The size of the news client on February 7 (photo report by YMG all-media reporter Liu Hailing) For ordinary citizens, buying a house is a big deal, and some families even have to give everything. In recent years, there have been more and more hardcover rooms in Yantai, but many quality problems have been covered up by gorgeous decoration. After the citizens signed in, they found that they had stepped on many "pits". The citizens’ demand for professional house inspection is more and more urgent, which gives birth to a new profession of professional home inspector. Home inspector, like a "house doctor", shuttles between high-rise buildings, looking for hidden dangers of house quality for the owners, so as to ask the developers for rectification as soon as possible.
One suite picked out 85 "faults"
On the morning of February 6th, the reporter followed Guo Weizhong, home inspector of Yantai Branch of China House Inspection, to a newly delivered residential district in lai shan for house inspection. The employer is a newly married couple. This is the first suite they bought with a loan. It is hardcover and covers an area of 118 square meters. With no experience in house inspection, they found Guo Weizhong as a "physical examination" for their new house under the recommendation of their friends.
Guo Weizhong is doing a "physical examination" for the house.
After the meeting, Guo Weizhong first told the employer that he should check the information provided by the developer, such as Housing Quality Guarantee, Housing User Manual and Completion Acceptance Record Form, and the young couple took notes carefully.
After entering the new house, Guo Weizhong opened the house inspection toolbox he carried with him, which contained more than 30 kinds of tools. He took out the empty drum hammer and knocked it on the floor tiles, wall tiles, walls and other places. When he found the empty drum, he took out a post-it note and wrote down the problems found, and posted it on it for marking. The levelness and verticality of the wall are measured by a two-meter ruler, and the wiring of the power socket is detected by a multifunctional power detector. Check whether the equipotential bonding terminal box in the bathroom is normal. Guo Weizhong said that when bathing, the human skin is wet, and the impedance drops. A small voltage conducted along the metal pipe can cause electric shock casualties. If the equipotential bonding in the bathroom is normal, it can make the bathroom at the same potential to prevent dangerous contact voltage … Two and a half hours have passed, Guo Weizhong is interested in the floor, wall, ceiling, doors and windows, electricity and lamps, water supply and drainage and sanitary ware of the house.
Later, Guo Weizhong issued a Record Report of On-the-spot House Inspection for the owner, which recorded 85 large and small quality problems: 6 hollowed kitchen wall tiles, 14 hollowed gongwei wall tiles, 8 hollowed gongwei wall tiles, the outer door cover of the entrance door was not glued, there were many scratches on the glass without 3C logo, the air conditioner in the second bedroom did not respond, the heating water collector was not under pressure, the door on the upper side of the shoe cabinet was misaligned, and the gongwei washed.
The young couple, the employer who got the inspection report, were surprised. "It seems that the house is well decorated. I didn’t expect to hide so many problems. We really couldn’t find them ourselves. After the house is closed, some quality problems may lead to safety problems. It will cost a lot of money to repair it yourself, and it is even more difficult to protect the rights of developers. It seems that professional things should still be handled by professional people. This time, home inspector is right. "
Home inspector guards citizens’ dream of living in peace.
Song Ge, the person in charge of housing inspection in Yantai, has worked hard in the field of housing inspection for more than 8 years. He studied architecture during his college years, and after graduation, he worked in home inspector in Nanjing from 2014 to 2021. In recent years, the house inspection industry in Yantai has gradually emerged, and Song Ge intends to go back to his hometown for development. In March 2022, he established a house inspection in Zhifu District. The company currently has 6 home inspector employees, who hold the national second-class construction engineer certificate.
Song Ge told reporters that although the volume of housing transactions has decreased in recent years due to the epidemic, the proportion of hardcover housing is increasing, and the demand for housing inspection is increasing. A home inspector can inspect three suites a day and receive about a thousand sets of orders a year. Among them, finely decorated houses account for 70%, rough houses account for 20%, and villas account for 10%.
How much does it cost to check out a suite? Presumably, this is the concern of many citizens. The reporter learned that there is no uniform standard for housing inspection fees in Yantai at present. Generally, the housing inspection fee for hardcover houses is in 1.5 yuan -3 yuan/square meter, and the higher fee is 100 square meters of 1000 yuan. It is not difficult to see that home inspector’s income is super white-collar.
As a home inspector, there are joys and sorrows. In an interview with reporters, Song Ge said that home inspector’s joy lies in guarding the people’s dream of living in peace, and solving many troubles on the house for the people from the source, but its worry is that it has become a "thorn in the side" of the developers.
In May last year, a batch of hardcover houses were delivered in a residential area in the Development Zone. Many home inspector who lived and inspected the houses inspected the houses for the owners in the residential area, and found many quality problems. Therefore, the developers made great efforts to rectify them. When the second batch of hardcover houses were delivered in July, home inspector residents found that the quality of the houses had been significantly improved. There is no denying that home inspector played an important supervisory role in it. This is the surprise that home inspector experienced! In that community, home inspector has inspected more than 100 houses back and forth, and the income is also considerable.
In the developer’s view, home inspector is here to "pick holes", so he always tries every means to prevent home inspector from entering the community. Helpless, home inspector did not dare to wear overalls when passing through the gate, and only put them on after entering the room. Even, some home inspector will be threatened by developers.
Yantai housing inspection industry has broad prospects.
China House Inspection, headquartered in Shenzhen, is the first third-party professional house inspection company in China. Its founder, Wang Qinghong, told reporters that the domestic house inspection industry was developed when Hong Kong people bought houses in Shenzhen in 2005, and it has blossomed everywhere in Beijing, Nanjing, Wuhan, Changsha and other big cities since 2010. The housing inspection industry in Yantai started in 2019, and China entered Yantai in August 2022. On the one hand, it is optimistic about the housing inspection market in Yantai, and on the other hand, the relevant policies issued by the state and Shandong Province are very conducive to the development of the housing inspection industry.
There are five or six professional housing inspection companies in Yantai, with only 30 to 40 employees. Looking at the real estate market in Yantai, people’s awareness of asking a third party for testing when buying a house or after renovation has gradually increased, and home inspector has become hot.
In August, 2022, Shandong fully implemented the system of "accepting the house after the prior house" in the newly-built commercial housing in the province, so as to let the owners fully understand and inspect the house quality in advance, safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of buyers, solve the quality problems in advance and resolve conflicts and disputes. The implementation of this system has created favorable conditions for home inspector’s intervention.
In September, 2022, the newly revised People’s Republic of China (PRC) Occupational Classification Ceremony (2022 Edition) added 158 new occupations, among which "home inspector" was formally included in the ceremony as one of the new occupations, which was the only new occupation in the real estate field in the revision of the ceremony. "The inclusion of the professional ceremony has increased the social recognition of home inspector’s profession, and home inspector’s employment is more emboldened." Wang Qinghong said.
Editor in charge: Liu Lin
Revision: Weiye