Kimball 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 Kimball 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 Kimball 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 Kimball 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 reportKimball Township housing stock
Kimball Township has roughly 3,830 housing units and about 83% 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 — 781 homes, roughly 20% of the town.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $172,500. 89% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 496 manufactured and mobile homes in Kimball Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where a Kimball 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 Kimball Township was built
85% of homes here run on utility gas, and 42 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 259 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Kimball Township shares a water system with neighboring Clyde Township, and it keeps a standing page on its website explaining what happens when a main breaks. Municipalities do not usually write that page unless the question comes up.
Its own news feed records the reason. Over two weeks at the end of January 2026 a main broke on Wadhams Road, a boil water alert followed for a stretch of addresses there, was extended, and was lifted two days later. In February the water was shut off south of Griswold and a further alert went out, that one to every customer on the Kimball and Clyde system, lifted two days after that.
Most of those events were local to a stretch of one road rather than township-wide, and none of it makes Kimball a bad place to buy a house. What it does mean is that a buyer here should understand what a pressure loss actually does inside a building, and that is a genuinely useful thing to know before you own one.
The housing arrived in two distinct waves. Of roughly 3,830 units, 888 date from the 1940s and 1950s, then the pace slows through the 1970s and 1980s, then 1,479 units arrive across the 1990s and 2000s. About 83% is single-family detached, and the township has been a general law township since 1855.
Those two groups need quite different inspections, and knowing which one a house belongs to before you walk it is half the preparation.
Before you buy
Water
The Township’s standing explainer is worth reading before you need it, and it is refreshingly plain about the limits of what anyone can promise.
When a main breaks you may lose pressure, or lose water entirely, and depending on the size and location of the break the repair can take several hours. The Township’s stated goal is to keep the break small and the repair short, because that reduces the risk of contamination getting into the system — and it says openly that this is not always possible, which is why the boil alert exists.
Once an alert is on, the process is fixed. Public works staff sample the water every 24 hours, and two consecutive clean results are needed before the alert is lifted. That means an alert generally lasts a minimum of 48 hours. The Township also explains that because it can only test once a day, it will only update once a day, and between tests there is genuinely no further information to give.
Notification runs through the website, social media, local radio and the newspaper, an alert sign-up, push notifications and — for most breaks, though not a system-wide one — door to door.
For anyone moving here from a large city system, that is a different rhythm to get used to, and it is a good argument for signing up to the alerts on the day you close rather than the day you need them.
Inside the house
A boil water advisory is issued because a drop in pressure creates the conditions in which water can move the wrong way through a system. That is the whole reason backflow protection exists, and almost all of it lives inside the house.
The pieces are small and unglamorous: vacuum breakers on exterior hose bibs, so a hose left in a bucket or a pool cannot be siphoned back into the supply; a vacuum breaker on a threaded laundry faucet; an air gap on a dishwasher drain; and a properly maintained air gap or approved arrangement wherever a supply line ends near standing water.
They are also the sort of thing that goes missing during a remodel and never gets noticed. On an inspection we look at the accessible plumbing and report what we find, including hose bibs without vacuum breakers and drain arrangements that are not what they should be.
The other half is what a pressure event leaves behind. When the water comes back, sediment that has been sitting in the mains gets stirred through the system, air comes in with it, and both find their way into aerators, valves, water heaters, softeners and appliance inlet screens. Where a house has whole-house filtration or a softener, those units carry the brunt. We report the presence and visible condition of that equipment; we do not test or certify water treatment, and water testing itself goes through the county health department.
On rural parcels the question changes again, because not every property in a township this size is on municipal water. Wells and septic systems are county health department territory, not ours — we do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water. What we can tell you is the condition of the building and the accessible plumbing inside it, which is usually where the surprises are anyway.
Permits
The Township’s Building Department issues building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits itself, with a separate application for each of the four. That is good news for anyone researching a property: one office holds the whole history rather than the trades sitting with a county.
The trade inspections are contracted out. The Township lists a plumbing and mechanical inspector and an electrical inspector, each reachable directly, while the building inspector also serves as the ordinance enforcement officer. Inspections are scheduled through a single number at the township office.
That last detail matters more than it sounds. Where one person handles both building inspections and ordinance enforcement, the same office that permits a deck is the office that hears about a deck built without one. It is a small township arrangement and it works, but it does mean the permit file and the complaint file are close together.
When you are buying, ask for both. A property with a permit trail covering the roof, the furnace, the service upgrade and the finished basement tells you the work was seen. Its absence does not prove anything went wrong, but it does tell you which parts of the house nobody official has looked at.
A buyer’s inspection is not a code inspection and we do not issue citations. We report the condition and apparent function of the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, and we say plainly where work looks as though it was done outside the normal process.
Two waves
Kimball’s housing splits into two groups with a gap in the middle, and it is worth knowing which one you are looking at.
The first is postwar: 888 units built in the 1940s and 1950s, with another 242 predating 1940 behind them. On a house of that age the interesting questions are the ones about what has been replaced and how many times. Electrical service and distribution, because the original was sized for a very different household. Plumbing, because whatever went in originally has either been replaced or is now extremely old. Insulation and ventilation, because the standards of the day were not the standards of today. Foundations and the space under the floor, because seventy years of water finds every weakness eventually.
The second is the 1990s and 2000s: 1,479 units, and a completely different report. The structure is usually sound and the findings cluster around service life. Original roofs are gone or overdue. The first generation of furnaces, water heaters and air conditioning has generally been replaced once, and the quality of that replacement varies enormously. Windows, seals and exterior finishes are at the age where deferred maintenance begins to show.
In between, the 1970s and 1980s are comparatively quiet here — 662 units across two decades, fewer than either neighboring wave.
The scope of the inspection does not change between them. What changes is where the time goes, and being clear about that in advance makes for a better report.
The buried line
The drain line from the building to the connection belongs to the property, wherever it terminates. On a house from the 1940s or 1950s that pipe has been in the ground for seventy years or more, under a lot that has had that long to grow trees over it.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Kimball Township laterals are generally made of, and guessing helps nobody.
What a camera settles is the thing nothing else can: roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. It is the difference between hoping and knowing, and on this housing stock it is one of the more useful things you can buy before closing.
A sewer camera inspection is added to the same appointment rather than booked separately. Alongside it we offer radon testing, mold inspection and testing, and commercial building inspections to the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property.
You can read what our clients say, look through answers to common questions, or get in touch about a specific address in Kimball Township.
Local information from Kimball Township — why a boil alert happens and how long one lasts · Kimball Township — Building Department, permits and inspectors · Kimball Township — January 2026 boil water alert notice, Wadhams Road. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Kimball 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
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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).
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Questions
Generally a minimum of 48 hours. The Township samples the water every 24 hours and needs two consecutive clean results before lifting an alert. It also explains that because it can only test once a day, it updates only once a day, and between tests there is no further information to give.
It can. Kimball and Clyde share a water system, and the Township’s February 2026 notice was addressed to all customers on the Kimball Township and Clyde Township system. Localized notices, by contrast, have covered a specific stretch of addresses.
The Township lists its channels: the website front page and public notices, its Facebook and Twitter accounts, local radio, the local newspaper, an alert sign-up, website push notifications, and door-to-door notification for most breaks — though not for one that is system-wide. Signing up for the alerts when you move in is worth doing.
Because a pressure drop is the condition in which water can move the wrong way through a system, which is exactly what backflow protection exists to prevent. Vacuum breakers on hose bibs and threaded laundry faucets, and an air gap on a dishwasher drain, are the household end of it. They are small fittings, easily left off during a remodel, and we report them on an inspection.
Sediment stirred up in the mains and air carried in with the water, both of which end up in aerators, valves, appliance inlet screens, water heaters and any softener or filtration. We report the presence and visible condition of that equipment on an inspection; we do not test or certify water treatment, and water testing goes through the county health department.
All four trades. There are separate applications for building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing, all issued by the Township, with contracted trade inspectors and one number at the township office to schedule an inspection. That means one records request should produce a property’s full permit history.
No. Not every property in a township this size is on municipal water and sewer, and wells and septic systems fall to the county health department rather than to us. We do not evaluate septic systems and we do not test water. We inspect the building and the accessible plumbing inside it.
Usually yes. On a house from the 1940s or 1950s the buried drain line has been in the ground seventy years or more under a lot that has had that long to grow trees over it, and no visual inspection reaches inside a pipe. A camera inspection documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same visit.
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