Electrical Issues
They say the devil is in the details, and when it comes to home electricity, the devil is things like ruining your appliances, electric shock, fire, death -— all around danger. For today’s Upon Closer Inspection, I found a few instances where a home inspector checking a detail made all the difference in electrical safety…
Your electrical panel is the heart of your home’s electrical system, and it’s a good idea to know your way around it. And when I say, “know your way around it,” I mean know where it is, know how to flip the breakers, and maybe even know how to change the breakers. Anything beyond that,…
As I sit here typing this week’s column, hoping my laptop’s battery doesn’t run out because the power is out from another round of big North Texas storms, it occurred to me that a timely topic for this week might be recovering from North Texas storms. Homeowners face all kinds of problems after big storms…
Unless you’re building a home from the ground up with an unlimited budget, there will inevitably be a few things about the home you purchase that you wish were different, or that you have to fix. When it’s time for the home inspection, it’s important to know how to use the information this tool provides.…
I don’t know about you, but the first week of the New Year doesn’t really count as the end of the holiday season for me. On January 1, I’m not ready to rock into the New Year with my Vision Board and my resolutions like, “Let’s do this, 2024!” For one thing, my kids are…
