Wenatchee and Chelan Home Inspection Blog

Grounding Electrode Conductors and a splice. Wenatchee Home Inspections  In general, the grounding electrodes and their conductors create a connection of the electrical system to the earth (earthing). The earth is considered to be at zero potential. The second function of the system is to dissipa...

Crawl Space lighting and GFCI protection in the 2017 NEC.Wenatchee Home Inspection As home inspectors in Washington state, one of our SOP requirements is to report missing GFCI protection where required. Washington State Standards of Practice-(WAC) 308-408C-110 Electrical system.(e) Verify(iii) G...

Tuesday’s Fun- Potpourri-  Wenatchee Home Inspections. Some day you just know that you have it going one. This one has a little bit of everything...hence a little attic potpourri.         For home inspections, it is so important to crawl that attic space whenever possible. You just never know wha...

Mondays Madness- Knot Good  -  Fun in Home InspectionsWenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s home inspection fun is called “Knot Good ”. It is not uncommon that where former branches are a wood knots appear in the trunk where branches died or buds do not form. Knots are imperfections that cause livi...

Wednesday Wires-  Free-Wheeling -  Fun in Home InspectionsWenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s fun is called “Free-Wheeling”, or should I say free-for-all.First off let’s look at the dictionary for some insight, if we look at definition 2 below I think we get the sense of how the term “Free-Wheeli...

Mondays Madness- Cord-u-lation  -  Fun in Home InspectionsWenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s home inspection fun is called “Cord-u-lation ”.For those who live in more rural areas having a backup generator is often a necessity or highly desired. The problem is they have to be done correctly and s...

Wednesday Wires-  Not a fan-  Fun in Home InspectionsWenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s fun is called “Not a fan”, or should I state not another fan since I see this so often. It seems that bathroom and kitchen exhaust fans are just troubled in many older homes anyway, but way too often I see th...

Mondays Madness-  Sneakers  -  Fun in Home InspectionsWenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s fun is called “Sneakers”.Never a dull moment as a home inspector.Often during a home inspection I will find many D-Con bait boxes, which is a sure sign of a rodent infestation.  I am not a huge fan of poison...

Wednesday Wires-  Air Grounding-  Fun in Home Inspections Wenatchee Home Inspections. Today’s fun is called “Air Grounding”. In the world of home inspections, there is often times I will shake my head and wonder why?He is an example, the homeowner wired a receptacle with a bit of reckless abandon...

Tuesday’s Thoughts- Space Junk-  Wenatchee Home Inspections.We as humans have a nasty habit of putting junk everywhere we go.They say now there is about 23,000 pieces of space debris (Junk) that are large enough to be tracked by the US Space Surveillance Network. All of this junk being tracked is...