Top 5 Home Inspection Issues Every Buyer Should Know! What to Expect & Tips for Buyers
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- Опубликовано: 4 фев 2025
- Join Juan & Rob as they walk through a real home inspection, pointing out the top 5 common issues every buyer needs to be aware of. With their clear and easy-to-understand explanations, even if you're not familiar with real estate, you'll feel confident identifying potential red flags in your next home purchase. This video is packed with valuable insights that could save you money and help you make an informed decision.
Whether you're a first-time homebuyer or a seasoned investor, this video is a must-watch for understanding the inspection process. Don’t miss out on their expert tips that make complicated issues simple and accessible!
What You’ll Learn:
How to identify foundation issues in North Texas homes
Key signs of roof damage and what to inspect
Common HVAC system problems and how to check for inefficiencies
Electrical system safety checks and the importance of up-to-date wiring
Plumbing red flags that could indicate costly water damage
Key Takeaways:
Learn how to spot major home inspection issues before buying
Discover common problems specific to North Texas homes
Get tips from expert home inspectors on how to evaluate a home’s condition
Protect your investment by understanding what to look for in your inspection report
If you're ready to make a smart home purchase, this video is for you! Subscribe for more tips on home inspections, real estate, and property maintenance.
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Wish I had found this video BEFORE I listed my house. Good tips/info. Thanks!
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I had piers put in for my foundation and they went 20ft down, so glad I did. So far, no issues whatsoever and I don't water around my foundation. I also don't have a sprinkler system for the lawn so my grass goes dormant most summers with the soil separating from the foundation. There was a low spot along my garage wall where water collected during rainy season but no problems with settling.
There's another reason for the drywall to crack at the wall to ceiling intersection. Wood shrinks along the narrow sides, but not the length. The wall lumber will not move the drywall up and down as the lumber goes from dry to wet, only in and out. The lumber goes a different way in the roof, it goes up and down. Additionally, it's rare for the house to be conditioned while it's being framed, nor for the framing lumber to be at the long-term dryness, so it will naturally shrink as air conditioning removes humidity from the boards.
There is insulation between the drywall and roof, but limited by the thickness of the lumber. This is generally not enough insulation. Most homes built in the 1980s and earlier are inadequately insulated in both the walls and ceilings, but insulation is present.
You've got great insights about this topic! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Right now, I'm having a lot of questions around timing about buying & selling... Do you have any questions about our local real estate market? I can answer for you... Thanks again for your insights! :-)
@@johnhaller5851 Old houses like mine in Los Angeles have plaster , not drywall. Isn't drywall full of formaldehyde and other toxins and made in China?
@chrislastnam6822 There was a time when drywall was being imported from China which did have formaldehyde between 2001 and 2009, but outside that time, there is no longer an issue.
Plaster needs skilled trades and is very labor intensive. It's hard to get a flat wall without a lot of practice using plaster and lath.
Thank you for your comment. When I heard that there’s no insulation in the “roof” portion of the house, I was thinking…that’s just wrong! If there’s insulation there also has to be ventilation. I’m not familiar enough on just how that is accomplished but I “assume” it is by soffit vents and a continuous ridge vent. Please correct me if I am wrong.
@brucecorman7304 it can also be mushroom vents in the roof, it depends on how complicated the roofline is, and what materials were available when the house was built. Newer ridge vents for non-ridges are available now, but might not have been when the house was built.
I have lots of cracks in my 1930s house in Los Angeles but it has survived significant earthquakes .
I wish North Texas had Los Angeles weather and soil... Unfortunately, we have this awful black clay that expands and contracts with our wet & dry seasons... I was flying in to LA every month to attend coaching sessions with Brendon Burchards and fell in love with the area... ~Bettina :-)
Helpful. Esp when you grew up in another state.
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I've replaced glass in windows with double pane glass (from glass shop). Way way cheaper and easier than to replace window, though my frames were wooden. I just brought photo and glass in to shop, covered window cuz took a week to get the new glass.
I did too
I was told that the Lake Granbury, Texas area was a foundation nightmare. Nice video.
Hey Johnathan, that's a great question. I can ask my inspector about Lake Granbury.. Are there any areas you might know more about or just Lake Granbury? Btw, glad you liked the video! :-)
@@homestarsellers I was told this by an old time real estate agent. I have no other information.
I've also heard that in parts of Texas there cannot be basements due to the soil characteristics. Also, with water becoming more and more scarce, it seems constantly watering building foundations would be a huge waste of precious water.
I've always heard that building near any water source means extra cost/foundation support. They say that with pools in particular.
To replace a window like that in Ohio is about 1K to 2K. They always want to replace the entire window.
You forgot about sandy loam soil in Aubrey and other areas.
I am in Los Angeles and we had quite a few earthquakes this year and the weather was quite hot in this past summer and now it’s getting cold. I keep hearing quite a few popping and cracking sounds every day. Should I be concerned?
Sounds like your foundation is dry and shrinking. Do you see cracks in the dry wall yet?
@ yes on the ceiling, wall and at the joints like in the video. :(
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Why aren't our foundations thicker here in Texas? Seems like there would be less shift if the home was built on a better foundation. And if I water the home, how do I keep termites away?
They're cheap. North you get a 10ft+ deep foundation, and nearly doubles your sqft not included in the pricing per sqft, which you don't get here.
A major component of a concrete foundation starts with soil bearing pressure. What type of soils are in your area. It’s all in the geological reports during planning of any sub- division. Living in SoCal it’s important for obvious reasons, lol.
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Three areas that ALSO must be considered in our area (California, Bay area)--Soil, Earthquake and Windows..We have ADOBE SOIL which has several issues involving movement....Post tension foundations must be considered...Earthquake strapping and shear nailing also needs special attention---and windows..Double pane sealing that fails in the cheaper windows,causing fogging are an expensive upgrades..All three ( if not address correctly) are costly.
Wow... Sounds like we in North Texas have similar challenges without having the added challenges of earthquakes... Thank you for the added insight! :-)
@@homestarsellers The earthquake issue is not as bad as the media makes it..I am 82, born and raised in a earthquake prone area.There have been two major earthquakes in my lie.1957 shook seriously with not much damage, 1989 Loma Preadia quake was the most serious, where "PART" of the Bay Bridge failed and the area where the bay was filled in and built on, had significant damage (That's called liquid faction)..Quakes are not that frequent, but if a person is in the wrong place, it can be very serious..Like anything, we pick our poison..The media has portrayed other parts of the Country as pretty bad..Hurricanes, floods, drought etc .seem quite frequent..Another factor we deal with in California is FIRE!--that has become serious with drought and climate change..Some make that serious --while others dismiss the problem..I am a retired Fireman..The stats show a definite increase in serious fires..Building materials, codes have helped some, but it still is a serious problem..
80% of the time, you don’t for sure what is causing those cracks. It could be from differential foundation movement or thermal variations, but there are many other factors that can come into play as well. You need to look for patterns like cracks in the brick, cracks in drywall, separated moldings, doors sticking or not latching in the same areas of the house to say whether or not there might be a foundation problem.
What is the recommendation for garage floor cracks? Repair or not before listing a home?
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Is it more worth it to just pay extra in excavating and bury footings/stemwall into Texas limestone soils or pier and beam into limestone soils to lock things in deeper?
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I can't find a concrete patch product with a good review at Home Depot. Any recommendations?
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One thing Home Inspectors should know is the difference between Carpenter Ants and Fire Ants.
Yes, they are very different. Fire ants are tiny while carpenter ants are quite large.
Carpenter and so aren't a big deal, but termites are. If you have enough fire ants though, they'll eat the termites.
Do NOT apply concrete patch "with your hand" unless you want chemical burns. If you don't use a trowel, make sure you use a glove
What is the typical energy bill on a recently built 2400 sq foot home in Texas?---thanks
Really depends on the energy efficient features that have been added to the home... Also, if it's gas and electric or just electric... If we're looking at all electric new homes, you can budget $200 to $220 a month to be safe, which is less than my home built in 2003 :-)
I'm in DFW and our house was build in 2021 - 2500sqf and we have gas stove, gas water heater and gas heat HVAC and our bill ranges between $80 to $180 a month with a rate of 11c/kwh , Texas has open market for electricity providers so depends what rate you contracted for and the rates are higher now, we locked our rate over 2 years ago and we are up to renewal in May. If the house has only electricity and no gas you bill will be higher during winter.
$60-200 during really hot summer. Ranches seem to be cheaper to cool and easier to insulate better. We have gas heat, very cheap
3800 sq ft runs us $400-500 a month in AC (non-stop running per se) & 2008 build. North TX
3023sqft 2012 build. Two story with two hvac units. Summer it averages out to $350 per month with thermostat set to 72F downstairs and not used upstairs. We are paying $0.13 per kwh....using about 70kwh per day and sometimes up to 100 if it gets hot enough but rare.
I wouldn’t be placing my bare hand in those foundation holes…rattlesnakes!
LOL! Luckily, we haven't seen rattle snakes here in the suburbs... You see them closer to the lakes and up in the hills... Also, you'll see more copper heads than rattlesnakes.. Either way, I agree not sticking my hands in any foundation holes!
They taste like chicken.
"There are no drywall nails"
That's 100% bullshit. Nails used to be the only way drywall was installed. There are still a few people that still use drywall nails to install drywall, but it's pretty rare these days.
Thank you for you input:-) You're absolutely right... nails were commonly used for drywall in the past and it's rarer now. Our goal with our conversation with Rob was to share the home inspector's perspective, but we do appreciate you adding more context. It's always great to hear from knowledgeable folks in our community :-)
They still screw drywall in Ohio. They don't use nails.
All our sheetrock was hung at the ceiling by nails, then secured with screws. The nails are dimpled to take mud to hide them, but they’ve pretty much all popped in the 7 years we’ve been here (just barely outside Collin Co. on Lake Lewisville). Most of the pops didn’t matter because the crown I put up covered them. The others I just hammer in deeper, then some no-shrink spackle. Very few have needed any retouch.
I tried removing “Just the glass.” The glass was safety glass - it BROKE. I sealed the broken pane with plastic and plywood. First the inside pane, then sweeping up the 300,000 little pieces. ( It went well.) Now I only have the outside pane to go. We worried that that piece too, would break if we tried to move it with suction cups, so we enclosed it and deliberately broke it inside and installed the same plywood and plastic. The main story here is slowly remove the whole frame. Don’t think that you are going to have luck just changing the failed insulated glass. Figure 2 xs 300,000 little pieces.
Thanks for sharing your experience! Sometimes changing out the whole frame doesn't work because the new frame won't match the house so we hire a professional window company you can go to juanandbettina.com/vendors to find one that has had good referrals or good references, and what they will do is unseal it and put it back together I can totally see how trying to do it yourself, would be very difficult. Congratulations on attempting it! I don't think that that's something I would have even tried to do.👍
There's a technique to that. There are plastic pieces holding the glass in, as well as double-sided tape. The latter has to be softened with a hair dryer before it will release. Sometimes the panes will break even when removing the frame by professionals, so putting down a liner inside and outside is advisable just in case. It's difficult to replace the entire window and get a comparable seal in a masonry house, as you can't get to the fins, and end up depending on caulking to seal it.
That’s not really a diy project. All the glass guys have the tools and techniques to prevent all that mess.
@ Hi. Oh I did fine.
Not to mention the big disconnect between the pro inspector and the builder whose crew is 2 x subcontracted and barely know or understand the job. Builders should give guarantees that their workers are qualified to perform the work they are doing at every step of construction. PS nothing against immi workers but they should be trained appropriately.
Did this guy just say that there is no insulation in a vaulted ceiling? ,,,in North Texas? Wow! Makes me want to question everything else he says.
So, this guy is saying there’s no insulation between the vaulted drywall and roof deck? I guarantee there’s probably an r20 or so bat between the sheathing and the backside of the drywall.
Stupid matchstick houses, poured concrete frame is the way to go, or steel beam framing
WOW, These guys left out the true reasons for corner cracks and the soil drying up. Not only that but there is NO WAY soaker hoses will put enough water into your soil at depths needed to prevent issues. This is an old wives tale. It may keep the soil up against the concrete but it isn't addressing the moisture at the depth below the foundation and further. Waste of time and money.
It's more like "corner" CON
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This is absolutely f ing insane Anyone who says you should water your slab in Texas is sipping the same idiot coolaid as these horrible engineers saying you should do so.
Your house should NEVER HAVE CRACKS IN THE WALLS NO MATTER WHAT!!!! I have a idea how about driving some pillars down before you just place a post tension slab on the ground to act like a got dam surfboard with NOTHING to support it or stop it from moving. Stop getting screwed Texans we should start a class action law suit.!
Especially with low water supply and cost of water going up and up. Texans deal with almost every summer. Water your lawn 1 time a week in triple digits but water your slab constantly wtf this whole slab thing has me heated 🤬 houses are being built to last few years that's it
Unfortunately, with gumbo soil, drought, heat, you gotta.
@@ponchosancho7710 Soaker hoses are used to water foundations in Texas. Strategically placed around
the foundation of the house. Turn the water on for about 15 minutes each day unless it's raining.
House is on crack
So, this guy is saying there’s no insulation between the vaulted drywall and roof deck? I guarantee there’s probably an r20 or so bat between the roof sheathing and the backside of the drywall.
My kids rented a house and this was the situation I thought it was crazy, in winter it's colder and summer it's hotter🙏🌬🕊💞Tercerfiat