When I bought my first home, I bought new construction. I figured new meant no problems. I was wrong. What I didn’t know then cost me thousands of dollars down the road. I didn’t get a deficiency inspection. I didn’t understand what I was actually buying. And I paid for that ignorance long after the excitement of closing wore off.
That experience stuck with me. It’s part of why I take this work so seriously now.
Before I became a home inspector, I spent years doing real construction work across BC. I ran a concrete plant. I earned my red seal as a concrete cement mason. I did civil construction, grading, retaining wall work, and helped rebuild mountain slopes after floods and landslides. I spent six years in petroleum engineering in the oil and gas industry. I did electrical safety work and training for BC Hydro, which means I know the grid here and how residential electrical systems actually behave. Every job I’ve had gave me a piece of the puzzle that most inspectors are missing.
When I started my own business, I finally got to do things the way I always thought they should be done. No shortcuts. No rushing. No leaving clients confused about what they just paid for. I inspect every home myself, I deliver your written report the same day, and I walk you through every finding in person so you understand exactly what you’re looking at. If I don’t know something, I say so and I find out. That’s it.
I serve buyers across the Greater Vancouver area, from Hope to West Vancouver, including Vancouver, Abbotsford, Langley, Mission, Burnaby, Chilliwack, Maple Ridge, and Port Coquitlam. If you’re buying in this market, you deserve someone who knows what these homes actually deal with, and what it actually costs when something goes wrong. I’ve seen kitchen floors saturated to the point of near-collapse. I’ve helped buyers save over $100,000 on a nearly $2 million new build that looked fine from the outside. Those aren’t edge cases here. They’re what happens when no one looks carefully enough.
If you want to know exactly what you’re buying before you close, I’m here to help you figure that out.
Nickolas Pemble has been serving homebuyers across the Greater Vancouver area, from Hope to West Vancouver, with hands-on expertise built over decades in construction, civil engineering, petroleum engineering, and electrical safety work with BC Hydro.
He personally inspects every property, delivers the full written report the same day, and walks every client through their findings before they leave the house.
Outside of inspections, he works closely with his family, who help keep the business running, and stays connected to the communities he serves across the Fraser Valley and Lower Mainland.
