Tim Miller has been in the construction field over 20 years and has been involved in most every aspect of the building trades, from foundation to paint and
everything in between. Specializing in structural steel, residential foundation systems and structural re-enforcement.

With extensive new construction knowledge, forensic code compliance experience and having assisted hundreds in class-action construction defect suites, his service as your home inspector provides you with a top notch consultant.

Home Inspector

• Has performed over 3,000  home inspections
• Certified Building Inspector with the International Code Council (I.C.C.)
• Certified Home Inspector with N.A.C.H.I.
• Certified Home Inspector with A.S.H.I.
• Registered Home Inspector with the Housing Inspection Foundation
• Fully  insured
• Former lead carpenter and working foreman for a multi-million dollar bay area contractor
• Working relationship with local structural engineers
• Blueprint-to-paint work experience
• Full cycle construction experience from initial customer contact, job schedule tracking, coordinating subs, punch-list completion through final payment.
• Scheduled jobs for multiple crews while maintaining personal job profits margins
• Extensive branch-3 structural/pest control experience: structural repairs, foundation replacement, remodels, lifting and leveling houses, “lift additions”, and  past branch-3 treatment license
• Steel fabrication background
• Past certifications in 70/ 8018 stick welding
• Certification in 232 3G&4G
• Layout  -  fabrication – field install experience in structural steel
• Straight seam pipe welder

Expert witness Inspector

• Construction litigation support services including field investigation, code compliance verification, researching documents relating to specific claims and assist in allocating cost liability to sub-contractors 
•  Expert witness inspector for construction defect litigation
• Class action law suite experience - inspection reports used to support both plaintiffs and defense
• Destructive testing and forensic evaluations of systems and components
• Inspection service and report used by a Contra Costa County District Attorney in a superior court case
• Represented numerous clients in a new housing development in the Brentwood area to ensure roof & H.V.A.C. defects were resolved

Specialties

• Home inspections
• Professional high quality reports
• Code verification inspections for defect litigation

• Foundation fabrication
• Structural re-enforcement
• Additions and remodels
• Structural steel fab-to-connect