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Home Inspector - Superior Home Inspections - Greater Albuquerque Area - InterNACHI 10041206

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2013 

Thievery, poaching, banditry, purloining... happens quite often on construction sites. Builders have to deal with this, homes they are building cannot be locked up and secured till the windows and doors are installed. Sad, but true. Building materials are delivered to job sites for the sub contra...
09/26/2013
Starting Saturday, Oct 5th, I will be a contributor on a new radio show called Tampa Home Talk on 1250 AM radio here in Tampa, hosted by the hostess with the mostess... Katrina Madewell. Very exciting time for me, I have never done any radio! I am so looking forward to this venture! I am sure it ...
09/26/2013
We learned a long time ago that plumbing must be vented to allow smooth flow through the drain pipes. The way architecture is in our world today; people are putting water fixtures and sinks everywhere! The problem was the venting. Conventional wisdom had them running up the walls and through the ...
09/24/2013
Attic pull down stairs are a great convenience item to access the attic area for storage. No need for a ladder, just pull on the rope, unfold the stairs and walk up. They make them with wooden and aluminum materials.  There may even be some constructed of fiberglass, but I have never seen any. Th...
09/22/2013
Skylights can brighten up a room. There are several types of skylights, some are tubular and can direct the sunlight into a dark bathroom or hallway. The ones I see most are merely fixed ones. If you think about it, what is a skylight anyway? Why, it's just a hole in the roof with glass over it! ...
09/21/2013
There are lots of golf courses here in Florida. They are everywhere! Lots of communities have their own courses. So, naturally there are lots of homes that are built that have part of the golf course in their back yard. Awesome you say? Well, here I have two reasons to NOT want a golf course in t...
09/15/2013
What is a geyser? Well, for me yesterday... it was a broken sprinkler head that allowed the water running through that sprinkler zones pipes to shoot straight up into the air! Funny too, because the client was standing on the sidewalk just maybe 10 feet away! He jumped and ran into the garage! I ...
09/11/2013
I had an inspection on a nice home the other day; there was a pool in the rear with a large deck and pool cage. It was lovely, spill over spa, water feature, and the decking had built in landscaping areas with Robellini Palms in them. The problem was that the deck was covered with ceramic tile! I...
09/10/2013
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Just before I went on vacation I did an Inspection for a couple that was coming up on their One Year Anniversary of buying a newly constructed home. The usual One Year Warranty was coming to an end and they wanted to be sure everything was in good working order before the warranty expired and the...
09/08/2013
I just returned from a little down time. Took almost two weeks to recharge the batteries and visit my oldest son, daughter in law, and three grandkids out in New Mexico! We had an awesome time... as always!   Went on a nice bicycle ride on a trail that runs along the Rio Grande river in Albuquerq...
09/07/2013
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