DIY Electrical

Common Problems Home Inspectors Find That You May Have Missed

By Brenda Masse / May 3, 2025 /

When you’ve done as many home inspections as the inspectors at Green Scene Home Inspections have (more than 10,000), a few common themes emerge. People tend to neglect the same kinds of things in their homes, and of course, Mother Nature affects the homes in certain areas in the same sorts of ways. In Upon…

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…

A Reminder From Your Home Inspector That Electricity is Dangerous

By Brenda Masse / February 1, 2025 /

I’ve said it before and I feel certain I’ll say it again: electricity is no joke. Many house fires would be prevented if homeowners were more aware of what was happening with the electrical systems in their homes. So it’s always a good time for a reminder of some of the ways that we can…

You Should Not DIY Electricity Because You Watched Schoolhouse Rock (Electricity, Electricity)

By Brenda Masse / March 27, 2024 /

If you were born after 1989, you probably have no idea what I’m talking about, but some of us learned everything we needed to know from “Schoolhouse Rock.” Well, almost everything. Just because you know the song, and have watched a few YouTube videos since then, doesn’t mean that you and your power tools are…

Scary Home Inspection Finds Aren’t as Fun as a Good Haunted House

By Brenda Masse / October 4, 2023 /

It’s October, which means it’s officially scary season, the most wonderful time of the year! Maybe that’s just me. Now, there’s good scary, which is like a good old fashioned haunted house, and then there’s bad scary, which is when it’s something at your house. For this week’s Upon Closer Inspection we’ll be looking at…