Home Inspection
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,…
Sometimes our home inspectors find problems that are so crazy, you wonder just how the heck that could have happened. When you peel back the layers of a home, you can find some weird stuff, whether it’s construction mistakes that somebody covered up, strange DIY repairs, or random renovations. Here are a few particularly crazy…
Are you constantly having to check the thermostat to see if some wiseacre has gone and turned up the temperature because it’s hot as blazes in your house and you’re just trying to get a little relief from the hot as blazes temperatures outside? But no, no one has messed with the thermostat, your poor…
Any experienced home inspector will tell you that just when you think you’ve seen it all, something crazy will leap out of the crawl space and surprise you. But sometimes even a healthy sense of “expecting the unexpected” isn’t enough to prepare you for the surprises in store at an inspection. Today, let’s check out…
