seattle home inspectors: Don’t you just HATE cats! - 11/23/09 12:00 PM
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 … (25 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Probably not a “deal breaker!” - 11/22/09 10:22 AM
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 … (24 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Breakfast of Bloggers! - 11/19/09 08:54 AM
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 … (25 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Wordless Wednesday in Seattle - 11/18/09 08:19 AM
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seattle home inspectors: We are going to: “Party-down”----in the basement! - 11/18/09 07:56 AM
In Seattle there are a lot of older homes with partial basements. The rest of the house will typically have a crawl space under it.
Ever since we started putting basements under houses people have wanted to use these basement spaces for all kinds of things. Typically they … (16 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Why are there Monkeys and Rhinos in my Chimney? - 11/15/09 08:54 AM
When we bought our house----long before I was a Seattle Home Inspector----and started making it livable, I was heavily influenced by a couple of fun movies playing at the time: Jumanji and Jurassic Park.
The house had wall-to-wall shag, puce-green carpeting----if one could really call it carpeting. There … (31 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: “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 … (31 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Who really cares whether the builder knows what he is doing or not? - 11/02/09 08:21 AM
In terms of what Home Inspectors do, does it really matter whether any of the trades that built the house are licensed or not?
Well, YES and----NOT REALLY!
Now I am not talking about this from the standpoint of some lofty ideal where we get into all … (16 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: The average, dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers, HOME INSPECTOR will never notice! - 11/01/09 04:20 PM
I often wonder, about some of the things I find wrong in homes.
Is it really only home inspectors that would ever notice these things?
I wish that I could take a poll of everyone that sees this post to find out how many of my … (36 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: It is Halloween----and the INTERNET has fangs! - 10/31/09 08:53 AM
We all know how addictive the Internet can be----especially to activerain. There have been countless stories about the “effects” of this addiction on our lives----some good-----some bad.
I am turning the focus of this blog to a less talked about aspect of our compulsion. The lengths to … (29 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: One Stop Shopping: Charles Buell Inspections, Washington State Licensed Home Inspector and Licensed Structural Pest Inspector. - 10/30/09 07:03 PM
As both a Licensed Structural Pest Inspector and a Licensed Home Inspector in Washington State, I provide my buyers with the kind of service that has become expected of Home Inspectors in Washington State.
This is a little bit unusual when compared to other parts of the … (15 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: 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)
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seattle home inspectors: 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)
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seattle home inspectors: 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)
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seattle home inspectors: 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)
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seattle home inspectors: 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)
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seattle home inspectors: Nothing but crap coming over the airwaves these days anyway! - 10/08/09 09:19 AM
When something is not quite right on a home inspection----it usually just does not “feel” right. When I went up on this roof, the following defect looked so “normal” that it did NOT jump right out at me. That surprised me because usually when something is wrong----that is exactly … (30 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Wordless Wednesday at RainCamp - 10/07/09 08:09 AM
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seattle home inspectors: As far as volcanos go----just a little burp. - 10/05/09 01:08 PM
Julie and I went to a wedding of a friend of ours in Bend, Oregon this past Saturday. It is a beautiful 6 hour drive from Seattle through the mountains and across the desert to get to Bend. I have made the trip many times to get to Smith … (25 comments)
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seattle home inspectors: Do I need new glasses---or is this NORMAL? - 10/03/09 09:25 AM
It is normal to lose focus in ones life occasionally----to actually feel like things around us are out of focus or at least blurred. Ultimately we must do what it takes to bring ourselves back into focus. Whether the re-establishing of our focus is triggered by something or someone … (35 comments)
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