Home Inspection Blog

You don't need a $30,000 kitchen remodel before selling your house. You might need a $7 furnace filter. That's not nearly as exciting. Nobody posts before-and-after pictures of their new furnace filter on Instagram. There's no HGTV show called Extreme GFCI Makeover. But after inspecting hundreds of homes throughout my career, I can tell you that inspection reports aren't filled exclusively with dramatic foundation failures, collapsing roofs and haunted electrical panels.

The Home Inspector’s Early-Fall HVAC & Safety Check The Midwest Homeowner Survival Guide: Summer → Fall — Part 4 Check these 10 crucial furnace maintenance tips for Illinois homeowners to ensure a safe and efficient transition into fall. Stay prepared with Midwest Inspect's safety checklist. The worst time to discover your furnace doesn’t work is the exact same morning everyone else in Illinois discovers theirs doesn’t work. You know the morning. Yesterday it was 78°. Today i

By late summer, we've had months of Midwest thunderstorms, humidity and heavy rain putting our homes' water-management systems through their annual stress test. And that's exactly why late summer is one of the best times to inspect your basement for moisture problems. As a home inspector with Midwest Inspect, water management is one of the biggest things I'm paying attention to during an inspection. Not because every damp basement means the foundation is failing. It doesn't.

Snow is nature's version of fresh paint. Everything looks great when you can't see what's underneath it. Every fall in Illinois, our homes slowly begin disappearing. First, the grass gets covered with leaves. Then the landscaping starts dying back. Daylight disappears sometime around lunch. And eventually snow arrives and gives the entire property a beautiful white blanket that says: "Don't worry about any of this until April."