by Jon Boyd | Oct 13, 2023 | Construction, Home Evaluation, Home Inspection, Home Ownership
Each decade brings different developments, but for this tip, we’ll just compare a typical 1930s home with one from the 1970s for a similar-sized home. This is the type of information that is very useful for home buyers to consider, but that often does not get... 
by Jon Boyd | Nov 17, 2019 | Construction, Home Buying, Home Inspection
This is a Northside home where the water had backed up and flooded the laundry room area. The water seemed to be clean and not sewer water. The seller called a local plumbing company and the plumber who arrived looked very young to me. He looked at the flood around... 
by Jon Boyd | Mar 16, 2019 | Buyer Agency, Construction, Home Inspection, Home Ownership, Moving
In this first video, we see a mostly finished bathroom in a high-end home after the painting contractors have just finished. Unfortunately, the quality of the painting work is sub-standard. I don’t think the builder was going to be upset about this as the paint... 
by Jon Boyd | Feb 27, 2019 | Construction, Home Inspection, Home Ownership
In the summer of 2017 I witness one of those really strange occurances. A lightning strike set the neighbor’s yard on fire. Or at least that is what it looked like. It turned out the lighting current went out into the yard via the steel gas line and it actually... 
by Jon Boyd | Feb 27, 2019 | Construction, Home Inspection
Here is a video of a full roof replacement. This was a ~1,500 square foot home with long overhangs and a large 2.5 car garage so the total roof area was about 3,000 square feet. Since we have witnessed hundreds of home inspections we know that roofing is an area where... 
by Jon Boyd | Oct 26, 2017 | Construction, Home Inspection, Home Ownership
In this video, our agent Laura Degiovanni discusses a common problem we see on new construction where a builder takes a shortcut that gets past the municipal inspector. It typically doesn’t become a problem until long after the builder is gone, but by saving on... 