About this site

Home Inspection Dallas is a reference to what home inspections actually find in Dallas–Fort Worth houses, and what those findings mean.

It is published by Stonebriar Property Inspections and written by Keith Boggs, a licensed Texas professional real estate inspector, TREC #9867. We say that plainly at the top rather than burying it, because you should know who is telling you something before you decide what it is worth.

Why an inspection company publishes a reference

Search for almost any North Texas property condition question — expansive clay, foundation movement, hail and roof age — and nearly every result is published by a company that profits from the answer. Foundation repair contractors write the foundation content. Roofing companies write the hail content. That is not a conspiracy; it is simply who has the commercial reason to publish.

An inspector occupies a different position. We are paid to assess a house, not to repair it. Whether a slab needs piers, whether a roof needs replacing, whether a panel needs changing — none of those outcomes changes what we earn. That independence is the only real justification for this site existing, and it is why you will find pages here that tell you a finding does not need fixing.

How it is written

Every factual claim traces to a primary source: TREC's Standards of Practice, published code text, Consumer Product Safety Commission records, USDA soil survey data, court records where litigation is relevant. Where a widely repeated figure has no reliable source — the service life of a roof in Texas heat, the service life of a residential air conditioner, the age at which cast iron waste lines fail — we say so rather than repeat it. That is a deliberate choice and it is why some pages decline to give you a number you may have come looking for.

We also do not publish repair prices. Prices go stale within a year and a stale number is worse than none. Where cost matters, the pages explain what drives it, so you can judge a quote you are given.

What this site is not

It is not an evaluation of any particular property. Nothing here substitutes for an inspection of the house you are actually buying, and nothing here is legal advice. Where a finding requires a licensed structural engineer, plumber or electrician, the pages say so — including in the many cases where an inspector, by rule, is not permitted to make that determination.