I have seen many outside faucets that have had leaks, but this one was an award winner. I am glad I was not standing off to the right of it when I did the water pressure reading. By the way, those of you who are tuned into that kind of thing can see that the water pressure was too low according t
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09/10/2007
When a home inspector looks at a furnace, he or she is trying to determine the general condition of it, age etc. One thing I see, frequently, is the door or front panel interlock taped on. When an inspector sees that, there is little choice but to suggest that the appliance be looked at by an HVA
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09/10/2007
At home inspections, sometimes at otherwise good houses, I am often surprised at the simple things that are easily corrected but were not dealt with by the seller. For example, the dirt will be piled on the siding near the gardens. The one maintenance issue that I see over and over again is heavy
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09/09/2007
While it is not necessarily in the standards of practice, most inspectors do a limited inspection of appliances. From my experience, I find that one appliance problem seems to be the one that I see more often than the others. Some of the more common things I see are leaking food disposals and dis
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09/09/2007
I would be interested to hear from some of you out there. In this area of the country where, historically we had lots of room, we did not have many, or any, zero lot line homes. Over the past few years a number of them have sprung up. I look upon them, at least usually, as a duplex cut right down
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09/09/2007
In my part of the country, we are seeing more and more condos. Often like the condo in the photos below, these condos afford residents spectacular water front views. A private homeowner frequently cannot afford a lot in such an area, but common ownership by all the unrelated parties makes it poss
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09/09/2007
While I would not say it is unusual, it is also not all that common to be able to capture the photos below which go together so nicely and illustrate a point. Home inspectors see a multitude of problems with old metal chimney flashings. Often roofers do not help matters when putting on a new roof
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09/08/2007
While it is a common practice, a home inspector does not like to see the downspouts of the home up tight to the siding and draining down the roofing materials. When that is the case, and the rain is really coming down in our climate here in Washington, it leads to uncontrolled runoff and the wate
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09/08/2007
I was doing an inspection at a nice condo. Checked the dryer vent outside, or what I thought was the dryer vent, just to see if it had lint inside of it. Prior to looking, I had turned on the dryer. I was surprised to find that no warm, or cold, air was coming out the vent. I have seen this befor
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09/08/2007
I recently wrote a blog explaining why I think there is limited validity to attempting to train serious home inspectors merely by supplying them with videos and Online courses. Now, I did not say that I do not think there is a place for modern technology in the training of inspectors. Much of our
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09/08/2007
