Nassau County · Queens border

Home inspector in Floral Park, NY

Between 2014 and 2024, Lou Rubino inspected 8 homes in Floral Park. The village filled out in the 1920s boom with Tudors, Colonial Revivals and capes, and a century later many of them still run on descendants of their original systems — which is exactly what the inspection is for.

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A century-old village, inspected at its age

Heating plants are the headline here. Lou has opened a Floral Park boiler whose combustion chamber was quietly coming apart — something no listing, and no walk-through, will ever show you. The plate says the age; the inside says the truth.

Underneath, many of these houses sit on shallow crawlspaces where the sills and beams have spent a hundred years near the soil. Where the framing meets the foundation is a two-minute look that answers a five-figure question, and it only happens if someone actually goes in.

What the inspection can examine here

Inside the boiler, not just around it — combustion chambers fail invisibly, as the photograph below shows.
The crawlspace and the sills — the oldest joint in a century-old house, and the least visited.
The panel and its generations of circuits, covers off, as required.
Radon — a separate test worth discussing on houses with crawlspaces and basements alike.

Photographs from Floral Park reports

The inside of a boiler combustion chamber with its lining deteriorating, marked with a red arrow. — Inside the boiler, a red arrow marks heavy soot and scale in the heat exchanger, and the fire-box lining is worn and flaking. The report calls the fire box worn out and recommends servicing and a thorough cleaning of the boiler and flue by a licensed heating contractor.

A crawlspace view of the wood sill over a block foundation wall, a gap traced in red. — A sill gap traced in a Floral Park crawlspace, where the framing meets the foundation — the oldest joint in the house, and the least visited.

The underside of a wood deck over leaf-covered ground, three red arrows marking wood support posts standing in the soil. — The underside of a wood deck, where the arrows mark support columns standing directly in the soil. Wood posts set in soil are flagged because ground contact keeps them damp.

All three photographs are from Lou's own Floral Park inspection reports, chosen because they show a building component and nothing that identifies a property or an owner.

From the Floral Park files

More of what Lou has actually photographed on Floral Park inspections. Open any note to learn what the finding means for a buyer — every link stays on this site.

Dark-stained wood framing members meeting a concrete slab, red arrow at stained area near the base — Wood framing with dark staining where it meets the concrete slab; the red arrow marks the stained area at the base. Dark staining on wood near masonry is flagged because it usually indicates the wood has been repeatedly wet.

Why this matters — interior moisture

Interior staining, failed tile and soft surfaces are the end of a story that started somewhere else. The inspection's job is to find the start — and to say whether the evidence looks active or historical. Water damage and moisture, explained.

Oil burner mounted on an oil-fired water heater, red circle around the fuel shut-off solenoid, orange date stamp — The oil burner on a water heater, with the red circle marking its fuel shut-off solenoid, a safety device that cuts the oil supply. The report notes this burner has one.

Why this matters — the water heater

Water heaters have a known service life, and their installation — clearance, venting, the gas connection, the pan — matters as much as their age. All of it is checked where it sits. What the write-up looks like.

Clay chimney flue with a screened stainless rain cap, red arrow pointing at the metal liner visible inside the screen — The top of a chimney: a screened rain cap over the clay flue tile, with the arrow pointing at the stainless steel liner inside. The report notes the chimney is lined, which is required for gas boiler venting.

Why this matters — the chimney

Chimney crowns, caps and screens are the cheap parts that protect the expensive parts. Cracked crowns and missing screens let water and animals into a flue, and the damage below can run for years unseen. What happens when part of a system cannot be seen.

All photographs are from Lou's own inspection reports for jobs in this area, screened so nothing identifies a property or an owner.

Where this sits in Lou's territory

Lou covers Long Island, the five boroughs and Westchester from his base in Wantagh, and the archive behind these pages shows where that work has actually concentrated.

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Buying in Floral Park?

His Floral Park file goes back to 2014. Yours would not be the first.

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