An easy fix that doesn't involve tearing out the ceiling in the room below the bathtub As a home inspector in the Stillwater area, I make it a point to…

Do you remember heating up water on the stove to take a bath? Me neither. But that's how my mom took a bath when she was a little girl in…

Illustration credit: GreenBuildingAdvisor Chances are, you have the equivalent of a 2 - foot hole in your ceiling, letting heat out of the house. It doesn't look like a 2 - foot…

Did you ever forget to winterize you hose bibbs and NOT have a split water pipe due to freezing? I bet I know why. You either have a newer house,…

Insert bad pun about tankless jobs My job as a home inspector is not at all what the realtor does. The real estate agent is a lot like a matchmaker;…

Your home inspection is non-invasive I don't think a lot of sellers would be happy if a prospective home buyer (or his/her home inspector), cut holes in the walls or…

And what does "Attic Bypass" mean? As a home inspector in the Stillwater, MN area, I consider the attic to be a major source of information about the house. I…

Here's a list of everything we absolutely know about sump pumps; No pump lasts forever. That's it. We can probably guess that when (not if) a sump pump fails, there will…

Concrete/asbestos mixture was used for furnaces and chimneys Asbestos was seen as an affordable and strong building material that was phased out around 1980. The resistance to heat transference, strength…

Okay, vent caps are not exciting. But chimney fires are. As a home inspector, I feel like the line between telling the customer that something is important and scaring them…