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Be an Expert: How to Inspect Your Own House

  • Perla Irish
  • May 20, 2018
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  1. How to Inspect Your Own House
    1. Inspection Must Haves
    2. Where to Look
  2. What Do You Have to Look For?
    1. Leaky Ceilings
    2. Termite Tubes
    3. Holey Joists
    4. Heater Noise
    5. Rotted Wood
    6. Foundation Cracks
  3. Be Sure To

When you can do home inspections on your own, then why waste so much money on hiring professional services from property inspection companies? This way you can save you time, effort as well as money. So that once you know the trouble spots to look out for, you can easily examine your home on your own, all throughout the year.

Be an Expert: How to Inspect Your Own House
Be an Expert: How to Inspect Your Own House

How to Inspect Your Own House

Here is a list of things you need to inspect while going through a complete home survey on your own. It’s helpful to take notes on issues and repairs and make sure it’s dated. This log will serve as a great reference point as long as you live in your home.

Inspection Must Haves

  1. Print: This checklist
  2. Carry: Flashlight, Flathead, and Phillips-head screwdrivers
  3. Hand Gloves

Where to Look

  1. Roof
  2. The Attic
  3. Kitchen
  4. Basement
  5. Washrooms

What Do You Have to Look For?

  1. Leaky Ceilings

Leaky Ceilings
Leaky Ceilings

This is one of the main reasons you are taking up inspecting in the first place. Leaky ceilings can because you trouble all throughout the year. So in your attic, you can take appropriate visual inspection or other tests like water flow test, to figure out the cracks and leaks in your roof.

  1. Termite Tubes

Termite Tubes
Termite Tubes

Pencil-thick tubes that are especially snaking along might mean trouble. To inspect all you have to do is to break these tubes. If in case termites spill out, you would know it is time to call an exterminator.

  1. Holey Joists

Holey Joists
Holey Joists

At times since poorly placed drill holes for wire, duct or pipe can sap a floors joist’s strength. To ensure safety, avoid holes at the top or bottom flanges of an I-joist. An even hole in the middle or a single hole could be okay, but avoid corners and ends of the framing.

  1. Heater Noise

Heater Noise
Heater Noise

While inspecting your water heater, all you have to do is listen and look out for noises that are not common and irregular in nature. If in case you hear water heater gurgle pop or snap, you know it is time to drain out sediment.

  1. Rotted Wood

Rotted Wood
Rotted Wood

On inspecting is you find soft spots on any part of your wooden furniture, it means the wood has rotted due to water leakage or just dry rot, which happens with the age of the wood. For finding those soft spots you can look for rippled paint or bubbling areas. Rotted wood should be repaired immediately, there is pretty much nothing that you can do.

  1. Foundation Cracks

Foundation Cracks
Foundation Cracks

This is one of the most important things you need to keep a check while living in a house. Be it a hairline crack or any major block has come out, foundation cracks generally keeps on growing. Although there is nothing to worry about, do keep a check. In case you witness that the crack is getting bigger, call an expert immediately to get it fixed.

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Be Sure To

Poke enough, be it the dry cracked walls, your wooden planks or even the roofs. Make sure you test the strength of those dusty attics in order to be convinced about its maintenance. Generally wooden once rotten can come downy anytime upon any external force. So to avoid any such circumstance to occur which can cost you a lot more in the later stage, you can simply poke a little more to check your roof’s strength.

If in case you witness anything that can cause you some serious trouble, or even if you are skeptical of a new house, you can get services from home inspection experts for buyers. Be an expert, get started today!

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