I saw this with clients recently. These are copper fittings coming from a fairly new steam boiler. The inspector said it is wrong--do you know why? Generally, copper is a superior material for piping in a house. Copper has a great track record for durability, but it got expensive enough to encourage a plastic replacement.
First, remember that I am looking at this from the buyer’s side; that’s what I do. I don’t know the minds of sellers. I only know the history of past seasons and the gossip of listing agents about what is coming up. Here’s a quick and easy analogy: seasonal house buying is like seasonal clothes
Some HVAC problems are beyond what I know, so when [email protected] offered answers, I took the opportunity to share them with you. Here’s what they say: What's best for one house may not fit another house on the same block. For that reason, we answer a lot of unique questions about HVAC systems for homeowners
Many house hunters have romantic ideas about owning a house with a fireplace. For house hunters in urban areas, those hopes are rarely fulfilled. Existing housing in the Boston urban area was mostly built without wood-burning fireplaces. Fireplaces were not used for heating at the time that most of this housing stock was built, it
Winter is a bargain-hunters paradise, but it also house-hunting hell. Between Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Day (or Super Bowl Sunday when the Pats are in the playoffs), demand dries up, but so does inventory. The drain on demand is usually higher than the drain on supply. Sellers who can wait until the spring frequently
When you think about Thanksgiving Day, does an image come to mind as your mental picture of Thanksgiving? Does that image take place in a dining room? Is it a dining room you currently own or rent, or one owned or rented by someone you know? Or does Thanksgiving remind you more of outdoor activity
to keep my heat from wanderingby Ron Rothenberg, 4 Buyers Real Estate Though I'm being pleasantly lulled by the warm weather, convinced that Spring is just around the corner, I concede that winter will soon be here. With winter comes high heating bills, which I'm thoroughly opposed to. Winter is bad enough without having to
Incredible shrinking insulationby Ron Rothenberg, 4 Buyers Real Estate I've been in thousands of basements over the years and I can tell you that a home with well-insulated heating pipes are rare. This winter with oil prices at record highs, it pays more than ever to insulate your heating pipes. In most homes, the uninsulated
fooling the eye, myself and my neighbors by Ron Rothenberg, 4 Buyers Real Estate The first few cool days of Autumn send me into a panic. I made so many grand plans for home improvement projects over the summer, and now summer is running out, and I've only done . . . well, not too