Norway Hill Home Inspections Blog
Adventures in Home Owning: Indoor DIY Home Maintenance for Millennials
Dear Homeowner, Purchasing and maintaining a home is no easy feat, particularly for young homeowners. Luckily, time and again, through overcoming historic levels of student debt, securing jobs in a sluggish market, and fighting for increased wages across the board,...
Adventures in Home Owning: Fighting Low Temps with a Low Heat Bill
Dear Homeowner, We must’ve done it all by now, surely—serviced the heating unit, tested for drafts, hung heavy curtains, and rotated the fans, but the fact remains that when faced with four to five months of steep electric and heating bills, there is always more that...
Adventures in Home Owning: Natural Cleaning for a Chemical Free Home
Dear Homeowner, It’s never until the dead of winter that we fully appreciate that first day of spring—the day when it is finally warm enough to roll up the blinds, crack open the windows, and let that first breath of fresh air drift through the house. Until that...
Adventures in Home Owning: DIY Decorating your Home for Fall
Dear Homeowner, I know, I know. Last week we gave you yet another list of “to do’s.” And, as important as these tasks are for the upkeep and longevity of your home, homeownership can’t be all work and no play. So this week we’re giving free reign to have some fun with...
Adventures in Home Owning: Preparing your Home for Fall
Dear Homeowner, At the end of the summer, we took steps to prepare our homes for the coming seasons. From checking your home for drafts and cracks to cleaning up your gutters and lawns, hopefully, our August article helped you to get a head start on battening down the...
Adventures in Home Owning: The Benefits of a Pre-Listing Home Inspection
Dear Homeowner, You know your home inside and out. After all, who found each of its nooks and crannies? Who can identify the brand of paint used in each room? Who knows just which floorboard to avoid when sneaking down for that late night snack? With this wealth of...
Adventures in Home Owning: How to Winterize Your Summer Home
Dear Homeowner, In a few months time, it will be impossible to go for a dip in the nearby lake. That shiny grill and the glass bar you use so much in the warm months will be rendered obsolete with a few feet of snow. The large bay windows that give you such excellent...
Adventures in Home Owning: Cons to Buying an Old Home
Dear Homeowner, During the first two weeks of this month, we asked you the question: to build, or not to build? This week, we finally reach the final part of our second question: to buy, or not to buy? One of the more obvious potential downsides of buying a previously...
Adventures in Home Owning: Pros to Buying an Old Home
Dear Homeowner, To buy, or not to buy? That is today’s question. Over the past two weeks, we covered some of the pros and cons of buying a newly built home. This week we are going to look at the positives and negatives in choosing a house that has already been built...
Adventures in Home Owning: Cons to Buying a New Home
Dear Homeowner, We began last week by posing the question: to build, or not to build? This week we will continue exploring that question but will delve into the cons that exist when building a new home for yourself. Hand in hand with the biggest pro of building your...
Adventures in Home Owning: Pros to Buying a New Home
Dear Homeowner, To build, or not to build? That is today’s question. The decision to purchase any home is a deeply personal one, but to purchase a home that you will observe quite literally being built from the ground up is perhaps the most personal of all. Like any...
Adventures in Home Owning: Renting vs. Owning
Dear Homeowner, Or should we say home renter? Of course, there is no one way to own the place we call home: some call home a place that has been offered to them, some call home a place they pay a mortgage for, and some call home a place they pay a landlord for. To be...
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