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Are you building Radon resistant? If you are currently building a home or are planning on building in the future, this article is for you. One part of the planning and building process that often goes by the wayside is the consideration of Radon gas. Radon gas is a radioactive gas that cannot be seen [...]

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Animal, Vegetable or Mineral Home Inspector Discusses As a home inspector that services a large portion of the eastern Iowa area, I get to see a wide variety of homes. Many of  the older homes in Iowa that originally had gravity fed furnaces have modernized and updated to the higher efficiency forced air furnaces. When the HVAC contractor updates [...]

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The Tar Monster Discoveries in Home Inspections My kids always have liked Scooby Doo. One of the old episodes I remember is the Tar Monster. Well, the other day I met the tar monster. He was on top of a flat roof above a porch. He had covered all of the fully deteriorated roll roofing! [...]

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Home Inspector Winter Tips #6: Stabilize or Remove your fuel! This week’s winter tip is to  either remove the fuel from or add fuel stabilizer to your gas-powered equipment. As a certified home inspector I do not check garden equipment. However, I do recommend that you add stabilizer to your fuel if it is to stay in the [...]

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Cleaning up the mess Let’s face it, no home inspector is perfect. I have been in the construction business for over 20 years now and had a home inspection company for over four. To be honest, I didn’t even know what a home inspector was before my mother in law mentioned it to me. Back to the [...]

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EI2S Home Inspections Serving Cedar Rapids and Surrounding Areas.

Home Inspection 335k doesn’t mean it’s perfect I recently did a home inspection on a really nice newer home in Cedar Rapids, IA. The inspection overall went well with just your run of the mill deferred maintenance items and a couple of small repairs. Until this… It’s nice to have good equipment such as a thermal imaging camera and [...]

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Home Inspection Are fuses better? Home Inspection, Cedar Rapids, Waterloo IA -Are Fuses Better? A few times a month during the course of performing a home inspection I will run into a fuse panel. Most folks in Eastern Iowa automatically assume that fuses are old, outdated, and generally less reliable than circuit breakers. Some would even go as far [...]

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