Upon Closer Inspection
A water leak can really ruin your day as a homeowner, whether it’s a faucet that won’t quit dripping, or a water heater that unexpectedly floods your house. (How badly your day is ruined being relative, of course). During the home buying process, one of the major things home inspectors are looking for is water…
Buying a home during the summer has certain advantages, because you can see the house functioning under conditions you’ll want to know about when you’re living in it. This week, I asked our home inspectors for their thoughts about things home buyers can pay particular attention to during the summer. Is there a difference between…
If this image makes you as irrationally angry as it makes me, today’s Upon Closer Inspection is for you. I hate being hot. I enjoy summer, don’t get me wrong. But this is just punishing heat. When you work from home as many do now, and your kids are still home from school, and it’s…
We have reached the point in the summer at which I start questioning why I live in Texas, and I mostly just relocate from one cooling device to another in order to accomplish my daily tasks. As I write this, I’m actually in Colorado, where I had hoped for a bit of a reprieve. But…
Every home inspector does the job a little differently, so I won’t speak for everyone, but at Green Scene Home Inspections, our inspectors have a specific pattern in which they perform their inspections that allows them to pick up on the way the different systems of the house interact with each other, enabling them to…
