Plus Ultra Home Inspections

Plus Ultra Home Inspections Veteran Owned Small Business

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09/03/2026

We checked every window in this house. Every single one had something. 👇

🔴 A sill coming apart under a probe
🔴 Finish peeling off the frame — that is our inspector calling it on camera
🔴 Sashes that needed working
🔴 Wood already rotting underneath

Here is the part buyers miss. One bad window is a repair you negotiate. A house full of them is a number that changes what the home is worth to you.

And peeling finish is not cosmetic. Paint and varnish are the only thing standing between weather and bare wood. Once that lets go, water gets behind it, and rot starts somewhere you cannot see until somebody puts a blade in it.

If you are walking a house this weekend, open a window. Then open another one. If they all feel the same way, that is your answer.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We will tell you what the whole house is doing, not just the one room you noticed.

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08/31/2026

Sound on for this one — that is our inspector. ⚡

"GFCI?" ... "No it's not."

Five electrical findings from one inspection:

🔴 Exterior outlet with no GFCI protection
🔴 The next exterior outlet, same result
🔴 An exhaust fan that does not work
🔴 Every remaining receptacle in the house tested
🔴 Including the basement

Let me explain why the first two are the ones that matter.

A GFCI is not a convenience device. It monitors the current going out against the current coming back, and when those stop matching — because some of it found another path, like through a person — it cuts power in a fraction of a second. That is the entire purpose.

Exterior receptacles are where that scenario actually happens. Rain. A hose. Wet hands. Standing on wet ground with no shoes. It is the highest-risk location for a receptacle in the entire house, and it is the one people are least likely to check.

They are also one of the cheaper corrections on a typical inspection report. Which is what makes finding them worth the trouble.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We test every outlet in the house. Not a sample.

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08/27/2026

Basements do not stage. 👇

Four findings from one:

🔴 Paint releasing from the wall
🔴 A floor drain completely clogged
🔴 A support post almost completely unattached
🔴 Outside at grade, a pipe that swings free of the wall

Everything upstairs in a house can be presented. Fresh paint, staged furniture, good lighting. The basement is where you find out what has actually been going on.

The floor drain is the finding I would push hardest on. It is the designed emergency path for water — a water heater that lets go, a supply line that bursts, groundwater after a hard rain. And here is the problem with a clogged one: it looks exactly like a working one. There is no symptom, no warning, no difference at all — right up until the day there is water on the floor and it has nowhere to go.

The support post matters for a different reason. Fasteners at the top and bottom are what keep a post doing its job under lateral movement. A post that is only standing there is not doing everything it was installed to do.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We go all the way down. On our knees, with a light.

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08/25/2026

St. Clair County agents — a quick word about the inspector you refer. 👇

Every home inspection clip that spreads on social media is a disaster clip. Sewer roots, foundation cracks, mold. We post those too, because they are real.

But here is what that does to your business: it teaches buyers that inspection day is when the deal dies. So they walk in braced for bad news, and the whole thing feels adversarial before anybody opens a panel.

This video is the other outcome, and it is a common one.

✅ Attic with clean framing, even insulation, and easy access
✅ Range hood tested and working
✅ Paper laid under the drains, checked, and dry

A good inspector is not looking for a reason to torpedo your closing. A good inspector documents what is actually there. When a house is in good shape, that belongs in the report just as clearly as a defect does — because that is what gives your buyer the confidence to sign.

The referral you make says something about you. Send them to someone thorough enough to be believed when the news is good.

Serving Belleville, O'Fallon, Shiloh, Swansea, Fairview Heights, Mascoutah, Freeburg, Millstadt, Lebanon, and across St. Clair County.

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08/20/2026

A day of inspections, four findings, and not one of them visible from the ground. 👇

🔴 The snow guards on a metal roof have all detached. Our inspector is holding one in the first shot — and look at the panels behind it. Those rectangular marks are the adhesive footprints where the rest of them used to be.
🔴 They ended up in the gutter, which was already packed with leaf debris
🔴 At another property, a gutter cover that lifts off the run with one hand
🔴 A board under an exterior door, completely unattached

The snow guard one matters more than it looks. On a metal roof, snow does not melt off gradually the way it does on shingle — it releases in sheets, all at once. Snow guards are what break that up. When they are gone, whatever is under that roofline is what stops the snow. A walkway. A deck. A vehicle. Somebody's shoulders.

And a gutter already full of debris cannot handle the water that comes off a metal roof, which sheds faster than any other roofing material.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We get on the roof, on the ladder, and on our knees — and we tell you what we find.

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08/18/2026

Sound on for this one — that is our inspector. 🔊

Four findings from a single walkthrough:

🔴 A tub spout that rotates a full circle in your hand
🔴 Tree limbs sitting directly over the roof
🔴 A tree big enough that the whole roof lives in its shade
🔴 A pipe under the sink, still dripping

Here is why each one matters more than it looks:

A tub spout is supposed to be fixed in place. When it spins, whatever it is threaded onto behind that wall is taking the twist — and everything that happens after that happens inside a wall cavity where nobody sees it until the drywall tells you.

Limbs that close to a roof scrub shingles every time the wind moves, fill gutters year round, and hand squirrels a bridge to your attic.

And a drip you can actually watch form is a drip that has been running long enough to leave staining behind it.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We will show you what is actually going on — while you still have room to negotiate.

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08/13/2026

Five findings from one inspection — and not one of them shows up on a walkthrough. 👇

🔴 An H-clip between the roof sheathing panels pushed up through the shingle above it. Found by hand, walking the roof.
🔴 A gap running the full height of an exterior door
🔴 A pipe loose where it penetrates the wall, with nothing sealing around it
🔴 A toilet that rocks under your foot — which points straight at the wax seal underneath it
🔴 Thermal imaging across the ceilings, looking for what the eye cannot catch

Here is the thing about all five: a buyer standing in that house sees clean floors and a nice kitchen. Every one of these was found by someone on the roof, on the ground, and on his knees.

A rocking toilet is not cosmetic. A wax seal that is not sealing means waste getting past it, into the subfloor, quietly, for as long as it takes someone to notice.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We will tell you exactly what you are walking into — while you still have the leverage to do something about it.

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08/11/2026

The listing said move-in ready. The crawlspace said otherwise. 👇

Here's what this inspection turned up:

🔴 A horizontal crack running through the foundation block wall
🔴 A supply duct completely separated from the air register — laying in the crawlspace dirt, heating and cooling nothing but the ground
🔴 The previous "repair" — a can of expanding spray foam
🔴 A sewer line with root intrusion running all the way through

Not one of these is visible on a walkthrough. Not one of them is cheap to fix after closing.

If you're under contract right now, two things: make sure your inspector actually gets into the crawlspace, and add a sewer scope. Roots don't announce themselves until the line backs up into your basement.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We'll tell you exactly what you're walking into — before you own it.

Plus Ultra Home Inspections. Book yours today.

08/06/2026

The buyer on this one asked if the inspection was really necessary.

I put a putty knife into the window sill and the wood came out in my hand. That is dry rot, and it does not happen overnight — water had been getting in behind that sill for years.

It kept going from there. Corner trim pulled right off the garage. An exterior vent cover that was not fastened to anything, just sitting in the opening. And when we scoped the main sewer line, tree roots were growing straight through the pipe between 16 and 28 feet out.

Not one of those things is visible on a showing. You walk through, the place looks clean, and you have no idea what is behind the trim or under the yard.

That is the whole job. We find it before it is your problem.

Plus Ultra Home Inspections. Book yours today.

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