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How Does Moisture Damage Chimneys?

// April 23rd, 2009 // No Comments » // Home Inspection Videos

In this short video, you will see how moisture damages chimneys and I explain how it could of been avoided. If you are a home inspector or want to become a home inspector, this is something that you may see almost on a daily basis. Once you have been doing inspections for a while, you will be able to see a trend in most of the problems that you report on, and also be able to relay to your clients how and why it happened.

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A great altenative to foundation wall anchors!

// April 20th, 2009 // No Comments » // Home Inspection Videos

The most common type of foundation repair that I see as an inspector is wall anchors. An alternative to wall anchors is carbon fiber straps and in my opinion are a great alternative! Why do I like them so much? Well there are numerous reasons that I can come up with, although the main reason is how unobtrusive they are. You don’t have to drill into the foundation and you don’t have to dig outside like a wall anchor system. Don’t get me wrong, wall anchors have certain advantages also, but what a great system these carbon fiber straps are. I will expand on different types of wall anchoring and foundation repair systems in a later post.