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Attic Access Issues   by Richard Acree    http://habitecinspections.com   Attic access.  How hard can it be?  You'd be surprised how attic accesses can be messed up.  Read on.  Almost all home inspections involve an attic staircase.  What's wrong with the pictures below?   HINT:  Both staircases ...

  10 Music Circle South, Music Row, Nashville, TN HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, recently completed a Commercial Building Property Condition Assessment on 10 Music Circle South, Nashville, TN , also known as Sound Stage.  This unique, two story music recording studio located in Music...

Nashville Home Inspection - Poor Brick Step Installation Ever seen a set of exterior entry steps that are falling apart or caving in.  Why is that?  Look at the picture below. HINT:  Actually, two hints.  First, mortar is porous and, second, brick steps need a solid foundation. So in the photo ab...

Nashville Home Inspection - Electrical Panel Issues Bugs in the electrical panel, what harm can that be?  Well, look at the picture below.  Any harm there?  How did this happen? HINT:  Bugs, like water, need a hole to get inside the panel. ANSWER:  Electrical panels have concentric circles called...

Residential Security System Battery Issue So you wake up one night and you hear the security system in your home making a beeping noise.  Since it is intermittent and unusual because it does not stop, you know it is not an intruder.  What can that be all about?  So you go to the control panel and...

The Middle Tennessee Association of REALTORS (MTAR) has announced the following nominations for Officers and Directors for 2011.  Please see the list below.  Electronic voting by eligible REALTOR® members will be available online at www.mtar.org beginning Wednesday, October 13th, 2010.  Each REAL...

Nashville Home Inspection - Orange plumbing pipe, what is that for? So you are walking around the new house you bought and you see a panel on the wall in the garage.  You look inside and you see the orange plumbing pipe in the picture below.  What is that?  I thought most plastic plumbing pipe wa...

FALL HOME INSPECTION SALE IN NASHVILLE AND MIDDLE TENNESSEE! HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, (HABITEC) is pleased to announce that our FALL HOME INSPECTION SALE starts October 1, 2010 and goes through December 20, 2010!!  During this time, if our schedule will allow, HABITEC will beat...

Nashville Guest Speaker Do-It-Yourself Home Maintenance Inspections -  Interior Spaces HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, offers public guest speaker classes in Home Inspection topics of interest to all home owners and renters.  This post is about the presentation for Interior Spaces.   ...

Nashville Guest Speaker Do-It-Yourself Exterior Surface and Components Home Inspection HABITEC Home and Building Inspections, LLC, offers public guest speaker classes in Home Inspection Topics of interest to all home owners and renters.  This post is about the Exterior Surface and Components pres...