Bloomfield 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 Bloomfield 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.
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 Bloomfield Township 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 Bloomfield 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 reportBloomfield Township housing stock
Bloomfield Township has roughly 18,386 housing units and about 79% of them are single-family detached. Homes built in a single stretch tend to wear out in the same places at the same time. That is why when somewhere was built is the first thing worth knowing about it.
The busiest stretch of building here was the 1960s: 4,940 homes, about 27% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $542,400. 89% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. Around 904 homes sit in two-to-four unit buildings, where a shared roof, a shared wall and sometimes a shared furnace mean the report has to be clear about where one unit stops.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Bloomfield Township home inspector works through in a home of this age, and every item on it gets photographed and written up whichever way it turns out.
Housing figures: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2022 five-year estimates.
When Bloomfield Township was built
89% of homes here run on utility gas, and 24 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 159 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Bloomfield Township is a township of detached houses, mostly built in the middle of the last century, where not every property is connected to the same services and the Township takes an unusual interest in a few specific things.
Of roughly 18,386 housing units, about 27% date from the 1960s, 22% from the 1950s and 19% from the 1970s, with a median build year of 1968 and around 79% single-family detached. A typical property here is between fifty and seventy years old, and almost all of it is whole houses rather than attached or multi-unit housing.
Three things set the local picture apart, and all three are worth knowing before you buy: a permit requirement that names sump pumps specifically, the fact that some properties run on private wells and septic systems rather than township services, and a tree ordinance whose scope is narrower than its name suggests.
Before you buy
Below grade
Most municipalities fold this into a general plumbing permit without mentioning it. Bloomfield Township spells it out.
A plumbing permit is required for all indoor plumbing, water services, sanitary sewer services, storm sewer services, sprinkling systems and sump-pump installations. That last item is the one worth noticing on a house of this age. If a sump system has been put in or replaced, there should be a permit record behind it, and asking is a straightforward way to learn something about a basement’s history.
The Township also inspects permitted construction in stages — generally at foundation, rough, insulation and final — with further inspections depending on the extent of the work, and all permitted work needs an approved final inspection before a certificate of occupancy issues. The usual caution applies to whatever you find on file: a permit does not establish that work is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that it was done badly.
What an inspection reports is the state of things now: the basement or crawlspace, the sump equipment and its discharge where present, foundation conditions, and any visible evidence of past water.
Wells and septic
This is not a formality here, because the answer genuinely varies between properties.
The Township notes that where a structure will use a private well and/or a septic tank for wastewater disposal, permits are required from the Oakland County Health Department. That tells you two things: private wells and septic systems are in use in this township, and it is the county rather than the township that regulates them.
For an inspection that matters practically. A well and a septic system are specialist evaluations rather than parts of a standard home inspection, so if a property has either, tell us when you book and allow time to arrange them separately. Buying on the assumption that a house is on public water and sewer, then discovering otherwise late, is an avoidable problem.
What we do assess is how the property manages surface water: accessible grading, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace and sump equipment where present, documented as found.
Trees and land
This one gets misunderstood, so it is worth stating precisely rather than vaguely.
Bloomfield Township has enacted a Tree Preservation and Protection Ordinance to protect its woodland areas and the character of its neighborhoods. The Township is clear about its reach: it applies to properties where new construction or redevelopment is planned, or to any clear-cutting activity, and it does not apply to currently developed properties where no construction is proposed.
So if you are buying an existing house and intend to live in it, routine yard work is not caught by this. If you are buying with plans to build, extend substantially or redevelop, it is part of your process, and the Township publishes both the ordinance and a permit application. Its guidance also addresses trees in wetlands and natural feature setbacks, which is worth checking on a wooded lot.
None of that is something a home inspection determines, and we would not pretend otherwise. What we do is report the condition of the building and its systems: a home buyer inspection covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, photographed and written up with how urgent each finding is.
On the municipal side, we found no residential point-of-sale inspection requirement here. The Township requires a change of occupancy when a new tenant moves into a commercial space, and its residential certificate of occupancy requirements attach to permitted construction. Confirm for a specific address with the Building Division.
The buried line
On a property connected to the public sewer, the private lateral has been in the ground about as long as the house has stood.
It runs underground from the building to the public system and no visual inspection can see inside it. Five to seven decades is ample time for tree roots to find a joint — particularly in a township with enough woodland to warrant its own tree ordinance — for ground movement to displace a section, or for repairs to have been made that nobody now remembers.
We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Bloomfield Township laterals are generally made of. 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. It is added to the same visit.
Alongside it, commercial building inspections follow the CCPIA standard for offices, retail, multifamily and warehouse property, and radon testing or mold inspection and testing can be added to a residential or commercial visit.
Local information from Bloomfield Township — Certificate of Occupancy · Bloomfield Township — Tree Preservation & Protection · Bloomfield Township — permit information. 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 an average taken across a whole county, and no house is 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 Bloomfield 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, 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
Yes. The Township requires a plumbing permit for all indoor plumbing, water services, sanitary sewer services, storm sewer services, sprinkling systems and sump-pump installations. Naming sump pumps specifically is unusual — most municipalities in this region fold them into a general plumbing permit. For a buyer the useful consequence is that if a sump system has been installed or replaced, there should be a permit record behind it, which is a straightforward way to learn something about a basement’s history.
Yes. The Township notes that where a structure will use a private well and/or septic tank for wastewater disposal, permits are required from the Oakland County Health Department — so both are in use here, and the county rather than the township regulates them. Establish which systems serve a property early. A well and a septic system are specialist evaluations rather than parts of a standard home inspection, so tell us when you book and allow time to arrange them separately.
Probably not, if you are buying an existing house to live in. The Township has a Tree Preservation and Protection Ordinance, but it is explicit about scope: it applies where new construction or redevelopment is planned, or to any clear-cutting activity, and it does not apply to currently developed properties where no construction is proposed. Routine yard work is not caught. If you are buying with plans to build or redevelop it is part of your process, and the Township publishes both the ordinance and a permit application. Trees in wetlands or natural feature setbacks are worth checking separately on a wooded lot.
We found no residential point-of-sale requirement. The Township requires a change of occupancy when a new tenant is moving into a commercial space, and its residential certificate of occupancy requirements attach to permitted construction — all permitted work needs an approved final inspection before a certificate issues. Confirm the position for a specific address with the Building Division, and in the meantime plan on your own inspection being the one examining the house on your behalf.
Mostly mid-century. Of roughly 18,386 housing units, about 27% date from the 1960s, 22% from the 1950s and 19% from the 1970s, with a median build year of 1968 and around 79% single-family detached. A typical property is therefore between fifty and seventy years old, well past the expected service life of an original roof covering, furnace, air conditioning condenser and water heater. Which of those have been renewed is not something the build year can tell you — that is what an inspection establishes.
On a property connected to the public sewer, yes. The lateral has been in the ground roughly as long as the house has stood — five to seven decades for most properties here — and that is ample time for roots to find a joint, particularly in a township with enough woodland to warrant a tree ordinance. The line is buried, no visual inspection can see inside it, and we would not guess a material from a build year. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
Yes. You can book a Bloomfield Township home inspector with us seven days a week, and we cover the rest of Oakland County too.
A home inspection report reaches you within 24 hours. Commercial buildings are 24 to 72 hours depending on size, a radon result comes at the end of the 48-hour test, and mold samples come back from the lab in one to three business days.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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From the blog
October 22, 2017
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