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Foundation Findings: When Buying a Home, Look From The Ground Up

By CandysDirt.com Contributor / March 23, 2022 /

By Brenda MasseSpecial Contributor In a competitive market, you may not be able to negotiate every little thing you want, but you still need to go into a home purchase with an understanding of your future expenses, especially on the 5 major areas of the house: foundation, plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and roof. In our experience, home…

Foundation Issues Are a Given, But Here’s What You Need to Look Out For

By Joanna England / October 17, 2019 /

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.” When you’re buying a home, we advise people that the major areas of consideration are the roof, plumbing, electricity, HVAC, and the foundation. These are…

Foundations: Pier & Beam vs Pier-ed Slab. Which is Better?

By Candy Evans / August 22, 2017 /

Remember that freeze we had just before Christmas last?  Somehow, something had knocked the insulation off a fire sprinkler pipe in the attic above our media room, which took talent because we have a ton of insulation in our attics. Since I seldom go upstairs, I did not know there was a leak from a…