American Society of Home Inspectors, Inc.Have you ever stuck your head in an attic filled with bat guano or bird droppings and wondered if you should have put on your respirator or filtering face-piece? Next time, you should. The guano and droppings may harbor infectious microbes.
After ten years of inspecting in the rainy Pacific Northwest, I have concluded that there are only two kinds of exposed exterior doors around here: those that leak and those that are going to leak.
Last month, we briefly introduced the topic of architectural styles as it related to building and roof shapes. This month we will discuss chimneys and dormers, which are just two features that make a home distinctive.
ASHI’s Standards of Practice Committee has issued proposed improvements to ASHI’s Standard of Practice for Home Inspections. Your comments are needed by May 31, 2012.
Many corporations are finding out that the money spent retaining and developing existing employees is much less than money spent recruiting new employees, thereby improving their bottom line. As a result, mentorship structures are becoming one of the new cost-saving measures in for-profit organizations in today’s marketplace.
Roger Hankey, author of the article “Lack of Maintenance and Knowledge: Garbage Disposals Misused and Improperly Installed” that ran in the March 2013 issue of the ASHI Reporter, did not […]
A hacker buys a list of names and passwords from a recent LinkedIn® security breach. He scans the names to find his victim, a small businessman with little security but financial assets. With a couple easy guesses the hacker transfers money out of the victim’s account. Don’t let it happen to you.
Single-family homes, for the most part, are rectangular. They can be one-story, one-and-a-half-story, two-story, two-and-a-half-story or three-story. Split-level houses have adjacent sections a half-story above or below each other.
ASHI’s Standards of Practice Committee has issued proposed improvements to ASHI’s Standard of Practice for Home Inspections.
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