Real estate blog entries tagged with ferndale sumas by Steven L. Smith, Bellingham, Wa. Home Inspector (King of the House Home Inspection, Inc)

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ferndale sumas: Whatcom County Home Inspection (King of the House) -- Inaccessible Crawl Spaces - 09/03/10 11:29 AM

A general guideline, reinforced by the Washington State Department of Agriculture, is that substructure lumber must have minimum clearances from soil. The clearances are defined as 12" from grade to the bottom of beams and 18" from grade to the bottom of joists (they rest on top of the beams.)
These clearances were not dreamed up to be mean, or to give inspectors an easy excuse to duck going in the crawl space. The fact of the matter is that, if wood is much lower than that, it is extremely difficult for workers to do any jobs in the crawl space … (12 comments)

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