shoreline wa home inspector: She loves me----she loves me not! - 11/24/09 12:00 PM
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 … (19 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: 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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shoreline wa home inspector: Wordless Wednesday in Seattle - 11/18/09 08:19 AM
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shoreline 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 … (27 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: Jack & Jill----Singing along in the shower----to the Dead Band - 11/11/09 10:33 AM
Sorry----this is not about the Grateful Dead Band----and only “loosely” about Jack & Jill in the shower----and certainly not about them being in the shower together.
Once again I am going to venture into the never ending world of water heaters.
Put on your seat belt … (24 comments)
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shoreline 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)
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shoreline wa home inspector: Even from the Brooklyn Bridge this looks like trouble! - 11/07/09 10:19 AM
There are not all that many roofs that I do not walk on---but one of the kinds I don’t usually walk on is steep metal roofs. If one thinks back to their childhood---they make slippery-slides out of metal for a reason. I know there are plastic ones, but they … (36 comments)
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shoreline 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)
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shoreline 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).
One day the little … (37 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: Got Blog Fodder? - 11/03/09 01:52 PM
I would be very surprised if there is anyone that frequents this site that does not know the term “fixer.”
As a home inspector, when I hear the term a couple of things go through my mind. First of course is: “blog fodder.” I can’t help but … (31 comments)
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shoreline 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)
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shoreline 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)
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shoreline wa home inspector: Wordless Wednesday in Connecticut - 10/21/09 09:47 AM
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shoreline 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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shoreline wa home inspector: A "Google Alert" I can LIVE without! - 10/06/09 04:29 PM
In the early 60’s there was a “Twilight Zone” episode that had a profound effect on my thinking----even to this day. Perhaps we all, on some level, can relate to meeting and beating insurmountable odds. The episode was called, “Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,” and aired in 1964. If … (68 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: What do you mean you want to know how much longer the roof will last? - 09/25/09 08:57 AM
One of the most common things a buyer wants to know about the house is, “How old is the roof.” This is code for, “How much longer will the roof last.”
These questions are not all that easy to answer---especially the later one.
While I do … (78 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: The human light bulb! - 09/14/09 07:43 AM
This house’s main electrical panel dates back to the “good ole’ days,” circa 1903. I should clarify that this used to be the main panel----the newer main panel is elsewhere, and power is being re-fed to this panel to provide power to some of the old original circuits.
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shoreline wa home inspector: Does your inspector use a Machete? - 09/06/09 01:10 PM
Regular visitors to this Seattle Home Inspector’s blog know how much I love crawl spaces. Whether it is checking out the latest rodent infestation, dead python, lake of raw sewage or just curling up in the corner for a well deserved nap---crawl spaces are “where it is happening” in … (30 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: Do you walk under ladders? - 08/29/09 11:50 AM
Now that is a superstition that I would bet very few builders have.
We walk under ladders all the time.
In fact, most builders think ladders are recreational equipment----at least we did in the early days of my building career----prior to when I had employees----prior to the … (33 comments)
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shoreline wa home inspector: A No-Brainer Kind of LOVE! - 08/17/09 08:01 AM
I love Betty!
Please don’t tell my sweetie---but it is true.
Betty is----well----AWESOME!
I sometimes call her “Bitchin’ Betty”---but that is hardly accurate----as I have yet to hear her utter a mean-spirited word. Sometimes we come up with fun pet names for the women in … (26 comments)
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