Real estate blog entries tagged with home inspector by Harold Miller (Everett Home Inspector) (Miller Home Inspection)

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home inspector: Faulty Vapor Barrier installation (Everett Home Inspector) - 11/07/07 12:07 AM

This structural support wall appears OK from a distance.

But fortunately the rodents had torn away the vapor retarder in places to reveal that it is sandwiched between a double bottom plate. The plate is not treated lumber... I can only wonder what this builder was thinking when they placed the barrier … (9 comments)

home inspector: Blocking crawl space vents....Advice from an Everett Area Home Inspector - 11/06/07 11:32 PM

Blocking crawl space vents....
Being a northwest native, I am not sure what part of the country this practice is acceptable, but one thing I can tell you is that it is not OK here in Western Washington. Yet I see it done, and have no idea why people think it is OK.
I … (6 comments)

home inspector: "Anything Can Break at Anytime" at an Everett Home Inspectors house. - 10/28/07 11:50 AM

Well it was a rainy day in the Pacific Northwest when my wife called to inform me that our basement carpet was sopping wet. I had just wrapped up an inspection an hours drive away, and proceeded directly home.
In the meantime I talked my wife through some things to check. First we … (4 comments)

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