Delmarva · Maryland & Delaware

The home inspector who used to be the code official.

Complete home and commercial inspections across Delmarva, from an inspector who spent twelve years deciding whether buildings passed. And when the property has a bulkhead, a lift or a dock, that gets inspected too, by someone with no repair work to sell you.

Jeff Pearce inspecting a roof vent with a flashlight

Why Jeff Pearce is not the usual home inspector

12 years a county code official

Howard County, Maryland, where he was brought in to build the HVAC inspection department from nothing. He spent twelve years as the inspector other inspectors answered to.

Maryland Master HVACR license

#12209. When he writes up a heating or cooling system, he is the licensed tradesman — not someone recommending you hire one.

ASHI Technical Review Committee

A national seat reviewing the standards of practice the rest of the profession is held to.

What we do

Complete inspection services

One inspector, one report, no subcontractors sent in your place. Residential and commercial.

Home inspections

Buyers, sellers and new construction. Structure, roof, systems and the things that turn into money later.

Commercial inspections

Retail, office and small commercial property, by an inspector who spent twelve years enforcing the code on buildings like them.

Pre-listing inspections

Find it before the buyer's inspector does, and price the house knowing what is in it.

Radon testing

NRSB-certified radon measurement, with results in time to act on them before settlement.

Mold sampling

Samples collected and sent to an independent laboratory. The lab reads the results, which is how it should be.

Thermal imaging

A professional Fluke thermal camera, not a phone attachment. Moisture getting in where it should not, missing insulation, and heat escaping around windows and rooflines, reported as findings.

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The specialty

On the water, the report comes from someone with nothing to sell you

Seawalls, bulkheads, boat lifts and floating docks are almost always assessed by the companies that repair them. Coastal Inspections doesn't build, repair or replace anything, which means the report is the condition of the structure, not the beginning of a quote.

What a waterfront inspection covers →
Concrete seawall cap slabs cracked and separated
The report

You get the report within 24 hours, and you get me on the phone after

Photographs, plain-English findings, and a clear separation between what needs attention now and what to keep an eye on. No 90-page template padded to look thorough.

Delivered online, next day
Photographs of everything noted
A phone call to walk you through it, included
Testing a kitchen outlet during an inspection
Service area

The Delmarva coast, both sides of the line

About an hour in any direction from Ocean City, covering Worcester and Wicomico counties in Maryland and Sussex County in Delaware.

Ocean CityBerlinSalisbury Ocean PinesSnow HillFenwick Island Bethany BeachRehoboth BeachLewes Dewey BeachMillsboroSelbyville
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Call and you get me, not a call center

Eight in the morning to eight at night, seven days a week. Tell me about the property and I will tell you straight what is involved.

410-794-6092 Coastal Inspections · Maryland & Delaware