Home Inspection
When purchasing a home, everyone has a different list of “must-haves.” Maybe it’s a big backyard, a spacious primary suite, a home office, or a three-car garage. These things are important to the lifestyle you want to lead, but when you look at your house as a long-term investment, you need to also look at…
One of a home inspector’s jobs is to assess a house’s layout and specifications. This necessarily means inspectors end up finding all kinds of design flaws that indicate the builder or installer or whoever didn’t think through the placement or functionality of the thing they put in. A guest bathroom at the foot of the…
Part of doing any job right is having the correct tools, and home inspection is no different. Our inspectors recently started a new series called “Tool Time Tuesday” in which they feature the devices they use and how they work in the field. These tools are all available at hardware stores or online for handy…
Sometimes you walk into a house and the home inspection problems announce themselves right away: the smell of gas in the air, a trail of termites along the ceiling, or the way the living room leans to the left. On other occasions, you have to work for it a little. Do you automatically notice that…
Water, especially hot water, has become so essential, and so ubiquitous, in our lives that we mostly don’t notice it until it suddenly becomes unavailable. And yet, a lot of us pay little to no attention to the systems that supply that hot water to our homes, despite the fact that they’re pretty costly pieces…
