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My blog is intended to provide information related to home inspections in Seattle, surrounding communities and anyone else interested. Sometimes I will provide information that has nothing to do with home inspections. Enjoy!

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2009 

    A lot of the defects we find as home inspectors involve installations where someone knows that something is necessary but either doesn’t know quite how to do it properly or tries to make something work that would be proper in another installation----but not this one.      For example exhaust...
11/30/2009
     This is a picture of some debris on the floor under the basement stairs in a home.      Can anyone tell me what it is?      I am always having “Holy Moses” moments on inspections----it is one of the gazillion things I love about my job----this was one such moment.  I think you may have a “H...
11/28/2009
     A common way that defects happen in homes is they simply get done wrong from the get-go.  Improper installations that involve, clearances, types of materials and code violations are all common.       Another way that defects happen is when repairs to existing, properly installed, components...
11/27/2009
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     She sits on a red, white & blue green five gallon bucket that says, “drywall-compound.”      Most of the fingers on her gloves are missing and frayed.      She wears an army-green trash-bag raincoat that is big enough to cover all but her Nike sneakers.      Her breathing makes little cloud...
11/26/2009
11/25/2009
     One of my favorite Monte Python segments was the one about the Black Knight in, “In Search of the Holy Grail.”  The story is about King Arthur coming to the Black Night that is guarding the bridge that “No man shall pass.”  King Arthur ends up cutting off all of the knight’s arms and legs b...
11/24/2009
     It is bound to happen----that sellers and repair persons and I are not always going to see “eye-to-eye” about the things I find wrong in the homes I inspect.  How could it be otherwise, they have one agenda and I have another----it is an almost naturally adversarial relationship.  I have to...
11/23/2009
     I frequently post a picture and ask what the defect in the picture is, or even what it is a picture of.  This time I am going post a picture and want to know what the “oDdest” thing in the picture is.  There are plenty of actual defects----and you are welcome to see how many of those defect...
11/22/2009
     Yup---I am going to blog about breakfast cereal!      OK----if you have kids you know what it is like to go to the kitchen cupboard and find the cereal box empty----and most of you will appreciate that I did not say “gone.”  (Don’t pretend you don’t eat the kid’s cereal when they aren’t loo...
11/19/2009
11/18/2009
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My blog is intended to provide information related to home inspections in Seattle, surrounding communities and anyone else interested. Sometimes I will provide information that has nothing to do with home inspections. Enjoy!

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