home inspections: Deck Safety
- 06/13/11 04:51 AM
It’s generally agreed that exterior decks have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years. It seems like that is the rule for many appliances, so I guess decks wanted to get in the picture. Unlike a failed air conditioner that will cause discomfort, a fail deck can cause injury or death. Every year there are horror stories about a deck collapse. What can you do to help insure safety? If you are purchasing a home, your Home Inspector should include a snapshot of your deck’s condition and point out the usual failure points. Over 50% of the decks I see … (0 comments)
home inspections: Ventilation
- 06/02/11 12:42 PM
If you have to go in your attic for something this time of year, the heat is unforgiving. Besides trying to get out as soon as possible you should be thinking about ventilation and, “Do I have enough?” Minimum recommended attic ventilation is 1 Sq Foot for every 300 Sq Feet of attic area. Multiplying the length by the width of your home should give you the area. You should have as much intake ventilation as exhaust ventilation. Truth is you can’t have too much ventilation if you stick to the 50/50 rule. 50% intake under the eaves and 50% exhaust … (1 comments)
home inspections: Baby Boomers, Gen X, Gen Y and the Home.
- 04/19/11 12:37 PM
When I was growing up our toothpaste came in lead tubes, lead paint chips abounded and we blew asbestos out of the car’s brake linings while smoking non filtered cigarettes. Mom would make us scrub mold off the basement walls without gloves and Radon might have been a car part but I never heard of it. How did we survive? Baby boomers were not as educated as the generations that followed and if you ask most of us today we hardly care. Does this mean it’s not important? Of course not! Much time and research has gone into investigating the ill … (0 comments)
It’s generally agreed that exterior decks have a life expectancy of 10 to 15 years. It seems like that is the rule for many appliances, so I guess decks wanted to get in the picture. Unlike a failed air conditioner that will cause discomfort, a fail deck can cause injury or death. Every year there are horror stories about a deck collapse. What can you do to help insure safety?
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