Moses Lake & Spokane Area Home Inspection blog, Dennis R Chamberlain

The Bellingham Technical College of Washington is where I went to school to become a home inspector.  I would definitely suggest it to any other prospective minds looking for a good place to learn the ins and outs of being a home inspector.  I have been in various fields of home construction and ...

Sprinkler systems not properly installed can cause issues. This system on a three-year-old house had an obvious problem, the controllers flooded every time the sprinklers were turned on. This may have been a leak or a poorly located head just out of view of this photo, or both.   There was a craw...

   I think most people think of WA state as forests and wet but there is another side to the state. Here in Ritzville we have dry land wheat for miles with sage brush mixed in on the unfarmable land. Irrigation from the Columbia river feeds the agricultural engine in our Columbia basin. With less...

Springtime, the air is fresh, the snow is melting off (in some places!), and winter has done its damage.  Spring is a great time to get some work done on your house, winter being hard on a structure and with summer coming up (Checking a roof in the dead heat of summer is not a fun task!), there a...

Recently I had the opportunity to attend Washington State University Extension service's Wood destroying Organisms training in Puyallup WA. This facility is tremendous, they have built a house just for this training. The house was constructed out of many types of building materials and improper b...