Blog & Home Inspection Insights

A water heater in a Millis finished basement was set in a drain pan, which is right, but the pan's drain connection was not in use.

Active leaking at the base of an original cast iron main waste stack in a Weymouth basement, rust blobs, and a coat of spray paint over all of it.

Several three prong outlets in a Chestnut Hill condo had no ground behind them. What the plug shape does and does not tell you.

A Boston triple decker with an apparent 200 amp main service and individual 60 amp feeders to the upstairs units, and why that gap matters to a buyer.

New main panel and subpanel in a Medfield basement, with original fabric covered wiring still running out of them and bare conductor visible in places.

A blistered spot on the lower wall of an oil storage tank in a Sharon basement released oil when I touched it. What that means and what I told them to do about it.