The most important factor in finding a knowledgeable home inspector is finding an inspector with extensive building industry experience. A complete understanding of how your home was built from the ground up is key to a proper inspection. This experience is used during a home inspection to help identify conventional or non-conventional building practices as well as potential hazards and defects in the home or on the property. This also produces a greater understanding of building materials and proper installation methods. Building industry experience not only helps to find defects and/or non-conventional building practices but understand why that defect has occurred in the first place.