Homeowner maintenance includes cleaning the leaves and debris from the roof’s valleys, gutters and downspouts. . . . → Read More: Maintaining Your Gutter System
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Homeowner maintenance includes cleaning the leaves and debris from the roof’s valleys, gutters and downspouts. . . . → Read More: Maintaining Your Gutter System The winters in Colorado Springs can be very dry and the humidity levels in your home so low that wood floors and wood furniture will shrink or contract. During My Home Inspections I come across many different types of humidifiers which are attached to the return air duct work at the furnace. Humidifiers should . . . → Read More: Central Humidifiers Garage doors are one of the heaviest moving objects associated with your home . . . → Read More: Garage Door Safety I am Certified by the “International Association of Certified Indoor Air Consultants” to provide Mold Inspections on homes or residential buildings . . . → Read More: Colorado Springs Mold Inspections Polybutylene piping was a low-cost piping formed of plastic resin. It is commonly gray, white, blue, black and ivory in color and is flexible as the photos show. Poly piping was used as a substitute for copper piping in both underground water mains and interior plumbing. One of the easiest ways to identify this . . . → Read More: Do I have Polybutylene Plumbing in My Home? Radon Testing Checklist For reliable test results, follow this Radon Testing Checklist carefully. Testing for radon is not complicated. Improper testing may yield inaccurate results and require another test. Disturbing or interfering with the test device, or with closed-house conditions, may invalidate the test results and is illegal in some states. If . . . → Read More: Instructions for Home Occupants Prior to Radon Test Living in Colorado Springs has some challenges when going about the annual duty of winterizing your home. The following tips you will find helpful especially for this environment, some of these tips come from personal and sometimes expensive experiences. Colorado Springs is a GREAT place to live and the winters are not as brutal . . . → Read More: TIME TO WINTERIZE Sprinkler systems are very convenient and the newer timers have many programing features and options. What about the sprinklers in relation to your structures? If your house or building structures are made of wood or wood products and the sprinklers are not correctly adjusted, the siding can become saturated and lead to decay or . . . → Read More: Sprinkler Systems and Wood Siding
I live in Colorado Springs and perform Home and Commercial inspections along the Front Range. In one of my home inspections I walked into a basement bedroom and was struck by a particular odor. It was that musty moldy odor one dreads, after further investigation I discovered a “frost proof” hose bib located . . . → Read More: Frost Proof Hose Bibs Here in Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region has been a beautiful and wet spring and summer. The grass is tall and green and the wildflowers tall and beautiful. I hate to say it, but fall is on the way and with the changing of the season. All the tall green grass and . . . → Read More: Your Defensible Space |
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