If you are considering buying a property, namely, the view is often the only chance you have to consider the home you want to buy.
Please be careful to check all the details before you throw yourself into a costly bidding.
If you already live in your dream home, it can also be profitable to take this home check from time to time.
Regular maintenance is much cheaper in the long run.
The checklist below is not Comprehensive, but gives you some tips on the main rooms:
1) Floor
Is there water damage, unsightly scratches, the floor is laid by professionals?
Do you expect sanding parquet?
2) Power
Is the electrical system old or new? Check the fuse box, sockets (see some of the contacts burned out?) Wires etc. Are electrical installations done by professionals?
If you’ve got performed electrical work on the house after 1999, you are obliged to have a declaration in which the person responsible for the work confirms what has been done and is good for all is conducted in accordance with the regulations.
All electrical work must be documented! Holder fuses to the kitchen and wet the minimum of 16A? It should ideally be installed circuit breakers and earth leakage circuit breaker. Is there sufficient contacts in living room, living room, office?
3) Water
Is it dripping taps, leaking pipes, good water pressure? Always check the tub and shower. Look inside the cabinets in the kitchen, there may be leaks?
Also check under the kitchen sink if necessary. Leaks. Are radiators adjustable? Water heater is old?
4) TV and broadband
What agreements exist for cable TV and internet access?
A phone call to an ISP will reveal if the site is regulated for broadband TV cable.
5) Windows and Doors
Is windows / doors easy to open? If doors are slow, it may be sentence injuries, reason etc. victory.
Damp between window glasses indicate leakage and poor insulation effect. Before purchasing windows and hiring craftsman, it may be okay to ask the question if you need to replace the windows completely, or if you can get away with just to renovate them.
Fungi and decay in walls often occur near windows and veranda.
6) Wall
Check the walls and tiles for moisture. Are the tiles firmly attached? Loosens plasterwork easily?
There may be signs of rot and moisture. Is tapestry nicely, it is well smoothed and polished under?
Looking moldings and miter edges in the corners pretty out? A glance at the ceiling tells you whether you should paint it.
7) Bathrooms and wet rooms
Check odors, spots, cracks, it sounds hollow when you tap on the tiles? Is våtromstapetet dented?
Well exhaust? Is it grouted at the seams? Membrane with lures? Is there sufficient slope in the shower (if one showers on the floor).
Does the heat in the floor, the heat is evenly distributed? Be cautious if the bathroom is refurbished by unskilled, it often revealed by checking how the pipes are laid.
8) Kitchen
Check smell the bench. Is the trap associated dishwasher? Stopcock?
wait must be replacing fixtures, cabinet doors, fan? Ask the owner has been plagued by ants.
9) Basement and attic
As with plumbing and kitchen need to check odors and moisture in the basement and the attic.
Is it dry enough to store objects of sensitive material? Loosens paint?
Is there sufficient ventilation? Lime Sink on the basement floor?
10) Exterior
Is the roof recently added, or expect it a big job? How do gutters, foundation, exterior cladding, stairwells out?
Does the Cooperation / housings great expense to trees and shrubs, paving stones and playgrounds?
11) Share of joint costs
Cooper has often shared laundry, dry cleaning, garbage containers, parking, garden areas, cable tv etc. What you will find here?
housings completed replacement of roofs, balconies, windows, intercom, doors etc. recently, or are imminent increase in public spending?
It would then lead to an increase in rent. Also interest and principal in public debt are included in public expenditure. Interest provides a tax deduction. (ANB)
(Source: Krogsveen)
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