How To Prevent Additional Home Repair Damage In The Future
Whenever I am doing a home repair on someone's home, they
rarely ask me how the damage actually happened or how to even prevent it
from happening again in the future. I've always thought this was rather
odd, but it seems like most homeowners accept the fact that home repairs
will need to be done in the future and they will rarely even question
it.
I was just repairing some wood damage a few weeks ago and took it upon
myself to explain to the homeowner, what caused the damage. The
homeowner automatically took a defensive stand towards my accusations
and started to defend himself and his home.
This isn't the first time that I ran into a situation like this and I
immediately told the homeowner, that I'm not blaming anyone, I'm simply
trying to help you prevent the wood damage from re-occurring in the
future. I explained to him that his neighbors probably have the same
problem, but don't even know it yet.
I have my ways to defuse hostile situations and it wasn't long, before
the homeowner realized that I was trying to help him and wasn't blaming
him for being a neglectful homeowner. By the time I was done explaining
myself, he was asking me questions and paying attention to my answers. I
hope that the homeowner does the necessary changes that I suggested to
prevent the problem from re-occurring in the future, but this isn't
necessarily what happens, all the time.
There are ways to prevent home damage and eliminate home repairs, but
you're going to need to educate yourself about some of the problems and
solutions to them. If you hire a home repair professional to fix
something that's damage in your home, take some time to ask them a few
questions on ways that you can prevent the damage from happening again
in the future.
It doesn't hurt to ask questions, but it's extremely painful to continue
to pay for the same home repairs over and over again, especially if they
can be prevented, with a little maintenance or different type of
construction methods.