We help Ottawa buyers, sellers and new-home owners find local home inspectors, understand what an inspection costs and what it can and cannot tell them, and know where Ontario's rules stand before they book.
A home inspection comes with a deadline attached: an offer with a condition, a listing date, a builder's walk-through. Ontario.ca describes it as a visual inspection of a home's major elements and systems, and is just as clear about what it is not: not a pass or fail test, not a check against zoning or building codes, and not a warranty. These are the questions this site answers, with each rule taken from ontario.ca, Tarion, Health Canada or the law itself.
Some of the answers surprise people. Ontario passed a Home Inspection Act in 2017, but it has not been brought into force, so there is no provincial licence today, and inspectors are not required by law to carry insurance. A builder's Pre-Delivery Inspection is run by the builder, and you can bring or send anyone you choose. A valid radon test takes at least 91 days, according to Health Canada.
Ottawa House Inspection is a matching service, not a home inspection company. We do not inspect, test or report on any home and we do not employ inspectors. You tell us what you are buying, selling or taking possession of, and we send your request to local home inspectors listed in the Ottawa Construction Network directory. They reply to you by email. We do not screen or verify them, and we say so, which is why every page tells you what to check yourself.
Choose the kind of inspection and add what helps: the type of home, the address area, your condition deadline or possession date, and anything you want looked at closely. No phone number needed.
We send your request to local home inspectors in the Ottawa Construction Network directory. They contact you by email with their availability, their fee and what their inspection includes.
Ontario.ca suggests asking for a sample report, experience with your type of home, whether they choose to carry insurance, references and a written contract. Compare what each inspection includes, the report deadline and the total cost.
This site covers one kind of work. Your request goes to home inspectors listed in the directory's home inspection category: pre-purchase, pre-listing, condo and new-home inspections. Repairs, renovation and specialist testing are other trades' work.
A service page gives ontario.ca's fee range, or a range only where at least two independent published Ottawa-area inspector price pages agree, labelled and dated. Where too few are published, such as sewer camera scopes or thermal imaging, we say so instead of inventing one.
We explain what applies today: no provincial licence for home inspectors, insurance not required by law, the Consumer Protection Act's deemed warranty of reasonably acceptable quality and its 10% limit over an estimate, and Tarion's deadlines on a new home.
Our free knowledge base answers Ottawa home inspection questions: what an inspector looks at, what an inspection cannot tell you, inspection conditions and competing offers, condo and new-home inspections, radon and wiring flags, and what an inspection costs.
The inspections we match, with the published fee range where one exists:
A visual look at the major systems of a house you are about to buy; RECO calls it one of the most common conditions in an offer.
Ontario.ca: $350 to $600, and higher depending on the size and condition of the home (page updated July 2026).
An inspection a seller orders before listing, to learn the home's condition and, if they choose, share the report with buyers.
Ontario.ca: $350 to $600, and higher depending on the size and condition of the home (page updated July 2026).
An inspection of a condo unit you are buying; ontario.ca's list of what inspectors examine includes condo common areas.
About $350 to $470 plus HST for a condo apartment on published Ottawa-area inspector pages (2026); ontario.ca's general range is $350 to $600.
Help at a new home's Pre-Delivery Inspection or before a Tarion warranty form is due; the PDI itself is run by your builder.
About $450 to $600 for one PDI or one-year warranty visit on published Ottawa inspector pages (2025–26). Multi-visit packages: ask for a quote.
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