Home Inspection Blog

Before you fire up your wood-burning fireplace this year, make sure it’s safe. I don’t mean to be a wet rag; I love wood fires in living rooms, but they’ve got a pretty bad track record. Here are a few stats from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on residential fire losses from 2020 […]

To watch a video version of this podcast, click here: https://youtu.be/0nv6QgYTy50 In this episode of the Structure Talk podcast, Reuben Saltzman and Eric Houseman welcome Nick Roberts and Sam Despres, the team behind HomeTrace, to discuss how AI is changing home inspection software. They explore tools designed to reduce administrative work, including AI-assisted report writing,...

As home inspectors, we come across many photos with a high creep factor, and we save most of them for this time of year. Enjoy! Snakes in the crawlspace. Dead squirrel. High-stakes chimney Jenga gone wrong. Mouse remains after it got into a wall outlet. This is why we need cover plates. Squirrel remains. […]

To watch a video version of this podcast, click here: https://youtu.be/acuCH3qjeEc In this episode of the Structure Talk podcast, Reuben Saltzman joined by co-host Eric Houseman, talks with Jamie Smith, Deputy Chief of the St. Paul Fire Department, and AJ Neis, St. Paul’s Fire Code Official, about residential fire safety, smoke and carbon monoxide alarm […]

Technically, you can’t pass or fail a home inspection. A home inspector will point out the good, the bad, and the ugly… but they’ll never pass or fail a home. What you do with the home inspection report is up to you. But if a home could fail a home inspection, here are some things that […]