The Midland home inspector is providing Professional Home Inspections to Penetanguishene, Wyebridge, Port McNicoll, Waubaushene, Feserton, Port Severn, Elmvale, Orillia and the Tiny Beaches area. Purchasing a home is usually one of the biggest investments that a individual or family will make. Protect your investment by hiring a Professional Home Inspector. Roger Frost is a […]
Commercial Building Inspector–Ontario
Commercial Property inspection requires special training and education. A commercial property is defined as the building structures and improvements located on a parcel of commercial real estate. These may include structures such as buildings with residential units operated for profit, mixed-use buildings, strip malls, motels, factories, storage facilities, restaurants and office buildings. Large Buildings is […]
Insulation and Your Homes Energy Loss
Insulation used in building is generally use to prevent the transfer of sound, heat or cold. Typically the majority of insulation in buildings is for thermal purposes, the term also applies to acoustic insulation, fire insulation, and impact insulation. Some insulation are designed to perform more than one function. Insulation in buildings will increase the […]
Home Inspections and the Building Code
Many Professional Home Inspector’s do not comment of their regions Building Code which is understandable if they have no training in that area. In the Barrie area for instance our local college is pumping out Home Inspector’s with Part 9 courses in Building Envelope and Structure. As far as education in the Building Code this […]
Cottage Inspections in Barrie
In North America, most buildings known as cottages are used for weekend or summer getaways by city dwellers. It is also not uncommon for the owners of cottages to rent their properties to tourists as a source of revenue. In Saint John, U.S. Virgin Islands, most buildings known as cottages or vacation rentals are used […]
Inspection of a Gas Furnace
Inspection of Gas-fired Forced-air Furnaces will prolong your life expectancy. Two Most Common Types of furnaces are the High-efficiency and Standard-efficiency Natural Gas Furnace. They are usually either up-draft or down-draft models. Up-draft is by far the most common. Over the last 20 years, a new generation of higher efficiency gas furnaces and boilers has […]
Barrie Home Inspections
A home inspection is a limited, non-invasive examination of the condition of a home, often in connection with the sale of that home. Home inspections are usually conducted by a home inspector who has the training and certifications to perform such inspections. The inspector prepares and delivers to the client a written report of findings. […]
Plumbing for Home Owners
A plumbing vent is any pipe provided to ventilate a plumbing system, to prevent trap siphonage and back pressure, or to equalize the air pressure within the drainage system. This allows for faster draining as air is allowed into system and also provides a means for sewer gases from enter home as they are safely […]
Septic System Basics
A home’s septic system is typically built to include four major components: the pipe, septic tank, drain field, and the soil. Though there are other designs and systems out there. From the home, the pipe carries wastewater to the septic tank. The septic tank is an underground tank that is usually built from concrete, fiberglass, […]
Finding The "God Particle" – Higgs boson
The Large Hadron Collider is a 17-mile (27-kilometer) loop buried underneath France and Switzerland, run by CERN, based in Geneva. Beams of particles are sent racing around the tunnel and at four separate locations will be crashing into each other to see what comes out. The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive elementary particle that […]