A home inspection is a like a check up for your house. When you go to the doctor for a physical, the doctor will check your pulse; listen to your heart and lungs etc. The doctor may order some tests, but they personally don’t do them. There is no exploratory surgery. They make some recommendations [...]
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A whole different perspective
Inspectors look at a home with a whole different perspective than other people, even contractors. We have a routine that maintains a consistent process; after all we do it everyday. Those of us that have been around for a long while have our habits and idiosyncrasies. We know what to look for and know what’s [...]
Inspection Access
Occupied homes can be a challenge to home inspectors in regards to access. We cannot inspect something we can’t see. This can lead to delays and added expense in the home buying process if the inspector has to come back because an attic or crawl space for instance was inaccessible. All occupied homes present some level [...]
What is a home inspection?
I ran across this description of a home inspection several years ago and kept it. I don’t know who wrote it, but they must be either a college professor or an old grizzled inspector: A home inspection is a high-liability, in-depth, multi-disciplined technical analysis of the home conducted under adverse circumstances in front of a [...]
Holidays are about giving, but for Burglars it’s about taking.
I will be stepping a little outside the box this time for the Home Inspection blog. Some of the points made in this one are related to home maintenance. I have a background that includes Security and Law Enforcement and I have seen the impact burglary can have on people. The Holiday Season can be [...]
Not all Home Inspections are created equally.
A good thing for consumers is that in Nevada the home inspection process is regulated by the Nevada Real Estate Division. These rules are called Standards Of Practice and are available for review here http://www.leg.state.nv.us/NAC/NAC-645D.html#NAC645DSec450 . Many Home Inspectors like myself also join associations. These associations also have their own Standards of Practice. While these association [...]
Don’t let your water heater be the Bomb!
That funny little valve on the top or side of the water heater is the TPR( Temperature Pressure Relief) valve. Allot of people know these are on water heaters and they might have a general idea of why its there. But most don’t know exactly what they do. In home inspecting we often are looking [...]
Don’t dive into pool ownership without an inspection
In the heat of the summer nothing is more fun than a swimming pool. Unlike southern Nevada our pool season is pretty short here in Reno. This accounts for less pools up here but these gems on a hot day are occasionally sought out by home buyers. Just as important as or possibly more important [...]
Water. We need it, our Houses don’t.
Water is one of the most destructive forces on earth; after all it carved out the Grand Canyon. Water is a structures worst enemy. A home has to defend against one of its worst enemies on a constant basis. The house is built to be water resistant, not water proof. At the same time we [...]
You Don’t Want to Hit the Deck
With the warm weather and longer days coming to town we will spend more time outdoors. This often happens on one of the 40 million decks located in the US and 20 million of those are believed to be in need of repair or rebuilding. There is an estimate 1-2 million decks built a year [...]
