BP Plus Home Inspection

Bruce Platine has been crawling through attics and basements as a home inspector since 1978 — a nearly five-decade run he says began when he joined the inspection business his parents started in 1976. BP Plus Home Inspection is his owner-operated shop out of Southbridge, built around the whole-house checkup: the inspection itself, plus the termite check, radon canisters, and water-quality testing most buyers want bundled in. He's a full member of the American Society of Home Inspectors and, by his own account, served two years on ASHI's national membership committee. The number that anchors him is 4.7 from 291 ratings, showing the same on both Angi and HomeAdvisor. Over the years the same handful of words keep surfacing — thorough, knowledgeable, professional — around an inspector who takes the time to explain what he's looking at. A March 2026 client kept it simple: clear communication, a thorough and detailed inspection, and they'd hire him again. It's a deep, steady history rather than a recent surge, reviewed consistently since 2020. The record isn't spotless. Against years of praise sits one strongly negative outlier — a reviewer who would not recommend him at all. It's a lone dissent, not a pattern, but no inspector pleases everyone, so it's fair to ask directly how he handles findings a seller or realtor disputes. And because this is Bruce himself doing every inspection, scheduling rises and falls with his availability, so line up your closing timeline early. If you want a veteran, hands-on inspector who'll hand you a detailed report and sit with you to walk through it, he fits that brief. Confirm he covers your town — he lists Southbridge, Worcester, and Charlton — and that his credentials are current for your lender, then get on his calendar.