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The 2 G’s! A Cedar Rapids Home Inspector and Your Home’s Worst Enemy.
The 2 G’s! A Cedar Rapids Home Inspector and Your Home’s Worst Enemy. Water damage is your home’s worst enemy! Here is a perfect example of what I see as a Cedar Rapids home inspector. Gutters that are full of debris and are either clogged or will be clogged at the first rain fall and […]
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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral a Home Inspector Discusses
Animal, Vegetable or Mineral Home Inspector Discusses As a home inspector that services a large portion of the eastern Iowa area, I get to see a wide variety of homes. Many of the older homes in Iowa that originally had gravity fed furnaces have modernized and updated to the higher efficiency forced air furnaces. When the HVAC contractor updates […]
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The Tar Monster in Home Inspections
The Tar Monster Discoveries in Home Inspections My kids always have liked Scooby Doo. One of the old episodes I remember is the Tar Monster. Well, the other day I met the tar monster. He was on top of a flat roof above a porch. He had covered all of the fully deteriorated roll roofing! […]
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Home Inspection, Cedar Rapids IA, Waterloo IA- Are fuses better?
Home Inspection Are fuses better? Home Inspection, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo IA -Are Fuses Better? A few times a month during the course of performing a home inspection I will run into a fuse panel. Most folks in Eastern Iowa automatically assume that fuses are old, outdated, and generally less reliable than circuit breakers. Some would even go as far […]
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Furnace filters and Reality
Today I would like to discuss furnace filters with you. As a home inspector that services Cedar Rapids IA and Waterloo/Cedar Falls IA, I see a lot of furnaces on a weekly basis.I think a basic description of the method in which a furnace works is a good place to start. A furnace heats our home by moving air over […]
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Relocating to Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Relocating to Cedar Rapids, Iowa As a Home Inspector that provides service to Cedar Rapids, Waterloo, Cedar Falls and many surrounding areas it is with great pleasure that I often meet and perform home inspections for people relocating to my service area. One of the great things about doing home inspections for people relocating to my area is that I am a member of […]
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They’re not the Traveling Wilburys – Termites
On a recent commercial inspection I was performing I came across the largest termite shelter tubes I have ever seen. What appears to be a crack in the wall in the picture on the right is actually a shelter tube built by Eastern Subterranean Termites. These little critters live in the soil and are not as destructive as the […]
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