Huntington Woods, 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 Huntington Woods 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 Huntington Woods 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 Huntington Woods 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 reportHuntington Woods housing stock
Huntington Woods has roughly 2,423 housing units and about 100% of them are single-family detached. Housing that went up mostly in one era has mostly one era’s problems — which is genuinely useful to know before you buy, because it tells you what to look at first.
Most of it went up in the 1950s — 935 homes, around 39% of the town. At 100% 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 $457,600. 97% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
None of this is a prediction about a particular house. It is where a Huntington Woods home inspector starts looking in a home of this age, and what we photograph and write up either way.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Huntington Woods was built
90% of homes here run on utility gas. Another 77 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Huntington Woods was built in roughly twenty-five years and has barely changed since. About 2,100 of its 2,423 housing units — 87% — went up before 1960: 398 before 1940, 767 in the 1940s and 935 in the 1950s. Only 101 followed in the 1960s, and fewer than forty across the whole of the 1970s and 1980s.
Every unit is a detached house. There are no apartments and no attached housing. What that produces is a city of consistent age and character, where the questions worth asking are consistent too — and where almost every house has had seventy or eighty years of work done to it by different hands.
Two things are worth knowing before you buy here. The first is immediate: from July 2026 the City has contracted an outside firm to carry out residential cross-connection inspections, and those inspectors need access to the plumbing both inside and outside the house. If you buy here, this will reach you.
The second is that parts of the city sit in one of two historic districts, established in 2004, whose guidelines reach further than most — as far as garage doors, satellite dishes and how masonry may be cleaned.
Neither is a drawback. Both are simply things to establish for a specific address before you plan work, rather than after.
Before you buy
Water
The City’s public works department has contracted with an outside firm, beginning in July 2026, to carry out residential cross-connection inspections under state law. A cross connection, as the City describes it, is a situation with the potential to contaminate the public water supply.
The part that matters practically is the access requirement: inspectors need to see both the interior and the exterior plumbing. This is not a drive-by. Someone will be coming into the house.
For a new owner that is worth planning for rather than being surprised by, and it is worth knowing what tends to attract attention: hose connections without vacuum breakers, irrigation systems, boiler make-up connections, utility sinks with threaded taps and submerged hoses, and water softener or treatment connections without a proper air gap.
None of those are dramatic and most are inexpensive to correct. But finding them at your own inspection, before you own the house, is better than finding them when a city-appointed inspector does.
So on a property here we look specifically at those points: the presence of backflow protection at hose bibs and exterior taps, how any softener or treatment equipment discharges and whether there is an air gap at the termination, whether an irrigation system has a device, and how utility sinks and appliance connections are arranged. We report what we find and what we cannot see.
We are not city cross-connection inspectors and a home inspection is not that program. What we can do is tell you in advance what is there.
The historic districts
Huntington Woods established its historic district protections in October 2004, covering two separate areas: the Hill district and the Rackham Golf Course district. The stated purpose is to preserve the integrity of the streetscape and ensure the qualities of individual homes are retained intact. The City follows the federal Secretary of the Interior guidelines and publishes maps of both districts.
The guidelines address additions, fences, garage doors, new structures and infill development, masonry cleaning, porches, roofing, satellite dishes and siding. We have not read the guidelines themselves and we are not going to state what any of them requires — the City is the place for that — but the breadth of the list is itself informative.
Garage doors and satellite dishes appearing on a historic guideline list tells you the districts take the streetscape seriously at a level of detail many owners would not anticipate. Confirm which side of a district boundary an address falls on before you plan anything visible from the street.
The entry we would flag hardest is masonry cleaning, because it is the one where a well-meaning owner can do permanent damage in an afternoon. Aggressive pressure washing or the wrong chemical strips the fired surface off old brick and opens it to water. Repointing with a mortar harder than the original does damage of a different kind, forcing movement into the brick rather than the joint. Neither is reversible.
On a city where most houses are seventy to ninety years old and a great many are masonry, that matters. We report the visible condition of brickwork and mortar joints, evidence of previous cleaning or repointing and how it was done, spalling and surface loss, cracking and its pattern, and the condition of lintels, sills and copings where they are visible.
The housing
A city that was built out by 1960 and has added barely two hundred houses since presents a particular kind of inspection. Nothing here is new, everything has been worked on, and the useful question is never whether a system has been updated but how, when, and by whom.
Electrical comes first. A house from the 1940s or 1950s was wired for a fraction of today’s demand, and every one of them has had attention since. But there is a wide gulf between a genuine rewire and a newer panel fitted in front of original distribution, and eighty years of circuits added in stages by different hands is the norm rather than the exception. 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. Supply and drain lines are typically renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving transitions between materials at the joins — and those transitions are where problems concentrate. A house described as having had the plumbing done usually means part of it.
Roofs on this stock are on a third or fourth 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. Insulation and ventilation reflect the standards of the day, which usually leaves a real improvement available in the attic.
Basements on houses of this era are worth particular attention, because eighty years of landscaping and drainage changes around a building tends to show up down there. We report staining, efflorescence, mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes and corrosion at the base of equipment, along with where the downspouts terminate, where any sump pump discharges and whether it has a backup.
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.
City services
Huntington Woods runs police and fire together as a single public safety department, which is an arrangement small cities use to keep cover broad. It issues dog licenses and, in a detail that says a good deal about the place, bicycle licenses.
Its code enforcement function sits with the planning official, and the City describes its remit as responding to concerns affecting quality of life: zoning, improper set-out of trash, yard waste and recycling containers, overgrown lots or yards, maintenance of structures, illegal signs and public nuisances.
The public works department handles the water and sewer systems, including utility locating for water and sewer lines, along with roads and the public right of way. The City publishes an annual water quality report.
One thing we will not do is speculate about service line materials. On a city where 87% of the housing predates 1960 it would be easy to assume, and easy to be wrong about a specific address. Service line material tracks the era a house was connected rather than the era it was built, and the City is the right place to ask.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not assess historic district or ordinance compliance. What it does is establish what is actually there and what condition it is in, so the questions you take to the City are specific ones. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day.
The buried line
The line running from the building out to the main belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On a city where nearly nine in ten houses predate 1960, that pipe has been in the ground for seventy years or more, under streets whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. There is effectively no new housing stock here, which means there are effectively no new laterals either.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Huntington Woods 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 housing of this age and this uniformity it is among the most useful things you can add, because a lateral is invisible, not covered by a standard inspection, and generally unknown to the seller.
It is also one of the few things that genuinely varies house to house in a city where almost everything else shares a build era — which is exactly why it is worth looking at rather than assuming.
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 Huntington Woods.
Local information from City of Huntington Woods — public works and the residential cross-connection inspection program · City of Huntington Woods — historic district information · City of Huntington Woods — code enforcement · City of Huntington Woods — forms and fees. 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. A zone is a prediction of an average, and nobody lives in an average.
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 Huntington Woods 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
From July 2026 the City has contracted an outside firm to carry out residential cross-connection inspections under state law, to protect the public water supply. Inspectors require access to both interior and exterior plumbing, so it is not a drive-by — someone will come into the house.
Typically hose connections without vacuum breakers, irrigation systems, boiler make-up connections, utility sinks with threaded taps and submerged hoses, and softener or treatment connections without a proper air gap. Most are inexpensive to correct, and better found before you own the house.
Two, both established in October 2004: the Hill district and the Rackham Golf Course district. The City publishes maps, and confirming which side of a boundary an address falls on is worth doing before planning any work visible from the street.
Additions, fences, garage doors, new structures and infill development, masonry cleaning, porches, roofing, satellite dishes and siding. We have not read the guidelines themselves, so take the specifics to the City rather than assuming.
Because it is where a well-meaning owner can do permanent damage in an afternoon. Aggressive pressure washing or the wrong chemical strips the fired surface off old brick and opens it to water, and repointing with mortar harder than the original forces movement into the brick instead of the joint. Neither is reversible.
About 87% of it predates 1960 — 398 units before 1940, 767 in the 1940s and 935 in the 1950s. Fewer than forty houses were built across the whole of the 1970s and 1980s. The city was built out in roughly twenty-five years.
No, and we will not guess. Service line material tracks the era a house was connected rather than the era it was built, and the City publishes nothing on it in what we read. It is a fair question to put to the City directly, and here it is worth putting.
Yes, more than in most places. With almost no new housing stock there are almost no new laterals, and most have been under mature tree-lined streets for seventy years or more. A camera inspection records the actual condition and is added to the same visit.
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