Taylor County, KY
Home inspections in Campbellsville, Kentucky.
We have inspected 22 homes in Campbellsville. The median one was built in 1978, runs 1,620 square feet, and 48% of them have a basement. Here is what that means for the house you are under contract on.
Those four numbers come from the 22 homes we have actually inspected in Campbellsville, not from a national average. They are the reason a Campbellsville inspection reads differently from one twenty minutes down the road. Campbellsville is a smaller town and that is a smaller sample, so read the percentages on this page as the shape of the local housing stock rather than a precise census.
Campbellsville sits about 37 miles southeast of Elizabethtown, in Taylor County — it is the county seat. We inspect here constantly, there is no trip charge, and you get the same electronic report with a photograph of every finding that we hand a buyer anywhere else.
Hodgenville is our nearest coverage to Campbellsville, and the two are not interchangeable. And the ground under the houses changes: 30% of the homes here sit on a crawlspace, against 42% there, which moves where the findings come from.
What Campbellsville homes are built on
Share of the Campbellsville homes in our records by foundation type. Foundation drives the inspection: it decides where water goes, where the ductwork runs, what we can see and what we have to infer.
Pre-1978 homes and the disclosure that comes with them
41% of the Campbellsville homes we have inspected pre-date 1978, which is the federal cutoff for lead-based paint. On any house built before that year the seller has to give you the EPA lead disclosure and a ten-day window to have a lead risk assessment done if you want one. A standard home inspection is not a lead test — we will flag deteriorated painted surfaces on an older Campbellsville house, but a paint-chip or dust-wipe assessment is a separate specialist scope, and it is worth doing if you have small children.
The other thing that comes with that vintage in this area is the electrical panel. Homes from the 1950s and 60s were built for a fraction of today's load, and a lot of them are running on a service that has been added to rather than replaced.
Aluminum branch wiring
14% of the Campbellsville homes we have inspected were built between 1965 and 1973, the period when single-strand aluminum was used for ordinary 15- and 20-amp branch circuits. Aluminum expands and contracts more than copper and oxidizes at the connection, so the failure point is not the wire — it is the screw terminal at an outlet, switch or splice, where resistance builds up and the connection heats.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission found that homes wired this way are far more likely to have a connection reach fire-hazard conditions than homes wired in copper. The accepted repairs are a COPALUM crimp or AlumiConn connectors at every device, done by a qualified electrician — not simply swapping in CO/ALR devices and calling it finished, and definitely not pigtailing with standard wire nuts.
We pull device covers where we can safely do so and report what we find. If the house has aluminum branch circuits, that goes at the top of the report, not in the middle of it.
Supply piping: what era the house was plumbed in
About 27% of Campbellsville homes in our records fall in the 1978–1995 build window, which is when polybutylene supply piping was in common use. That gray or blue flexible plastic degrades from the inside where chlorinated water touches it, so age tells you more than appearance does. We check the water heater connections, the main shutoff and any exposed runs in the crawlspace or basement, and we say plainly in the report which material the house is plumbed in.
If the house has already been repiped to PEX or copper, that is a real value item and it belongs in the report. If it has not, call your insurance agent during the inspection period rather than after — coverage on active polybutylene is not automatic.
Slab-on-grade homes
22% of the Campbellsville homes we have inspected are built on a slab, a higher share than most of the towns around here. A slab removes a whole category of problems — there is no crawlspace to get wet and no basement wall to bow — and replaces it with one specific limitation: the supply and drain lines under the concrete cannot be seen.
So on a slab house we inspect the things that tell us about what we cannot see. Water pressure and flow at fixtures run together. Warm spots on the floor. Unexplained high water bills the seller mentions in passing. Hairline cracks in the slab are ordinary shrinkage; cracks with vertical displacement, or doors and window frames out of square on the same side of the house, are not.
The other slab-specific item is the exterior. On a slab the finished floor sits close to grade, so we pay close attention to how the soil, patio, driveway and mulch beds sit relative to the top of the slab and the bottom of the siding. Four inches of clearance disappears fast when landscaping gets added twice.
Private wells and water testing
Where a Campbellsville property is on a private well rather than public water, the water itself is not part of a standard home inspection. That is worth saying plainly, because buyers routinely assume it is covered.
Two separate questions matter. Quality — a basic panel tests for total coliform, E. coli and nitrates, and it is inexpensive. Quantity — the well's recovery rate, which a standard inspection does not measure and which is the thing that actually strands a family in August. If the house is on a well, ask the seller for the well log, the drilling depth and any prior water test results.
What we do report is the visible equipment: the pressure tank and whether it is waterlogged, the pressure switch and gauge, the cycle range, the wellhead condition and whether the casing is properly capped and terminated above grade, and whether there is treatment equipment in the house that somebody installed for a reason.
Chimneys and fireplaces
A masonry chimney is a structure sitting outside the thermal envelope getting rained on, and it ages accordingly. What we report from the exterior is the condition of the crown, spalling or missing brick, deteriorated mortar joints, the flashing and counter-flashing where the chimney passes the roof, whether there is a rain cap and spark arrestor, and whether the whole thing is plumb and tight to the house.
Inside, we look at the firebox, damper operation, the hearth extension and clearances to combustible trim and mantel. What a general home inspection does not do is evaluate the flue's full length. That is a chimney sweep's Level 2 inspection with a camera, and it is the only way to see cracked flue tiles or a missing liner. If the fireplace has been used and there are no service records, that is worth ordering.
Gas log conversions get their own look: whether the damper is clamped open as it should be on a vented set, whether the connection and shutoff are correct, and whether an unvented set was installed in a space too small for it.
Radon testing in Campbellsville
The EPA places Taylor County in Radon Zone 1 — the highest of the three categories, meaning the predicted average indoor screening level for the county is at or above the EPA action level of 4 picocuries per liter. That is the tier where the EPA's own guidance is that homes should be tested.
Read that carefully, though, because the zone map is a county average and you are not buying a county. Radon comes out of the soil and rock under one specific house, and it gets in through one specific set of foundation penetrations, so two houses on the same Campbellsville street can test very differently. A Zone 1 designation is a reason to test, not a prediction about the house you are under contract on.
We run radon testing for $150 when it is added to the same visit as the home inspection. The device sits in the lowest livable level under closed-house conditions, and you get the result with your report.
What it costs in Campbellsville
The median Campbellsville home in our records is 1,620 square feet, which puts a typical house here in the $500 tier. Quoted before you book, with no trip charge to Campbellsville. Veteran discount for anyone who has served — active duty, Guard, Reserve or retired. Full pricing.
Campbellsville inspection questions
How much does a home inspection cost in Campbellsville, KY?
A full home inspection is $500 for homes up to 1,999 square feet and $650 for homes from 2,000 to 3,500 square feet. Above 3,500 square feet we quote individually. Radon testing is $150 added to the same visit. The median Campbellsville home we inspect is 1,620 square feet. There is no trip charge to Campbellsville.
Do I need a radon test in Campbellsville?
The EPA places Taylor County in Zone 1, the EPA's highest category, where the predicted county average is at or above the 4 pCi/L action level. Zone maps predict county averages, not individual homes, which is why the EPA recommends testing the specific house. We test for $150 when it is scheduled with the inspection.
How long does a home inspection take in Campbellsville?
Plan on two to three hours on site for a typical Campbellsville home, and longer for larger houses or homes with multiple HVAC systems or outbuildings. You are welcome to be there. Your electronic report follows with photos of every finding.
Is polybutylene plumbing common in Campbellsville?
27% of the Campbellsville homes in our records were built between 1978 and 1995, the window when polybutylene supply piping was standard, so it is one of the first things we look for here. If we find it, contact your insurance agent before your inspection contingency expires — coverage on active polybutylene is not automatic.
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