Barrie Home Inspector Maintenance Tips
Electrical Service Boxes

Electrical Service Boxes

Electrical Service Boxes The service box includes a circuit breaker which can be used to shut off all the power in the house, or a switch with a handle located on the outside, and the service fuses inside. The cover on the service box is often sealed by the utility. ...

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Deck Collapse Is Your Deck Safe?

Deck Collapse Is Your Deck Safe?

Safety Alert: Study Reveals Sharp Increase in Deck Failures A landmark study reveals that there have been 179 reported deck collapses from January2000 through December 2006, killing 33 and injuring 1,122. By: Michael Morse, Brittney Corwin, Robert Morse and Andrew...

Toronto Commercial Building Inspection

Toronto Commercial Building Inspection The advantage of hiring a Commercial Building Inspector will allow you to understand the true condition of the building you are contemplating purchasing.  The exterior and cosmetic finishes of a building never tell the...

Barrie Home Inspections Maintenance Tips

Barrie Home Inspections provides valuable advice and tips for home owners wanting to improve and protect their investment.  Every home requires maintenance and ignoring simple yearly tasks can lead to very expensive repairs in the future.  Our maintenance defect pictures provide graphic examples of the damage that can be done to your home when maintenance is ignored.  A quick inspection of your home will alert you to areas of your home that need simple maintenance repairs, ignoring these will cost you in the future.

Asphalt Shingles

Asphalt Shingles

Asphalt Shingle Information Asphalt shingles have been largely replaced by Fiberglass Shingles which are the most common shingle material now  used. The shingles consist of fiberglass base coated  and covered with granular material. In 1960...

Protecting Your Brick

Protecting Your Brick

 Protecting Your Homes Brick.  Brick veneer is a porous material which exposed to a constant source of moisture will absorb it.  Both air and water can penetrate brick veneer. Moisture can do a great amount of damage to your homes brick, typically by...

WETT Inspections Barrie

WETT Inspections Barrie

Most problems with Fireplaces and Wood Stoves originate from not being properly inspected.  The masonry chimney is the one item that is prone to damage, from overheating or moisture penetration.  Water damage is the worst culprit when it comes to chimney...

Pex Plumbing Problems

Pex Plumbing Problems

Pex Plumbing—an acronym for cross-linked, polyethylene water supply piping. The new piping system used essentially plastic piping to carry water into and through the new home. To connect the plastic (PEX) piping, the piping system also notably used brass fittings and...

Buyer Beware – Why You Need a Home Inspection

Buyer Beware – Why You Need a Home Inspection

Over the course of the past fifteen years I have come across many homes which have had problems that would scare any rational buyer away.  Unfortunately not all buyers have a home inspection and find out the hard way about the true condition of their home....

Truss Uplift

Truss Uplift

Pre-engineered roof trusses provide the frame for your roof system. These trusses are usually fabricated from 2-by-4 lumber into a shape that resembles a triangle with the letter W inside of the triangle.  Trusses spread your roof load to exterior walls which is...