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Home Inspector Career Info
The Road Warrior
In response to a flood of inquiries about getting into the home inspection business, we offer the following notes on becoming a Professional Home Inspector, which we hope are helpful in evaluation of this profession as a career obj...
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Home Inspection: Confirming Accessibility Requirements
Dear Home Seller,
Crawl spaces, attics, furnaces, electric panels... these are a few of the many places where a conscientious home inspector needs to venture, in order to perform a complete and accurate assessment of your house.
Please have your st...
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Home Inspection: Pre-inspected Listings
The future of real estate?
* Home inspections have traditionally been for the benefit of the purchaser.
* Pre-inspected listings benefit all parties - purchasers, vendors and Realtors.
Deals are less likely to fall through.
Home inspectio...
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Home Inspection: 22 Questions to Ask Any Home Inspection Company
Print this list for a handy reference, when you're interviewing home inspectors.
QUESTIONS
1. How long have you been in the home
inspection business?
2. How many resale home inspections has your
firm completed?
3. What qualifications does the in...
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Home Inspection: The Inspection System
THE BIG PICTURE
The first step in inspecting a home is to examine the big picture for the home. Notice the area the home is located in. Are there other homes of similar age and construction details relative to the home you are inspecting? A com...
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Home Improvement: Ten Pretty Good Rules
1. Never wrestle with your furnace; you both get dirty and the furnace doesn't care!
2. Never argue with an idiot; people watching may not be able to tell the difference!
3. It's easier to obtain forgiveness than it is permission!
4. Don't ask ...
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Building the Smallest Room
When I read one reader's story about nailing a beam through the ladder rungs, and how her father cursed... and cursed, and cursed and cursed...
Well, I had to think of one day a few years ago... I was building a washroom by the back door, just arou...
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Downstairs With Farmer Tom
A reader wrote:
My wife and I have been building our house for just over three years now. We moved in on Nov.30, a year ago, and at that time there wasn't a single sheet of drywall up; all of it was in piles on the floor. The breakfast area in the ...
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Successful Renovation
1. Planning Renovations
Any project will be more successful, given well-defined goals. In every household project, the following three points can be applied:
FORM: What do you want it to look like?
FUNCTION: What do you want it to do for you?...
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Designing Your Kitchen for Your Budget
"How come it costs that much?" That must be one of the questions that I hear the most often when I submit price quotations for kitchen cabinetry to homeowners. Although it is true that cabinetry can be designed to be low-budget, middle-range, or hi...
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Home Renovations and Improvements: What Do You Really Want to Do?
PLANNING is the first step toward successful renovation. You’re probably planning improvements all the time, and just don't realize it. For example, if you feel you don't have enough kitchen cabinets, or enough counter space, you've already sta...
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Estimating Home Improvements
To be successful, every home improvement project should be based on a sound plan. There are an abundance of books and other publications available, where you can get some great ideas. After you decide exactly what you want to do, try to estimate yo...
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Bad News Critters - Beware of Animals in Crawl Spaces
Racoon in crawlspace
Furry visitors can cause serious problems for renovators. If you have ever experienced or heard about flea infestations, you'll know what I mean! In addition to fleas, cats and others little critters can be carriers of diseas...
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Unwelcome Guests: Furry Visitors; Part III
The safest and easiest way to keep animals out of your home, is to eliminate all points of entry. Bats and mice can fit through openings that you might not even get a finger into! High-grade caulking, sheet metal and wire mesh are among the more ...
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Unwelcome Guests: Fire Ant; Part II Insects & Insecticides
The safest and easiest way to keep unwanted insects out of your home is to maintain your window and door screens, your window and door seals, and to fill other openings with caulking. Insects are attracted by food and water. Clean floors and cabi...
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Houses That Make People Sick
"If your eyes, nose or throat are irritated, or you have a stuffy nose, headaches or chronic fatigue, you could be living in one."
IMPROPER USE and storage of solvents, cleaners, paints and fuels are some of the more common and easily identifiable ...
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Working Safely with Concrete
Concrete is easy to work with, versatile, durable, and economical. While observing a few basic precautions, it is also safe-one of the safest building materials known. Over the years, relatively few people involved in mixing, handling, and finishin...
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Mobile Homes... What to Look for
Mobile homes are usually mounted on grade-level wooden or concrete blocks, with the trailer wheels removed. They are typically skirted with vinyl or aluminum siding, or painted plywood sheathing. Mobile homes are sometimes installed on concrete ...
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Faulty Furnace Exhaust Vents... The Rest Of The Story
Early in 1995 the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations (MCCR) announced a program to replace up to 20,000 mid-efficiency gas furnaces in Ontario, because their plastic vent pipes were prone to failure, and might leak carbon monoxide into t...
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Basement Apartment - Thinking About Building One?
This article is intended for discussion purposes only and not as a code interpretation. For specific articles and conformance, please consult the Ontario Fire Code, Retrofit Section 9.8 of the Ontario Building Code.
We have prepared a list of some...
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Buying A House With A Basement Apartment?
This article is intended for discussion purposes only and not as a code interpretation. For specific articles and conformance, please consult the Ontario Fire Code, Retrofit Section 9.8 of the Ontario Building Code.
This article deals with some of...
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Smoke Detectors are Now Required by Law!
By now, everyone should have at least one smoke detector somewhere in the home; and most folks have at least one on every level, including the basement.
But did you know...
* Pushing the test button only verifies that there is battery (or AC) power...
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Septic Systems: The Inside Story - Two Main Causes of System Failures
How well do you understand septic systems? To see if you know enough about these systems, try to answer the following questions.
Septic Systems: Do you know...?
Do you know what a septic system is and how it works?
Do you know what causes septic s...
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