Gary N Smith | SafeHome Inspections
Home Inspections | Construction Consulting | Serving Central MS since 1974 | 601.691.1496
It’s best to vent the clothes dryer directly to the outside of the building. In fact – the building code requires it to be terminated outside the building. For the few homes that are built on a crawl space, that doesn’t mean you can or should terminate the dryer under the house. The building code says that’s a no-no too.
Bats are great for keeping the neighborhood bug population down, however there are few things to keep in mind when considering hosting a colony of bats in your attic.
When I inspect and report the surface conditions of brick and concrete, and use the term efflorescence, it has more aesthetic rather than structural consequences.
Brick is porous. When water freezes, it expands. Put these two together and you have a recipe for surface spalling and freeze-thaw weathering. Freeze–thaw weathering is caused by moisture freezing inside masonry and then later contracting. Upon freezing, the water expands, causing spall,
Let’s start where most housing questions start. Are gutters required by building codes? No. Not in Mississippi. To minimize soil saturation houses with foundation walls (crawl space and basements) should pay particular attention to how roof water is managed. Positive drainage away