Plumbing Inspection in Kansas City, MO

A middling turnover figure is the least informative kind, which is its own useful fact: it means you cannot infer much about any particular house from the town, and the report on the one in front of you is the only evidence that counts.

Source: US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates, table B25038 (tenure by year householder moved into unit), 2023 release. Universe: 259,214 occupied housing units, of which 147,026 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.

The water heater is covered in some detail by both standards — and InterNACHI is equally explicit that nobody is required to measure its capacity, temperature or adequacy, or to test the relief valve. It is looked at, not operated.

Source: InterNACHI Home Inspection Standards of Practice; ASHI Standard of Practice.

Both standards cover the interior drain, waste and vent system, and ASHI asks for the predominant material of the service, distribution and DWV pipes to be described. A report naming one material is describing the majority of the house, not every run in it.

What is actually covered — because silence in a report means one thing about a covered system and something completely different about an excluded one.

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.

The published standards settle most arguments: excluded, covered, and the separate instruction for everything past the building.

• Fairview 20% of owners moved in since 2018
• Lampe 24% of owners moved in since 2018
• Mount Vernon 26% of owners moved in since 2018
• Hollister 31% of owners moved in since 2018
• Morley 20% of owners moved in since 2018

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Checking a credential in Missouri

Missouri has no state plumbing board. Section 341.010 of the Revised Statutes requires a certificate for plumbers working in cities or towns of fifteen thousand or more inhabitants, and the chapter elsewhere recognizes licenses issued by any county or city operating under plumbing rules, so the office that issued one is a local office. Start here. Ask the contractor which municipality licenses them and confirm it with that office before work begins.