Home Inspection
You forget to turn off the lights when you leave the room. You run the AC when you’re not at home. You use your dishwasher and laundry machines during the day. These are behaviors you can control that can make a dent in saving energy use at home. But what about the bigger things jacking…
As a home inspector, sometimes you’ll encounter a house or even just a room that is just … strange. Now, if you’re not familiar with the show Stranger Things on Netflix, it’s a science fiction series set in the 1980’s — basically, if Stephen King and Steven Spielberg had a baby, it would be their…
There’s a Nigerian proverb that goes, “He who lives in the attic knows where the roof leaks.” I think it’s meant to teach us that the one who lives in a place can be an expert on it. I bring this up because if your attic is out of sight-out of mind, then you might…
Last week when we discussed pool maintenance, we looked at the filter, the pump, and the electrical equipment, which definitely covers the “back of the house,” but what about the crowd-facing parts of the pool? Like the decking, the fence, and the pool itself. These need maintenance too! Don’t worry, we didn’t forget. This here’s…
I could have titled this article “Pool Maintenance for Dummies” as being a dummy is how you get a pool that looks like the image above, am I right? Once you let algae in your pool, boy howdy, that’s a regret you don’t want to repeat. Since it’s almost the first official day of summer…
