for Davisburg, no wetland designations, and no groundwater data. So we are not going to tell you that properties here have high water tables, or wet basements, or difficult ground. Some will and some will not, and that is a question about a lot rather than about a township.
What we will say is that if a specific parcel sits near a watercourse, a wetland or a designated natural area, that is worth establishing before you offer, and the answer comes from the township and the county rather than from us. It can affect what you are permitted to build, clear or fill, and those are not questions an inspection answers.
What an inspection does answer is how the building in front of us actually handles the water that lands on it. We report where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water away from the structure or release it at the corner of the foundation. Whether there is a sump, where it discharges to, and whether there is a backup arrangement if the power goes.
How the ground falls away from each elevation, whether soil or planting beds have been built up against the walls over the years, and where surface water collects and leaves the property. Inside, the visible condition of the foundation walls, the staining and efflorescence that record where water has actually been, and whether a basement or crawl space smells like somewhere that stays dry.
The housing
Because Davisburg is unincorporated it has no housing profile of its own, so we are not going to quote a median build year or a unit count for it. Any figure attached to the name will in fact describe Springfield Township, a postal area or a school district, which is worth knowing if you are comparing places against each other.
What we look at instead is the building. On older housing the electrical system tends to be the accumulated work of several decades rather than one installation: mixed wiring types arriving in the same enclosure, ungrounded receptacles, a panel added to more than once, and an original service capacity sized for a smaller household than a modern one.
Plumbing is usually renewed in part rather than in whole, which concentrates the interesting questions at the transitions where one material meets another. Heating and water heating equipment will be several replacements deep. Roof coverings will be on a second or third generation, and what was done at the flashings and penetrations each time matters more than the age of the covering.
On the kind of larger, wooded and semi-rural lots this part of Oakland County is known for, outbuildings are common and get inspected as part of the property rather than glanced at — garages, barns and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions, and are often where informal work has accumulated.
Long drives are worth a thought too, and not only for access: where a drive sheds its water and how the ground falls between the road and the house are part of how a building stays dry. 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.
The buried line
What a property here is connected to depends on the address, so we are not going to tell you. Confirm it in writing for the parcel with the township before you rely on anything, because the two arrangements lead to genuinely different pre-purchase work.
If it turns out to be on a septic system, the evaluation is specialist work arranged through the county health department, and it answers questions no visual inspection can: whether a drainfield is failing, and the true condition of the tank. It runs to its own timetable, so it needs arranging early rather than in the last week. A water test on a private well belongs in the same conversation, and is worth repeating after any well work.
Either way, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner and no visual inspection reaches inside it. We will not name a material from a build year — nothing published establishes what lines here are 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 wooded lots with mature trees, roots at an old joint are the commonest finding there is. On a septic property the camera documents the building drain out to the tank — the stretch a septic evaluation does not examine, and nobody’s job by default.
It goes on the same appointment rather than a second visit, and we deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day. A buyer’s inspection covers the building; the camera covers the part nobody can see. You can read what our clients say, browse answers to common questions, see the township building department, or get in touch about a specific address in Davisburg.
Local information from Springfield Charter Township — a headwaters community · Springfield Charter Township — natural resources · Springfield Charter Township — building department · Springfield Charter Township — township website. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Oakland County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L. What a zone cannot tell you is anything about one house: 29% of tests actually run in Oakland County still came back at or above the EPA’s 4 pCi/L action level. The zone describes a county. The only result that describes your basement is the one measured in it.
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 · Oakland County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones. Elevated-result share from the Michigan Indoor Radon Program.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Davisburg 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, MIExcellent sums up the entire experience, from the initial call to set up the appointment with staff that was informative and helpful, up until the actual inspection that was very professional and thorough with any and all questions I had answered. I would highly recommend Trademark to anyone who needs inspection services. Thanks again Curt, my inspector, for an excellent job.
Johnny Thomas JrSouthfield, MIWhat happens
Questions
Springfield Charter Township. Davisburg is an unincorporated community, so it has no council or boundary of its own — though the township offices are on Davisburg Road, which makes it easy to assume otherwise.
The township states it sits within four major watersheds and at the headwaters of three major river systems. The Clinton, the Huron and the Shiawassee all begin here, and parts of the northern border are in the uppermost reaches of the Flint River watershed.
Close to it. The township describes the Huron as beginning near Big Lake at the intersections of Scott and Big Lake roads, and the Shiawassee as beginning near the same crossroads at Shiawassee Lake. One runs south to Lake Erie, the other north to Saginaw Bay.
No, and we are not going to suggest it. We have no flood mapping, wetland designations or groundwater data for Davisburg. Some lots will handle water well and some will not, and that is a question about a specific property rather than about the township.
From the township and the county. If a parcel sits near a watercourse, a wetland or a designated natural area, that can affect what you may build, clear or fill, and those are not questions a home inspection answers.
How the building actually handles the water that lands on it: where the downspouts terminate, whether there is a sump and where it discharges, whether there is a backup arrangement, how the ground falls away from each elevation, and where water has visibly been inside.
There is no single answer, and no housing profile for the community itself since it is unincorporated. Any figure you see attached to the name will describe the township, a postal area or a school district instead.
On larger wooded lots the line out from the building is often the oldest untouched component on the property, and on a septic property the run from the house to the tank is nobody’s job by default. A camera inspection goes on the same visit.
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