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Enjoy our posts covering general home inspection topics, issues regarding home maintenance and safety, as well as regionally or seasonally-specific areas of interest.
Remodeling is a bad investment strategy: Common mistakes and 8 low-cost alternatives
Remodeling can dramatically increase the quality of life for building occupants, but if you are considering a remodel strictly as an investment, think twice about it. Remodeling is rarely a sound monetary investment. According to a report published by Remodeling...
The Benefits of Landscape Shading: 5 Recommendations for Homeowners
Understanding landscape shading: Its purpose, benefits, and recommendations for homeowners to consider What is landscape shading? One of the easiest ways to reduce solar heat gain and subsequent energy costs is as simple as planting a tree. The strategic placement...
The Horror of Carpet Mold: Here are 12 Tips for Identification, Prevention and Removal
Carpeting is an area of the home that can be at high risk for mold growth. In this article, we'll examine how to identify, prevent, and remove carpet mold.Carpet at Risk! How to Identify, Prevent, and Remove Carpet Mold The Dangers of Mold Molds produce allergens,...
Dryer Vent Safety: 3 Practical Requirements Every Homeowner Should Know
What you need to know about dryer vent safety to protect your family and home InterNACHI believes that house fires caused by dryers are far more common than are generally believed, a fact that can be appreciated upon reviewing statistics from the National Fire...
12 Tips to Child Proof Your Home
Tips to child proof your home: 12 ways to protect your children About 2.5 million children are injured or killed by hazards in the home each year. The sad news is that many of these incidents could be prevented by using simple child-safety devices on the market today....
InterNACHI’s Home Life Expectancy Chart
The following chart details the predicted life expectancy of appliances, products, materials, systems and components in your home. (For homes located in Florida and the surrounding coastal region, please refer to InterNACHI's Florida Estimated Life Expectancy Chart...
2020 Holiday Event Calendar and Guide: Montgomery and North Harris Counties (The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, Magnolia, Montgomery, Tomball, Kingwood, Humble)
Your Holiday Events Calendar and Guide for 2020! This year might look a little different, but there are still plenty of holiday event options for you and your family to enjoy! For the residents of Spring, The Woodlands, Conroe/Lake Conroe, Montgomery, Magnolia,...
What to Burn in your Fireplace or Wood Stove (and What to Avoid)
In this article, we'll go over guidelines to better understand what can and cannot be safely burned in a residential fireplace or wood stove. What to burn in your fireplace or wood stove (and what you should avoid...) Fireplaces and wood stoves are designed to burn...
What to Know About Mold in Your Home
In this article, we will examine mold basics, why mold grows in homes, health problems caused by mold, how to get rid of mold in your home, and how to prevent mold from growing. Mold, Moisture, and Your Home Mold...it's a simple word that can bring about complex...
Why Get a Seller’s Pre-Listing Inspection?
Why get a seller's pre-listing inspection? Eventually, your buyers are going to conduct an inspection. You may as well know what they are going to find by getting there first. WHO ORDERS THIS INSPECTION? This inspection is ordered by the homeowner(s) looking to put...
The 10 Best Places to Hide Valuables in Your Home
The Best Places to Hide Valuables in Your Home The FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program defines burglary as the unlawful entry of a structure to commit a felony or theft. To classify an offense as a burglary, the use of force to gain entry need not have...
11 Tips to Prevent Attached Garage Fire Hazards
Understanding and preventing attached garage fire hazards The purpose of this article is twofold. First, at InterNACHI, we’d like you to take measures to keep your garage free from fire. Fortunately, there are ways this can be done, some of which are described below....
Safety Guidelines for Home Pools
Swimming pools should always be happy places. Unfortunately, each year thousands of American families confront swimming pool tragedies, drownings and near-drownings of young children. At InterNACHI, we want to prevent these tragedies. These are guidelines for pool...
8 Tips for a Clean and Sanitized Home
Tips for a clean and sanitized homeGerms are all around us, all the time. You will likely never be able to live 100% "germ-free." However, we're taking you room-by-room to help identify your home's most germy hot spots and offer tips to keep your home as...
Home Inspection Precautions COVID-19
Home Inspection Precautions: COVID-19 We find ourselves in fast-moving times with new information released daily (sometimes hourly) as it relates to the impact of COVID-19 to our city, state, nation and world. Alli and I are likewise aware and monitoring...
Home Inspection Reports What to Expect
Home Inspection Reports What to Expect Influenced by the changes in the economic and legal environments over the past 30 years, home inspection reports have changed to accommodate increased consumer expectations, and to provide more extensive information and...
Home Inspection Issues 2019 Edition
Featuring some of our favorite photos of home inspection issues from 2019...One of the most common questions people ask us is, "Can a home fail an inspection?"No. A professional inspection is simply an examination of the current condition of your house. It is not an...
2019 Holiday Event Guide (The Woodlands, Spring, Conroe, Magnolia, Tomball, Kingwood, Humble, and communities north of Houston)
Your Holiday Events Guide for 2019! If you live north of the Beltway in Houston, don't think that your holiday event options are limited! NEW EDITION AVAILABLE FOR 2020! CLICK HERE to view the 2020 calendar and events guide. For the residents of Spring, The Woodlands,...
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