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At any givin time a customer will get three or four estimates for a job. At least one person will get it right and will be probably be the highest estimate and in most cases will not get the job. People like to think they got a bargain and typically hire the cheap...

This family had plans to sell there home and move to Florida. Just before the home was to be shown to a prospective buyer, the water heater failed. The basement and all personal belongings were covered with mold and water damage. We had a dumpster there that right...

Attics can build up a tremendous amount of heat in the summer. The excess heat in the attic can raise the temperature in your home. The way to remove that heat is through a balanced attic ventilation system. At the top or the ridge of the roof, exhaust vents are...

The kitchen and finished basement were both water damaged by broken pipes. The basement incident was from a fully depreciated hot water heater and the kitchen from burst piece of baseboard heat. The attic was a result of vapor migration from a dirt basement and a...

The answer is a resounding "it depends." The theory is that the gable vents may disrupt the airflow from the soffits to the ridge. In theory yes, it should work. So why is it not working? The ridge vents are exhaust vents and the soffit vents are intake vents. The...

 Attic mold usually starts at the rear of the house. The front of your house faces the street and the back faces the woods. Because of the location of your driveway and street, there probably aren't as many trees in the front. Less trees equal less shade. The...

Ice dam formation is the result of continuous freezing and thawing of snow due to escaping heat from the house or from gutters being backed up with frozen slush.  When this occurs, water may be driven under the roof which may cause ceiling, wall, insulation and gutter...

Why is there a hump in my floor? There is a definite hump in the floor that is normally found in older homes. In older homes the foundation sinks leaving the center of the house higher. But this is a different problem. Let’s say your house was built in 1985.Builders...

Well it is black mold, but it isn’t THE black mold that you think it is. The black mold you are referring to is STACHYBOTRYS CHARTUM. In 1993 there was a story in Cleveland Ohio about infants dying from pulmonary hemorrhage and...

  The Radon Debacle   On a recent home inspection the radon test came back high at 7.3 pCi/L (picocuries of radon per liter of air.) The EPA has set a national action level of 4 pCi/L (picocuries of radon per liter of air) for indoor air. The average indoor radon...