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Home Maintenance tips provided by a home inspector in New Jersey who performs home inspections in Bergen, Essex, Morris and Passaic County in NJ.
This may sound out and right
silly but the best home maintenance you can perform on your home is obvious to any home
inspector. Ready for this. Keep it
dry. That is right keep water out of the
outside of the home and within the plumbing
pipes on the inside and fix what breaks as soon
as it breaks and odds are your home will be
trouble free.
As a home inspector I see it all the time. The
owner does not replace the roofing when he or
she should. Water stains start on the
underside of the roof shingles, progress down
the roof rafters where latent damages within the
walls start, then the carpenter ants come to
nest in the wet wood. Now we have a roof
leak, insects, then mold and mildew in the walls
followed by .... thus a small roof leak now cost
thousands or tens of thousands to cure.
Next is the person who does
not paint exterior wood surfaces. First to
go are windows and exterior window trim, next is
the siding, fascia and soffits. Water
stains start where trim sections meet, progress
down the walls where latent damages within the
walls start, then the carpenter ants come to
nest in the wet wood. Now we have a
leak, insects, then mold and mildew in the walls
followed by .... thus a small roof leak now cost
thousands or tens of thousands to cure.
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