Tips for Preventing fires in your garage

It’s so important to be conscious of any potential fire hazard in our home, but what about our garage, especially when its attached to our house? Garage fires can occur very easily, this is because our garage is where we store most of our flammable liquids (...

Cracks – Are They Bad?

Cracks – They come in all shapes and sizes and I find them all the time on home inspections here in Rocckwall. When it comes down to it though, are cracks bad? If you watch a lot of HGTV, then you probably see a whole group of people genuinely break down when a...

Electric Panel Safety

Being safe around your electric panel is critical as a home owner, but even more critical as a home inspector. For the vast majority of home owners, most will never access their electric panel. For others, checking breakers and resetting them are a regular occurrence...

Ways to prevent Carbon Monoxide Poisoning

Carbon Monoxide is a silent killer as it has no odor and cannot be seen, and so attacks without warning. Many instances of Carbon Monoxide poisoning occur in the home, this is largely due to faulty, fuel burning appliances found in the home. What are some ways that CO...

Dissecting an Electric Panel

Electric panels are relatively easy to figure out once you know what you are looking at. Since I want to keep this post relatively basic, we are going to use basic number (110 VAC, 220 VAC, 12/2 awg, etc). First, the service entry cable enters the electric panel at...
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