For our second post in the "Cool Stuff in Your Home" series, we'd like you to go inside your bathroom, kitchen, or laundry room, and see if you can find the Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter. Sorry, that's a long name. Let's just call it a "GFCI" like most people do....

For this post and our next one, we'd like to turn our (and your!) attention to a couple of helpful things in your home that don't usually get a lot of fanfare. The first thing we'd like to show you is the bendy piping underneath the drain of your sink. It's called a...

While summer may be officially over, this is a good time to consider how your air conditioning system held up to what you've thrown at it in the past few months. Has it been working as efficiently as you're used to, or does it seem to be slowing down a bit? If you...

Have you noticed that people seem to be spending more time indoors than they used to? Sure, the pandemic hasn't really helped a lot with that, but even beyond that, technology, bad weather, and office jobs are just a few significant things that have caused people to...

If you spent some time thinking about the way your home is used during the summer, you may be surprised at how different it is compared to other months of the year. Just take one system in your home as an example - your plumbing. During the summer months, the weather...

The attic is one of the areas of a home where most homeowners never go but can be one of the biggest sources of serious issues. Most attics are difficult to access, and even if you can make it up there, it can be difficult to look closely at what's going on up there....

We get asked that question a lot. In fact, it is usually the first thing that most people ask when calling a home inspector. But let’s get the obvious answer out of the way: it depends. The price of an inspection depends on location, size of the home, which additional...

Have you been considering whether or not to install security cameras on your property? If so, you’re in good company. Many property owners install cameras to deter criminals, to help police catch criminals after a crime has been committed, to check in on their...

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