Green Scene Home Inspections

Test Your Home Maintenance IQ With These Images From the Field

By Brenda Masse / November 2, 2024 /

How good is your home maintenance knowledge? It’s time to find out with another round of, “What’s Wrong With This Picture,” the Upon Closer Inspection edition. So put your inspector’s hat on, and see if you can figure out the problem in the images before reading below. What Is This and Why Is It Wrong?…

Foundation Nightmares Every North Texan Can Relate To

By Brenda Masse / October 26, 2024 /

If you own a home in North Texas, you’ve probably had stress dreams about the inevitability of foundation damage, maybe even an actual foundation nightmare or two. No? You don’t have that dream where your house is cracking in two and sinking into the ground? Huh. Either way, with our climate and soil, foundation problems…

Scary Home Inspection Finds For Spooky Season

By Brenda Masse / October 19, 2024 /

It’s spooky season again, so it’s time to talk about some of the creepy or alarming things home inspectors run across when inspecting homes (cue the horror movie music). Sometimes we find dangerous conditions that are genuinely scary. Other times it’s creepy critters, or gross, unidentifiable substances that feel like the plot of a horror…

Upon Closer Inspection: Tales From A Flip House

By Brenda Masse / October 12, 2024 /

Here’s a little story about a home inspection at a flip house that, Upon Closer Inspection, wasn’t exactly as advertised. We’ve previously discussed that some flippers can be in the business of putting “lipstick on a pig,” and merely putting a shiny new veneer over existing problems without actually fixing anything, or using subpar contractors…

Upon Closer Inspection: Everything’s Wrong With the Kitchen Sink

By Brenda Masse / October 5, 2024 /

The kitchen may be the heart of the home, but sometimes it can be the heart of the problem. There’s a lot of equipment in there, and that means a lot can go wrong. But today, we’re focusing in even further, on just the kitchen sink. Seems simple, right? But you’d be surprised how many…