Taymouth 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 Taymouth Township home and tell you plainly what they found — then put it in a photo-rich digital report within 24 hours.
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Included free with every home buyer inspection— and none of them require us to sell your information.
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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 Taymouth Township and across Saginaw 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 Taymouth 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 reportTaymouth Township housing stock
Taymouth Township has roughly 1,810 housing units and about 96% 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 1970s than from any other decade — 481 homes, roughly 27% of the town. At 96% 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 $174,000. 94% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area.
This is not a forecast for any one address. It is where a Taymouth 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 Taymouth Township was built
56% of homes here run on utility gas, and 17 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 504 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Taymouth is a rural township of about 1,810 housing units, 96% of them detached houses, and nearly half of them built between 1960 and 1979. The 1970s alone account for 481 units.
One local rule is worth knowing before you start work on any of them. The township issues burning permits free of charge, and burning brush is a normal part of rural life here — but the permit is specific about what may go on the fire. Tree limbs, brush, stumps, evergreen needles, leaves and grass, during daylight hours.
What may never be burned is the list that matters to anyone renovating: demolition debris and construction materials, along with automotive parts and household trash containing plastic, rubber, foam, chemically treated wood, textiles, electronics, chemicals or hazardous materials.
That is exactly the material a renovation on a 1970s house produces. Old decking, treated lumber, torn-out carpet, vinyl, insulation, roofing tear-off — none of it can go on the burn pile, however rural the property. So budget disposal into any project rather than assuming a bonfire will handle it.
The township also makes the responsibility explicit: you are responsible for the fire, the smoke and the odors, and for any damage that results. Fires must be attended at all times, and the fire department can extinguish an unsafe one.
Two other practical notes: the township runs its own water service, and the office is closed on Thursdays rather than the more usual Friday.
Before you buy
Burning and disposal
The township’s burning permit page sets out a straightforward arrangement: permits are free, they may be renewed after fourteen days, and fires must be attended at all times. Burning is limited to daylight hours and to natural material — limbs, brush, stumps, needles, leaves and grass.
The exclusions are the part a buyer should read twice. Demolition debris and construction materials are specifically named, as are automotive parts and household trash containing plastic, rubber, foam, chemically treated wood, textiles, electronics, chemicals or hazardous materials.
Treated wood is worth singling out. Old deck boards, fence posts and landscape timbers are the most common things people assume can go on a brush fire on a rural lot, and they are precisely what the rule excludes — for good reason, because burning treated timber releases what the preservative contains.
This connects directly to what we find on inspections here. On a township where most houses are fifty or sixty years old, the work a new owner does in the first two years is predictable: decks, fences, roofing, windows, flooring and bathrooms. All of it generates material that has to be hauled rather than burned.
The township publishes its rules under its own fire control ordinance and state law, and directs residents to the office for a copy of the full ordinance. If you are planning significant work, that is a worthwhile call.
The housing
Taymouth’s housing concentrates in two decades: 366 units from the 1960s and 481 from the 1970s, together making up 847 of roughly 1,810 units. There are 152 units predating 1940, and 418 built since 1990.
That concentration makes the findings unusually predictable, because systems installed in the same era reach the end of their service lives at roughly the same time. A house from 1972 is now well over fifty years old, which puts almost everything mechanical and electrical into its second or third generation.
Electrical is the first question. A service panel of that vintage is often at or past the point where an upgrade is worth considering, and fifty years of circuits added in stages by different hands is normal rather than exceptional. 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: renewed in part rather than in whole, leaving transitions between materials at the joins, which is where problems concentrate. Roofs are on a second or third 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.
Windows are commonly on their second set, and the quality of that replacement work varies enormously. Insulation and ventilation reflect the standards of the day, which usually means a real and worthwhile improvement is still available in the attic.
At 96% detached housing on rural Saginaw County land, outbuildings are common and deserve proper attention rather than a glance. Pole barns, detached garages and workshops frequently carry their own electrical supply, their own roof and structural questions, and are often where informal work has accumulated over the years.
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.
Water
Taymouth runs its own water service. The township’s emergency contacts direct water problems to the township office rather than to a county department or a private utility, which is unusual for a township of this size.
Its annual water quality report exists but is not published online. The township states that you may pick up a copy at the office, so if you want it — and on any property served by a public supply you should — that is a trip to make rather than a download.
The township does not publish the extent of its water service, so whether a particular address is on township water or a private well is a question to settle in writing. The same applies to waste water: nothing is published about sewer service or septic systems, so we are not going to assume which arrangement applies.
If the answer is a private well, a water test is separate specialist work arranged through the county health department, and worth repeating after any well repair. If there is a septic system, a septic evaluation is likewise specialist work and needs arranging early on a rural property, because it takes its own time.
What we inspect is the building and everything from the house side of the system inward: the accessible supply and drain lines, the vent arrangements we can see, how fixtures behave when the system is loaded, and the visible condition of any pump, pressure tank and treatment equipment.
Permits
Taymouth publishes its permits and applications together on a single forms page, grouped into ordinance documents, permits, the building permit, and assessor, treasurer and clerk material.
Its building application is a single combined zoning and building permit form rather than separate applications for each, which is a simpler arrangement than most townships use. The form is published as a scanned document and we have not read its contents, so we cannot tell you what it asks for — but a combined form generally means one conversation rather than two.
The office keeps a four-day week: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with a half-hour closure over lunch. Note that the closed day is Thursday, not Friday, which is the more common arrangement and an easy assumption to get wrong when you are working to a contingency deadline.
Roads here are the county road commission’s responsibility rather than the township’s, and the township links to the commission’s current project list — worth a look if you are buying on a road scheduled for work.
A buyer’s inspection is not a permit search and does not assess zoning compliance. What it does is tell you what was actually done to a property and what condition it is in, so the questions you take to the township are specific ones. We deliver a full written report with photographs, generally the same day, while you still have room to act on what it says.
Drainage
On a township where most houses are fifty or sixty years old, most of what we report on the outside comes down to where water goes once it leaves the roof.
We record where the downspouts terminate and whether they carry water clear of the walls or drop it at the foundation, where any sump pump discharges and whether it has a backup arrangement, and how the ground falls away from the building. On a house of this age all three have usually been altered at least once by somebody thinking about the garden rather than the basement.
On a rural lot the driveway and its drainage matter too. We look at the condition of the surface and at culverts or drainage crossings at the road where they are visible, because a blocked culvert backs water up onto the property rather than away from it.
Inside, we look for what water leaves behind: staining and tide lines on foundation walls, efflorescence and mineral deposits, replaced lower wall finishes, and corrosion at the base of mechanical equipment. Equipment raised up on blocks is usually a story about something that happened once, and it is always worth asking about.
Most of what we find on the drainage side is straightforward to put right and cheap relative to what it prevents. It is the difference between a dry basement and a recurring problem, and far better known before you own the house than after.
The buried line
Whatever a property here drains to, the line running out from the building belongs to the owner, and no visual inspection reaches inside it.
On a 1970s house that pipe has been in the ground half a century, under a lot whose trees have had exactly that long to mature. On one of the 152 houses predating 1940, considerably longer. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Taymouth Township 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 a septic property it documents the building drain out to the tank — the owner’s pipe, and the part a septic evaluation does not examine.
That gap matters on rural property. A septic evaluation looks at the tank and the field; the run between the house and the tank is nobody’s job by default, and on a wooded lot with fifty-year-old trees it is exactly where roots go.
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 Taymouth Township.
Local information from Taymouth Township — burning permit rules and prohibited materials · Taymouth Township — forms, permits and ordinance documents · Taymouth Township — helpful links and emergency contacts · Taymouth Township — water quality report. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Taymouth 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
A shout out to Noah for the inspection of our new house. He was very professional and thorough. He is also accessible after the fact — I have called him twice for clarification on our roofing issue and he has been so friendly and answered all of my questions.
Susan LawhonBridgeport, MII 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, MIWhat happens
Questions
No. The burn permit covers tree limbs, brush, stumps, evergreen needles, leaves and grass during daylight hours. Demolition debris and construction materials are specifically excluded, along with automotive parts and trash containing plastic, rubber, foam, treated wood, textiles, electronics or chemicals.
Those are chemically treated wood, which the township excludes. They are the most common thing people assume can go on a rural brush fire, and precisely what the rule rules out. Budget disposal into any project.
They are free and may be renewed after fourteen days. Fires must be attended at all times, you are responsible for the fire, smoke, odors and any resulting damage, and the fire department can extinguish an unsafe fire.
From the township office. It is not published online — the township states you may pick up a copy there. On any property served by a public supply, it is worth collecting.
Ask, and get it in writing. The township runs its own water service and directs water emergencies to its own office, but it does not publish the extent of that service, and it publishes nothing at all about sewer or septic.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, with a half-hour closure over lunch. Note the closed day is Thursday rather than Friday, which is an easy assumption to get wrong when you are working to a contingency deadline.
The service panel and what "upgraded" actually means, then partial plumbing renewals and the material transitions at the joins, second or third roof coverings, and heating equipment two or three generations from the original — sometimes fitted into venting that has not kept pace.
Yes, and at 96% detached housing on rural land they are common and worth including rather than leaving to a later surprise. They often carry their own electrical supply and their own roof and structural questions.
More on cost, timing and what is included on the FAQ page.
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