A-1 Home Inspections Inc.

A-1 Home Inspections Inc. is a one-inspector shop on Hooksett Road in Manchester, New Hampshire, hired mainly by home buyers who want a building checked before they sign. The Better Business Bureau records it as a New Hampshire corporation started in February 1990 and run by its president, Daniel Couture, and the business's own site names Couture as the inspector doing the work. What it sells is inspection plus the testing that usually rides along with it: residential and light commercial building inspections, radon air testing and water quality testing on its own site, with the BBB listing adding environmental testing, septic inspection, asbestos and lead radon mitigation. The company says it covers Manchester, Concord and the surrounding southern part of the state. The customer record here is short but pointed. In 2012 a poster on r/newhampshire wrote that A-1, recommended by their realtor, caught problems that family members with renovation and contracting experience had missed, and credited the inspection with steering them away from a house everyone else thought looked fine. That is a detailed first-hand account, but it is the only customer voice in the record and it is now more than a decade old. The BBB grades the business A+ and shows it is not BBB accredited. Before booking, two things are worth raising directly. Ask what recent inspections look like, since the account above describes a 2012 job rather than current practice. And ask to see the licence: New Hampshire licenses home inspectors through its Office of Professional Licensure and Certification, and the number here (#3, listed by the BBB as 00003) comes from the business's own site and the BBB's records rather than from a registry check performed for this profile.