Ask the Inspector: Shingle fatigue
Leader-Telegram
Duerkop is a licensed home inspector and serves as president and education director of the Wisconsin Association of Home Inspectors for the central and northern Wisconsin chapters. To submit a question to him, call 866-715-8222 or email ...

Darien Home Inspector Finds Little Problems Before They Become Big Problems
Patch.com
Jeff Prince worked for 15 years as a bookbinder. He didn't plan to change careers. But as the printing industry shrunk, his job disappeared. Prince used this opportunity to take his career in a different direction, starting his own business in Darien ...

Seminar will introduce first-time buyers to real estate investment
The Daily Citizen
“We'll have two lenders there — Alliance National Bank and First Bank of Dalton — and a home inspector, Precise Home Inspections,” said Mike Maret, principal broker at Coldwell Banker/Kinard Realty. “So if anybody has any questions about home ...

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Home repairs: Which jobs come first?
CNN
"There's no homeowner's manual that tells you when to do what," says Naperville, Ill., home inspector and structural engineer Mark Waldman. Emergencies aside, the project that could cause the most damage and expense if left unfixed is the priority.

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Your Place: More about dampness in Shore home
Philadelphia Inquirer
Home inspector/engineer Harry Gross in Cherry Hill reminded me that we once talked about sealing off the crawl-space vents with vapor barrier and insulated walls as the best approach for this region. But when there is a lot of moisture, as there may be ...

DILLHYON v. DUNN
Leagle.com
4 The inspection contingency of the Offer to Purchase provided that the offer was "contingent upon a Wisconsin registered home inspector performing a home inspection of the Property, and an inspection, by a qualified independent inspector, ...

Ask the Home Inspectors: Why even order a home inspection?
Victoria Advocate
Instead of hiring a home inspector, though, the couple opted to save a bit of money and rely on knowledge gained from those do-it-yourself shows. They toured each room, turned on a few faucets, fired up the air conditioner and deemed everything seemed ...

How to winterize your outside faucets
Kennebec Journal
This recently happened to Connecticut home inspector James Quarello while he was inspecting a home. Better him than me, I say. The fix for an improperly installed frost-free sillcock is to have it re-installed with a slight downward pitch.

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