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Home inspection information in Salem Oregon. Tips for realestate professionals and home buyers. Specializing in education, thermography, and home inspections for realestate transactions in Salem, Oregon.
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I have a special place in my heart for manufactured homes.  I am fascinated by the building techniques.  In many respects they are much better than stick built homes.   There can be a huge advantage when something is built in a humidity and temperature controlled environment.  Sight-built homes a...
03/07/2009
  I recently vented about a new home I had the pleasure of inspecting here in Salem, Oregon.  That home had some issues with a lack of vapor retarder and a lot of excess wood that was a big contributor to a advanced stage of current fungal rot.   The home also had issues with lack of crawlspace v...
03/05/2009
We all need to do our part to reduce, reuse and recycle.  Despite where you stand on global warming (reality or just precieved reality due to media hype) it is always a good deal to take a step back and re-focus.  Being a home inspector here in Salem, Oregon I have the unique opportunity to go in...
02/24/2009
  Residential building is an ever evolving science that is improving upon previous knowledge and materials continually.  A new home is a series of systems and components that rely on one another to perform properly.  If the previous component is installed improperly all of the other systems that ...
02/22/2009
This was a new one on me.  This panel, outside of Silverton, Oregon had been mounted on its side.  I figured that there must be a good reason why I had never seen one mounted sideways, I just didn't know what that reason was.   There is an NEC section that does list this installation as a no-no. ...
02/07/2009
  Most of the issues home inspectors encounter fit into one of two categories: construction defects and component maintenance/wear. The construction defect category is the reason to have your newly built home inspected.  Inspections on new constructions are definitely catching on.  Builders and ...
02/01/2009
I have been working for myself for a little over a year now and I must say that I love my new boss!  I was a home inspector in the Willamette, Valley in Oregon for a little more than three years before I was financially able to pull the plug and take the leap. That "training period," was incredib...
01/18/2009
A vast majority of plumbing vents I see during home inspections in the Salem, Oregon area are sealed with a heavy rubber boot.  These are great little things.  The soft rubber is able to mold to most any angle it is forced into and still create a tight seal.  As the summer sun beats down and rais...
01/17/2009
  2:30am  Instantly awake!  All of the smoke detectors in our Salem, Oregon home are going off.  BEEP, BEEP, BEEP!!! For close to 30 seconds then they turn off.  I jump out of bed and run into the hall between the kid's and our room ready to assess the situation and get the kids out of the house....
01/17/2009
Radon is a radioactive gas that is produced when uranium degrades.  Uranium has a tendency to geologically 'hang,' with granite and other igneous rocks.  This is significant due to the fact that the geology of granite and other minerals can be mapped.   The EPA has a fantastic resource for genera...
01/10/2009
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