Ask The Atlanta Home Inspector

If you don’t keep your gutters free from leaves and debris then they get clogged up and water overflows the gutter and starts rotting out the wood on your fascia and sofit boards.  Keeping your gutters clean is a very important home maintenance issue and you should check the condition of your gutters at least twice […]

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The Temperature Pressure Relief Valve (T&P) is a safety device on the hot water heater.  It’s job is to open up and discharge water from the hot water tank if the water heater builds up excessive pressure inside.  The T&P valve is what prevents the water heater from exploding from an excessive pressure build up.
The T&P needs to have an extension […]

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I don’t know what to say about how stupid this situation is.  A single wall flue pipe in direct contact with the wood siding of a home.  It’s a miracle that there hasn’t been a fire already!

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When your clothes dryer doesn’t vent to the exterior of the house your are asking for trouble.  First, all of the moisture produced by drying your clothes remains in the home causing a variety of problems including a potential for mold growth.
Second, the massive amount of lint produced from the clothes dryer gets all over […]

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In the eleven years I’ve been in the home inspection business I have never ever seen such a ridiculous situation with a plumbing vent as we discovered in a house recently.
Instead of installing the Drain Waste Vent line for a basement sanitary pump properly someone cut a hole in the furnace flue and […]

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