Home Inspection in Mississauga

Ask the seller for the permits and final inspections, then ask the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department for the permit history at the address. Yard work has its own rule here: Mississauga’s Lot Grading and Municipal Services Protection By-law governs grade changes, and residential grading plans are reviewed before the building permit is issued. So where the house has a pool, a regraded yard or a retaining wall, we check what approval that work needed and whether it is on file. Signs of unpermitted work inside the house go in the report, with what legalizing it would involve.

Yes. A Mississauga house near a ravine, a watercourse or a floodplain can fall inside Credit Valley Conservation (CVC) regulation, which limits what a later owner can build there. We check the CVC mapping for the address as part of a pre-purchase inspection, so an addition or a garden suite you have in mind is weighed against it before you waive conditions.

Yes. We take on home inspection across Mississauga, including Port Credit and Streetsville, within an hour of our Richmond Hill office. The first consultation is free, by phone or on site.

Three things to start: property address and the date you need the report by; the listing, and any drawings or disclosures you have; and what you are planning to do with the house. Send those and we tell you what the City of Mississauga Planning and Building Department will ask for before we quote.

Yes. Where an older Mississauga house was torn down and replaced, the new one can still be inside Tarion’s warranty, which covers problems such as water penetration and major structural defects. Ontario notes that a home built on existing footings or foundations may not be covered, so we find out from the permit record at the Planning and Building Department what the rebuild kept. The report then separates warranty items from the ones you would fix yourself.

We find out during the inspection. A Mississauga lot takes no more than two additional units, so we count what the house already holds, ask the Planning and Building Department for the permit record and look at the fire separation, exits and smoke alarms between the units. If it falls short, we list the changes it needs and the permit application that would go into ePlans to cover them.

That those are Mississauga’s three heritage conservation districts under Part V of the Ontario Heritage Act, so a later addition, porch or new front inside one is weighed against the district’s rules as well as By-law 0225-2007. The neighbourhood name alone does not settle whether a house is inside, so we check the address against the district map during the inspection and tell you what it means for your plans.

Yes, from the survey and the zoning. For an addition we read the setbacks, height and coverage under By-law 0225-2007, and for a garden suite we check the city’s limit of one per lot alongside the units already in the house. You get the answer while your conditions are still open.

Inspectors from the Planning and Building Department visit at the stages an issued permit calls for, to check the construction against that permit and the Building Code; they do not inspect a house for a sale. Ours is for the buyer or the owner. In a 1960s to 1990s Mississauga house or an older one in a village core, our P.Eng looks at the structure, the mechanical systems and every change since it was built, permitted or not, and writes it up in a report you keep.

Yes. Our P.Eng checks which walls carry load, how much room the panel and furnace have for a second unit, and whether earlier work shows up in the permit record at the Planning and Building Department. If you go ahead, the measurements carry straight into the permit set we file through ePlans, so the house is not measured twice.