A common problem that I am finding with new construction is two car garages that a person cannot get two normal cars into. What is happening, is that while the garage itself is big enough, when stairs into the garage are added, the stairs take up some of the space where a car would have to go in
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08/31/2014
Well the best way to make any electrical appliance or device safe is to disconnect it---turn off the electricity! Of course, every appliance, or piece of electrical equipment, is designed to “just sit there” and behave itself, waiting for us to use it. We do not want to have to go to the electri
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08/28/2014
When an inspector takes the cover off the electrical service panel, they never know what they are going to find. Of course if they cannot take the cover off at all, like the one behind the mirror, in the picture to the right, there are a lot of things they won’t be able to talk about--either w
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08/28/2014
The home was newly remodeled. Why would anyone think an inspection was necessary? I have talked about this many times, as has every other inspector with a blog. There is the very erroneous opinion that homes that have been newly remodeled homes, or homes that are brand-new, will not have defec
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08/24/2014
Some things just make you go through the roof! Well, hopefully not this. I mean it is important to keep things in perspective. This pipe has been improperly terminated for 12 years and could likely be this way for another 12 years before the roof starts to rot—who can really tell. There i
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08/22/2014
I have blogged about this in the past, but it apparently deserves repeating. Why do agents, when they are calling for repairs, “short hand” what the inspector has written? Here is a fairly typical, request for servicing of a furnace on a flipped home: Furnaces this age should be serviced annual
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08/19/2014
Pre-offer inspections are not for the faint of heart! In my market, with limited inventory and abundant buyers, “pre-offer” inspections, or “walk-through” inspections have become very common. I know inspectors that claim to do nothing else. The idea of a pre-offer inspection is for the buyer
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08/16/2014