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Just a touch away, Delta Touch2O faucets East Wenatchee Home Inspections Lets start with a lyric from a famous classic rock band “Nothing much, is all I know and it's alright, oh yes Light as a feather, and just a touch away” Deep Purple During a recent home inspection I cam...
07/29/2014
Sometimes making History is not good. Wildfires Washington State 2014 Yesterdays weather brought much needed relief to the many firefighters in Eastern Washington. With anticipated cooler weather and rain again today this should help with the heroic efforts by the men and women who are fighting...
07/23/2014
Live Free…Be Creative…. Ladonia. A country within a country. Well I am back from a whirlwind of a trip to Scandinavia. Spending most of my time in Sweden but with stops in Denmark and the Netherlands. (The shores of Landonia) But one of the special little side trips was to a tiny little co...
07/20/2014
Shocking, The inventor of the GFCI…. Charles Dalziel Chelan Home Inspections Ever wonder how the GFCI ever came about. Well it turns out that Charles Dalziel(1904–1986), a professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at UC Berkeley, back in the early 1960’s was ...
07/19/2014
Electromagnetic Harvesting, The energy envelope is all around us. It is everywhere in our modern society, Electromagnetic Fields. The sources come from radios, TV’s, phones, receptacles, power lines and even from the heavens above… energy of the clouds. Well a German Student Dennis Siegel ...
07/07/2014
No grandfathers here. When you replace you must upgrade. East Wenatchee Home Inspection As always when a new code cycle comes out there it takes time to get many onboard with the changes that come with the new cycle. This includes, building officials, tradesman and home inspectors. This is ve...
07/06/2014
Distant drumming of the Diatoms, Diatomaceous Earth in Attics Chelan Home Inspection What is this diatom you are drumming about? Well these are a vast group of photosynthesising algae. They have a siliceous skeleton which is commonly used as an abrasive and also because it is a siliceous material...
07/03/2014
I am here to push your buttons- GFCI’s required around your home. Home Inspection Wenatchee I have been writing on the new requirements that will be adopted for GFCI’s (ground-fault circuit-interrupter) and AFCI’s (arc-fault circuit-interrupter). With the new rules adoption of the 2014 NEC I am...
07/02/2014