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My blog is intended to provide information related to home inspections in Seattle, surrounding communities and anyone else interested. Sometimes I will provide information that has nothing to do with home inspections. Enjoy!

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2012 

  “Subject to mechanical damage” is a phrase that gets used a lot in home inspection reports.  While true of lots of things, like cars being able to run into furnaces and water heaters in the garage, it is especially common with electrical installations. All wiring must be appropriately protected...
06/29/2012
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  Clearly Dark Side of the Moon ranks right up there with some of the greatest music of all time.  In the future, after lots of Pop Culture music is long forgotten, Dark Side of the Moon will be remembered, right along with Bruckner and Mozart.  Some things endure in human culture, while other th...
06/26/2012
  There is no WAY this can be safe! It was a long inspection of a very unusual house.  I suspect this will not be my last blog post about this home.  As I headed from the master bedroom into the living room I noticed a return air grate on the wall.  Now I don’t usually pull the covers off these a...
06/24/2012
  Living in a modern society, it behooves all of us to subscribe to the Consumer Products Safety Commission email of recalled products and safety announcements. Yesterday I received a notice that peaked my interest.  It seems that most of these announcements have to do with some product made in C...
06/21/2012
  Life is not merely puzzling.   It is beyond puzzling. It is certainly more than a puzzle. One can only wish it was just a puzzle.   Life is more like a scroll, yet more than a scroll. Like an endless scroll, with the “now” of our lives, laid out flat between the rolls.   The scrolls of our live...
06/21/2012
06/19/2012
  I think that one of the things I like so much about my job is that I am always dealing with the unexpected.  I expect the unexpected.  I inspect the unexpected.  I inspect the uninspected. People that work on homes never disappoint me in this respect. For example the other day, I entered a smal...
06/18/2012
  I am not sure how this electrical system grounding wire (EGC) could get so badly damaged---perhaps it was a runaway lawn mower or VERY aggressive weed whacker.  Whatever the cause of this damage, twisting two strands of the wires together is not going to fool any inspector---let alone any elect...
06/15/2012
06/13/2012
  You best hop to it then if you haven’t!  If you do not keep your insulation washed you may be wasting valuable money in extra heating and cooling costs! OK wait a minute. Brain-fart. This is silly---NOBODY washes insulation---what the heck am I talking about? What I really mean is “wind-washing...
06/11/2012
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My blog is intended to provide information related to home inspections in Seattle, surrounding communities and anyone else interested. Sometimes I will provide information that has nothing to do with home inspections. Enjoy!

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