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09/17/2026

Sound on — that is our inspector, under the house. 🔊

"I think that is the dryer exhaust."

Three findings from one crawlspace:

🔴 A dryer duct routed through the crawlspace
🔴 Staining running down the foundation wall
🔴 Every line beneath the floor, checked one at a time

Let me explain the dryer duct, because it does not sound like much.

A dryer exhaust carries hot, wet, lint-heavy air. Its whole job is to get that air out of the building by the shortest route possible, because every foot of duct is a foot where lint settles and moisture condenses. When that run goes under the floor, you have put the most flammable, wettest air in the house into the one space that nobody ventilates and nobody visits.

And a crawlspace is exactly where you find out what a house has really been doing. Everything above the floor can be painted. Down there, nothing is.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We go under the house. Every time.

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09/15/2026

He barely touched it. 🪵

Four findings from the outside of one house:

🔴 At the roofline, the base of the wall comes apart in his hand
🔴 Rot at the bottom of the next wall
🔴 A trim board barely attached to the wall behind it
🔴 Deck boards pulling apart, fasteners rusting out

Watch his hands. There is no pry bar in this video. He is pressing with a gloved hand, and the wood is coming off in pieces.

Here is what I want you to notice about all four: every one of them is at the bottom of something. The base of a wall. The bottom of a trim board. A deck sitting at grade. That is not a coincidence. Water runs down, water sits at the bottom, and wood that stays wet is wood that rots. It starts at the base and works upward behind a surface that looks fine from the driveway.

If you are walking a house this weekend, crouch down. Look at where the siding meets the ground. Push on the bottom of the trim. If it gives, you have your answer before you ever call anybody.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We do that part for you.

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09/10/2026

Here is what your inspector is doing while every faucet in your house is running. 🔦

He is not at the sink. He is under the floor.

"I have all the water running in all the sinks."

Then a long pause while he looks.

"No leaks."

That pause is the work. A drain joint that holds under a trickle can weep under real volume, and the only way to know which one you have is to load the whole system and be underneath it while it runs. None of that is visible from the bathroom.

The rest of the video is the same principle applied everywhere else. The crawlspace gets checked for wood destroying insects. The condenser gets run. The doors and hinges get worked, one at a time.

Here is why a video like this matters as much as the dramatic ones: a report that says a system is sound is only worth something if you know how hard somebody looked before writing it. "No leaks" from a man standing in a kitchen means very little. "No leaks" from a man lying under your floor with every tap open means quite a lot.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? This is the standard.

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09/08/2026

Sound on. This is our inspector teaching a trainee, and almost every second of audio is him. 🔊

He starts with the principle, not the problem:

"Majority of the times the bottom is going to deteriorate first, because of water."

That is the whole lesson. Water sits at the bottom of a trim board. The wood stays damp. It softens. And then something finds it.

He probes the garage door surround and gets his answer:

"That looks like termite. That's termite. Yeah, these little holes. Look at them."

A few feet away he finds charred wood — framing that has burned, with new plywood installed directly over the top of it.

And at the garage apron, the trench drain is packed solid and moving nothing.

Here is what I want you to notice about all three. Not one is visible standing in a driveway looking at the house. Every one of them came from somebody crouched down at ground level with a tool in his hand, looking at the part nobody photographs.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? That is the inspection.

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09/03/2026

We checked every window in this house. Every single one had something. 👇

🔴 A sill coming apart under a probe
🔴 Finish peeling off the frame — that is our inspector calling it on camera
🔴 Sashes that needed working
🔴 Wood already rotting underneath

Here is the part buyers miss. One bad window is a repair you negotiate. A house full of them is a number that changes what the home is worth to you.

And peeling finish is not cosmetic. Paint and varnish are the only thing standing between weather and bare wood. Once that lets go, water gets behind it, and rot starts somewhere you cannot see until somebody puts a blade in it.

If you are walking a house this weekend, open a window. Then open another one. If they all feel the same way, that is your answer.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We will tell you what the whole house is doing, not just the one room you noticed.

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08/31/2026

Sound on for this one — that is our inspector. ⚡

"GFCI?" ... "No it's not."

Five electrical findings from one inspection:

🔴 Exterior outlet with no GFCI protection
🔴 The next exterior outlet, same result
🔴 An exhaust fan that does not work
🔴 Every remaining receptacle in the house tested
🔴 Including the basement

Let me explain why the first two are the ones that matter.

A GFCI is not a convenience device. It monitors the current going out against the current coming back, and when those stop matching — because some of it found another path, like through a person — it cuts power in a fraction of a second. That is the entire purpose.

Exterior receptacles are where that scenario actually happens. Rain. A hose. Wet hands. Standing on wet ground with no shoes. It is the highest-risk location for a receptacle in the entire house, and it is the one people are least likely to check.

They are also one of the cheaper corrections on a typical inspection report. Which is what makes finding them worth the trouble.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We test every outlet in the house. Not a sample.

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08/27/2026

Basements do not stage. 👇

Four findings from one:

🔴 Paint releasing from the wall
🔴 A floor drain completely clogged
🔴 A support post almost completely unattached
🔴 Outside at grade, a pipe that swings free of the wall

Everything upstairs in a house can be presented. Fresh paint, staged furniture, good lighting. The basement is where you find out what has actually been going on.

The floor drain is the finding I would push hardest on. It is the designed emergency path for water — a water heater that lets go, a supply line that bursts, groundwater after a hard rain. And here is the problem with a clogged one: it looks exactly like a working one. There is no symptom, no warning, no difference at all — right up until the day there is water on the floor and it has nowhere to go.

The support post matters for a different reason. Fasteners at the top and bottom are what keep a post doing its job under lateral movement. A post that is only standing there is not doing everything it was installed to do.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We go all the way down. On our knees, with a light.

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08/25/2026

St. Clair County agents — a quick word about the inspector you refer. 👇

Every home inspection clip that spreads on social media is a disaster clip. Sewer roots, foundation cracks, mold. We post those too, because they are real.

But here is what that does to your business: it teaches buyers that inspection day is when the deal dies. So they walk in braced for bad news, and the whole thing feels adversarial before anybody opens a panel.

This video is the other outcome, and it is a common one.

✅ Attic with clean framing, even insulation, and easy access
✅ Range hood tested and working
✅ Paper laid under the drains, checked, and dry

A good inspector is not looking for a reason to torpedo your closing. A good inspector documents what is actually there. When a house is in good shape, that belongs in the report just as clearly as a defect does — because that is what gives your buyer the confidence to sign.

The referral you make says something about you. Send them to someone thorough enough to be believed when the news is good.

Serving Belleville, O'Fallon, Shiloh, Swansea, Fairview Heights, Mascoutah, Freeburg, Millstadt, Lebanon, and across St. Clair County.

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08/20/2026

A day of inspections, four findings, and not one of them visible from the ground. 👇

🔴 The snow guards on a metal roof have all detached. Our inspector is holding one in the first shot — and look at the panels behind it. Those rectangular marks are the adhesive footprints where the rest of them used to be.
🔴 They ended up in the gutter, which was already packed with leaf debris
🔴 At another property, a gutter cover that lifts off the run with one hand
🔴 A board under an exterior door, completely unattached

The snow guard one matters more than it looks. On a metal roof, snow does not melt off gradually the way it does on shingle — it releases in sheets, all at once. Snow guards are what break that up. When they are gone, whatever is under that roofline is what stops the snow. A walkway. A deck. A vehicle. Somebody's shoulders.

And a gutter already full of debris cannot handle the water that comes off a metal roof, which sheds faster than any other roofing material.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We get on the roof, on the ladder, and on our knees — and we tell you what we find.

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08/18/2026

Sound on for this one — that is our inspector. 🔊

Four findings from a single walkthrough:

🔴 A tub spout that rotates a full circle in your hand
🔴 Tree limbs sitting directly over the roof
🔴 A tree big enough that the whole roof lives in its shade
🔴 A pipe under the sink, still dripping

Here is why each one matters more than it looks:

A tub spout is supposed to be fixed in place. When it spins, whatever it is threaded onto behind that wall is taking the twist — and everything that happens after that happens inside a wall cavity where nobody sees it until the drywall tells you.

Limbs that close to a roof scrub shingles every time the wind moves, fill gutters year round, and hand squirrels a bridge to your attic.

And a drip you can actually watch form is a drip that has been running long enough to leave staining behind it.

Buying in the St. Louis metro or the Metro East? We will show you what is actually going on — while you still have room to negotiate.

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