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I run across this condition quite often. Usually in older homes that have been modified or remodeled. I would say about 80% of the finished basements in this area may have been done without a permit. How NOT to create two new circuits to finish a basement. This house boasted a newly-finished base...
04/30/2016
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Many insulation studies have come to the rule of thumb consideration that can be called The 5% Rule of Missing Insulation. Basically stated, if a given area, say a wall or ceiling in a room in a home, is missing 5% of insulation, that missing 5% will cause a more than 50% loss in R-value for tha...
01/19/2016
I run across this all the time, sometimes it is in hard to reach concealed areas, where it would be very difficult to correct. Until the use of thermal imaging, a lot of these areas have gone undetected. The insulation prediction becomes reality. "Our pillows are cold!" Sometimes when home inspe...
01/16/2016
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Link to my site Aerial PhotographyI purchased a drone as a hobbyist, to see if it would be useful to me during inspections. Wow, What a useful tool. I saved risking my neck on an inspection yesterday ( flying my drone for fun and with the property owners permission at no charge and following the ...
11/30/2015
This is great advice, I run in to homes that are not ready for inspection daily. Sellers! The Home Inspector has just completed the Inspection of your house. You and your Listing Agent are eagerly looking over the report. WHAT? The Inspector has written, "not tested" and "unable to access...
11/23/2015
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"Brian that is absolutely awesome!!! Thank you ever so much, I am very happy with your report, and your extremely prompt ability to get this inspection done so fast for us! I have told the other 2 agents in the office to call you when they need inspections as they both used Tom who retired also. ...
11/04/2015
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It has been 2 years since the flood in Northern Colorado that affected homes in my area, so I thought I would share an article that I have found helpful to my clients. C.L.U.E. Reports by Nick Gromicko What is C.L.U.E.? C.L.U.E. stands for "Comprehensive Loss Underwriting Exchange" and is a cla...
10/13/2015
I have contractors do things like this all the time and some will actually blame me. Dealing with 2 of them this week on simular issues. It is funny how sometimes the problem magically disappears when I go out to check it. Thanks for the post Jay. When he called me, my neighbor said, "By law the ...
10/09/2015
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I received a call yesterday from a lender wanting an inspection done the same day so they could close on the deal. The home was inspected already and a few issues were found, but the lender did not want to fix the issues. She mentioned that since it was a conventional loan and not FHA that safety...
10/30/2014
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I did an inspection last week for an "in training inspector" on a home occupied by an "inspector still considering classes". The inspection went well and they received my standard report, and realized there was a little more to inspecting than they first thought. Then I went to a Realtors associa...
01/10/2014