Author: swilson

A lot of times when in a social setting and people find out I am a home inspector, I've often get asked, "What's the coolest house you've ever inspected?" You would think if might be difficult to narrow down the different houses, but this is always an easy one.  The secret tunnel house.  When I respond that I inspected a house that had a secret tunnel in the basement that connected to another house, I always get LOTS of questions afterwards.  Technically speaking, the tunnel wasn't a secret, but looking at the house or property from the outside, you never would no it was there. It was located in the basement of a 100 year old house.  A row of bookshelves along the wall, and above one of the shelves…

INFRARED CAMERA USE FOR YOUR HOME INSPECTION Infrared camera (sometimes called thermal imaging) use during a home inspection is becoming more and more popular.  Informed home buyers aware of accessible tools are looking for home inspectors that offer these services.  And home inspectors that want to offer a complete inspection to their clients are arming themselves with these cameras.  It provides a way to view a home in an entirely different perspective. To put it very(very) simply, infrared cameras measure the surface temperatures and display them as a picture with various colors for each temperature range.  In the picture above, hot and cold water pipes can be seen being fed in and out of a water heater in the basement.  The hot being the brighter yellow color, and cold being…