May These Irish Proverbs Inform Your Next Home Purchase

With St. Patrick’s Day just around the corner, we can do a lot better than wishing you luck with your next home purchase. “Luck” isn’t really good enough with what could be the biggest, most important purchase you make. Luckily, the Irish culture has ever so much more to offer in wise, charming, and often funny proverbs that we can learn from in life, love, and certainly purchasing a home.

Here’s how we put Irish proverbs to use in some home inspection findings:

May the roof above you never fall in, and those gathered beneath it never fall out.

In this Phase 2 Inspection, Inspector Brian finds a beautifully constructed ceiling in the Owner’s Suite that is not correctly supported, which could result in that very pretty design caving in.

May your wastewater always run downstream.

Sometimes plumbers (or not plumbers) do the darndest things. Like ignoring the laws of physics.

There’s nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse.

Water damage to the flooring is bad enough, but these homeowners are looking at foundation damage as well, due to a disconnected sewer line. Rather than trying to hide the aesthetic problem, if they’d found the source of it right away they might have caught it before the damage was too bad.

And the best home inspection-related Irish proverb of all? “Always remember that hindsight is the best insight to foresight.” When it comes to your home, the best protection from that “I wish I’d known then what I know now” feeling, is to know as much as you can in advance.