Upon Closer Inspection

Spring Home Maintenance You Can’t Do Yourself

By Brenda Masse / March 29, 2025 /

Spring home maintenance is important (really all seasonal home maintenance is important), but when you find a problem, it’s often the case that you shouldn’t try to handle it yourself. Some repairs are best left to experts. Today’s Upon Closer Inspection will look at a few examples of spring home maintenance tasks that revealed themselves…

A Spring Home Tour With the Home Inspectors

By Brenda Masse / March 22, 2025 /

It’s Spring Home Tour season, and we thought we’d get in on the action by taking you on our own kind of tour. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the different parts of a home you should look at for both spring home maintenance and home safety purposes. Some might claim our tour is…

Water, Water Everywhere — Is It Damaging Your House?

By Brenda Masse / March 15, 2025 /

Water is crucial for so many things we do every day — drinking, flushing, washing your hands, washing dishes and clothes — it’s a nightmare when something goes wrong and your flow gets disrupted. Problems with your water system can be immediately obvious, like when a pipe bursts or when an appliance floods the house,…

This Spring, Poor Drainage Isn’t Just About Your Allergies

By Brenda Masse / March 8, 2025 /

Each spring, in addition to “the pollening,” and a lot of sneezing and watery eyes, we can always count on a good deal of rain and stormy weather. The problem all that (usually much needed) rain can create is that it comes after a frequently long, dry winter. So the ground is dry and prone…

With Warmer Weather on the Way, You Need All the Ventilation You Can Get

By Brenda Masse / March 1, 2025 /

It’s finally starting to look like spring in North Texas, and after a long hard winter (for us), your vents are probably looking pretty rough — filled with lint, pet hair, and dust from all that extra time indoors. But vent cleaning isn’t what we’re here to talk about today. We’re actually looking at ventilation…