District Home Pro

12/13/2022

Do you have questions about your home? A home check-up and maintenance plan will provide peace of mind, and make sure you understand one of your biggest investments, your home! Book before January 15th for a 20% holiday discount. Services are provided by a licensed home inspector.

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07/27/2022

Your HVAC equipment should come with several maintenance “kill“ cut off switches. They are very easy to mistake for regular light switches. Make sure you install a prominent cover plate so that innocent people don’t accidentally turn off your system and cost you an expensive and embarrassing trip from your HVAC tech.

07/18/2022

Waterproofing does not exist. When people say waterproofing, they are either referring to a temporary water-resistant coating, or water management. Even telescopes in space need water management techniques. We think that water management is the best way to deal with water. If you can’t prevent water from coming into your home, wrapping the inside wall of your house with plastic, and inserting that plastic underneath the basement floor will allow you to collect the water and pump it outside without that moisture damaging the finishes inside your house. This is an expensive solution, but it’s a reliable last resort.

07/11/2022

Modern, inexpensive flooring materials have an advantage because they are easy to replace, but they are also easily damaged. Scratching and gouging, and stains from pets are an obvious risk to flooring, but also the sun tends to bleach modern flooring. Sometimes spending more money on your floors means that you have to spend less money overtime, or you don’t have to deal with floors that just look worn after a while.

06/27/2022

Galvanized steel is not toxic, but it has fallen out of favor for use as a plumbing material. Galvanized steel pipes tend to corrode from the inside, which reduces the amount of water that flows through them and thereby, the water pressure at your fixtures. Upgrading galvanized pipes is not necessary unless the flow of water to your fixtures is reduced or if the pipes lead to modern appliances (which are sensitive to particles in the water). Remember that repairing something in your house means fixing a system that doesn’t work but upgrading something in your house means making something that does work in a different way.

06/20/2022

Your home inspector can’t see much of your chimney, when they look up from your fireplace or down from the top of your chimney on the roof, They can only actually see a couple of feet. Your chimney is long and can have damage that is hard to see from that vantage point. You should always consult a CSIA certified chimney sweep when you first take ownership of a home with a fireplace, and if you’re going to use your fireplace to burn wood, the flue should be cleaned regularly.

06/06/2022

In multilevel homes, warm air will tend to move up in the house and cool air will tend to move down. When you’re trying to heat your home having all the air accumulate upstairs doesn’t help downstairs, which is why we install ceiling fans. Ceiling fans don’t cool the air in the house, they just mix it up. That means that using your ceiling fan helps your HVAC costs in the winter as well as the summer.

05/23/2022

Supply plumbing may look sturdy enough to hang things from, but it actually bends easily or get damaged by vibrations, like from a dryer vent. So, although it may seem clever or quick to use your plumbing to hold things up, your plumbing is actually the thing that needs to be suspended. New plumbing and water damage are more expensive than the strap that would hold up a dryer vent.

05/09/2022

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Buying a house is an emotional roller coaster. You will find a home for sale, and the minute you open the front door, you will think – “this is where I want to live!” As you get further along in the purchasing process, you realize that you don’t really know the condition of the home.

05/02/2022

Did you know that windows insulate when there is a layer of air between two panes of glass. That means sometimes “updating” your windows doesn't mean replacing them, which can be expensive. It can also mean adding a second pane of glass. This has an added benefit of not having your expensive double pane windows get cloudy.

04/25/2022

Did you know that the Kitchen and Bath Association of America recommends 15 inches of counter space around kitchen ranges so that no one can walk by and knock of a pot of boiling water and burn everyone nearby?