[dennis in se pa]

Like in all professions 80% of home inspectors are not competent. However, the contracts do stipulate that they will not disassemble things to find problems, with the possible exception of the breaker box cover. I just had a similar situation. For all the bad stuff the guy found and we had corrected, he did not find everything. For $400 he was not going to spend 3 days there. we understood this.