Video: Exterior Home Inspection 101

So today we think we're gonna go over is walking the house maybe once a year is a great idea. If you go around and do that, you can check for any imperfections in the siding or trim looking for bubbling in the paint or softness in the wood. If it's areas that are safely to reach, not having to get up on a ladder. You can probe it with a screwdriver or something that's a little bit harder to check, just to make sure if it's soft. And then walk in the house. 

Also, when you're doing that, you can check for termite tubes or termite damage. termite damage is gonna be any kind of little beads on the ground and wood that is kind of deteriorating, kind, kind of looks like dry rot. It looks a little bit like dry rot in certain areas. And, and also tubes, meaning the tubes, they're, they make tubes going up the side of a foundation, but also if it's exposed wood, there'll be tubes and holes going through the actual wood itself that they're eating and going through.

The areas of dry rot, and then also paint is weathered and cracking. Okay, so areas that dry rot will happen most often are bottoms of trim, bottoms of window trim is where water likes to sit and, and hold onto the water or, and, and hold on, on top of the wood, which will then go inside the wood and create the, the dry rot. Also in soffit areas, there's a lot of moisture that sits up in there and, and doesn't really get away too often. 

If you're looking at paint and you see that it's weathered and starting to crack and, and cause spots for water to get inside of, that's a great spot for water to get inside and start causing damage behind the actual paint itself.