11-Month Warranty InspectionThe builder's warranty has a deadline. Beat it.
Around its first birthday, your new home's workmanship warranty expires — and every defect not yet claimed quietly transfers from the builder's ledger to yours. One inspection in month eleven keeps the list on the right side.
- Full inspection report — within 24 hours, photo-documented
- Warranty-claim summary — itemized for builder submission
- Dated evidence — every finding photographed in-window
- Submission support — questions answered through your claim
Beat the deadline, in four steps.
Book month 10–11
Time to inspect, compile, and submit before expiry.
Full inspection
Every system — weighted toward first-year settlement issues.
Claim summary
Findings itemized with photos, formatted for your builder.
Submit in-window
Documented defects become the builder's repair list.
Month 11 is the deadline that matters. Schedule now.
Everything a first year can loosen, leak, or settle.
A complete Standards-of-Practice inspection, weighted toward the defects that surface in a new home's first year.
Settlement & structure
Slab and stem-wall cracking, drywall and stucco cracks, racked doors and windows — separated into normal curing versus items the builder should open up.
Roof & attic
Flashing and penetration seals after a year of storms, plus the attic insulation depth and ductwork connections production schedules get wrong.
Plumbing & moisture
Supply connections, drain performance, and moisture readings at the wet walls, windows, and penetrations where first-year leaks hide.
Electrical & HVAC
Panel workmanship, device operation, and cooling performance measured — the punch-list trades, verified under load.
Exterior & drainage
Grading, stucco terminations, and drainage now that the lot has been through a rainy season — the most commonly claimed first-year category.
Warranty claim package
Findings itemized by location with photographs, formatted so your builder submission is specific, documented, and dated inside the window.
The document that turns findings into obligations.
The deliverable is a full photo-documented inspection report with a warranty-claim summary: each relevant finding itemized with its location, photograph, and description, ready to attach to your builder's warranty submission before the deadline.
Builders honor documentation. A dated report from a licensed third party is the difference between “we'll take a look” and a scheduled repair.
Every 11-month inspection
- Full inspection report — within 24 hours, photo-documented
- Warranty-claim summary — itemized for builder submission
- Dated evidence — every finding photographed in-window
- Submission support — questions answered through your claim
- Full-scope report — SOP inspection, photo-documented
- Claim summary — formatted for your builder
- In-window timing — documented before expiry
- Dated photo evidence — for every finding
Brian Walker, CMI™
Every Lunar inspection is performed and signed by Brian Walker — an InterNACHI Certified Master Inspector and My Safe Florida Home participating inspector whose background includes contracted housing inspections supporting U.S. Army housing programs, with 20+ years of building, remodeling, and field experience behind the credential.
One inspector, one standard: contractor-grade evaluation, insurer-grade documentation, and a direct line to the person who actually walked your property.
Lunar Home & Commercial Inspections
Warranty-window questions, answered.
The builder's. Most Florida production builders provide a one-year workmanship warranty on a new home. Lunar provides the independent inspection and documentation that lets you use it — we are not the warranty provider and don't perform repairs.
Because claims must be submitted before the warranty expires, and builders need written notice. Inspecting around month 11 leaves time to compile the report, submit the claim list, and get repairs scheduled while the obligation is still the builder's.
The full home, to Florida's home-inspection Standards of Practice (§468.8311, Florida Statutes) — structure, roof, attic, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, interior, and appliances — with special attention to first-year settlement and workmanship issues: drywall cracking, stucco, grading, door alignment, HVAC performance, and moisture at penetrations.
The photo-documented report, organized so warranty-relevant findings are itemized with locations and photographs. Builders respond to specific, documented claims; vague punch lists get vague responses.
A house can seem fine while a slow supply-line leak, an under-insulated attic bay, or a flashing gap works quietly. The inspection typically costs a small fraction of a single drywall-and-paint repair — and after month 12, every latent defect it would have caught becomes yours.
The standard behind every visit.
Certified Master Inspector
The profession's highest credential. Reports signed by a CMI carry weight with agents, lenders, and insurance carriers.
Federal-contract discipline
Brian performed contracted housing inspections supporting U.S. Army housing programs. Your property gets the same checklist rigor — nothing skipped, everything documented.
24-hour reports
Photo-documented digital reports, most delivered within 24 hours, so inspection contingencies and carrier deadlines stay on track.
Technology on every visit
Thermal imaging and instrument diagnostics deployed whenever conditions call for them — documented in the same report.
Northeast Florida native
Coastal wind exposure, mid-century Jacksonville wiring, St. Johns new builds — we inspect what this region actually has.
Support after the report
Complimentary repair re-inspection verification and plain-English answers — the report is the start of the relationship, not the end.