Harlan's Home Inspections

07/18/2026

Love working with local contractors like this.

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🎒✏️ BACK-TO-SCHOOL GIVEAWAY! ✏️🎒

As summer starts winding down, I know back-to-school shopping can add up quickly. To help out a couple of local families, Stro's Radon LLC is giving away TWO $50 Target gift cards!

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🎉 Two winners will each receive a $50 Target gift card to help with school supplies, clothes, or whatever is needed for the upcoming school year.

Don't have kids in school? That's okay! If you're selected, I encourage you to pay it forward by giving the gift card to a family, child, teacher, or someone you know who could use a little extra help. ❤️

📅 Entries close: July 31st
🏆 Winners announced: August 1st

Good luck, and thank you all for supporting my small local business. It truly means a lot!

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11/04/2024

Had this come up from time to time. At the peak of craftsmanship, these were hand shaped to make the center of the peak of the roof no matter where the fireplace was located. Even seen them built of to an angle several times.

House built approximately 1890, Watertown, Wi. Why did they twist the chimney?

09/08/2024

02/06/2024

Fog and icy conditions prevent me from walking the roof. Luckily drone usage allows me to still adequately survey the roof’s surfaces even in poor conditions.

01/27/2024

Looks like we are expecting more interest rate drops this year starting in the next week or two possibly. With low inventory I have been hearing about buyers waiving their home inspection. This is worrisome to say the least.

On the electrical inspection is where I find a large amount of improper conditions.

Sub panel configuration is slightly different Than the main panel. A second panel or sub panel should have the neutral and ground terminals or bars isolated from each other, this is why the main circuit feed to the sub panel must have 4 wires, with a dedicated insulated wire for the neutral and a separate wire for the ground. All the ground wires bond back at the main panel together with the neutrals.

01/22/2024

Could be a little bit more productive, but always stay prepared. Home inspection canceled ice fishing it is!

01/22/2024

Drive safe this morning! Headed out toward the St. Charles area this morning and anticipating some icy conditions.

01/02/2024

Kastle Electric Inc. Saving my ass today. After the dropped neutral debacle that he helped me troubleshoot last night resulting in com Ed service ticket on NYE. We ended up having a come Ed splice fail just at the same moment I was working on a new circuit in the house. Aaron will get you right!