Before purchasing our house, our wife plus I paid for a beach apartment inspection.
Both of us knew that the property needed a lot of repairs plus work.
The roof was missing shingles plus leaking in places. Because of this, there was significant water injure to the ceilings plus walls. The windows were seriously old, single pane plus most were painted shut. They leaked a tremendous amount of air. There was no insulation in the walls, plus both the electrical plus plumbing systems were old. Both of us needed to update light fixtures, plumbing fixtures, major appliances plus the water heater. It was necessary to take most of the rooms down to the bare studs; Opening up the walls allowed us to easily access the wiring, water pipes plus drains. Our project was time-consuming, labor-intensive plus messy. However, our efforts exposed the HVAC duct. The beach apartment inspector had mentioned nothing about the integrity of the duct system. Both of us discovered that the pipes were poorly designed plus in awful condition. There were vents in the walls with no HVAC duct affixed to them. There were gaps in the seams, holes, tight bends plus corrosion! Some of the pipes were completely crushed. The entirety of the duct plan needed to be updated. This was a major expense that both of us hadn’t planned on. It was necessary to hire an Heating & Air Conditioning business with sheet metal fabrication capabilities. Both of us ended up investing into a up-to-date gas furnace plus cooling system as well. Although the project was seriously high-priced, it is genuinely nice having a correctly designed plus brand up-to-date heating plus cooling system. Our apartment is perfectly comfortable no matter what the weather brings.