Wixom, 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 Wixom 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 Wixom 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 Wixom 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 reportWixom housing stock
Wixom has roughly 8,329 housing units and about 39% 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: 2,337 homes, about 28% of everything standing today. It is also less detached-house territory than most of the area at 39%, so condominiums, duplexes and small multi-family buildings are a bigger share of what we inspect here — and those bring their own questions about what is yours to maintain and what belongs to the association.
The median owner-occupied home here is valued at $321,000. Only 48% of occupied homes are owner-occupied, so a good share of what we inspect here is bought as a rental or sold with tenants in place — which changes what access on the day looks like.
None of this says anything about the specific house you are buying. It is the shortlist a Wixom 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 Wixom was built
86% of homes here run on utility gas, and 20 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 53 use bottled or LP gas.
Local knowledge
Wixom has a separate permit application for replacing a furnace, another for replacing an air conditioner, and a third for replacing a water heater.
That sounds like bureaucracy and it is actually useful. Those three components are the ones most likely to have been changed on any house here, and because each has its own form, the City’s permit record should show when they were done. In a great many municipalities a furnace swap leaves no municipal trace at all — here it should.
For a buyer that is worth ten minutes before an offer. The age of the heating, cooling and hot water equipment is most of the short-term budget on a house from the 1970s or 1990s, which is when most of Wixom was built — 2,337 units in the 1970s and 2,119 in the 1990s, out of about 8,329.
One practical note before you plan anything: the building department here works a four-day week, Monday to Thursday.
Before you buy
The permit record as a mechanical history
Most cities require a mechanical permit and leave it at that. Wixom breaks the common residential replacements out into their own applications, and that changes what the record can tell you.
Among the filing requirements the City publishes are a residential replacement heating system and furnace permit application, a residential replacement cooling system and air conditioning permit application, and a replacement water heater application — alongside the general building, electrical, mechanical and plumbing permits, a backflow preventer test report, and sewer tap, tree and right-of-way permits.
On a house built in 1975 or 1995, the furnace, the condenser and the water heater are the three components most likely to have turned over already, and they are also the three whose age drives your first five years of spending. If the record shows a 2018 furnace and a 2009 water heater, that is a genuinely useful starting point.
It is a starting point rather than an answer. A permit on file does not establish that the equipment is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that a replacement was done badly — unpermitted work happens everywhere. That gap is what a buyer’s inspection fills: the roof, structure, foundation, drainage, electrical, heating and cooling, plumbing and accessible interior, with what is failing, what is near the end of its service life, and what to plan for.
The City also publishes handouts on finished basement requirements, roofing, decks, additions, accessory structures, pools and spas, fences and energy code compliance — and, unusually, one on home improvement scams.
One department, four days
Wixom runs an unusually consolidated operation, which is convenient right up until you need them on a Friday.
The Construction and Development Services Department is the full building department — reviewing plans and issuing building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, sewer, sign and other permits — and it also administers the Planning Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals, the Construction Board of Appeals, and property maintenance and code enforcement. One department covers everything from a deck permit to a rezoning.
Its published hours are Monday through Thursday, 7:15 in the morning to 5:30 in the evening. Planning staff offer review meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment. If your plan for a property depends on permits or inspections in the first weeks after closing, a four-day week is worth building into the schedule rather than discovering on a Friday morning.
The department also states that its role includes ensuring work on new construction, rehabilitation and demolition is carried out with materials and methods conforming to approved site plans and City codes — which is a compliance role rather than a condition one, and not a substitute for having somebody look at the building on your behalf.
Water and sewer
Wixom does something most cities do not: it contracts out the water utility, and it says so plainly.
On its public utility information page the City directs any service question about water and sewer service or billing to its water utilities provider, and tax questions to the City’s own Finance Department. Solid waste collection is charged through the property tax bill, with service questions going to Public Works.
For a new owner that is simply worth knowing in advance. A water problem is a call to the provider, not to City Hall, and working that out during an emergency is not the moment to find out.
On the property itself, what an inspection covers is how the building handles water: accessible grading and whether the ground falls away from the foundation, gutters and downspouts and where they discharge, foundation conditions, the basement or crawlspace, floor drains and any sump equipment, plus the accessible supply and drain plumbing inside — all recorded as found, with what could not be seen said plainly.
Attached housing and the buried line
Only about 39% of Wixom’s housing is single-family detached, which is one of the lower shares anywhere we work. So the first question on many properties here is which components are yours and which belong to the association — roof, siding, windows and sometimes the water heater or furnace flue can sit on either side of that line depending on the governing documents, and it decides who pays for what we find.
The second is the buried lateral running from the building to the sewer main, which nothing visual reaches. On a house from the 1970s that pipe has been in the ground fifty years or more, and even a 1995 house has thirty years of mature tree growth around it. We will not name a material from a build year, because no authoritative source establishes what Wixom laterals are generally made of. On attached housing there is an extra question worth settling first: whether the line serving your unit is yours or shared and association-maintained.
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 — and 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, which in a city with this much industrial and multifamily property comes up often, and radon testing or mold inspection and testing can be added to a residential or commercial visit.
Local information from City of Wixom — building applications and permits · City of Wixom — Construction and Development Services Department · City of Wixom — public utility 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 Wixom 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
In Wixom it should. The City publishes separate applications for a residential replacement heating system or furnace, a residential replacement cooling system or air conditioner, and a replacement water heater. Those are the three components most likely to have turned over on any house here, and each has its own form — which is not true in many municipalities, where a mechanical swap leaves no local trace at all.
No. A permit on file does not establish that equipment is in good condition today, and nothing on file does not establish that a replacement was done badly. What the record gives you is an approximate age and a starting point for questions. What an inspection gives you is the condition of what is actually installed and how much life is likely left in it.
Monday through Thursday, 7:15am to 5:30pm — a four-day week. Planning staff offer review meetings on Mondays and Wednesdays by appointment. If your plan for a property depends on permits or inspections soon after closing, build the shorter week into the schedule.
The City’s water utilities provider, not a City department. Wixom directs any service question about water and sewer service or billing to that provider, and tax questions to the City’s Finance Department. Solid waste collection is charged on the property tax bill, with service questions going to Public Works. Worth sorting out before you need it.
Concentrated in two decades. Of about 8,329 housing units, 2,337 were built in the 1970s and 2,119 in the 1990s, with 1,559 from the 1980s and 914 from the 2000s. Only around 39% is single-family detached — one of the lower shares anywhere we work — so a great deal of what sells here is attached housing.
The governing documents. With around six in ten units attached, this is the most common first question in Wixom — the roof, siding, windows and sometimes the water heater or furnace flue can fall to either the owner or the association depending on those documents, and that line decides who pays for what an inspection finds. It changes how you read the report rather than what is in it.
Nothing we could verify says so. Several cities in this region run point-of-sale or rental certificate programs, and we are not going to import one that does not exist here. Confirm the current position with the Construction and Development Services Department rather than relying on any web page, this one included.
It is worth considering. The buried lateral is the one component no visual inspection reaches, and on a 1970s house it has been in the ground fifty years or more — even a 1995 house has thirty years of mature tree growth around it. On attached housing, settle first whether the line serving your unit is yours or shared and association-maintained. We will 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.
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