HVAC
You can imagine we’ve seen some horrible repair jobs in the home inspection world. There are bad contractors, shady flippers, and wacky DIY fails. All can result in subpar repair work that we inspectors call out in our reports. But sometimes we see something that jumps past “bad repair” into “truly terrible” and even “never…
“Dependable … reliable … cool …” These are the words you want to associate with your HVAC unit, definitely not “strange” or “weird.” Yet that is what we have for you today: odd HVAC situations our inspectors encountered in the field that were definitely out of the ordinary. Take a look and see what you…
When it’s in the 80s during the day and the 30s at night, you know you’re going through a Texas winter. It’s around this time of year that, after relying on their heaters for a couple of months, people start needing to switch back and forth from heat to AC, which is harder on the…
Living the good life — it’s sun soaked, palm swaying easy living. Sun is easy to find in Texas, but palm trees? Not so much. Here is a house for those searching not for their shaker of salt but for the late singer Jimmy Buffett’s Parrothead lifestyle. There’s a retreat on the lake with 32…
If you’re buying a new construction home, you might think to yourself, “Why would I need a home inspection?” The truth is, you probably need one even more if it’s a new build. As we’ve said before, a newly built home hasn’t been tested by having someone live in it to find all the little…
