I frequently get comments on my blog from people who say they could not do what inspectors are asked to do. Whether it is climbing on roofs, crawling through crawl spaces, traversing attics or dealing with dead rats, spiders, snakes and raw sewage----most say they couldn’t do it. While
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07/19/2009
Do you have endangered Roof Turtles on your property? If you have areas of washed gravel areas around your home, like in the picture below, your property may be home to the endangered and rarely seen Roof Turtle (so named for there propensity for building their nests under roof overhan
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07/18/2009
A while back I did a post about furnace venting and how sometimes the HVAC installer will install a new furnace and not even think about the chimney or vent that he is attaching the furnace to----other than to attach it to it! On an inspection just the other day, I had another good exa
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07/17/2009
I sure do run into my share of Super Heroes on my job! A while back I did a post about doing battle with Darth Vader in an attic---- today I ran into Batman. I have always wanted to see the Bat Mobile up close, but once faced with opportunity I almost didn’t dare lift the sacred shrou
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07/16/2009
Hinges that is (nope----not talking about my sweetie this time). Squeaky hinges. Actually they are talking to you for a reason----in the only language they know. Don’t you speak “Hinge?” There are dozens of these devices in every home, on doors, on windows, on
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07/15/2009
Today I would like to start with a simple question. A----“What Am I” ----kind of question. What is the most common single component in most people’s homes? (It is implied that the “component” is permanently attached to the home) I did a quick count in my house and there are at
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07/15/2009
In an attempt to obliterate the stressful memories inflicted on my readers with my recent post of me as the Naked Inspector, I thought I would replace it with images of Naked Rats. At a recent inspection I was reminded of the fact that Rats are barely human. We all know what rats h
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07/14/2009
After all my years of building homes and inspecting homes, I sometimes lull myself into thinking that at some point I will have seen it all. The reality is that----with 6,770,700,212 people on the planet (as I write this post)----there may very well be “at least” 6,770,700,212 ways to do e
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07/12/2009
The sight of most of the inspectors I know----myself included----running naked through a home doing inspections would NOT be a pretty sight. After September 1st in the State of Washington some inspectors will in fact choose to “go naked.” Not in the “bare-ass-naked” sense of the wor
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07/11/2009
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