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Home inspections are very common when people are deciding on whether or not to purchase a home. If you are selling yours, the odds are high that the potential buyer will have a home inspector check out the house before they close on it. The potential buyer may hire someone to do a very detailed …

A home inspector does his or her best to try to find problems that could prove harmful to a homeowner. While some potential problems and hazards may be visible to the naked eye, other problems may not be easy to detect with the naked eye. These include thing like radon and termites. Radon inspections in …

Gas piping is a very important aspect that gets evaluated as part of American Verified Home Inspections thorough inspection.  Much of the gas piping is not visible behind walls and finished ceilings in the basement.  What is visible will be evaluated as part of your Cincinnati home inspection.  This picture shows a flexible gas pipe connector …

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When most homebuyers have an inspection done, their biggest priority is to ensure there are no catastrophic defects with the house they are buying. By catastrophic they usually mean no issues that are going to be terribly expensive to fix, make the house unsafe to live in, or prevent them from selling it at some …

Ice Dams and leaking roofs in the winter Since it is snowing here in Cincinnati, I thought I?d write a quick article on Ice dams and the possibility of leaking roofs. Ice dams form when snow melts either from the top of the roof (from sunshine), or warm air from the house enters the attic …

Furnaces come in 3 types of efficiencies. Low, mid and high. The lowest efficient furnaces are typically 40 years old or more. You?d be surprised how many of these are still in use in homes. I live in Cincinnati, former home of Williamson furnace company. You can identify a Williamson furnace, because they are typically …

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