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Plumbing Inspection in Red Feather Lakes, CO
Owner-occupied homes in Red Feather Lakes change hands often: 38% of the people who own here moved in during 2018 or later. Where houses move, inspections happen, and so do the arguments about what the report found.
The one-paragraph answer
Inspection reports are common in Red Feather Lakes, where 38% of owners arrived in 2018 or later and houses change hands often. What is not common is reading the exclusions: both published standards of practice leave the buried sewer lateral outside the inspection.
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038.
When Red Feather Lakes moved in
Where houses move this often, inspections are a familiar part of the process and the risk shifts. It stops being whether one was done and becomes whether anyone understood what it was not required to cover.
| Owner households in Red Feather Lakes | Share of all owners |
|---|---|
| Moved in 2021 or later | 16% |
| Moved in 2018–2020 | 23% |
| Moved in 2010–2017 | 26% |
| Moved in before 2010 | 36% |
Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038 (tenure by year householder moved into unit), 2023 release. Universe: 496 occupied housing units, of which 489 are owner-occupied. This counts when the CURRENT occupant moved in, so it measures recent moves as a share of the housing stock — not a rate of sales per year.
What the inspection will not cover
Wells, pumps, pressure tanks, storage tanks and filters are excluded by both standards. On a property with its own supply, the equipment feeding the whole house sits outside the inspection carried out on it.
Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.
What it is required to cover
Sump pumps are in scope on both standards — InterNACHI for drainage pumps with an accessible float, ASHI for sewage ejectors and sump pumps. Accessible is the whole qualifier. A float nobody can reach is not a float anybody tested.
Worth ten minutes before you read your own report: everything the two standards require, in the order an inspector does it.
What to do about it
Ask a contractor what would have to be opened up to answer the question, rather than asking for a number. A quote given without that step is a guess with a figure attached to it.
Ten minutes of reading covers it: what nobody was required to look at, what they were, and the drain run that is a separate instruction altogether.
Other Colorado towns we route in
- Wheat Ridge 24% of owners moved in since 2018
- Laporte 18% of owners moved in since 2018
- Elizabeth 25% of owners moved in since 2018
- Edwards 21% of owners moved in since 2018
- Ault 31% of owners moved in since 2018
Checking a plumber in Colorado
Checking a credential in Colorado
Colorado licenses are issued by the Colorado State Plumbing Board, Division of Professions and Occupations, which publishes a public search you can use before work begins.
Inspection report in front of you?Read us the plumbing lines and nothing else — we do not want the document. We will route you to a contractor covering your area who can quote the items on it, and you are never charged by us. Any Red Feather Lakes job at all can be put through here.
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