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11-Month Builder Warranty Inspection
The one most new-build owners miss. We document every defect while the repairs are still typically covered by your builder.
Buying, building, selling, or coming up on your first year — X-Ray covers the whole timeline. We're best known for the 11-month builder warranty window, because almost nobody catches it in time.
Wherever you are in the process, there's an inspection for it.
Under contract on a resale or new build.
SEE SERVICES →Pre-pour, pre-drywall, and final walk-through.
SEE SERVICES → Our specialtyMonth 11, while repairs are still typically covered.
WHY MONTH 11 →Find it before your buyer's inspector does.
SEE SERVICES →One superintendent runs several houses at once, every trade is paid by the unit and moves to the next job, and the final walk-through catches what's visible from eye level. Quality control isn't absent — it's spread thin. The result is predictable: a set of defects that show up in the same places, house after house, and almost none of them are visible to the person living there.
The problems that cost the most are the ones that get covered up. Once drywall goes on, nobody sees the framing, the wiring, or the plumbing again — including you. Catching it at each stage is cheaper than finding it later, and far cheaper than finding it after your warranty closes.
Every checkpoint from bare dirt to the end of your warranties — one inspector who knows your house's whole history.
Booked separately at 2,500 sq ft: $2,050
A new home comes with warranties that expire on a schedule — and builders aren't going to remind you. These are the two moments a single inspection pays for itself many times over.
How the 11-month inspection works →You move in. The builder's 1-year workmanship warranty starts ticking.
We inspect top to bottom and produce a defect list while the repairs are still typically covered. This is the window.
After this, those same repairs come out of your pocket.
A second inspection before extended structural coverage changes — your last builder-funded repair window.
From the day you go under contract to the month your structural warranty runs out — the inspections that protect what you paid for.
The one most new-build owners miss. We document every defect while the repairs are still typically covered by your builder.
Under contract? Know exactly what you're buying before the clock on your due-diligence period runs out.
Pre-pour foundation, pre-drywall, and final walk-through checks — catching problems while they're still cheap and easy to fix.
The 22–23 month checkpoint before your extended structural coverage shifts. A second shot at repairs on your builder's bill.
Selling? Surface the issues on your terms so they don't blow up the deal during the buyer's inspection.
We come back and verify the builder actually fixed what your report flagged — in writing.
$475 flat up to 2,500 sq ft — buyer's, 11-month builder warranty, and final / pre-closing all cost the same. The one rule: +$50 per additional 500 sq ft.
Georgia law requires your builder to give you a written warranty on any residential job over $2,500. It must state what's covered, state a duration, explain how to file a claim, and pass through manufacturer warranties on appliances and equipment.
In writing. Can't find yours? Ask your builder for a copy — it's required documentation, not a favor.
Commonly 12 months, but the duration comes from your warranty, not a universal rule. Read yours.
Your warranty spells out how to file. Following it exactly is what keeps a claim alive.
General information about Georgia law, not legal advice. Warranty coverage and duration vary by builder and by document — read yours. Cost ranges are 2026 national averages for illustration.
I grew up in the trades — tile, electrical, framing, commercial builds — and spent years in ASE-certified automotive diagnostics, where the diagnosis has to be right the first time. Houses are systems: I've helped build them, and now I read them — methodically, skeptically, all the way down.
HVAC, electrical, plumbing, structure — I trace how they interact, not just whether a box gets ticked.
Clear, photo-documented, and prioritized — written so the warranty department can't call it cosmetic.
I work the same fast-growing North Georgia subdivisions every week. I know the builders and the defects that repeat.
Tile, framing, residential electrical, commercial builds from houses to grocery stores. I know what good work looks like from the inside.
Most people aren't. Tell me where you are — under contract, mid-build, about to hit your first year, or getting ready to list — and I'll tell you which inspection actually fits, or whether you need one at all. No pressure, no obligation.
Ask me a question →Book your 11-month inspection while the builder still pays for the fixes. Serving Georgia's fastest-growing counties.