Inspection Surprises

Surprising Home Inspection Finds You Did Not See Coming

By Brenda Masse / October 25, 2025 /

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. Today, let’s check out some of the…

These Design Flaws Keep Home Inspectors on Their Toes

By Brenda Masse / April 19, 2025 /

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…

It’s Hard to Surprise a Home Inspector, But Not Impossible

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / May 19, 2020 /

Every week, the detail-oriented folks at Green Scene Home Inspections will give CandysDirt.com readers an education in inspection. Want to see what they see? Tune in for “Upon Closer Inspection.” As a home inspector, you learn to expect the unexpected, but sometimes, we’re legitimately surprised. Here are a few examples of times home inspectors encountered something…