Tyrone 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 Tyrone 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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$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 Tyrone Township and across Livingston 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 Tyrone 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 reportTyrone Township housing stock
Tyrone Township has roughly 4,533 housing units and about 85% 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 1970s: 934 homes, about 21% of everything standing today.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $341,600. 89% are owner-occupied, which is high even for this area. There are around 636 manufactured and mobile homes in Tyrone Township. Those are a different inspection — the questions are about the frame, the anchoring and the skirting rather than a basement.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Tyrone 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 Tyrone Township was built
81% of homes here run on utility gas, and 46 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 416 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
In much of Tyrone Township the sanitary sewer is not a pipe running downhill. It is a pump, on your property, with a control panel mounted on your house and an alarm that tells you when something is wrong.
The Township publishes two separate guides — one for gravity sewer districts and one for pressure sewer districts — because both exist here, and both are operated by the Livingston County Drain Commissioner rather than by the Township itself. Which one serves a particular property changes what you are responsible for, what can go wrong, and what you must not plant in the garden.
For a buyer that is the first question on any property here, and it is not one to answer from the street. Look for a control panel on the house and a riser in the yard. If they are there, this is a pressure system property, and there is equipment you are taking on.
The second question is water. The Township maintains a drinking water testing page pointing residents to the state laboratory and named local labs, which tells you plainly that private wells are normal here.
The housing is spread widely: of about 4,533 units, 934 date from the 1970s, 758 from the 1990s and 593 from the 1980s, with 1,153 built since 2000 and 235 predating 1940. Around 85% is single-family detached.
Before you buy
The alarm
The Township’s guide for pressure sewer districts gives the clearest description of a grinder pump alarm we have come across, and it is worth knowing before you own one rather than at two in the morning.
The alarm has two parts: a red light and a buzzer. The audio reset button sits on the underside or the front of the control panel mounted on the house, and pressing it silences the buzzer. The red light stays on until the water level in the pump system is back to normal depth — and if the light remains on, water use must be restricted or a backup could occur.
The instruction that matters most is the one people ignore: always notify maintenance personnel even if the alarm clears itself. An alarm that stops on its own is not a problem that solved itself; it is a problem that got far enough to trip a float and then receded.
The number is the Drain Commissioner’s, monitored 24 hours a day including weekends and holidays, and the Township is explicit that service requests must not be sent by email.
On an inspection we report the sewer equipment we can see: whether there is a control panel and where, whether the riser and its cover are accessible and in reasonable condition, and whether there is anything planted or built over the run. We do not open, dismantle or test the pump — that is the Drain Commissioner’s equipment and their maintenance — but whether it is accessible, and whether the household has been treating it properly, is visible and worth reporting.
Power, generators and gardens
The same guide carries three instructions with real financial consequences attached, and none of them is obvious.
The first is about generators. If you run one during a power outage, the Township tells you to check with a qualified electrician or consult the owner’s manual for proper use — and states that any costs arising from damage to the system equipment caused by the generator will be assessed to the property owner. A generator wired or connected badly can destroy a pump, and the bill comes to the house.
The second is about brownouts. The advice is to shut off most of your breakers during one, to avoid damage to the pump system and to appliances, leaving a single breaker on for a light so you know when power has been restored. That is unusually practical guidance from a municipality, and it points at something worth checking in any house you are buying: whether the electrical panel is accessible, legible and properly labeled, so that someone can actually do that in a hurry.
The third is about the garden, and it produces the best line in the document. Never plant shrubs or trees close to the pump system or over the discharge line. Flower pots and decorative statues are acceptable — as long as they can be moved by one person. And use a weed whip rather than a lawn mower near the riser, to avoid damaging it.
Movable by one person is a wonderfully concrete standard, and it is exactly the sort of thing an inspection can look at. A riser buried under a raised bed, a deck built over a discharge line, or a young tree planted three feet from the pump are all problems that will be somebody else’s to solve in ten years, and that somebody is whoever owns the house then.
What must never enter the system
Both the gravity and the pressure guides carry the same core prohibitions, and they are the ones an inspection can actually check.
Never connect troughs, storm drains, water softeners, sump pumps, or allow other surface water to enter the wastewater collection system. That is the big one, and it is a real defect rather than a housekeeping preference: surface water entering a sanitary system increases pumping costs and overburdens the works. Where a sump discharge or a softener drain disappears into something nobody can identify, that is worth resolving.
Never flush rags, wipes marketed as flushable, cigarettes, hygiene products, hair, eggshells or food scraps. The Township is blunt that products labeled flushable are not, and that they cause expensive repairs and pump failures. Never overuse a garbage disposal, and never put grease or oil down a drain.
And on digging: call MISS DIG at least 72 hours before any work on your property. Most municipalities in this project ask for 24 hours. Three days is a longer lead than people expect, and on a property with a pressure sewer line running across the yard it is worth respecting.
The gravity guide ends with a sentence worth carrying: sewer lines running from the house to the septic tank are the homeowner’s responsibility. That is the same principle this project finds everywhere — the buried run between the building and whatever it connects to belongs to the owner.
A buyer’s inspection covers the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and the accessible interior, and reports what we find, including where sump and appliance discharges appear to go.
Wells, and three Fentons
The Township’s drinking water testing page tells you what kind of place this is. The Township no longer keeps sample kits on hand; the state asks residents to order them directly, and samples go either to the state drinking water laboratory or to a laboratory of the owner’s choice, with fees applying. The Township names two local labs.
A municipality that maintains a page like that is a municipality where households test their own water, which means private wells. On a well property you are taking on the wellhead, the pressure tank, the pump and its electrical supply, all with their own service lives. We do not take water samples, we do not analyze them, and we do not evaluate septic systems — those are separate disciplines with their own credentials. What we report is the visible equipment and its condition.
The second thing to settle is which government you are actually dealing with, and here that is unusually tangled. Tyrone Township’s own offices carry a Fenton mailing address. So do properties in Fenton Township, and so does the City of Fenton. Three separate governments behind one postal name — and they differ on real things. The City has required a permit for roof and siding work since 2009; Fenton Township requires none at all. A permit search at the wrong one comes back empty for reasons that have nothing to do with the house.
Confirm the municipality first. It is the cheapest call you will make on a purchase, and on a Fenton address it is not optional.
One more term you will meet on a sewer bill here: an REU, or Residential Equivalency Unit, which the Township explains as the volume of water expected to be used by a single-family residence. Charges are set in those units rather than in gallons.
The buried line
Whether a property here runs to a gravity main, to a pressure system, or to a septic tank, the buried run from the building outward is the one component no visual inspection reaches.
On a 1970s house — the largest single slice of this township at 934 units — that pipe has been in the ground fifty years, with landscaping planted at construction now fully mature above it. On a 1990s house, thirty. On a house built since 2000, twenty-five or less, which people wrongly treat as too new to matter. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Tyrone Township laterals are generally made of.
On a septic property the tank and drainfield are a county health department question rather than ours — but the line from the house to the tank is the homeowner’s, as the Township’s own guide says, and that line is exactly what a camera looks at.
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 rather than booked separately. 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. Get in touch to talk through a particular property.
Local information from Tyrone Township — sewers, emergencies and rates · Livingston County Drain Commissioner — dos and don’ts for pressure sanitary sewer districts, published by Tyrone Township · Tyrone Township — drinking water testing. Municipal requirements change — verify current details with the municipality.
Radon in Livingston County
Zone 2 is the middle EPA category — the predicted average indoor level across the county sits between 2 and 4 pCi/L.
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 · Livingston County radon and inspection coverage
Zone from the EPA Map of Radon Zones.
Why choose us
Five reasons people here pick us as their Tyrone 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).
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Questions
Almost certainly a pressure sewer system — a pump on your property rather than a gravity connection. The Township publishes separate guides for gravity and pressure sewer districts because both exist here, and both are operated by the Livingston County Drain Commissioner. If there is a panel on the house and a riser in the yard, that is equipment you are taking on.
Yes. The Township is explicit: always notify maintenance personnel even if the alarm clears itself. The alarm has a red light and a buzzer; the reset button on the control panel silences the buzzer but the light stays on until the water level is back to normal, and if it remains on you should restrict water use or risk a backup. Calls to the Drain Commissioner’s office are monitored 24/7 — and the Township asks that service requests are not sent by email.
You can, but check first. The Township advises consulting a qualified electrician or the owner’s manual for proper use, and states that any costs arising from damage to the system equipment caused by the generator will be assessed to the property owner. It also recommends shutting off most of your breakers during a brownout, leaving one on for a light so you know when power returns.
Nothing with roots. The Township says never to plant shrubs or trees close to the pump system or over the discharge line, and that flower pots and decorative statues are acceptable only so long as one person can move them. It also asks people to use a weed whip rather than a lawn mower near the riser to avoid damaging it.
Troughs, storm drains, water softener discharge, sump pumps and other surface water must never be connected to the wastewater collection system. On the flushing side: no rags, no wipes marketed as flushable, no hygiene products, hair, eggshells or food scraps, no grease or oil, and no heavy use of a garbage disposal. And call MISS DIG at least 72 hours before digging — longer notice than most municipalities ask for.
It might be, and that is the problem. Tyrone Township’s own offices carry a Fenton mailing address, as do properties in Fenton Township and in the City of Fenton — three separate governments behind one postal name, with genuinely different rules. The City has required permits for roof and siding work since 2009; Fenton Township requires none. Confirm the municipality before relying on any permit search.
Quite possibly. The Township maintains a drinking water testing page directing residents to order sample kits from the state and send them to the state laboratory or a lab of their choice, which is what a township with private wells does. We do not take or analyze water samples and we do not evaluate septic systems — both are separate disciplines — but establishing what a property is connected to is the first question here.
Yes, whichever system serves the property. On a septic property the line from the house to the tank is the homeowner’s responsibility, as the Township’s own guide states, and that is exactly what a camera looks at. On a 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty years with mature landscaping over it. Putting a camera down the line documents roots, cracks, displaced joints, bellies or blockages where they exist, and is added to the same appointment.
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From the blog
November 23, 2017
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