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There are many significant details to notice when you go through a house. The following are the basic ones.
Electrical outlets. Note their number and location. Think about where you might need them. Is there an outlet on the wall where you want to put the TV and the stereo? Are there fixtures in place for lighting? Are they adequate? Will you need new lamps?
Closets and storage space. No one ever has enough. If you have to bring in a freestanding closet, it can cost you ten square feet of floor space.
Skylights. These do wonders for the decor and provide a tremendous amount of light. But the sun that streams in will also create heat. This is fine in the winter but can be a disadvantage in the summer. Also, cheap skylights — that is, made without insulating glass — tend to leak, not just through faulty sealing or bad casework, which can be remedied fairly easily, but through natural condensation, which cannot. I understand the appeal and the purpose of skylights, but in my experience they’re almost always trouble. If a house you’re looking at has one, or if you’re thinking of installing one, make sure that the skylight unit itself is top-of-the-line equipment.
Fireplaces and heating stoves. These can have a certain charm, but they can also be hazardous. Find out when the chimney was last swept and consider having it inspected to be sure that there are no cracks through which flames might reach a flammable surface. If a stove that bums coal or wood is plugged into the chimney, make sure the connections comply with the local fire-safety code.
Bulkheads and cellar entrances. It can be a real convenience to have access to the cellar from the yard, but exterior cellar doors can cause a lot of problems, too. In older houses they are generally made of wood, so they are heavy to lift and doomed to inevitable rot. Replacement units are available, but in our security-conscious age they are made of steel (and therefore costly), and it’s just a matter of luck as to whether one of the standard sizes will fit your door. You might have to replace the cheek walls, too. And in the case of a bulkhead that has been leaking for many years, the water will undoubtedly have penetrated to the stairs below, causing them to rot as well. Finally, because it is nearly impossible to get a good seal between the cellar walls and the bulkhead opening, you had better plan on springing for some kind of field-designed-and-built doorway and door to shut out the cold from the bulkhead.

Windows also get a lot of action. And now more than ever, people care about how well the windows keep out the cold. In most old houses, alas, the windows don’t work well at all.
In the old days you kept a window up with a stick or some other prop. This serviceable but primitive method gave way in time to the use of weighted sash cords, which generally worked pretty well (aside from needing to be replaced occasionally). But the cord-and-pulley system requires side pockets or slots in the window frame, and these let the cold air in. If you buy a house with sash cords, you’re buying one part of an energy hog. You can find replacement devices for the sash cords, but our experience is that such gadgets cannot hold up the heavy sashes found in many old houses. Probably a better approach from an energy-conservation standpoint is to cover them with aluminum storm and screen windows. This is expensive, and sometimes the aluminum storms look out of place on an older home, but on balance this is usually the best approach to the problem of leaky windows.
Steel casement windows. These are not terribly common, but when they do show up, they’re murder. They conduct the cold, condense moisture, rarely close tightly, and are difficult to get replacement parts for. Finding them in a house shouldn’t make you turn it down, but they’re not an asset, and they’ll give you trouble until you finally replace them.

You’re not looking for glaring errors or strokes of genius here. Particularly in urban areas, as you’ll find, a house wifi essentially fill up its lot. But you do want to know whether the bedroom is filled with the glare of headlights from cars turning off an intersecting street. Wifi traffic noise be a serious problem? It could be in rooms facing a busy thoroughfare. I’ve already mentioned in chapter 3) the house that sounded so great in the ad but turned out to be situated on a floodplain, only about twenty feet from heavy traffic. If you moved that same house to a different spot with a curving wall and a line of trees around it, you’d double its value without touching a shingle.
It’s important to visit a house you’re considering at different dines of day to find out which areas are sunny and which are always or much of the time in the shade. It’s also not a bad idea to get a feel for the neighborhood at different times, too. Dropping by after eight in the evening may show you a peaceful, well-lit street, or one controlled by neighborhood toughs hanging out on the corner.

If you’re satisfied with what you see in the neighborhood, it’s time to look more carefully at the house, starting with the view from outside.
What do you see? A few scrawny bushes in a lawn full of weeds? Or a nicely kept lot around a house framed with flower beds and shrubs? Attractive landscaping always enhances the appeal and the value of a home, but of course no landscaping, regardless of how beautiful, can compensate for very long for a house that’s too small or structurally flawed.
The home’s site is important, however. One of the first things you should notice is the size of the lot. Do you have a large yard? And do you want one? It’s nice to have a good deal of space, but remember, the grass has to be mowed, the shrubs have to be clipped, and the trees have to be pruned.
And what about the location of the house? Is it sitting on top of a hill? That may afford a lovely view and a lot of privacy, but it may also make winter driving a bit of a challenge. Does the house have a driveway or a garage? If not, how do you feel about parking your car on the street?
Privacy is an important consideration in your evaluation of the site of a house. Clearly you should have different expectations for a house in the suburbs or the country than for a town house in the city. But whatever the context, you want the site to provide the sense of privacy and protection that’s a part of what makes a house a home.