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

Does your sink or shower smell?  Do they talk back to you (gurgle) when draining.  I'd bet you have a venting or trap problem that you're not aware of yet.  Plumbing Drain, Waste and Vent systems carry away waste while keeping the sewer gas smell from coming back up into your house. You can read ...

Hey Erby, How did you manage through the May 1st flooding in Kentucky? Well, my grandsons convinced me that it would be good for me to take them to a Cub Scout Pack 167 Camping event at Camp McKee ( a large Boy Scouts of America Blue Grass Council Camp).  Of course, the event and the camping were...

Quite a few (or should I say a LOT) of the things this Lexington Kentucky Home Inspector (and many other inspectors) warn you about Kentucky Home Safety are just like that seat belt in your car. You really hope you never ever never NEED it. BUT, if you're driving down the road and suddenly say to...

Well, I, along with about 1,000 othe people, crossed the bridge to the Grace Christian Church Wild Game Dinner in Georgetown, KY on April 18, 2010.  I had such a great time, I didn't note some of the events or booths but, when you combine these:  (alligator, frog legs, oysters, crawfish, deer, ph...

While doing a Georgetown, Kentucky Home Inspection today, I just had to take a picture of all the Red Bud trees in bloom.  And how fitting, the home was located on, yup you guessed it, Red Bud Lane. A fitting street name.                                             All in all, a nice day in the b...

Sunday, April 18th, 2010 at 4:00 PM Grace Christian Church puts on their annual Wild Game Dinner and Crawfish Boil at the Grace Christian Church, 1648 Lexington Road, Georgetown, KY. All you can eat Wild Game & Seafood (topped by 300 pounds of Crawfish) is a good enough reason to attend but there...

I'm intimately familiar with smart asses & jack assess (having occasionally been accused of being one or the other), and running into them on more than one occasion but hadn't ever heard of a square ass. BUT, below is proof that they must exist somewhere.  I found this toilet during a recent Carl...

Perusing the photos from yesterday afternoon's Georgetown, Kentucky Home Inspection brought to mind how technology has shrunk so much in the last 30 years or so.   It used to be that if you wanted to watch satellite TV you had to have one of these monstrosities hanging around your yard.   Look cl...

Today, I did an Irvine, KY Home Inspection.  OK, it wasn't really IN Irvine, it was 12 miles or so up in the mountains southeast of Irvine, KY.  But around there, that counts as Irvine, KY because it's the closest town you can easily drive to without swimming a river.         Ah, if I could just ...

What's a Kentucky Home Inspector to do when you gotta go from point A (Richmond, KY) to point B (Nicholasville, KY) with a big river between the two. Well, I could use the interstate and suffer the traffic of Lexington, KY to get from a home inspection in Richmond, KY to a home inspection in Nich...