Bonding of metallic water lines and gas lines is required by all major codes. Being bonded is not the same as being grounded Bonding refers to the process of connecting different systems together so they have the same electrical potential…
A water heater may be the more common storage type. Or a recent arrival, the instant or on demand heater. The storage type is by far the most commonly found in a home inspection. This post is concerned only with…
A false ground or bootleg ground involves using a jumper wire to connect the ground screw and the neutral screw on a receptacle. This is done to trick the hand held testers most inspectors use to check for open grounds.…
As the electrical industry ages the safety level improves with each passing year. Electrical grounding is one of those improvements. Originally residential wiring was knob and tube and only 110 volts and usually fed by a 60 amp service.
Double lugged or double tapped breakers are one of the most common electrical defects we find during a standard home inspection. Double lugging is defined as two or more wires installed in a breaker that is only rated for one…
On March 1, 2015 CBS News opened their television show “60 Minutes”, with the following statement. “60 Minutes found that Lumber Liquidators ’ Chinese-made laminate flooring contains amounts of toxic formaldehyde that may not meet health and safety standards”.
Closing can be scary, you made it this far, now what?Here are 16 things you should and should not do before and after closing. First, you must remember nothing is final until you get the keys at closing.
Radon is the second leading cause of lung cancer exceeded only by smoking. Like smoking Radon is a long term threat with variables such as the radon level present and the length of time you were exposed.
So often we find something we have done a certain way for years is suddenly no longer considered proper. This is where we are today with what is called a shared neutral.
If your house was built before 1950 there is a good chance it will contain Knob and Tube (K&T) wiring. Knob and tube wiring was used from the 1880’s until the late 1940’s. K & T wiring was almost always…