What the Inspector Sees: A Homeowner's Walkthrough of the Problems That Cost the Most

The expensive problems in a house are rarely the ones you notice.

This is a walkthrough, written in the order a surveyor actually moves through a property, of the faults that cost the most to put right - and how to spot them before you buy, or before they get worse in the house you already own.

The organising idea is water. Nearly every major building defect is water arriving somewhere it should not, from one of four directions: from above, from below, from outside, from inside. Learn to think in those four and the whole building starts making sense.

Inside: - The four waters, and the tell-tales for each - what to look at, what to smell, what to press - Roof, wall, floor, and the junctions between them, in walkthrough order - Triage: Now, Next, Fund, Ignore - and how to tell a five-hundred problem from a fifty-thousand one - The cosmetic repairs that are often a sign somebody was hiding something - What a survey does not cover, and what to do about that - Questions to ask a seller, and which answers should worry you - The problems that are genuinely fine to live with

Relative costs only - no prices to go stale. Anything structural, electrical, gas-related or involving hazardous material is routed to a qualified professional, clearly and every time.

There is also a chapter on the houses worth walking away from, and one on the scary-looking findings that mostly are not.

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E-bog: 15. september 2026