Home Inspector · MA 1177-HI-1 · RI HI-44329

Brian spent his career in heating and plumbing distribution — the supply side of the trades, where you learn what gets installed, what fails, what gets replaced under warranty, and what the tradespeople complain about when they come to the counter. It's an unusual route into inspection and a genuinely useful one. Brian knows the equipment in a house the way someone knows a catalog: which brands hold up, which model years had problems, and what a contractor is likely to say about it.

He looks at overall condition first. Not the single worst thing in the house, but the whole picture — how it's been kept, what's been deferred, whether the last twenty years were maintenance or neglect. Individual findings matter, but the pattern usually tells you more.

His advice to buyers is worth hearing before you read any inspection report: there is nothing in a home that can't be fixed. Almost every report contains findings that look alarming written down. Most are ordinary, all of them are fixable by someone, and the real question is never whether a house has problems — it's which ones you're taking on, and going in knowing.

Brian is detail-oriented to a degree his colleagues find slightly unreasonable, and he likes having the buyer with him while he works. He'll take the time to explain what he's looking at and answer the same question twice if the second answer lands better.

Outside work, he's with his grandkids or knee-deep in a project at his own house — usually both, usually at once.