Home Warranty Inspection Intervals

The Unseen & Your New Home Warranty

Beneath The Surface

Deal­ing with the New Home Warranty

Per­cep­tion is not what it always appears. What you see on the sur­face does not nec­es­sar­ily reflect what lays unseen beneath. Expe­ri­enced under­stand­ing and knowl­edge does.

Now that you have lived in your newly con­structed home for 30 days or more, you need to have your home inspected by Reliance Home Inspec­tion Ser­vices in order to sub­mit any defects or defi­cien­cies to the New Home War­ranty Program.

RELIANCE New Home War­ranty Inspec­tion and You

One Year Warranty

Your home’s statu­tory one year war­ranty cov­er­age begins on the date you take pos­ses­sion of the home and ends on the day before the first anniver­sary of this date.

Inspec­tion Details

• Con­structed in a work­man­like man­ner and free from defects in material;
• Fit for habitation;
• Con­structed in accor­dance with the Ontario Build­ing Code; and
• Free of major struc­tural defects.

Two Year Warranty

Your home’s two year statu­tory war­ranty cov­er­age begins on the date you take pos­ses­sion of the home and ends on the day before the sec­ond anniver­sary of this date.

Inspec­tion Details

The two year war­ranty is pro­vided by your builder and covers:

• Water pen­e­tra­tion through the base­ment or foun­da­tion walls;
• Defects in mate­ri­als, includ­ing win­dows, doors and caulk­ing, or defects in work that result in water pen­e­tra­tion into the build­ing envelope;
• Defects in work or mate­ri­als in the elec­tri­cal, plumb­ing and heat­ing deliv­ery and dis­tri­b­u­tion systems;
• Defects in work or mate­ri­als which result in the detach­ment, dis­place­ment or dete­ri­o­ra­tion of exte­rior cladding (such as brick­work, alu­minum or vinyl siding);
• Vio­la­tions of the Ontario Build­ing Code affect­ing health and safety (includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, vio­la­tions relat­ing to fire safety and the struc­tural ade­quacy of the home); and
• Major struc­tural defects.

Seven Year Warranty

Your home’s seven year war­ranty cov­ers major struc­tural defects (MSD) and begins on the date you take pos­ses­sion of the home and ends on the day before the sev­enth anniver­sary of that date.

Inspec­tion Details

A major struc­tural defect is defined in the The Ontario New Home War­ranties Plan Act as:

• Any defect in work or mate­ri­als that results in the fail­ure of a load-bearing part of the home’s struc­ture or mate­ri­ally and adversely affects its load-bearing func­tion; or
• Any defect in work or mate­ri­als that mate­ri­ally and adversely affects the use of the build­ing as a home.
• The seven year MSD war­ranty includes sig­nif­i­cant dam­age due to soil move­ment*, major cracks in base­ment walls, col­lapse or seri­ous dis­tor­tion of joints or roof struc­ture and chem­i­cal fail­ure of materials.
• In addi­tion to the gen­eral exclu­sions, the seven year MSD war­ranty specif­i­cally excludes: damp­ness not aris­ing from fail­ure of a load-bearing por­tion of the build­ing; dam­age to drains or ser­vices; and dam­age to finishes.

RELIANCE DEFICIENCY LIST

The RELIANCE DEFICIENCY LIST can then be used to accu­rately fill out the home builder war­ranty forms.

Your New Home War­ranty Inspection

Call us today to book your New Home War­ranty Inspec­tion for the inter­vals of your war­ranty period; One Year, Two Year, and Seven Year, before the anniver­sary date of each time stamp.

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