by Joe Levitch | Aug 21, 2021 | Fixing things, Plumbing, Understanding your home
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOne of the silliest things I see is when the incoming water line is choked down for a valve then made larger again. What the hell were they thinking? This reduces the volume of available water or GAS for that matter. This one goes from...
by Joe Levitch | Jul 30, 2021 | Energy, HVAC, Understanding your home
Reading Time: < 1 minuteI tend to be very observant. I am always on the lookout for a good story. This one got me chuckling. I went to pump down and disconnect an AC compressor from a home that we were going to do a significant remodel to. I noticed that the unit...
by Joe Levitch | Jul 10, 2021 | Home Evaluations, Understanding your home
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs I visited with a client that had lived in their home for 20+years. and wants to live out their lives in the same place. As I walked around looking at the overflowing shopping list of to-do’s, it dawned on me. Rather than me telling them...
by Joe Levitch | Jun 19, 2021 | Fixing things, Problem Solving, Understanding your home
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn an effort to make houses as comfortable as possible you set up your stuff and it looks good, some stuff is fragile and you would assume that the floor is stable but we see all sorts of stuff that flys in the face of a solid floor. The Big 3...
by Joe Levitch | May 15, 2021 | Plumbing
Reading Time: 3 minutesA neighbor of mine had me come over to fix a supply line that had failed on his ancient water heater. Apparently, I had told him a few years ago that the supply line was failing and he needed to fix it. To my shock, he reported that he uses some...
