Blog entries tagged with "
mt vernon wa home inspection":
mt vernon wa home inspection: Bellingham Home Inspection (King of the House): 240 Volt Circuits - 12/02/07 07:27 PM
I have been looking at some of my "bozo" electrical photos today -- compilations from a number of my inspections. This is not an uncommon scenario. In this case, someone removed the 240 volt circuit from the water heater and just left the energized wires hanging there with a couple wire nuts … (5 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Insufficient Heat In The Home - 11/24/07 10:44 PM
One thing you cannot take for granted in a home is that it will have sufficient heat sources. In older houses the situation could be as basic as a space heater that is being used to heat too many rooms. I have inspected newer houses where, for one reason or another, … (6 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Lynden Home Inspector (King of the House): Unsafe Wiring - 11/18/07 07:50 PM
In the blog just before this one, I wrote about why re-inspecting a home to make sure all repairs were done by qualified parties, in a workmanlike manner, can be high in liability. I was browsing some photos and thought this would be a good example. These were live 120V wires in a … (6 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Guess Who Is Coming For The Home Inspection? - 11/11/07 09:30 PM
I was doing a home inspection on Thursday. It was in a wooded area. Now, at home inspections it is common to run into the buyer, the seller, realtors involved or maybe a builder or even a worker who is going to do repairs on the home. In this case, I … (5 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Mount Baker Home Inspection (King of the House): Crawl Space Posts - 10/24/07 02:29 PM
Imagine the surprise my client would have had, at some point down the road, had he not had an inspection. The example here is not one single, solitary isolated incident of a builder who was in a rush. There were about thirty posts under the house and all of them were … (12 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Whatcom and Skagit County Home Inspections (King of the House): Building In Your Wood Destroying Organisms - 10/16/07 04:25 PM
I saw this deck over the weekend. I have seen this design element before, but not in a long time. The deck is non pressure treated lumber and this stump had either had the deck built around it or it is conceivable that, originally, the stump was really a tree and … (2 comments)
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mt vernon wa home inspection: Point Roberts/Birch Bay Home Inspections (King of the House): Failed Thermal Seals - 10/13/07 12:03 AM
One thing an inspector should look for is failed thermal-seal windows. Sometimes they can be hard to spot, depending on how cloudy they have become. Another factor that can make it hard to identify them is the general cleanliness of the windows. More than once, I have found myself trying … (0 comments)
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