A Beginners Guide To Homes
Home Inspection Tips That You Should Take Note
Discovering some issues about your home that would endanger the idea of selling the home is the last thing that you would want to happen. Even if there will be issues that will be revealed every time your home will have a home inspection, if you have kept your home properly maintained, you will not be worrying about a thing. If you kept a proper maintenance to your home, you will be able to avoid some of the very common issues and problems that will be found by the home inspection team.
There are some reasons that would result to not having the proper maintenance to a home like the lack of money, the lack of interest, or the lack of time. But every time it will come to selling your home and you are aware that a lot of people are interested, you should be able to take care of these things.
The little things might possibly cost you the sale of your home since those are the things that are nagging you and might result to a big issue for the potential buyers. You can avoid these issues if you take note of the five important areas when it comes to the inspection of your home.
1. Coils located in the furnace and dirty filter, heat pump or air conditioning system. If you have a professional to conduct a maintenance on your cooling and heating system once a year can help you take care of this issue. You should also take note that you need to replace or clean the filters at least a month or three based on the needs of the system that you have. You should do this in order for the unit to have a better fuel saving, efficiency, a longer life, and to make sure that your home will have the right cooling and heating.
2. A bad caulking of the ceramic tile on the shower area and the tub. It will cost you a lot of money for the repair or replacement on a rotted wall inside your shower area. That is why you should consider having a proper caulking on the tiles in your shower area in order to save a lot of money. A small crack on the grout or calk inside the shower area is enough for water to pass through.
3. A malfunctioning GFCI or Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters The GFCI or Ground Fault Circuit Interrupters are those electrical outlets with the buttons for Press and Test. These outlets help prevent the chances of having an electrocution.
4. Rotten wood is one of the biggest issue that would prevent the sale of your home. Having the proper moisture barrier will help you prevent rotten wood in your home.
5. Allowing an amateur do the needed repairs and maintenance. Most of the time the materials that are used by the amateurs that will be doing the home project are of poor quality or not the ones that are needed for the project.