Inspection & Assessment
in Brentwood, BC

Brentwood is one of Burnaby's most actively developing neighbourhoods, with rapid densification around the Brentwood Town Centre SkyTrain station transforming what were single-family residential streets into a high-rise urban district. Beneath this transformation, however, there remains a significant inventory of older single-family homes on crawlspace foundations in the surrounding streets — homes that were built in the 1960s and 1970s and have not had major crawlspace work since original construction.

Most homeowners never see what is happening in their crawlspace. It is the part of the house that is easiest to ignore — until something goes wrong. A professional inspection gives you an accurate, documented picture of your crawlspace's current condition before small, addressable issues become large, expensive ones. Our inspections are not cursory walkthroughs; they are systematic evaluations of every component of the subfloor environment, conducted by technicians who know what to look for and can explain what they find.

Structural assessment is a particularly important component in older Lower Mainland housing stock. Homes built in the 1960s and 1970s often used dimensioned lumber that has since been regraded downward by modern standards, and original pier heights and spacings that were adequate for the original floor load may be marginal after decades of deflection. We look for center beams that have settled below their design elevation, posts sitting directly on soil (rather than on concrete footings), and joists that show signs of notching or damage from trades work over the years.