Many of the home inspectors write about home owner repairs or the inspectors explain how things oughts to be done. As a certifried home inspector assistant, I have decided that I should writes a similar piece. As you know, I am well-known, working for the King of the House firm in Bellingham and,
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07/10/2011
I have found, over the years, that the average seller seems to believe that the home inspector is a guy who trots around on premises with a clipboard and takes notes. What does the inspector take notes on or write about? Well, in the view of many of the sellers, they think that we are writing dow
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07/09/2011
Vinyl siding is a popular siding and, as a home inspector, I see lots of it. In my book it is certainly not one of my favorite sidings in appearance or in performance. It is established that vinyl siding will allow some water behind it. In theory, the water should be able to weep out at the botto
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07/09/2011
My wife and I really like Oaxaca, Mexico. It has become our January destination spot. Historically, the people of this region have had a hard time finding protein. So, clear back to ancient times, they came upon eating insects. The best known of those insects is the grasshopper. If you go out on
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07/08/2011
There is one song, more so than any other one I can think of, that takes me back to the summer of 1967. Those of us who did not live in California were hearing about the summer of love and the hippies. Even on the outskirts of the real action -- we were not having love-ins up here -- we saw tie-
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07/08/2011
A bit of history was made between May and July 1956. It was the first time that an album, defined as rock 'n' roll, topped the album charts in the United States. The other oddity about the RCA album was that it did not include any of the artists big single hits, one of which had been released onl
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07/06/2011
At Active Rain today, being the 4th of July and all, I am seeing many photos of flags and tidbits of Americana in the various posts. In looking at some of this material, it brought back to me a memory of this really strange 45 RPM record that became a hit back when I was a kid in 1966. There is
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07/04/2011
In the course of every person's life, for every generation, there are historic moments that will be remembered until your dying day. In my lifetime, those events would be (1) JFK assassination (2) Challenger explosion (3) Oklahoma federal building bombing (4) 9/11 attacks. The shocking nature of
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07/03/2011
I do not even know how many times I have wished my various Active Rain friends a happy Fourth of July. But I know that I have been doing so for many years now. I was doing so even prior to my certifried home inspector assistant, Nutsy, joining the King of the House staff. And the first time I sai
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07/03/2011
In the northwest we have a wood destroying insect pest known as the anobiid beetle. It is often, incorrectly, referenced as the powderpost beetle which is, in fact, a different pest. The professional structural pest inspector, who hears someone reference powderpost beetles in the crawl space, kno
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07/03/2011
