Professional Home Inspection Services

Ray has always had a passion for buildings, engineering and design. Sparked by working summers with his father in the heating and air-conditioning business, Ray enrolled and graduated from the Mohawk College (Hamilton, Ontario) Architectural Technology program.  Since 1989 Ray has been working with the world’s largest engineering company (AECOM) on a wide variety of multi-discipline projects throughout Ontario.

Having owned 4 homes and renovating various parts of each, Ray has dealt with many home components and knows the stress of purchasing the right one. In conjunction with his previous experiences, Ray recognized the potential to begin a new career that would allow him to bring these experiences and his desire to help people choose the right home together. Ray enrolled and completed an extensive home inspection course through Carson Dunlop Inc. in  2012. Currently, Ray is looking forward to helping northerners choose a home that is right for them.

Carson Dunlop

Carson Dunlop is a firm that has been dedicated to home inspection since it was founded in 1978. Starting from a time when home inspection was an unknown quantity in Canada, to become Canada’s oldest and largest independent home inspection company, and has been active in the home inspection community since its inception. Carson Dunlop were founding members of the Canadian Association of Home Inspectors in 1982. This organization has evolved to become the Canadian Association of Home and Property Inspectors (CAHPI). We have also been active in the US home inspection community, and Alan Carson was the President of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) in 1994.

AECOM

A senior technologist and CAD lead with the Water division in the Sudbury office, Ray is responsible for work on small and large assignments including drafting, design services, setting up projects, co-ordination on drawing submissions and peer review.  He has been instrumental in conceptual design, detailed design, and field inspection of many projects, ensuring an efficient transition between each phase of a project.

Training and certificates in:  Field Safety; safety orientation; traffic protection awareness; hearing protection and general excavation safety training.

Mohawk College

Mohawk's Architectural Technology Advanced Diploma program is affiliated with the Ontario Association of Certified Engineering Technicians and Technologists (OACETT) and the Association of Architectural Technologists of Ontario (AATO).

Students in the program learned residential and industrial-commercial institutional (ICI) design and construction techniques, and understanding of how buildings work by learning the science of their materials, construction techniques and building services.

Students in the Architectural Technology program:

• Acquire CAD, plan reading and visualization skills needed to create plans, contracts and specifications for today’s modern structures
• Explore building and construction materials and finishes
• Learn green building fundamentals
• Design in steel, timber, masonry and concrete
• Develop construction surveying skills, estimating, building code applications and regulations