Moisture and water beat away at wooden siding. That's why it's so important to trim trees and branches away from your home. It's also important to keep your siding properly painted and caulk around areas of possible water intrusions.
Once the wood soaks up sufficient moisture carpenter ants are mysteriously attracted to the wood. It's almost like bears to honey. Gone unnoticed and improperly maintained your perfect home can turn into this faster than you think.
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Hi all, my name is Suesan Jenifer Therriault and you can find me in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania or here on the Active Rain Real Estate Network just about any day of the week.
I'm a Home Inspector, and a Systems Engineer in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
I hope you read my blog, and get to know a little about me. If you have any Home Inspection, Computer Related or Contracting questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email or give me a call. I'll do my best to help you out.
JTHIS Professional Home Inspection Team
Computer Services NEPA
MT Contracting
Call me if I can help you or someone you know.
(570) 262-7551
I took this picture during a home inspection this past summer. Can you tell me what I took a picture of?

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Hi all, my name is Suesan Jenifer Therriault and you can find me in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania or here on the Active Rain Real Estate Network just about any day of the week.
I'm a Home Inspector, and a Systems Engineer in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
I hope you read my blog, and get to know a little about me. If you have any Home Inspection, Computer Related or Contracting questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email or give me a call. I'll do my best to help you out.
JTHIS Professional Home Inspection Team
Computer Services NEPA
MT Contracting
Call me if I can help you or someone you know.
(570) 262-7551
Ever wonder how many people the inspector you're hiring has hurt during the course of his/her career? You're probably asking yourself, now just how can a home inspector hurt anyone? Answer is pretty simple, by failing to their job right, by failing to see what he/she should be seeing, by being so afraid of possibly getting sued that he/she walks right into a lawsuit.

Take a good look at the picture on the left. That is the completely decayed Box Beam that the deck is was attached to. Noticed that the siding has also decayed away and that there's no flashing. If you look closely at the picture you might also notice something else is missing. Anyone want to take a guess? Come on, I bet you all know this one.
This home was inspected less than 3 months ago. The damage was already there and very visible from inside the crawlspace. The inspector just wasn't looking and this deck collapsed with 5 people on it. One person broke a leg and another fracture his collarbone. But hey, for a better more entertaining post on this very same subject check out today's post by Charles Buell HERE----take your dang business card back!
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Hi all, my name is Suesan Jenifer Therriault and you can find me in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania or here on the Active Rain Real Estate Network just about any day of the week.
I'm a Home Inspector, and a Systems Engineer in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
I hope you read my blog, and get to know a little about me. If you have any Home Inspection, Computer Related or Contracting questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email or give me a call. I'll do my best to help you out.
JTHIS Professional Home Inspection Team
Computer Services NEPA
MT Contracting
Call me if I can help you or someone you know.
(570) 262-7551
This is what greeted me a couple of night ago when my 92-year old neighbor called me in the middle of the night after a circuit breaker in his house blew.
It was raining out that night so I was a bit wet, had to climb down a home made wooden ladder that wasn't attached to anything. Dropped and broke my flashlight and was standing in a dark, cluttered basement with only the light from my cell phone trying to find the breaker panel.
Really, why would anyone take the faceplate off the main panel and leave it on the floor? Didn't it dawn on this idiot that someone else might have to access that panel in the dark and might just get shocked or worse yet electrocuted? Folks be careful, the main panel can very easily kill you.
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Hi all, my name is Suesan Jenifer Therriault and you can find me in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania or here on the Active Rain Real Estate Network just about any day of the week.
I'm a Home Inspector, and a Systems Engineer in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
I hope you read my blog, and get to know a little about me. If you have any Home Inspection, Computer Related or Contracting questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email or give me a call. I'll do my best to help you out.
JTHIS Professional Home Inspection Team
Computer Services NEPA
MT Contracting
Call me if I can help you or someone you know.
(570) 262-7551

I took this picture during my first inspection today.
I'm always amused by what some seller will and won't do when trying to sell their home. Sometimes it just seems to me like they prefer to ignore some of the most obvious things that are going to come up during the course of the inspection. This one really caught my attention.
Can you tell me what's missing in this photo?
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Hi all, my name is Suesan Jenifer Therriault and you can find me in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania or here on the Active Rain Real Estate Network just about any day of the week.
I'm a Home Inspector, and a Systems Engineer in Blakeslee, Pennsylvania.
I hope you read my blog, and get to know a little about me. If you have any Home Inspection, Computer Related or Contracting questions or concerns feel free to drop me an email or give me a call. I'll do my best to help you out.
JTHIS Professional Home Inspection Team
Computer Services NEPA
MT Contracting
Call me if I can help you or someone you know.
(570) 262-7551
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