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Humidity Issues Around The Home

Humidity Issues Around The Home
Water, its a big problem

What home, cottage, and commercial buyers need to know about: Smoke detectors

What home, cottage, and commercial buyers need to know about: Smoke detectors

What a home, cottage, or commercial buyer needs to know about dealing with an ungrounded electrical system

What a home, cottage, or commercial buyer needs to know about dealing with an ungrounded electrical system.
 

During our home, cottage, and commercial inspections in the Orillia, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, and Muskoka areas, we will often find some or all of a structure is supplied with an older two pin or ungrounded electrical system. They look like these ones found during a few of our inspections:

 

Kickout flashing, an important detail often overlooked by Orillia, Gravenhiurst, Bracebridge, and Muskoa builders and roofers.

Kickout flashing is a very important detail often overlooked by builders and roofers.

Carbon Monoxide can be deadly, you can't see it or smell it. What the home, cottage, or commercial buyer needs to know.

 

Carbon Monoxide Safety in Your Home

Carbon Monoxide can be deadly, you can't see it or smell it. Carbon monoxide (CO) is produced whenever fuels such as gas, oil, kerosene, wood, or charcoal is burned. If appliances that burn fuel are maintained and used properly, the amount of CO produced is usually not hazardous. Appliances that are not working properly or are used incorrectly, can result in dangerous levels of CO being produced.

What if I find aluminum wiring during your home, cottage, or commercial inspection: Facts about aluminum wiring

If I find aluminum wiring during a home cottage or commercial inspection as a property buyer in Orillia, Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, or Muskoka  here are the facts about aluminum wiring that you need to know

Egress window wells and the basic requirements

 Basic information for EGRESS WINDOWS

The minimum width of opening is 20 inches.
This illistration is of the proper sizes for an egress window in the Bracebridge, Gravenhurst, and Muskoka area. During a Done Right Home Inspection this is what I am looking for.
The minimum height is of opening is 24 inches.

The sill height must be 44 inches or less from interior floor to top of window sill.

What I tell my Home, Cottage, and Commercial, Inspection Clients in Gravenhurst, Bracebridge, and Muskoka about Building Permits

 Building Permits, the necessary evil

The truth about who Errors and Omissions Insurance Protects.

What is E&O insurance, and who does it protect?

 

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