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 … (30 comments)
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)
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 … (32 comments)
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 … (29 comments)
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)
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)
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)
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 … (66 comments)
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)
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)
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)
shoreline wa home inspector: Seattle Home Inspector finds Fungus in an Old Rhyme! - 07/29/09 08:35 AM
The Fungi go marching one by one, ah-choo! ah-choo! The Fungi go marching one by one, ah-choo! ah-choo! The Fungi go marching one by one, The little one runs to avoid the sun, And they all go marching up, from the ground To get into the wood, SQUISH! SLIME! SQUISH! … (43 comments)
shoreline wa home inspector: If you love to dust----I have got the answer for you! - 07/28/09 02:11 PM
It is not too unusual to find missing or out of place furnace filters----or even non-functional Electronic Air Cleaners. All furnace filtering systems need to be maintained and even more important they need to be there!
If they are not there at all, the same old air keeps … (16 comments)
shoreline wa home inspector: Guaranteed cure for the flue! - 07/17/09 08:09 AM
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 … (16 comments)
At a recent inspection I was reminded of the fact that Rats … (45 comments)
shoreline wa home inspector: Unique “Free” Auxiliary Heating System! - 07/10/09 04:22 PM
Since 1991, there has been a requirement provide a mechanical means of changing the air in homes. This came about as we started making houses too tight for them to do it on their own----the way they would when they were just naturally leaky as a sieve.
There … (11 comments)
shoreline wa home inspector: Is “missing” duct tape an Oxymoron? - 07/08/09 10:01 AM
First I would like to set the visual stage of this next post.
In homes that are occupied, it is not uncommon for the cabinet under the kitchen sink to look like the following picture. More often than not when one opens the cabinet door something falls out. … (46 comments)
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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 … (30 comments)
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