Additional duct sealing made the new house cozy
I never knew how hard it was to buy a new house.
- My wife and I spent months visiting open houses in the area we liked without any positive results.
There was always an issue with the house that was revealed during the inspection. My wife is a trained inspector and always managed to see what homeowners were hiding from potential buyers. So we chose to wait a little longer to get the best house. A year later, the search was over when we got a new build. It was an excellent house that was up to code, in the right location, and within our budget. Not to mention, the owner had installed a new HVAC unit and gas furnace in the house. This would mean we didn’t have to incur extra costs to get proper air conditioning in the house. My wife called a friend of hers to the house who was a professional AC expert. She wanted him to evaluate the HVAC unit and gas furnace first. This would tell us if the units were in the best conditions before signing on the dotted line. In a previous house, the owner had lied that the new units were energy efficient when they were not. We weren’t about to be fooled twice. The AC inspector came over that afternoon and began evaluating the HVAC unit and gas furnace. Both were in excellent shape and would serve us well during the extreme summer and winter months. His only suggestion was to add more duct sealing in our new house before winter to make it much more comfortable. That was an extra cost we were willing to pay since the homeowner had been truthful.