When I inspect a home in Minneapolis or Saint Paul that has electric baseboard heat, it's usually a dead giveaway that someone did some remodeling, or someone flipped the house....Read More
Feeling pretty disappointed at this point and determined to get some results, I filled the heat exchanger with water. I laughed like a mad scientist at what happened next.Read More
"Deal with it now or deal with it later." That's a phrase I've heard my father, Neil Saltzman, say many times. Here in the Twin Cities, there are two...Read More
Last week I mentioned that municipal inspectors will often miss important details on permit inspections, partially because they just don't have the time to go over every little detail on...Read More
It happens to me several times a year; I inspect a home for a buyer, I point out a construction defect, then I get a call from an angry seller...Read More
Just a little over a year ago, I took a class put on by one of the largest manufacturers of metal brackets, Simpson Strong-Tie. That class was a real...Read More
One of the most common electrical defects that I find while doing Truth-In-Sale of Housing Evalutions in Minneapolis is a missing jumper wire at the water meter. This is a...Read More
Double tapped circuit breakers are one of the most common electrical defects that I find while doing home inspections in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, and they're usually one of the...Read More
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