Request a home inspection in Northeast Florida
Tell us the property and the inspection you need. William Knight inspects it himself and emails a detailed photo report, usually within 24 hours.
Tell us about the property
Address, inspection type, and your contract deadline if you have one. Two minutes.
We confirm the appointment
You get a call back to lock in the date and a firm price before anyone comes out. Say if you are working against an inspection contingency.
You get the report
A detailed PDF organised by system, with photographs of what was actually found. Usually within 24 hours, and often same day for insurance inspections.
Being straight with you
High Tide Inspections is the inspector, not a referral service. William Knight is InterNACHI certified, Florida licensed and insured, and performs every inspection himself — your details are not sold or passed to a network. The fastest route is still the phone: call 904-806-7679 and you will speak to him directly.
Request an inspection
Or call 904-806-7679 — Mon–Sat 8am–6pm.
What makes a good inspection request
The more specific you can be, the faster you get a firm price and a date. The price of an inspection is set mostly by the size and age of the house and by how many inspection types are in scope, so those are the details worth leading with.
Useful things to include: the full property address, approximate square footage, the year it was built if you know it, whether it is a single-family home or a condo, and whether it is on a slab or has a crawl space. If the house is vacant or between owners, say so — utilities need to be on for the plumbing, electrical and HVAC to be tested at all, and a house with the power off cannot be fully inspected.
Say what the inspection is for. A pre-purchase inspection under a contract deadline is scheduled differently from a pre-listing inspection with no clock on it. If your lender or insurance carrier has asked for a wind mitigation or 4-point report, mention that too — those can be done in the same visit as the full inspection, which is cheaper and quicker than booking them separately.
Finally, mention anything you already know about: a roof that has been patched, a past leak, a panel brand someone flagged, standing water at the foundation. It does not narrow the inspection, but it makes sure the known question gets answered clearly in the report rather than left as one line among many.
What happens next, realistically
You get a call back to confirm the appointment, usually the same business day. That call settles the date, the scope and the price before anyone drives to the property — there is no situation in which the number changes after the inspection. If you are working against an inspection contingency, say so on that call and the date gets prioritised accordingly. Same-week appointments are normally available across all six counties.
Expect the inspection itself to take longer than you might assume. A full inspection on an average single-family home runs two to three hours, longer on larger or older properties. William Knight does the work himself rather than sending a technician, and you are welcome to walk the property with him — most buyers find the walk-through more useful than the report, because you can ask about a finding while standing in front of it.
The report is a detailed PDF organised by system, with photographs of what was actually found, and it lands by email usually within 24 hours. Insurance inspections — wind mitigation and 4-point — are frequently same day, because those are standard forms your carrier or agent can act on immediately.
What the report will not do is price the repairs or tell you whether to buy the house. It describes condition and identifies what needs attention and how urgently. Where something falls outside the scope of a home inspection — a wood-destroying organism report, which is a separate Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services licence, or a structural engineer, mold testing, septic or well testing — the report says so and tells you what kind of professional to bring in.
A note on what happens to your details. What you submit goes to William Knight and is used to schedule and perform your inspection and to send you the report. It is not sold, and it is not passed to a contractor network, a lead aggregator or anyone else. Your report is released to your agent, lender, insurance agent or attorney only if you ask for it to be.
If the timing does not work or you decide not to go ahead, that is a perfectly reasonable outcome and nobody will chase you about it. The quickest way to get a straight answer at any point is to call 904-806-7679 — Mon–Sat 8am–6pm.