B4U Close Blog by Erby, the Central Kentucky Home Inspector in Lexington, Kentucky

One of Erby, The Central Kentucky Home Inspectors lectures for Kentucky Home Inspection clients: A lot of what we're going to be talking about today is just like that seat belt in your car. You hope you never, ever need it (and so do I), but when you're driving down the road and say to yourself "...

Do you have a Kentucky Home Maintenance Schedule? You should, to maintain the value and comfort of your home. Remember to conduct monthly and annual preventive maintenance checks to extend the longevity of the structure and the installed systems and components. UPON TAKING POSSESSION: After taki...

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Ya gotta love those who think that duct tape makes a good plumbing repair. Here's some duct tape on a plumbing vent pipe in the attic.  BUT, just in case it doesn't work, we'll slip the little red bowl under the joint to catch any water.   Here we see a T (serving a sump pump) taped into the main...

Buried Water Heaters The things some people do! The crawl space was all I had left to do at this morning's Nicholasville Kentucky Home Inspection, but I hadn't found the water heater yet.  The crawl space entrance was kinda small but I've found an occasional water heater in the crawl space.     F...

  I drive up to my Nicholasville, KY Home Inspection this morning and it's just raining lightly. A litle later, just before we're ready for the outside part of the inspection, I look outside and see the sun shining. We finish the garage and move to the outside. It's RAINING again. Get out the umb...

Log Cabins in Kentucky       Yup, there's still lots of them around as evidenced by this one I saw in Washington, KY the other day. I was in the area to set a couple of radon monitors and couldn't resist turning around to go back and get a picture of this one.  Then I noticed that there were seve...

Geocaching in Bourbon County, KY Having recently read Cindy Edwards' blog about Geocaching, it's a great family thing. I was, fortunately, well aware of what exactly I was looking at this afternoon. I took a little by-way side trip today, on my way home from a Carlisle Kentucky area home inspecti...

  Kentucky's Disappearing Covered Bridges  I was on my way home from home inspections in the Carlisle, KY area, driving down Highway 32 between Cynthiana, KY and Millersburg, KY, when I saw a sign I'd seen several times in my travels.  Colville Covered Bridge            I'd promised myself every ...

World Cancer Day - February 4th, 2011 The Union for International Cancer Control the World Health Organization have declared February 4th, 2011  - World Cancer Day. =======       The World Cancer Declaration is a tool to help bring the growing cancer crisis to the attention of government leaders ...