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09/04/2026

Happy Friday! Please remember to share and tag your favorite realtor! Here is your Friday funny from your friendly local builder and home inspector! Walk-in shower for the ultimate multitasker?

09/03/2026

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09/02/2026

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I'm back again to explain the importance of the home inspection on new construction. Now, the home that I'm about to talk about was 2 years old, but the point of this is, this condition existed, most likely, when the home was new, completed and inspected by the municipality. I found that one of the bathroom receptacles was wired backwards. Now this blows my mind, because any good electrician is going to check out the house when the power is turned on and make sure that all receptacles in wet areas are tripping a GFCI. Plus, it blows my mind that it was wired backwards because everything is literally color-coded, I don't even know how the electrician messed it up. But the electrician missed it, the builder missed it, and the electrical inspector for the municipality missed it. Passed all inspections and got a certificate of occupancy with an unprotected outlet in a wet area. The house closed and the people moved in with an unsafe condition. New construction still needs an inspection, repeated tip from your friendly local builder and home inspector!

08/28/2026

Happy Friday! Please remember to share and tag your favorite realtor! Here is your Friday funny from your friendly local builder and home inspector! Someone really doesn't want to be bothered while doing their business...

08/21/2026

Happy Friday! Please remember to share and tag your favorite realtor! Here is your Friday funny from your friendly local builder and home inspector! If only it was that simple LOL

08/19/2026

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I've seen this more than once, and multiple times, lately... Where unfinished basements have been partially finished and adjoin an unfinished garage. Part of the now finished basement is a bathroom and they have to install an exhaust fan for the bathroom. The duct for that exhaust fan should travel all the way to the exterior and be terminated there. Just running the duct over the top of the wall and venting into the garage, definitely not recommended and definitely not right. This vent could actually allow carbon monoxide into the house, but at a minimum, do moisture damage to the wood components of floor system nearby over time. So, if you see ductwork terminated like this, it's wrong. Should be going to the exterior. Another tip from your friendly local builder and home inspector!

08/14/2026

Happy Friday! Please remember to share and tag your favorite realtor! Here is your Friday funny from your friendly local builder and home inspector!
Friend of mine sent me this, I don't know where he finds this stuff, but it made me laugh because I told him one time that I was inspecting a house and the whole time there was a parrot talking to me...

08/12/2026

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I see this very often on new construction, damaged shingles on the roof where there is siding above. This happens a lot over covered porches of various types or where there are transitions in multiple levels of the home. In the process of new construction, the roof goes on before the siding. The siding guys, not being careful and not padding the feet of their ladders, set the ladders on the roof to do the siding above the roof area. Especially in the warmer months, when the shingles are softer, the ladders dig into the shingles. Over time, these divots deteriorate and start to leak. Pictures are from one the other day where I found this issue, not the best examples and not the easiest to see... But you can see the scuffs. I will post some more if I see some even worse damage that is more evident when I come across some, because I know I will. Again, bottom line, new construction still needs an inspection. Another tip from your friendly local builder and home inspector!

08/07/2026

Happy Friday! Please remember to share and tag your favorite realtor! Here is your Friday funny from your friendly local builder and home inspector! Seems like I've seen this before, might have even posted it before, but came across it and thought it was funny... Certainly not a proper repair LOL

08/05/2026

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Something that I have been seeing a lot of recently, HVAC heat pump systems going into auxiliary heat prematurely. You should be able to turn up your thermostat at least 2° without auxiliary heat coming on. Auxiliary heat shouldn't come on until there is a difference of 3° in increase on the thermostat. Unfortunately, I'm seeing this a lot on new construction. Now, if you don't know what you're looking for and you don't know any better, you just think that the heat is working, but what auxiliary heat is, it is when there is a significant change on the thermostat and the electric heat strips are activated to help heat faster until the heat pump can catch up. That's helpful, especially under colder conditions, but that also draws significantly more electricity. If the heat strips are coming on every time you turn up the thermostat, that tends to make your power bill higher. Well, everybody's power bill is already too high, so nobody wants that. If you want to check this yourself, if you have a heat pump, set it to heat and turn it up 2° above what the thermostat says the room temperature is at that time. If all the thermostat indicates is that the heat is on, then that's good, but if you see somewhere on the thermostat AUX HEAT, that means it's coming on too soon. Have an HVAC contractor take a look and get that figured out. Nobody wants to pay the service charge, but it's cheaper than the power bill over time. Another tip from your friendly local builder and home inspector!

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Kernersville, NC
27284

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Monday	7:30am - 4:30pm
Tuesday	7:30am - 4:30pm
Wednesday	7:30am - 4:30pm
Thursday	7:30am - 4:30pm
Friday	7:30am - 4:30pm

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