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See and download the full gallery on posterous More people in our area are turning to heat pumps to heat and cool their home than any other type of home heating; they are primarily used in our area because of their cost efficiency and our mild climate. With all of the efforts on energy conservation [...]

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  See and download the full gallery on posterous Unlike your washing machine, your dryer will need some ongoing regular maintenance to keep it working properly and safely. Let’s talk about how a dryer works first. You put wet clothes in and it spins them around with hot air and the exhaust vent sends the [...]

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See and download the full gallery on posterous Charlotte home inspector Preston Sandlin recently found a dangerous electrical situation on a recent Charlotte home inspection. The electrical wiring on this home went on thand around the gutter at the gutter seam which is notorious for leaking. Electricity passes through water.  This is a dangerous situation [...]

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There really is no such thing as an FHA inspection.  I am asked this all the time but we do inspections on houses that are getting FHA loans.  On this particular house The pull down stairs would not open all the way because there was support post in the way.  Before installing pull down stairs [...]

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Installing a full size sky light can be fairly complicated because it is necessary to cut a large hole install a large skylight on the roof, frame up a chase then drywall, paint and insulate it, but there are some new products I recommend you look into. They are called “Tubular Skylights” and for as [...]

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See the full gallery on posterous Charlotte home inspector Preston Sandlin was performing a home inspection in the Raintree Section of Charlotte NC when he found some really bad settlement.  This settlement was so severe that we had to call in a structural engineer. Take a look at the picture here and you can see [...]

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See and download the full gallery on posterous Charlotte home inspector Preston Sandlin was inspecting a home in the Myers Park area of Charlotte NC when he cam across a chimney in the attic that had been capped over.  That wouldn’t have been a big deal except that the fireplace and damper where still operational.  [...]

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See and download the full gallery on posterous Charlotte home inspector Preston Sandlin was performing a home inspection in Gastonia NC and doing a scan with his infrared camera when he found an active leak near a toilet.  This was not visible to the naked eye.  The moisture around the supply line pipe to the [...]

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Charlotte Home Inspector Preston Sandlin was performing a home inspection in Gastonai NC and he performed a an Infrared Scan with a thermal camera.  He picked up a cold anamoly under the water supply for the toilet.  You couldn’t see the leak with the naked eye but you could see it with the infrared camera.  [...]

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See and download the full gallery on posterous “We find hose bib leaks all the time” say Charlotte NC home inspector Preston Sandlin who owns Home Inspection Carolina.  It is probably one of the most common thing that we find.  What happen is the packing in the bib gets dry and cracks especially when it [...]

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