everett wa home inspector: “Breaker-Breaker-1/5” - 11/14/09 07:54 AM
Little Billy Breaker was 15 and had a job.
Quite a simple job.
A total “trip” really.
A perfect job for a teen like him.
All he had to do was sit there. Whenever someone sent too much stuff his way, it was his job … (5 comments)
everett wa home inspector: When was the last time you played, “Dress up?” - 11/12/09 08:20 AM
People sometimes ask me how I come up with all my crazy ideas for blogging (well they don’t actually say “crazy”---but I know what they mean).
First of all there are a couple of techniques I use to keep myself focused.
#1. The total number of blog … (25 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Hide and Seek----it is for kids of all ages! - 11/10/09 08:59 AM
Kids L♥VE to play hide and seek. When my kids were little we used to have some really great hide and seek “events.” The little ones would always want me to hide them----before I hid myself. You see, they used think I knew all the really cool places for … (25 comments)
everett wa home inspector: HERE----take your dang business card back! - 11/08/09 08:05 AM
After ordering pizza---delivered----to your new home the day you move in, the next big event at the home is the housewarming party. The one you hold for all your friends and family----to show off your new digs.
Having been invited as the "honored home inspector" at such events … (27 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Rumpledsowsear - 11/06/09 09:10 AM
Once upon a time (for some reason I seem to be living into fairy tales lately) in the not-so-far-off land of Doogle, there lived a blogger and his beautiful daughter. In order to make himself appear more "important," this blogger fibbed on the Internet and on the MLS that … (18 comments)
everett wa home inspector: The Little Red Hen----pecking away in the RAIN! - 11/05/09 09:18 AM
Once upon a time, there was a little blogger who had a little blog at . He was friends with a dorky duck named Quackers, a stupid squirrel named Nutsy, and a cryptic crow named Raven (and then there were the hundreds of other friends).
everett wa home inspector: Check out this beauty’s measurements! - 10/29/09 08:57 AM
“They sure don’t make them like they used to.”
Everyone has heard this----most of us have even said it. Usually I am likely to say something like, “And that is a good thing that they don’t”
Now you are probably wondering how this relates to whatever you … (43 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out! - 10/28/09 08:16 AM
Life can be viewed as a room full of doors connected to rooms full of doors.
All we have to do is figure out which doors to open and which doors to leave closed. As long as they don’t hit us in the butt when we go through … (16 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Go ahead---turn me on! - 10/27/09 01:20 PM
Sometimes we have those “light-bulb” moments in our lives where something just “clicks” and we understand things in a way that we just could not grasp them previously.
The “mechanisms” for these moments are not well understood, and yet sometimes it is actually hard to understand how we … (29 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Teaching old dogs new tricks. - 10/25/09 08:46 AM
Does anyone actually believe that you can not teach old dogs new tricks?
While this may be true of dogs, I like to flatter myself in thinking that this is not necessarily true of human beings. To watch the actions of some people though, one does have … (25 comments)
everett wa home inspector: What is one of the most important features of a bathtub? - 10/22/09 09:27 AM
The drain.
Yes, without a drain a bathtub would be a quite painful apparatus----and probably wouldn’t get used very much----or the water would just sit there until it turned green and foul. It was probably part of why our ancestors bathed once a year whether they needed it … (23 comments)
everett wa home inspector: But it has been that way for……. - 10/20/09 09:05 AM
If there is anything that makes the lives of inspectors difficult, it is house defects that have somehow “stood the test of time.”
Every inspector has heard from sellers and agents on both sides of the deal say, “But it has been that way for………”
The only … (19 comments)
The current economic climate on Planet Earth has led most of us to have all sorts of opinions as to what should be different and yet there is really very little consensus----and enough malarkey to go around … (22 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Close enough for a cigar----or to at least it could have smoked like one! - 10/15/09 09:51 AM
Sorry if I have offended any cigar smokers out there, but by the time the smoke clears maybe you will forgive me----then again maybe not.
Inspectors are always harping about how hot heat lamps and electric heaters can get. The following pictures were from an inspection of a … (31 comments)
everett wa home inspector: Don’t Bogart that drain my friend….. - 10/13/09 10:10 AM
I have been accused of being “clever” myself on occasion, so I tend to recognize it when I see it. When it comes to home repairs being clever can be a good thing---but without enough information it can be dangerous.
Take TPRV drains for example.
There … (23 comments)
everett wa home inspector: The carpet baggers---grab the money and run! - 10/12/09 09:18 AM
It was evident that the house had very recently been re-carpeted---this is common with houses that have been “cleaned-up” a bit before putting them on the market. The carpet, along with re-painting the entire interior and appropriate staging, did improve the appearance. It most likely did assist in making … (29 comments)
everett wa home inspector: There is something dead in my shower! - 10/10/09 10:10 PM
On a recent inspection I found this little fellow in the Master Bathroom shower. In case you don’t recognize him, it is a bottle fly----or blow fly. When you find these critters around you can anticipate that there is something dead around.
It was no surprise later … (30 comments)
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Little Billy Breaker was 15 and had a job.
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