Our Home Inspection Blog

You know how cold it gets here in Chicago in the winter.  It is frigid for all of winter and it takes every ounce of us to get out from the nice warm bed when the alarm goes off to jump into the shower. If you are like many people, you…

Galvanized steel and copper piping are like two young boys; they don't always play nice with each other. When the two are directly coupled together, rust usually ensues via a galvanic reaction. That is why whenever they are joined together in your homes water supply lines, they need to be joined by a properly installed dielectric union. There is no place more common to find these unions then at the top of your hot water tank and that is what we take a deeper look into in this weeks blog.