A home inspector that's a worm farmer? What's a worm casting? Simply put, it's worm do-do. Yes, I'm a home inspector serving Montrose, Great Bend, Scranton, and more areas in PA, but we raise red worms to help put our garden. It's a very easy thing to do and costs only a few dollars to begin. We started a couple years ago when a friend of mine gave me about 500 red worms. We fed the worms a daily diet of coffee grounds, old veggies and fruits and apple cores. After only two years our worm population grew to an incredible 25,000 (and that's estimating LOW!). Today I harvested the worm castings and placed my worms into a brand new worm bin that we built out in the yard.
Now I have over 200 pounds of the richest fertilzer money can buy. We'll have our third garden this year using the castings and our garden will become nuclear with the largest veggies, quickest growing and largest plants, with plentiful veggies. Don't be afraid, but here's what the little critters look like... oops, too big. See them at my web site: http://www.gcshomeinspections.com/blog
Greg www.gcshomeinspections.com
Home Inspector Serving Montrose, Scranton, Great Bend, Little Meadows, Honesdale, and more in PA
News Flash! Montrose Home Inspector takes Moon's temperature!
Wow, now that could be an image no one wishes to see! It was about a week ago when the moon was full and we had a brilliantly clear evening here in Montrose. I bet I could have seen New Milford, Hallstead, Great Bend and probably Scranton had the mountains not been in the way.
I got out my Fluke TiR1 Infrared Thermal Imager (camera) and pointed it up at the moon. It was a bit over 150 degrees. Thermal imaging works even through the vacuum of space!
Your Montrose Home Inspector just read the Montrose Independent and found information that directly backed up what a Dimock resident told me yesterday at a local fresh water supply; this new gas-drilling operation going on in our area, although making some very wealthy, is possibly to blame for contaminants in drinking water.
You now have GCS Home Inspections and our services (including AFFORDABLE water sampling). You're probably reading this blog on our web site but I can't believe some of the possible negligence that has occurred in Dimock. A water sample analysis is in order for every concerned resident and I wish I could do it for free, but I can make it affordable! CALL me!!! I would like to develop a plan of monthly tests for you, beginning with a baseline so you know where you started. You can best identify (through a certified Lab analysis) when your water became contaminated, or when it became potable once again.
I tested my well water here at our home before we moved so I could have peace-of-mind that our children were not going to get sick from our water source. CALL ME!!! 570-504-8393
Is your home properly insulated and ready for winter? Will your roof suffer from roof dams and subsequent water damage? Thermal inspections is the key to non-invasive inspections of critical areas maybe needing insulation. A complete thermal inspection of your home will cost between $375 and $500; a small price compared to the huge energy bills that can occur from not having a properly insulated home. I thermal imaged our travel trailer and here's our story why.
We're traveling to Montrose, PA on our big move from CA. Home Inspection in PA will take a turn when we get there with our thermal imaging technology. We hit bad weather about 60 miles west of Laramie, WY and pulled into a rest area when we just were tired of struggling with the icy road and crazy drivers (who ened up off the road). I-80 was closed for the night and into the next morning; so we sat in our travel trailer, furnace running all night supplemented with a small electric heater powered by a small generator in the back of our truck.
I cannot imaging being in a survival situation such as this in my own home. Northern country can be a survival situation if your own home isn't ready. Call us for your inspection.
Hi everyone in NE PA! We are soon relocating to Montrose, PA and we're looking forward to it! Life in CA has been really good, the weather exceptional, the ocean "right on!" but after 26 years in the military and over a year doing business in CA we're too far from family. We're coming home, as sung by Daughtry says it all. We're bring our business with us and aspire to offer Susquehanna and surrounding counties the best inspection service ever! We're bringing with us our thermal imaging capability. Soon the cold weather will be knocking at the door, the windows, the under-insulated walls and ceilings; and then the snow will fall, ice dams will develop and the ensuing damage they can cause. We can help identify those areas needing more insulation before your utility bills are sky-rocketing, or before you find the wood pile is grimly diminishing quickly before your eyes. Call us for a FREE quote. Yes, we do home inspections, but we also do thermal inspections.
Wow! I received a call from a Realtor today and he was inquiring about a home inspection. I'd like to call him a price-shopper because that's exactly what he was doing. I got the information for the home and told him my price. He said he can get it done for $100 less than my price--I let it go because I don't overcharge; I'm a professional and my clients receive the BEST service for half the price.
I later called him back because I wanted to know if I could add him to my mailing list and also where he heard of me. Afterwards, I mentioned that a couple people in the area are grossly under-cutting "Professional" home inspector's prices, so be careful. My concern is for the clientele in that they are receiving the best for their money. A couple tips I recommended, not to insult his intelligence, were are these inspectors insured; are they trained; and in CA since there isn't a licensure requirement--are the inspectors at least certified?
Here is the quote, "I don't personally care if they are certified."
My thought--I wonder how much this gentlemen cares about his client. Certification means alot in spite of no license. Training isn't even required in CA. I didn't press the issue. Thoughts?
We live in an environment that experience rain only a few months of the year but usually it's killer hot and sunshine galore--we're usually wishing it would rain. Our lakes are filling; making our summer water supply a bit better, but we're possibly also experiencing another phenomena with rain--a roof leak! During the summer months a roof leak cannot be predicted unless there is obvious damage or a water test is performed. This time of the year it's easier--just look up and find the stains.
What do you do if you have a roof leak? Determine where it's coming from--is there damaged roofing, missing or incorrectly-installed flashing, or is there a hole in the roof? Hopefully not the last one, but it needs to be repaired. What if it's a flat roof or low-sloped roof? It may be more difficult to determine where the damage in the membrane has allowed water to infiltrate the roof. GCS Home Inspections has thermal technology and can find these areas, making your life easier and SAVING you MONEY!
The roof is the heart of your building. Take care of it, and allow us to help you.
Our company, despite our name, does perform commercial property inspections as well. Albeit our prices are different for commercial property, the inspection quality is the best money can buy. Our ethics are beyond reproach and our attention to detail is top-notch. If you know of someone purchasing commercial property, apartment building or strip mall, it does not matter, have them call us for the best inspection their money will buy.
We offer thermal imaging inspections as well. Here in our part of CA it has been raining hard. This will continue for the next couple months, on and off, and then the "dry" will be back. In the meantime, flat roofs will leak, or maybe gather water internally and begin to grow mold--deteriorating the membrane. A thermal scan can pinpoint the moisture and damaged area before it has time to grow. GCS Home Inspections can save the owner potential disaster.
Our heating bill has really settled down since last year and expect our summer cooling bills to do the same. We used our thermal imaging camera in our own home and found displaced insulation and leaking air ducts. You could do the same.
Our thermal inspection includes a detailed report with recommendations on how to make the repairs. We do not perform maintenance so there is no conflict of interest. Our report is for you to use to have the repairs made. Stop paying more than what you should get a thermal inspection.
I've inspected two homes in the last few weeks that have had some water damage. These homes were remarkably next door to each other but I believe they were isolated from each other when it comes to the damage. Sorry, I'm a home inspector, www.gcshomeinspections.com, but also a thermographer as well. The first home's buyer called for a thermal scan to look at the damage that had just happened days before. Sure enough I could see evaporative cooling taking place during the dry-down. After the work was completed I inspected the home and performed a whole-house thermal scan add-on. The dry-down efforts were completed as advertised and all was well. The second home, next door, had water damage and I was hired to inspect for the buyer. It had what appeared as mold-like spots all around the bottom floor walls, the carpet was completely removed from the first floor and the first floor bathroom showed signs of paint blistering, sagging, and other water damage. The thermal scan revealed no evidence of moisture in the walls but it was obvious to me that a professional dry-down had not taken place. Moral of the story is if you have water damage, be sure to hire a remediation company to perform a dry-down and be sure to get a thermal inspection before, during, and afterwards.
www.gcshomeinspections.com We home base in north of Sacramento, but travel outside our area and even the USA for customer service. Thermal inspections are not limited to moisture detection but have other uses as well. Thermal inspections in Yuba City, Sacramento, Colusa, San Francisco and the Bay area, and surrounding areas can be scheduled immediately.
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since last year and expect our summer cooling bills to do the same. We used our thermal imaging camera in our own home and found displaced insulation and leaking air ducts. You could do the same.
get a thermal inspection.
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