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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.
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,...
Why Get a Home Inspection If You’re Buying “As Is”?
I'm buying a home "as is." Why do I need a home inspection?Some sellers – often, those working without an agent – want to sell their home “as is.” This might be because they don’t have to invest money fixing it up or take on any potential liability for defects. There...
Three Mistakes Home Buyers Should Avoid
Home Buying Mistakes Buying a home comes with many big decisions, and it can be both exciting as well as overwhelming. It can be easy to make a mistake in the process. Especially if you're a first-time home buyer, you can potentially skip the buyer's remorse by...
Types of Home Inspections Explained
Types of home inspections - buyer’s inspection, seller’s pre-listing inspection, warranty inspection, or home maintenance inspection…what’s the difference anyway? When most people hear “home inspection,” they associate the term with the inspection done...
10 Tips to Keep Bugs Out of Your House
Bugs. They are all around us, literally. Did you know that there are more than 10 quintillion bugs in the world? That’s about ONE BILLION bugs per person. Love them or hate them, the one thing most people will agree on is that insects don't belong in the...
Home Window Maintenance and Safety Egress
In this article, we will examine home window maintenance as well as emergency egress and family safety plan recommendations. Home Window Maintenance Hey homeowner! Are you in the habit of home window maintenance? Let's look at what home window maintenance entails....
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