Home inspector and certified builder Tobias Condill joins WIRED to answer the internet’s burning questions about house safety maintenance. What are the biggest red flags spotted during a home inspection? What are the dumbest home maintenance DIY fixes? What’s the most common cause of house fires people don’t know about? Answers to these questions and many more await on House Support.
#DIY #HomeInspection #HouseSafety
00:00 – House Support
00:11 – Termites: Eaten out of house and home
01:05 – Plans to buy a house? Don’t let them fall through
01:38 – Biggest house inspection 🚩
02:43 – P-traps for the pongs
03:17 – Are newer houses built better?
04:09 – Hive got to take care of those bees…
05:09 – Clean your dryer vents
05:55 – House inspection? Listen up
06:57 – Draino: good or bad sign?
08:01 – Electrical panel issues to look out for
09:27 – Is this asbestos?
10:14 – Is my roof shot?
11:30 – The ceiling remembers everything
12:19 – The importance of gutters
13:00 – Common spray foam W
13:49 – House inspection horrors
14:12 – How to find invisible mold
15:06 – How bad is mold… really?
15:57 – Dime in a crack = structural issue
16:47 – What a hornet’s nest looks like
16:59 – Radon testing is essential
17:52 – Dumb home maintenance DIY
18:23 – Carbon monoxide leaks
19:08 – Tracing rodent origins
19:49 – Don’t sleep on water filtration
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@rangerovertexas2648
April 14, 2026 at 3:29 pm
25 years for roof tiles? I had a house in the UK with a 75 year old roof and found to be in perfect condition..
@lifelonglearner56
April 14, 2026 at 8:40 pm
Indeed, I don’t know what they’re making their roof tiles out of in the US. 😲
@davidcahill1131
April 14, 2026 at 9:05 pm
Same stuff as in the UK. I guarantee UK roofs don’t normally last 75 years, but there’s always exceptions
@ericdavenport8075
April 14, 2026 at 3:35 pm
If Mark Hoppus went into the trades
@MedicinalBlood
April 14, 2026 at 4:28 pm
I’ll save y’all 20 minutes. The answer is profit and greed.
@davidcahill1131
April 14, 2026 at 9:11 pm
It’s lower house prices you mean. Or do you think builders are running higher profit margins now than 10 years ago?
@brandon8900
April 14, 2026 at 4:29 pm
Bro in the thumbnail question really needs an explanation? It’s called money.
@vivianaaaren8602
April 14, 2026 at 4:44 pm
I was researching whether it makes sense to somewhat heat the basement to increase the floor temperature slightly (it does, in my rental) and thats when I learned that doing so actually also reduces the risk of basement mold because it lowers the humidity. I hope it’s true lol
@justayoutuber1906
April 14, 2026 at 8:53 pm
Your RELATIVE humidity will do down because warm air can hold more water. Same amount of water is there. Get a dehumidifier if it isn’t too cold.
@smexyapman
April 14, 2026 at 4:50 pm
Great stuff
@bubbadagger
April 14, 2026 at 5:05 pm
PLEASE continue these
@katymcwhirter
April 14, 2026 at 5:13 pm
Please do your own research on spray foam. It’s not the cat’s meow as he seems to suggest.
@justayoutuber1906
April 14, 2026 at 8:54 pm
100% That is 3 hours of videos right there.
@katymcwhirter
April 14, 2026 at 5:13 pm
“The houses I buy I gut”…is the problem.
@tsunamininja
April 14, 2026 at 9:22 pm
What do you mean?
I understood it as he redoes everything himself I suppose – why is that a problem? the layman is unable to?
@andrewmpc96
April 14, 2026 at 5:15 pm
My guy just put Challenger on blast
@elenamasen
April 14, 2026 at 5:18 pm
a lot of this is very american centric… i currently have a dehumidifier next to me drying my washing cause i line dry.
@driveway_of_misfits
April 14, 2026 at 6:04 pm
Not all houses here in the US are build over a crawlspace or slab-on-grade as he suggested. A lot of us have full basements and it’s totally normal for us to run dehumidifiers in them in the summertime.
@alextilton2677
April 14, 2026 at 5:40 pm
This would be more relevant if people could still afford homes.
@A-Hor
April 14, 2026 at 7:07 pm
Very informative. It’s just too bad my generation can’t afford houses.
@ryuuk85
April 14, 2026 at 7:14 pm
This should have been Cy Porter. No offense you were a 10/10.
@mkirbyy83
April 14, 2026 at 7:27 pm
This was not good for my anxiety lol.
@ronaldocost4
April 14, 2026 at 7:59 pm
Why are homes in the US built like cardboard boxes?
@patrickorourke41
April 14, 2026 at 8:00 pm
I’m an insurance professional (Property & Casualty) in CA. This video was super helpful!! Got a lot of tips on what to look for when I inspect properties we are trying to insure 😎
@eldibs
April 14, 2026 at 8:32 pm
Ooh, I’ve seen one that was more ridiculous than the license plate. My old landlord covered a hole in the ceiling with part of the packaging for a Sweet and Sour Chicken TV dinner for some reason. Everyone who came into that room would see it and ask “Why is there sweet and sour chicken on your ceiling?” and I would have to explain that the landlord put it there.
@JakeThomasCreative
April 14, 2026 at 8:42 pm
This guy is very funny. Really enjoyed this one!
@gregbell2117
April 14, 2026 at 8:42 pm
Another problem with aluminum wiring – galvanic corrosion where it interfaces with copper, causing a high-resistance connection, thus heat + fire.
@justayoutuber1906
April 14, 2026 at 8:46 pm
Many flippers avoid septic systems. If they are not taken care of the replacement cost can be $30-60K
@jessicaarmstrong5035
April 14, 2026 at 8:54 pm
Me and my boyfriend live in a 5-apartment building. Now, remember he said that cast iron pipes last approximately 50 years? Yeah, we have cast iron pipes and the house was built in the late 1800s. Anytime we ask our landlord to do something about this, he says no. It’s absolutely ridiculous.
@lowbudgetmic
April 14, 2026 at 9:15 pm
Homeowner one oh one… O_O
@kapinder123
April 14, 2026 at 9:19 pm
We want CyPorter
@whophd
April 14, 2026 at 9:26 pm
2:10 or, indicates a tractator issue with your transcendental dimensional envelope — last week I just watched the restored edition of “Frontios” where this happens in Episode 1 on the new Season 21 boxset of Doctor Who: The Collection