Glen Kotulek's (homecritiquepi) Blog

Have you seen these contraptions around your town and wondered what on earth they are? These are Powered Para-Gliders or PPG for short.   I am an Austin Home Inspector that has taken up this hobby to fulfill my lifelong dream of FLYING!  All I can say is WOW!  It is unbelievable how awesome the v...

In my job as an Austin Home Inspector,  I am frequently finding rotting door jambs due to water absorption on exterior doorways.  The aluminum thresholds collect water and allow the adjacent wood door trim to absorb it leading to wood rot.  This rot then migrates into the door itself and also to ...

As an Austin home inspector, here is a concern that I personally experienced with a client!  It is a corroded toilet tank float arm.  I noted the concern to the client, but it was even worse than we could estimate!  It went out within a month of moving in, and of course it was upstairs.  This arm...

We had to put down our old friend last week after 4 days of colic!  He was my wife's first purchase after we married 20 years ago!  A beautiful sorrel quarterhorse, Ryder, had the heart of a saint and the spirit like no other.  He took my wife from trail riding, to 3 day eventing to dressage as s...