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- A Primer on Thermal Imaging / Infrared Scans – Suggestions & Tips #160
- Air Admittance Valve (AAV) – Suggestions & Tips #27
- Air Conditioner Maintenance – Suggestions & Tips #72
- Air Leaks in a House – Suggestions & Tips #59
- Aluminum Wiring – Suggestions & Tips #17
- Arc Faults & Ground Faults – Suggestions & Tips #19
- Asbestos Containing Materials (ACMs) – Suggestions & Tips #20
- Ask Questions When Buying A Home! – Suggestions & Tips #106
- Attend Your Home Inspection or Not? – Suggestions & Tips #159
- Attic Hatch Doors – Suggestions & Tips #88
- Automobile Exhaust, Garages & Indoor Air Quality – Suggestions & Tips #73
- Avoid Dryer Fires – Suggestions & Tips #14
- Backflow Prevention Valves for Sewers – Suggestions & Tips #46
- Balancing Your Heating System – Suggestions & Tips #51
- Balloon Framing – Suggestions & Tips #29
- Basement Apartments – Suggestions & Tips #36
- Bird Problems in Your Home – Suggestions & Tips #120
- Buckets & Pools – Suggestions & Tips #81
- Building A New Home? – Suggestions & Tips #113
- Buildings With Asbestos Containing Materials (ACM) – Suggestions & Tips #38
- Buying a New Home? – Suggestions & Tips #8
- Carbon Monoxide Detector Law – Suggestions & Tips #95
- Carpenter Ants – Suggestions & Tips #77
- Casement Windows & Awning Windows – Suggestions & Tips #57
- Cast Iron Pipe Problems – Suggestions & Tips #150
- Change your Clocks Change Your Batteries – Suggestions & Tips #104
- Chinese Drywall – Suggestions & Tips #85
- Closing In A Deck / Porch – Suggestions & Tips #145
- Cold Cellars – Suggestions & Tips #10
- Cold Flu Symptoms? – Suggestions & Tips #54
- Cold Houses – Suggestions & Tips #98
- Combustion Spillage – Suggestions & Tips #41
- Condensation & Humidity – Suggestions & Tips #12
- Cracks in My House – Suggestions & Tips #70
- Crawlspace Ventilation – Suggestions & Tips #37
- Deck Failures – Suggestions & Tips #25
- Deck Fasteners For Your New Deck – Suggestions & Tips #78
- Dehumidifier – Do you need one? – Suggestions & Tips #112
- Dispute Resolution & Litigation Support – Suggestions & Tips #80
- DIY Disaster or Best of Intentions? – Suggestions & Tips #147
- Don’t Rush To Buy A House- Suggestions & Tips #56
- Double Lugging / Tapping – Suggestions & Tips #86
- Drain Water Heat Recovery (DWHR) – Suggestions & Tips #28
- Drainage Slopes – Suggestions & Tips #9
- Drip Loops for Electrical Service Cables – Suggestions & Tips #143
- Eavestrough Downspout Neglect – Suggestions & Tips #90
- Electro Magnetic Fields (EMF) – Suggestions & Tips #33
- Environmental Concerns in Homes – Suggestions & Tips #74
- Environmental Storage Concerns – Suggestions & Tips #82
- Exploding Glass Shower Doors – Suggestions & Tips #157
- Extension Cords, Power Bars & Plug-in Tap Outlets – Suggestions & Tips #15
- Exterior Finishing System – EIFS / DEFS – Suggestions & Tips #170
- Fire Shock Hazards (Electrical) – Suggestions & Tips #135
- Fishmouthing Shingles – Suggestions & Tips #116
- Flickering Lights? – Suggestions & Tips #136
- Floors Doors & Stairs Out Of Whack – Suggestions & Tips #63
- Freezing Water Pipes & Drain Traps – Suggestions & Tips #96
- Frost in Your Attic? – Suggestions & Tips #138
- Fuel Oil Storage Tanks – Suggestions & Tips #44
- Furnace Filter Types & Ratings – Suggestions & Tips #166
- Furnace Filters – Suggestions & Tips #87
- Further Inspections – Suggestions & Tips #43
- Garage Door Openers – Suggestions & Tips #39
- Gas Logs – Suggestions & Tips #118
- Ghosting & Soot Staining – Suggestions & Tips #11
- Green Building / Net Zero – Suggestions & Tips #30
- Grounding Clamps for Electrical Systems – Suggestions & Tips #152
- Harvesting The Rain – Suggestions & Tips #114
- Heat Loss – Suggestions & Tips #134
- Heat Recovery Ventilator (HRV) – Suggestions & Tips #50
- Holiday Safety – Suggestions & Tips #53
- Home Maintenance – Suggestions & Tips #31
- Homeowners Insurance Coverage – Suggestions & Tips #3
- Hot Water Scalding – Suggestions & Tips #61
- House Fire Discovered…Now What? – Suggestions & Tips #165
- How Many Roof Vents Do You Need? – Suggestions & Tips #109
- Humidifier Maintenance – Suggestions & Tips #97
- Ice Damming – Suggestions & Tips #55
- Indoor Air Contaminants – Suggestions & Tips #140
- Inspecting Work In Progress – Suggestions & Tips #127
- Insulating Knee Wall Attics – Suggestions & Tips #24
- Insulating Water Pipes – Suggestions & Tips #167
- Is There A Doctor In The House – Suggestions & Tips #42
- Jack Posts – Suggestions & Tips #142
- Landscaping – Suggestions & Tips #65
- Lead Poisoning – Suggestions & Tips #18
- Leasing? – Suggestions & Tips #47
- Looking for a Date? – Suggestions & Tips #101
- Lot Grading for Your Foundation – Suggestions & Tips #5
- Marijuana Grow Op…or Not? – Suggestions & Tips #99
- Masonry brick & concrete block wall cracks – Suggestions & Tips #158
- Melted Wires & Overheated Connections – Suggestions & Tips #126
- Metal Joist Hangers – Suggestions & Tips #139
- Mice Problems – Suggestions & Tips #125
- Mold in Your Attic? – Suggestions & Tips #137
- Mothballs – Suggestions & Tips #64
- Mould Colours – Suggestions & Tips #121
- Multiple Offers & Home Inspections – Suggestions & Tips #144
- Nature of the Inspection & Representations – Suggestions & Tips #92
- Newly Constructed Homes & Projects – Suggestions & Tips #162
- No Home Inspection Clause in Your Offer to Purchase, Say What?!?! – Suggestions & Tips #168
- Not All Rigid Foam Board Insulation Is The Same – Suggestion & Tips #155
- Notched Floor Joist? How Much Is Too Much? – Suggestions & Tips #151
- Older Heating Systems – Furnace / Boiler – Suggestions & Tips #67
- Older Roofs & Damaged Roof Coverings – Suggestions & Tips #66
- Organic vs Fibreglass Shingles? – Suggestions & Tips #103
- Overhead Electrical Service & Trees / Vegetation – Suggestions & Tips #171
- Owner’s Manuals, Material / Installation Specifications – Suggestions & Tips #2
- Peanut Butter?!?! – Suggestions & Tips #110
- Permits – Suggestions & Tips #1
- PEX Plumbing Pipes – Suggestions & Tips #115
- Planning an Addition? – Suggestions & Tips #149
- Plumbing Nightmares – Suggestions & Tips #129
- Preparing Your House for Inspection – Suggestions & Tips #108
- Preserved Wood Foundations (PWF) – Suggestions & Tips #69
- Protect Your Loved Ones This Valentine’s Day – Suggestions & Tips #102
- Pruning Vegetation Around The House – Suggestions & Tips #119
- Renovation and Repair Work – Suggestions & Tips #123
- Renovations & Additions – Suggestions & Tips #111
- Reverse Polarity – Suggestions & Tips #58
- Roll Roofing Must Be Installed Properly – Suggestions & Tips #156
- Round TUIT & Pi Day – Suggestions & Tips #105
- Rubber Hoses – Suggestions & Tips #131
- S Trap Problems – Suggestions & Tips #153
- Sandblasted Brickwork – Suggestions & Tips #91
- Seller Property Information Sheet (SPIS) – Suggestions & Tips #6
- Septic System For Your Home- Suggestions & Tips #84
- Sewage System Classes – Suggestions & Tips #49
- Should Mortgage Lenders Insist Their Clients Have A Home Inspection? – Suggestion & Tips #172
- Slab On Grade Construction – Suggestions & Tips #68
- Snow Covered Decks – Suggestions & Tips #94
- Soil Erosion or Settlement Around Your Foundation – Suggestions & Tips #117
- Something To Remember When You Change Your Clocks – Suggestions & Tips #13
- Staged Homes – Suggestions & Tips #89
- Stair Hazard – Buying A Stairway to Heaven? – Suggestions & Tips #146
- Staircase Safety – Suggestions & Tips #107
- Steam Showers – Suggestions & Tips #35
- Street Creep – Suggestions & Tips #32
- Student Housing & Your Child’s Safety – Suggestions & Tips #122
- Sump Pump Installations? – Suggestions & Tips #128
- Surge Protection – Suggestions & Tips #71
- Tar & Gravel Roofs – Suggestions & Tips #164 – Grassroots®
- The Air You Breathe – Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) Suggestions & Tips #4
- The Inspector is Coming! – Suggestions & Tips #83
- Thermostat Set Back / Forward – Suggestions & Tips #100
- Thirsty? What about Reverse Osmosis (RO) Drinking Water? – Suggestions & Tips #161
- Those Nit-Picking #$%&* Home Inspectors! – Suggestions & Tips #163
- Time For A New Laundry Room – Suggestions & Tips #21
- Trap Primer Importance – Suggestions & Tips #60
- Tree Roots…and Trees – Suggestions & Tips #79
- Turbine Roof Vents – Suggestions & Tips #22
- Underground Sprinklers & Your Drinking Water – Suggestions & Tips #34
- Ungrounded Receptacles – Suggestions & Tips #45
- Vaulted Ceilings (aka Sloped or Cathedral) – Suggestions & Tips #48
- Ventilation & Indoor Air Quality – Suggestions & Tips #76
- Venting Dangerous Combustion Gases – Suggestions & Tips #141
- Venting Gas Cooktops / Ranges – Suggestions & Tips #154
- Vermiculite Insulation (VI) – Suggestions & Tips #16
- Warranties & Guarantees – Suggestions & Tips #7
- Water Hammer – Suggestions & Tips #52
- Water Heater Location, Furnace Too – Suggestions & Tips #130
- Water Penetration Into Homes – Suggestions & Tips #26
- Water Seeks Its Own Level – Suggestions & Tips #148
- Weep Holes / Vent Holes – Suggestions & Tips #133
- Weeping Tiles – Suggestions & Tips #23
- Wells and Cisterns – Suggestions & Tips #75
- Whole House Humidifier – Suggestions & Tips #93
- Will Plumbing Wonders Never Cease? – Suggestions & Tips #169
- Windows Support – Suggestions & Tips #132
- Winter is Coming! – Suggestions & Tips #124
- Wood Shingles / Shakes for Roofs – Suggestions & Tips #62
- Wood-Burning Fireplace & Wood Stove Safety – Suggestions & Tips #40
