habitec: Nashville Tn Home Inspections - WCAR Announces new Board Members
- 09/27/12 06:25 AM
Nashville TN Home Inspections - Williamson County Association of Realtors (WCAR) elects 2012-2013 Board of Directors. The 1,500 members voted to elect three new executive officers and five new directors. HABITEC Home and Buildings Inspections, LLC, conducting home and commercial buildings inspections throughout Middle TN including Nashville, Brentwood, and Franklin, wishes these newly elected members success in the coming year. Thank you, Richard Acree
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habitec: Nashville Flood Recovery - How is That Car Running?
- 06/15/10 02:23 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Flood Recovery - How is That Car Running? Was your car or truck partially submerged in a recent flood like we had in Nashville? If yes, better read on. We all know that oil and water do not mix well. And that is especially true in a combustible engine. And the same holds true for transmission fluid and fuel. If your car was exposed to flood waters, there is a possibility that water got into the … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Home Inspection - Surface Culvert Drain - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/28/10
- 05/28/10 01:49 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Home Inspection - Surface Culvert Drain - What's Wrong With This Picture? Actually two pictures. See below. HINT: Big Pipe versus Little Pipe.
ANSWER: Think of plumbing. Remember, never connect a big diameter pipe to a smaller diameter pipe when the flow is towards the smaller pipe. If you do, the big pipe can overwhelm the little pipe and the flow can … (4 comments)
habitec: Nashville Home Inspection - Crawl Space Electrical Junction Box - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/26/10
- 05/27/10 03:34 AM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Home Inspection - Crawl Space Junction Box - What's Wrong With This Picture? HINT: Two things.
ANSWER: First, any open junction box should be covered to prevent inadvertent contact and electrical shock should someone accidentally stick something into the open box. And second, this situation is especially dangerous because the open conductors are hanging directly above the copper metal plumbing pipes. So let's just go ahead and power up the entire plumbing … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Home Inspection - Crawl Space Fungal Growth - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/22/10
- 05/22/10 02:00 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Home Inspection - Crawl Space Fungal Growth - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/22/10 HINT: What's that white stuff on the wood?
ANSWER: Microbial growth. Many people quickly call this mold, but without a lab analysis, we don't know for sure. A sample should be taken and sent for lab analysis. See the closeup of the material below.
Clearly something happened here to create this growth. For mold growth to occur, … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Home Inspection - Damaged Tree - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/19/10
- 05/19/10 03:58 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Home Inspection - Damaged Tree - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/19/10 HINT: What is going on with this tree? Should this crack be included in a Home Inspection Report?
ANSWER: To the first question, Nothing good. To the second question, YES! This tree is approximatley 80 feet high and the trunk is approximately 16" in diameter at 2' above the ground. Plenty of weight and plenty of trouble if this tree … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Home Inspection - SNAKE! - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/12/10
- 05/12/10 02:45 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog: Nashville Home Inspection - SNAKE! - What's Wrong With This Picture? 5/12/10 HINT: RUN!!
ANSWER: RUN Faster! Actually, it's not that big of deal. Sure, it was about 5' long, but it is a relatively harmless rat snake. One of my Inspectors at HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, serving Nashville and Middle Tennessee for Home and Commercial Building Inspections, met this guy today while conducting a Home Inspection. Once they had been … (1 comments)
habitec: Nashville Flood Recovery and Mold Prevention
- 05/12/10 03:24 AM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. NASHVILLE FLOOD RECOVERY and MOLD PREVENTION Disclaimer: This article does not guarantee that mold will not still result from the conditions that existed before these steps are taken. These steps below are intended to be a best effort to prevent mold growth in homes or buildings affected by flood waters. http://habitecinspections.com The following steps should be taken whenever your home or building has been affected by flood waters. 1. Turn OFF electrical power and gas supply to … (2 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Crawl Space Ductwork - Confined Spaces, When is Tight Too Tight? 4/22/10
- 04/23/10 04:57 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the article! Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Crawl Space Ductwork - Confined Spaces - When is Tight Too Tight? Recently I had a REALTOR ask if there were circumstances when an Inspector would not crawl through the entire crawl space. I explained that sometimes we don't go everywhere in the crawl space because it simply is not possible or safe. I went on to explain that access to some areas of the crawl space may be blocked by debris, … (3 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Building Inspection - HABITEC Completes PCA of 100 Year Old Church!
- 04/20/10 07:22 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the article! HABITEC COMPLETES PROPERTY CONDITION ASSESSMENT OF 100 YEAR OLD CHURCH in Nashville Tennessee! HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, (http://habitecinspections.com) is pleased to announce the completion of a Commercial Building Property Condition Assessment (PCA) on a 100 year old 10,000 square foot Church! The PCA was completed by Ron Rittiner, Chief Inspector and Business Manager, Richard Acree, President and Rick Cozby, Associate Inspector at HABITEC. Ron Rittiner was the Inspector of Record.
The … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Attic Stair Mount - What's Wrong With This Picture? 4/17/10
- 04/18/10 07:24 AM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog! Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Attic Stair Mount - What's Wrong With This Picture? HINT: Take a walk with me on the wild side and let's go up the attic stairs. Let's stop at the top of the stairs and admire the view.
At the top of the attic stairs every Home Inspector should pause to check the fasteners holding the stair system to the frame. Look closely at the device inserted into the … (3 comments)
habitec: Tennessee Home Inspection - What Is Wrong With This Picture? 4/16/10
- 04/18/10 06:48 AM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................. Now onto the blog! What's Wrong With This Picture? HINT: I am taking the picture from inside the attic looking down at the attic stairs coming up into the attic. The attic furnace is behind me.
Answer: Now imagine you are the HVAC tech coming to work on the furnace or a homeowner carrying personal items into the attic for storage. How do you get to the furnace or landing area, shown in the foreground, without crossing … (6 comments)
Comments in this blog posting are the copyrighted intellectual property of Richard Acree, President, HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, and contributing members of the Active Rain Real Estate network, and are intended to educate and otherwise assist home owners, sellers and buyers, building owners, sellers and buyers, realtors, real estate investors, property managers, and lenders in the process of owning, buying or selling homes or commercial buildings. HABITEC is a residential (home) and commercial building inspection company serving Middle … (0 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Roof Shingles - What's Wrong With This Picture? 4/07/10
- 04/07/10 12:36 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) ................................................................................................................................................ Now onto the blog: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Roof Shingles - What's Wrong With This Picture? HINT: Water flows downhill, and this picture was taken from a roof top.
ANSWER: Composite roof shingles should always be installed so that the shingles overlap from the top down. In this photo, the shingles from one side of the valley were simply carried over on top of the other side, in the forefront. That puts the downslope shingles above the upslope … (4 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Why are Those Radon Tests SO High This Year?
- 04/06/10 01:21 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) .................................................................................................................................................. Have you noticed an increase in radon gas measurements and/or radon tests failures this winter? Don't feel alone, everybody has. At HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, providing home inspections and radon tests in Nashville and Middle Tennessee, we have seen the same thing. Why is that? Simply put, the weather this past winter created a perfect storm for elevated radon measurement results. The EPA recommends testing for radon in the winter anyway, because it is the time of … (1 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - HVAC Package Unit Shroud Issues
- 04/02/10 11:18 AM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) .................................................................................................................................................. Now on to the article, Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - HVAC Package Unit Shrould Issues. Those large metal boxes on the outside of a home, like the one in the picture below, are called Package Units. They get the name from the fact that they supply heat and air conditioning to all or some of the house, versus a split unit. A split unit is a HVAC unit that is composed of two parts, an interior furnace and evaporator … (1 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - HVAC Supply Duct Installation - What's Wrong With This Picture? 3/29/10
- 03/28/10 09:23 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) .................................................................................................................................................. Now onto the article. Nashville Home Inspection - HVAC Supply duct Installation - What Is Wrong With this Picture?? HINT: Just do it? Works on the track, not in a house.
ANSWER: I don't really have an answer for this, except maybe "Just don't do it?!" But for those who cannot see it clearly, yes, that is a NIKE shoe box used to complete a line of HVAC. The box and a tube of caulk! :( Thank you, … (7 comments)
habitec: Nashville Building Inspection - Ancient Roman Brickworks
- 03/26/10 01:54 PM
Ancient Roman (Italy) brickworks ofter still stand today, either as part of an historic but unused building or perhaps still in use in conjunction with newer construction. A good place to see historic roman brickwork is at the Forum, which includes the Colosseum and other sites. The photo below is of brick that was used to build one the Colosseum blind and embedded arches.
The white stone structure on the sides of the arch were a limestone-type rock used for columns and walls as it was easy to cut. Notice the shape of the brick, compared to modern day brick. This … (2 comments)
habitec: Google Juice, What's That?
- 03/25/10 10:03 PM
Recently I read a blog on ActiveRain where a participant used the term "Google Juice". Well I have been recently making an effort to improve my website Search Engine Optimization (SEO) by reading some SEO books and articles on the internet, but none of these sources used the term Google Juice. But as I read on I realized this Rainer was right. What he referred to as "Google Juice" is just the stuff SEO is all about. That is trying to get search engines in general and Google in particular to pay attention to your website. When that happens your website … (4 comments)
habitec: Nashville Tennessee Home Inspection - Asbestos Duct Tape- What's Wrong With this Picture? 3/25/10
- 03/24/10 11:45 PM
(Welcome to the HABITEC Blog at Activerain. If you are looking for the HABITEC website please click on http://habitecinspections.com. Thank you!) .................................................................................................................................................. Now on the post: Nashville Home Inspection - Asbestos Duct Tape - What Wrong With this Picture? HINT: What's that white stuff on the old ductwork? And, the house is over 70 years old.
ANSWER: Probably asbestos. And it is loose and frayed. This should be removed or covered in such a way that it cannot disperse into the air. Thank you, Richard Acree
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Home and Commercial building inspections, mold assessments including inspections and mold sampling, radon testing and water quality analysis in Nashville and Middle Tennessee.
Nashville TN Home Inspections - Williamson County Association of Realtors (WCAR) elects 2012-2013 Board of Directors. The 1,500 members voted to elect three new executive officers and five new directors.
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