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Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, Thank You for visiting, and its a pleasure to have you stop by, my little ole Blogging Homestead. I've done my best to keep my blog posts simple and straightforward. I've coverd everything from basic home safety, regular home maintenance, Home and Commercial Properties Inspections.

You'll be able to find out about basic household emergencies, plumbing, electrical, and all other things you and your family should be will aware of within your home. Please keep in mind that the blog posts are not a repair manual. And if your home should have a problem come up, then you really should contact the right professional, for that component.

Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, What my blog posts are really all about, is to help you understand about the many components of your home, and what to look for and how to avoid the basic problems that can occur around your home.

With all of that in mind, I'd like to Thank You once again for choosing to visit my little ole Blogging Homestead. Please feel free to share with your friends, and come back as often, as you would like.

Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, and of course, if you should have any questions about your home and would like me to inspect your home to help you avoid the critical problems that inevitably and eventually strike most homeowners, be sure to give me a call or send off an e-maill my way. I can help you better understand your home and address potential problems before they become serious ones.


I'm a Certified Professional Home Commercial Properties Inspector, and you can rest easy knowing that after I've examined your home, you'll get a full report presented in a clear, complete and professional manner.

I'll take the appropriate measures to make sure that you are very familiar with the home and the condition of its major components.

Baker Home Commercial Properties Inspections Blog can help You, home ownership is a wonderful experience, but its not without its pitfalls. The good news is that the right information can help to ensure that the pitfalls are minimized and truly maximize the enjoyment of your home, for you and your family.

Thank You once again for visiting my little ole Blogging Homestead, I hope you find the blog posts to be helpful.

Post 613 - 5 Nov. 2009

Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, Fats, Oils, and Greases are not just bad for your arteries and waistline, these things are also very bad for your private Septic System or public Sewer System. A Septic or Sewer System a overflow or backup can cause health hazards, damage home interiors, and can very will threaten the environment. An increasingly common cause of overflows is sewer pipes being blocked by grease. Grease gets into the sewer from household drains as will as from poorly maintained grease traps in restaurants and other businesses.

Just where dose grease come from?

Most of us know grease as the byproduct of cooking. But grease is also found in such things as: Meat fats, lard, cooking oil, shortening, butter and margarine, food scraps, baking goods, sauces, and dairy products. Too often, folks wash grease into the home's plumbing system, usually through the kitchen sink. Grease sticks to the insides of sewer pipes, both on your property and in the streets. Over time, the grease can very will build up and block the entire pipe.

Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic, your home garbage disposals dose not keep grease out of your plumbing system. These units only shred solid material into smaller pieces and do not prevent grease from going down the drain. Commercial additives, including detergents, that claim to dissolve grease may very will just pass the grease down the line and end up causing problems in other areas.

The results could very will be:

• Raw sewage overflowing in your home or your neighbor's home.
• An expensive and unpleasant cleanup that often must be paid for out of your home budget.
• Raw sewage overflowing into parks, yards, and streets.
• Potential contact with disease-causing organisms.
• An increase in operation and maintenance costs for your local sewer department, which ends up causing higher sewer bills for customers.
  

Home Owners Do you Prevent Fats and Greases from Damaging your Septic,You see its really best to keep, these kinds of materials out of the sewer system in the very first place.

Post 612 - 1 Nov. 2009

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Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! To have a Mold Inspection and test? What I'm about to to talk with y'all about, could very will be a Halloween nightmare story for a movie.

This here story took place in a home in Greenville, North Carolina. The home had a bookcase with a hidden room behind it, the room had a dark and terrifen secret, along with a note. Seen that one of your buyer clients, may just pick one of Fannie Mae's foreclosed on home. You'll sure want to know about this.

Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! as a Real Estate Agent, you just may want to recommend to your buyer clients, to have a Mold Inspection and have the home tested. Even if the home is listed as is. And you just may want to have a talk with your seller clients, about being sure to diclosing about any kind of Mold problem they may have had. After you read this.

Most State Standars of Practice protect a Home Inspector from this kind of a lawsuit.

The Standars of Practice could very will say, systems and conditions that are not within the scope of the inspection include, but are not limited to: environmental hazards, lead paint, toxic or flammable materials, asbestos, and radon. Pest infestation, portable appliances, like washer, dryers, window air conditioners. Security systems, telephone or in home television systems, fire or lawn sprinklers systems, swimming pools, spas or worlpools. Playground or any other recreational or leisurs equipment. Below ground septic or drainage systems, water wells, zoning ordinances, or any items that are considered cosmetic in nature. If the Inspector makes any general comments about any of these systems and conditions of these systems are informational only and do not represent an Inspection.

Real Estate Agents Do You Recommend To Your Clients? I sure hope you do! enough suspense, click to read the whole story, of the family that that ended up buying the home.

Post 605 - 24 Oct. 2009

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Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part two, new construction, nearly half of all new residential construction utilize engineered wood I-beams, these and other truss floor components are the norm for wood construction. Residential buildings built after 1990 are suspect for haven engineered wood I-beams or some type of truss floor system.

The hazards and risks of engineered wood I-beams is they burn rapidly due to a very high surface to mass ratio characteristic of kindling.

Just like a common truss, the engineered wood I-beam substitute geometry for mass to support the intended load. Engineered wood I-Beams rely on their depth for stability and allow for a reduction of material to carry the intended load. A reduction in mass means a much faster burn time and alot less time to structural failure.

Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part two, just as a common truss, engineered wood I-beams are dependent on the bonds of its composite parts for stability. The adhesives used in engineered wood I-beams can quickly lose strength and integrity when damaged and weakened by heat exposure and flame impingement. Structural integrity will be compromised by improper cutting or notching of structural members during construcyion. The strength of a engineered wood I-beam is dependent on proper installation which may not be assured in construction practice.

A distinct building advantage of engineered wood I-beams is they can span up to sixty feet with out additional support. That sure will lead to much faster installation in itself, and less costly building material to the builder.

Engineered Wood I-Beams Exposed to Fire Part two, a bad thing is, theres no benefit to extinguish a burning truss, theres no repairing them. Often times the entire floor must be replaced. Fires involving the structural components of a building built with wood truss systems, including engineered wood I-Beams are usual a total loss.

Post 602 - 18 Oct. 2009

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My Blood is Boiling and I'm going to Take Them On, you might be asken, what in the world is wrong?

Seen that I'm a Vet, just as many other members of the ActiveRain community are. Receiving an E-Mail from a low life Scammer, claiming to be a Lt. Colonal in the U.S. Army, and stating that he is the Commander of the 1st. Battalion 63rd. Armor Regiment in Iraq. Is truely enough to royally pess this Vet off.

The Scammers of the world, operate in a number of different ways, but a Scammer always work on the emotions of folks. To force them to make decisions that can bring them real harm, if they should fall for the scam.

My Blood is Boiling and I'm going to Take Them On, the Scammers know that most folks who end up getting scammed, very often have so much pride that they will not admit to being taken, Scammers know that they can operate without impunity, going from household to household with their plan to extract money from hard working folks. Don't let your pride get in the way, report Scammers to the police and be prepared to file a complaint and testify in court if need be.

Pleace stand with me to help stamp out the Scammers of the world.

Post 600 - 16 Oct. 2009

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