The International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI) is a U.S.-based, non-profit professional association for home inspector

Home Inspector

A home inspection is a limited, non-invasive examination of the condition of a home, often in connection with the sale of that home. The first known home inspection company, Home Equity Loss Protection Services dba/H.E.L.P.S., was originally founded by Christopher P. Nolan and Loyola Professor...

s. Founded in 1990 by Nick Gromicko

Nick Gromicko

Nick Gromicko is an American entrepreneur, philanthropist, and founder of , the nonprofit International Association of Certified Home Inspectors , based in Boulder, Colorado. InterNACHI is the international trade association of the inspection industry and has operations in about 60 countries...

 and headquartered in Boulder, Colorado

Boulder, Colorado

Boulder is the county seat and most populous city of Boulder County and the 11th most populous city in the U.S. state of Colorado. Boulder is located at the base of the foothills of the Rocky Mountains at an elevation of...

, InterNACHI is the largest home inspection association in the world, with nearly 8,000 members located in all 50 states, eight Canadian provinces, and 26,000 other members in some 60 other countries. Members are required to adhere to the InterNACHI Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics. Its website at www.nachi.org is over 235,000 pages long and gets 260 million hits per year.

InterNACHI members have access to many free Continuing Education

Continuing education

Continuing education is an all-encompassing term within a broad spectrum of post-secondary learning activities and programs. The term is used mainly in the United States and Canada...

 home inspection courses through the InterNACHI Inspector University. These courses include: Safety Practices, Roofing Inspection, Electrical Inspection, Structural Issues, Plumbing

Plumbing

Plumbing is the system of pipes and drains installed in a building for the distribution of potable drinking water and the removal of waterborne wastes, and the skilled trade of working with pipes, tubing and plumbing fixtures in such systems. A plumber is someone who installs or repairs piping...

 Inspection, Green Building, Mold

Mold

Molds are fungi that grow in the form of multicellular filaments called hyphae. Molds are not considered to be microbes but microscopic fungi that grow as single cells called yeasts...

 Inspection, Radon

Radon

Radon is a chemical element with symbol Rn and atomic number 86. It is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless noble gas, occurring naturally as the decay product of uranium or thorium. Its most stable isotope, 222Rn, has a half-life of 3.8 days...

Inspection, and many more. Members also receive free access to technical and marketing information, as well as an active message board.

External links

• International Association of Certified Home Inspectors (InterNACHI)