Island Home Inspection

After 13 years and thousands of quality home inspections, Island Home Inspection is hanging up the tools for retirement. We would like to thank everyone that has put their trust in us and we hope you all have happy homes here on the Island. ✌️🥰

Some older homes came equipped with three seperate chimney flues, often a large one for the fireplace, typically blackened one for the oil furnace and sometimes a third flue for a lower level fireplace or wood stove. We will always recommend capping off current flues that are no longer in use so they will not deteriorate from rain and snow, but also to prevent animal intrusion. Secured metal cap flashing is the best material.

With no end in sight to the rain it is a good time to take a peak in your attic to check for leaks, this attic has a lot of other problems but keeping the water out is the number one priority, it was not doing a very good job. Valleys, protrusions, and low slope areas are usually where leaks begin.