11 Month Warranty Inspection
An 11 month warranty inspection is a ten-category inspection of a new home, timed so defects are documented before the builder one-year warranty closes.
An 11 month warranty inspection applies the standard OAR chapter 812 inspection to a house approaching the end of a builder one-year warranty. The timing is the point. Findings reach the builder as a written report before the warranty window closes.
Why the eleventh month
Builder warranties commonly run one year from closing, and the contract sets how defects must be reported. An inspection in month eleven leaves time to deliver a written report inside that window.
The report follows the same ten categories as a purchase inspection. The difference is the audience: findings go to the builder as warranty claims rather than to a seller as negotiation.
What a year reveals
A new house has now been through a heating season, and in most of Oregon a wet one. Settlement cracks, grading that drains toward the house and attic ventilation problems show up in that first year.
Oregon rule does not define a warranty inspection separately, so the deliverable is the ordinary division 8 report. Give the builder the report and the contract notice together. Photograph and date each item, because the warranty clock runs from closing.
Asked and answered
It is the last written record of ten system categories before a builder one-year warranty closes. The inspection follows the ordinary Oregon standard in OAR chapter 812 division 8, so the report reads like a purchase inspection. The value is in timing: defects documented in month eleven can still be claimed under the warranty contract terms.
Oregon rule sets no duration for any inspection, warranty or otherwise. It sets coverage: a written report on all ten categories in OAR chapter 812 division 8. Two to three hours is the industry figure for an average house. A year-old home is no quicker if the inspector reaches every category.
Questions are taken verbatim from live Google People Also Ask results for this inspection type. Answers rest on Oregon rule text and the records cited above.