Winter Home Inspections: Why Cold Weather Can Reveal More Defects
When it comes to buying or selling a home, the timing of a home inspection can significantly impact the results. While many people prefer to inspect homes during the more pleasant seasons of spring and summer, there are compelling reasons to consider having your home...
Water Heater Inspection: What Home Inspectors Look For
When it comes to home inspections, few components are as essential as the water heater. A reliable water heater ensures a steady supply of hot water for your household's daily needs. In this blog post, we'll delve into what home inspectors look for when inspecting...
The Electrical Panel Inspection: What Home Inspectors Look For
When buying a home, it's crucial to ensure that all its systems are in good working order. Among these, the electrical system ranks high in importance, as electrical issues can pose significant safety hazards and be costly to repair. One vital aspect of the electrical...
Why You Shouldn’t Skip a Home Inspection When Buying a Home
The process of buying a home is both exciting and nerve-wracking. You've found your dream house, your offer has been accepted, and the finish line seems within reach. However, before you pop the champagne and celebrate your new home, there's one crucial step you...
Caring For Your New Home
Have you recently moved into a new home? Moving house can be an extremely stressful time, and you will likely want to spend some time settling in before starting any house-related projects. Something that should be done as soon as possible, though, is setting up a...
Looking After Your Precious Older Ones
If you have loved ones that are getting older, you may be wondering in what ways you can take care of them while helping them to maintain a level of independence. If they are still able to live in their homes, it is a good idea from time to time to look for any...
Do You Need a New Shower Head?
Are you tired of your showerhead? Some homes still have decades old shower-heads attached to their shower from when the home was built. Others have cheap shower heads that are failing and falling apart. If you want to take care of this in your home, it is not a very...
Keeping Your Water Heater Running
Like so many things inside your home, it’s easy to forget about your average water heater until something goes wrong with it. It could be that you have a yearly or bi-yearly routine of hiring a professional to do a full system flush of your water heater, and if you...
Keeping Safe From Pesticides
The word “pesticides” has a bad reputation for many people. However, most households in America make use of pesticides all the time. Whether it’s to kill bugs, rodents, or weeds, these chemicals are extremely common. The most harmful pesticide chemicals are much more...
Getting Plugged In, Part 2: Surge Protection
In our last post, we emphasized some important safety considerations when it comes to using power strips. Continuing our theme of powering electronic devices in your home, we’d like to discuss the topic of surge protection. Surge protectors have an important role to...