Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 490 See that I'm a country cowboy from Missourah . I can tell ya how too! Be sure to visit and wakeup to Missouri, you won't be sorry you did! First off country folks, know Missouri is pronounced with an ah at the end of it. We think deer season is a National Holiday. We know what and where Party Cove is. We know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July. We measur distance in minutes. We know Jesse James was a hero. And don't ya say he ain't! Little smokies are something we serve on special occasions. We know all four seasons, Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and construction. We faild... 05/25/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit Post 487 As I always do on any Holiday for Vets, I'm a sitten here thinken of those that I've served with. And those men and women that serve now. Those that have gave their blood and life for our Country and Flag. So each and every American, and others in other Countrys can enjoy Freedom! Remember on this Memorial Day weekend of 2009! Freedom is not at all Free! Others have paid with their Blood and Life, so each of you and your family's can enjoy. Your Freedom! The next time you meet a Vet, be sure to shake his or her hand, and say Thank You!   Many moons ago, I took a trip that I knew that I must take and had for way too long avoided taken. That trip was to visit the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington... 05/23/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 485   If you have just relocated to New Hampshire. And you like to go fishing! But you just don't have any idea as to where to go. This could very will help you out with finding good spot's to fish in New Hampshire and New England. Find yourself more and even bigger fish with the Stream and Lake Map of New England. Professor Higbee's Stream and Lake Map of New England, is a highly detailed map of its kind. Its a three foot by four foot map that shows 36,000 miles of streams plus lakes in New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. This is a real fine map to have... 05/19/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 484   One of the very first things to know, when a First Time Home Buyer or any Home Buyer. Are looking to buy a Log Home. Not all Home Inspectors, are qualified to inspected a Log Home. They are just not the same as a stick home.   Handcrafted Log Homes are one-of-a-kind homes built most offten by a log home specialist, that is known as a handcrafter. That works with raw logs, which he has either purchased or has cut himself, the hand ceafter prepares each log individually using powered or manually operated hand tools. The corner joints are measured and marked, then they are cut individ... 05/17/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 483   One of the very first things to know, when a First Time Home Buyer or any Home Buyer. Are looking to buy a Log Home. Not all Home Inspectors, are qualified to inspected a Log Home. They are just not a other homes. This is the first of many posts, that I'll be doing covering Log Homes. (A bit of History)   A lot of folks are drawn to log homes, and the appeal of folks owning a log home sure has fuled the development of the modern log home industry. There are over 400 manufacturers, ranging from the small sawmill operations to sophisticated, full service housing companies, serve this... 05/17/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner Dale Baker     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 482   There are some important changes, for the annual Prouty this year!   Bike registration cap: The number of registered bikers is going to be capped at 3,200. Bikers have to be register by July 8th or before the cap has been reached, which ever comes first. There will be no day-of registration for bikers.     Registration: Day-of registration will only be available to walkers.   The 35 mile Route: There will be a new 35 mile route add, due to popular demand.   20 mile routs: Seen that last year's 25 mile route, was a bit short, so they are correctly changing the designati... 05/16/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner Dale Baker     You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 481   The 28th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk for Cancer Researn, is coming up, and not far off at all! The 11 of July 2009 - Marks the 28th Annual Prouty Century Bike Ride and Challenge Walk! Be sure to mark your calendar, to join hundreds of folks in a day of fun and celebration while your helpen to find a cure for cancer! Why not challenge yourself to bike 20, 35, 50, or even 100 miles, or walk 5, 10, 15, or 20k to help raise money for Cancer Research and services for Cancer patients. All the events will take place rain or shine New this year is The Pr... 05/14/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit   Post 476   My own Mother has not been with us for many many moons now. But I'm not sad, for I know she looks over my Sister's and myself each and every day. I send this Mother's Day post, to all Mom's In Every Town-Of Every State! On This Mother's Day! M - sure is for the million things she gives us O - means only she's growing old with each passing day T - surely is for all the tears she shed to save us H - sure is for her heart of purest gold E - has to be for her eyes that loves-light shaine's from R - surelly means right, and right she'll always be Now when you put these little ole letters together, they spell Mother, for the finesse lady in the land. To all the Mom's out there, this is your main da... 05/10/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 475   The Claremont Parks and Recreation Department has teamed up with the Family School Connections, Stevens High School and Claremont Middle School to offer a new lacrosse program. Program leaders are scheduling games for a U15 boys team through May. The instructional program runs until May 21 and meets three times a week, Tuesdays and Thursdays at Monadnock Park, from 6:00 to 7:00 P.M. and Saturdays from 10:00 A.M. to 11:00 A.M. The program is still accepting late registrations for the program. To view activities and for more details and / or register, please visit http://claremontpar... 05/09/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 474   What if your well is going dry? You can Artificially Recharg it.   When rain falls onto mother earth, it seeps through the zone of aeration, and enters an aquifer, the aquifer is then recharged naturally. Of course, that is the useal way water enters into an aquifer and reaches your well or a spring. There are, times however we need to help nature recharge our well. Now let's assume that your well is going dry, from lack of rain fall or snow from last winter. But there is a free flowing river nearby. But the location and nature of the aquifer that feeds your well is insulated by cl... 05/09/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 473   Why not help give yourself some baleout!   Water the Hub of Life. Water is its mater and matrix, mother and medium. Water is the most extraordinary substance! Practically all its properties are anomalous, which enabled life to use it as building material for its machinery. Life is water dancing to the tune of solides. (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi 1972) Our water is so very preclous to us, it sure is time that we all stop taken its supply for granted. In order to conserve the remaining water sources, and to improve the availability of water, there have been many solutions put forth. Rain w... 05/09/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 472   Just what is rain water harvesting ? The principle of collecting and using precipitation from a catchment surface.     An old technology sure is gaining a lot of popularity in a new technology age. Rain water harvesting is enjoying a rejuvenation of sorts in the country, but you can traces its history back to biblical times. Extensive harvesting of rain water existed 4000 years ago in the Palestine and Greece. Even in ancient Rome, the residences were built with individual cisterns and paved courtyards to capture rain water to augment water from city's aqueducts. And as early as th... 05/09/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 471 Buying or owning a home in the country, that use's a well!   You have found the best spot for your well. All the indicators point to groundwater at the chosen location. But don't start the drilling or digging just yet. For you to just go ahead believing that not finding water is all your risking, would be one serious error on your part.   Just because you have bought and own a piece of property does not at all mean you also own any water that might will lie on or under the property. In fact, you just may not have any right to it at all and it could very will belong to someone else. T... 05/08/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 470   Your Home's Cooling System! The best way to help prevent a breakdown of your cooling system. Is to have the cooling system examined annually. Having a regularly scheduled tune-up, will keep your system running smoothly and reduce the chance of a failure in the middle of the season when demand is highest.   Plus, you'll save money in the way of repair costs, energy, and you'll extend the life of your home's cooling system. Did you know - that factory warranties are honored with annual service.   Spring A/C Tune-Up Clean condenser coil. Check electrical connections. Have the cooling ... 05/07/2009

  Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 469   Home sellers let your home smile a little smile of welcome to buyers that are looking at your home. With just a little effort on your part, your home sure can be sold more quickly. Here are some tips, that have proved to be invaluable to home sellers and sure are will worth your attention.   Now if you were out looking at home's, what would your first impression be of these's?   Would you think Home Sweet Home? The first immpressions a buyer gets of your home, is a lasing one. The frount of your home is the first thing they see. Be sure its fresh looking, clean and looking. Keep y... 05/05/2009

  Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 468   Home sellers let your home smile a little smile of welcome to buyers that are looking at your home. With just a little effort on your part, your home sure can be sold more quickly. Here are some tips, that have proved to be invaluable to home sellers and sure are will worth your attention. Does your home look like a tunnel with a light at the end of it?  Haven your home lit up, is like a welcome sign. When potentil buyers are comeing for an evening view, they will feel a glowing warmth when you have turn all your lights on.   Will the buyer feel as if they are in a crowd?  Be sure... 05/04/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 467     I would like to invite you, to take the Recycling Pledge!   (  )  I pledge to find out what materials I can and Cannot recycle in My Community   (  )  I pledge to lead by example in my community by always recycling.   (  )  I pledge to recycle batteries, cell phones, and all other electronic waste.  Find an e-waste facility near me   (  )  I pledge to e-mail my elected officials to ask them to increase funding for my community's recycling programs.   (  )  I pledge to tell five of my friends that recycling is the easiest thing they can do to slow global warming.     I Dale Baker-... 05/02/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 462 First Time Home Buyers, maybe your think about buying land to build a home on. This is also good information for anyone thinking about buying land to have a home build, and for land investors.     You need to ask yourself, does this land Perk? This is perhaps the most important question you want to ask, and have the answer for. Some of you reading this, just may very will be thinking. Just what in the world is this guy talken about. A perk test, is a simple teat- Done so you know if the soil of the land in suitable for the septic system. That will be needed for your home, if your goi... 04/30/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 461 Seen that Uncle Sam, sent me to visit a lot of places all over the world. I've gotten at times to see how folks' lived way back in History. First Time Home Buyers and Home Owners, did you know that plumbing in 1700 B.C. was very advanced back then on the island of Crete in the Mediterranean Sea. There was a place called Minos, in the town of Knossos, it sure was a complex architectural achievement back then, with hundreds of rooms built around a central court-yard. This place featured bathtubs that were filled and emptied by terra-cotta pipes fitted together a lot like today's plumbi... 04/28/2009

Baker Home Inspection and Consulting Blog Owner   You are always welcome to visit By the time we compete the Inspection, you will know the Home or Commercial Property better than the owner does!   Post 460   Did you know, that the baths of Caracalla in Rome covered a 27 acre site. A series of aqueducts was built to transport water to Rome, in 52 A.D., there was 220 miles of Roman aqueducts, which 30 of them were above ground. At the peak of its development, that there system carried some 300 gallons per person each day to Rome. Lead pipeing at Aqua Sulis Now at Aqua Sulis, the site of an ancient spa and hot springs in England, the Roman Emperor Claudius built a real magnificent bathing complex in 43 A.D. Now think about this, The lead pipes that were laid down some 2000 years ago for h... 04/27/2009