New Boston, 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 New Boston 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 New Boston and across Wayne 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 New Boston 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
New Boston is an unincorporated community, which means it has no government of its own. The body that matters is Huron Charter Township, and one of the first things worth knowing is that the township requires a residential resale inspection before a house changes hands here. That is the township’s own process with its own checklist, and it is separate from anything we do.
The more unusual thing the township publishes, and the reason this page leads on it, is a list of the ordinances it is currently reconsidering. Most municipalities publish the rules. Huron Township’s ordinance department page also publishes what is under review.
Six things appear on that list: a newly proposed change of use ordinance awaiting board approval, mobile food vendors, portable restrooms, signs, tree protection, and building grades. Two of those matter directly to somebody buying a house.
Building grades is the first. The single most common recommendation in any home inspection report anywhere is some version of improving the grading so surface water falls away from the foundation, and the zoning provision covering building grades is listed as under review for possible amendment. Tree protection is the second: whether you may take down a tree is a live question on any wooded lot, and the general ordinance chapter covering it is being evaluated.
The township is careful about what that means, and so are we. Its own note says a review does not necessarily indicate that modifications will be made, and that there is no predetermined timeline. So nothing here is changing as far as anyone has said. The point is simply that if your plans depend on either subject, ask the ordinance officer where it stands rather than reading today’s text and assuming it will hold.
Before you buy
Utilities
Huron Township runs its own water and sewer through a public works department with a team it describes as ten full-time employees available around the clock. Its listed work covers water quality, pressure and fire protection, hydrant flushing and valve exercising, repairing water main breaks and cleaning sewer systems, water meters and billing, issuing water and sewer permits, and administering a cross connection control program.
That is a substantial in-house operation, and it means the water and sewer questions about a property have a single clear owner. Which parcels are actually connected is still worth confirming in writing, because a township running a system is not the same as every property being on it.
The more useful detail is what the township is explicit about not doing. It states that while the public works team will try to assist residents with road and drain concerns, the maintenance and emergency management of that infrastructure sits elsewhere. Our read of the page stopped before it named the responsible authority, so we are not going to guess at who it is.
For a buyer that is worth pinning down early, because road-edge and drainage questions are exactly the ones that come up during a purchase: a failing drive approach, a blocked culvert, water standing where the lot meets the road. Ask the township who handles those and write the answer down.
One practical note for anyone clearing out a garage after moving in: the township has posted that the New Boston recycle center on Sterling Road no longer accepts used motor oil or antifreeze, and that Wayne County provides household hazardous waste collections for those items instead.
The housing
Because New Boston 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 Huron Township, a postal area or a school district. That is worth knowing if you are comparing data between places, because it is easy to think you are comparing like with like.
What we do instead is look at the building in front of us. On any older house the electrical system tends to be the accumulated work of several decades rather than one installation, with mixed wiring types arriving in the same enclosure, ungrounded receptacles and a panel that has been added to more than once. Plumbing is usually renewed in part rather than in whole, which puts the interesting questions at the transitions between materials.
Drainage gets particular attention here, and not only because of the ordinance under review. We report where the downspouts actually terminate and whether water is carried away from the building or released at the corner of it, whether there is a sump and where it discharges to, whether there is a backup arrangement if the power goes, and how the ground falls away from each elevation.
Where soil or beds have been built up against a wall over the years, we say so, because that is the situation the usual recommendation addresses. And we note where surface water collects and where it leaves the property, which on a lot with neighbors either side is a question with somebody else at the end of it.
Inside, the visible condition of the foundation walls, the staining and efflorescence that record where water has been, and whether a basement or crawl space smells like somewhere that 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
Whatever a property here is connected to, the lateral running from the building out to the main belongs to the property. It is the owner’s to repair, and no visual inspection reaches inside it — not ours, and not any municipal process either.
We are not going to name a material from a build year. Nothing published establishes what lines here are generally made of, and a guess in a report is worse than no statement at all. What we can do is put a camera in it and record what is actually there.
A sewer camera inspection shows roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and a clear run where they do not. Roots at an old joint are the commonest finding of the lot on any street with mature trees, and the first symptom a new owner usually gets is a backup on a bad day.
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’s own departments and notices — including a current notice about the downtown New Boston public parking lot renovation, worth reading if you are buying nearby — or get in touch about a specific address in New Boston.
Local information from Huron Charter Township — ordinance department and ordinances under review · Huron Charter Township — water department and DPW · Huron Charter Township — township website and notices · Huron Charter Township — building department. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Wayne County
Zone 3 is the lowest of the three EPA categories — the predicted average indoor level across the county is below 2 pCi/L. So on the state’s map New Boston sits well away from the worst of it, and we are not going to dress that up into something it is not. What a zone cannot tell you is anything about one house: 17% of tests actually run in Wayne County still came back at or above the EPA’s 4 pCi/L action level, which is about one in six. Zones are drawn around counties, not around addresses, which is why the only number that settles the question is the one from the house itself.
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 · Wayne 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 New Boston 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
Ora from Trademark did an incredible job with the inspection and sewer scope of the home I am in the process of buying. He was very thorough, explained everything to me from the start, and made it all super easy to understand which definitely helped to put me at ease a bit more. Highly recommend this company!
Mariah HartmanWestland, MIJim was prompt and thorough during the mold testing. Clearly gave us an explanation about mold and testing process he was going to conduct. Testing was followed by a written report. I would recommend everyone use a third party to test mold, independent from the company conducting remediation work. I would hire Trademark again and strongly recommend them.
Alberto PicconeNorthville, MICowboy “Jim” just did Mold Testing in my parents’ basement. He was Professional, explained the what, how and yet of everything to my Senior parents. Our results came back super quick. He even referred us to the resources on the Trademark website for me to use to fix the leaky basement. It’s 1 stop shopping with Trademark.
Becky JohnsonWayne, MIWhat happens
Questions
Huron Charter Township. New Boston is an unincorporated community, so it has no council, boundary or government of its own and every question routes to the township.
The township lists six: a proposed change of use ordinance awaiting board approval, mobile food vendors, portable restrooms, signs, tree protection, and building grades.
No. The township states plainly that a review does not necessarily indicate modifications will be made, and that there is no predetermined timeline. Treat it as a list of what to ask about, not as notice of a change.
Because both touch what you might want to do to a property. Improving the grading so water falls away from a foundation is the commonest recommendation in any inspection report, and whether you may remove a tree is a live question on a wooded lot.
Yes. Huron Township requires its own residential resale inspection, which is a separate process from a buyer’s inspection and looks at different things.
Not the township public works department. The township states the maintenance and emergency management of that infrastructure sits elsewhere, and our read stopped before it named the authority — so ask the township and write the answer down.
No. The township has posted that the New Boston recycle center on Sterling Road no longer accepts used motor oil or antifreeze, and that Wayne County provides household hazardous waste collections for those items.
The lateral from the building to the main is the owner’s and no municipal process reaches inside it. A camera inspection goes on the same visit and shows what is actually in there.
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