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2010
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James Quarello2010 SNEC-ASHI PresidentNRSB #8SS0022JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC To find out more about our other high tech services click on the links below: Learn more about our Infrared Thermal Imaging & Diagnostics services. Learn more about our home energy audits, the Home Energy Tune...
10/20/2010
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Kitchen gadgets are great - if they actually work. Slicing and dicing is a real tedious and time consuming chore - and one that should be left in the kitchen. I discovered this back yard slicer the other day at a condo I was inspecting. It's an A/C compressor missing the protective screen over th...
10/19/2010
Sorry Elvis fans, but this quotation came into my head while looking at this recent electrical discovery. Isn't cute? Looks like a little bob tail sticking out of the wall. What's that you ask? Why yes that is duct tape wrapped around the wire. That's the LIVE wires protective cocoon. Oh yes, it'...
10/18/2010
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Building forts and having secret tunnels was great fun as a kid. Some blanks thrown over a chair and a couch was the best! I always envisioned having a secret passage way out of my room. It would be great when I was sent to my room for some offense or other I could sneak out and back in before I ...
10/17/2010
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I fortunately do not have too many crawl spaces to inspect in Connecticut. Today happened to be one of few days where I had get down and dirty. Actually this crawl space was not bad at all. Concrete floor, dry, but a bit dusty and dirty. The heating/cooling ducts had been installed on the floor w...
10/16/2010
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If I may be permitted a brief introduction to this blog. Everyone is aware of Charles Buells, Proof that I can blog about anything! blog challenge. Well I thought if I'm going to be challenged I might as well step way outside my box. Poetry isn't my thing, in fact I have never wrote a poem befo...
10/15/2010
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The other day I wrote about a home where the patio built against the house had caused serious damage to the house structure. The catalyst as always was water. When water is allowed to come in contact with the wood framing of the house decay is sure to follow. Here is another case of water and woo...
10/14/2010
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James Quarello2010 SNEC-ASHI PresidentNRSB #8SS0022JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC To find out more about our other high tech services click on the links below: Learn more about our Infrared Thermal Imaging & Diagnostics services. Learn more about our home energy audits, the Home Energy Tune...
10/13/2010
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Many years ago in another life I worked with a man, my foreman, who I admired very much. He was very talented with his hands and things mechanical. He taught me about the Six Ps; Proper Prior Planning Prevents Poor Performance Elegantly simple, think before you do, and think some more. A good dea...
10/12/2010
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The last few years being "Green" has become all the rage. It's sort of funny how being responsible for the environment can be a fade, the thing to do, nevertheless that is the world we live in. As a Connecticut home inspector seeing or finding green is not always good. I have yet to find a stash ...
10/11/2010
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