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home inspections: Great Garbage Disposer Tips - 11/25/09 11:07 AM
 
Holidays are a very busy time of the year for everyone....including plumbers. In preparing holiday dinners, the garbage disposer gets a workout and if not careful, you may just find yourself calling a plumber and having to pay up to double the normal rates for emergency and holidays. Here are some tips on garbage disposers that may prevent you from calling Mr. plumber.

Tips on operating your disposer
When placing food in the disposer, take time to put small amounts in at a time. Don't pack the disposer full then try to grind. This will increase the chances of … (4 comments)

home inspections: Neat Tip for Replacing Electrical Outlets and Switches - 06/26/09 10:16 PM
On a home inspection the other day, I ran across this electrical outlet cover that I thought was pretty simple but ingenious.

It is a cover plate with just the hot, neutral and ground cut in it instead of the oval holes that exposes the outlet itself. That way if you are painting a room, remodeling or rehabbing a home and have old dingy and dirty outlets that stand out, you don't have to change them. Just replace the cover and you're done. I wrote an article a while back.....http://ezinearticles.com/?Rehabbing-a-Home-That-Has-Aluminum-Wiring----How-to-Cover-Your-Costs-and-Reduce-Liability&id=2095828 on the high costs of replacing outlets on houses with … (0 comments)

home inspections: Do You Give Estimates? - 11/18/08 09:55 PM
Client: So you say the air conditioning won't turn on. How much will it cost to fix?
Me: I don't know
Client: The shower has very low water flow? How much will it cost to repair that?
Me: I don't know
Client: I noticed that the old wooden windows are in poor condition and most won't open. How much will it cost to upgrade the windows?
Me: I don't know
Client: Why did I hire you?
Me: To inspect the house ma'am
 
Of all the hundreds of houses I have inspected, I have had clients ask me many times about … (10 comments)

home inspections: New TRCC Home Inspections Protects Rural Customers.....Or Does It? - 09/27/08 09:34 PM
I'm still sitting of the fence on whether I want to participate in this program. When I first heard about the passing of this bill, I was excited and thought "cool, more inspection work for us". As of September 1st 2008, the Texas Residential Construction Commission began policing rural construction of homes built outside of jurisdiction of city municipality building code inspections. The house bill that passed this new enforcement was meant to require inspections to rural homes and remodel projects exceeding $10,000. Before now, if a home was built in rural county areas, no inspections were required since the home … (0 comments)

home inspections: Dishwasher Wired to Switch.....Have You Ever Seen This? - 09/11/08 08:06 PM
 

I ran across this again today and am wondering:
1. Why they are wired this way.
2. Do they do this in other parts of the country.
3. How many of you have seen this also.
The first time I saw this was about 7 years ago when I was inspecting a fairly new home and noticed the dishwasher was not powering on. I checked the breakers in the panel and none were tripped so I just assumed that the washer was not wired or broke. I then turned on the garbage disposer but at first flipped on the … (29 comments)

 
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