Fireplace Safety

As fall begins, people start to think about things associated with this time of year and if you have a fireplace in your home, you may be thinking about having a fire in the fireplace.  While the warmth of a fire can be comforting, a fire outside of the fireplace would be a disaster.  In…

The Domicile Difference vs. Some of the Others

Unfortunately, it is not unusual to run across inspectors and builders who refuse to go any further than what is legally required of them. While they may perform inspections which conform to the minimum legal requirements and meet basic Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), they are too often content to stop there. Instead of seeing the SOPs as a floor from which to rise, they see them as a ceiling which limits their efforts. When an inspector takes this kind of minimal approach to inspections, homeowners can be less than fully informed and only partially protected.

radon is real

Radon is Real

In 2018, an estimated 154,050 Americans will die from lung cancer [1]. While many of them are current or former tobacco users, approximately 30,000 individuals will have never smoked or used any form of tobacco [2]. So, how did these people, who had taken a significant precaution, develop lung cancer? According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), exposure to radon gas was the primary culprit.