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  <description>King of the House Home Inspection serves all of the Pacific Northwest. State licensed and insured. Owner, Steven L. Smith.</description>
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    <title>Bellingham Home Inspections (King of the House) -- Pest Infestation Defined</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
Everybody knows what a pest is. In the field of home inspection, the pests include the wood destroying organisms (wood boring beetles, some ants, termites) and also members of those species commonly referred to as &quot;vermin.&quot; 
The catch is... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-06-14 11:09:18</pubDate>
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    <title>The Sometimes Silly Government Regulations On Building</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
Sometimes municipal planners, while having good intentions I think, are likely to miss the boat. At least that is my opinion.&nbsp;The weird facade on the warehouse below was&nbsp;certainly not what the builder wanted to do.&nbsp;This was a good-si... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-05-23 22:21:06</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Home Inspector (King of the House): HUD Manufactured Home Inspections</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
Many realtors and lenders become especially frustrated&nbsp;&nbsp;when they need to schedule, or recommend, an inspector for a manufactured home inspection that is subject to the very specific HUD financing requirements.&nbsp;
HUD demands an exten... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-05-22 14:04:42</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Home Inspector (King of the House): Roof Flashings</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
When a homeowner installs a new roof, or puts in plumbing stacks or roof vents, that person should do some reading about the process before going up on the roof. The two plumbing stack flashings below have&nbsp;problems. The one on the left was a d... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-05-22 13:40:47</pubDate>
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    <title>Electric Heater Safety</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I do not understand how&nbsp;so many people get through their lives without major fires and that applies doubly to those who carelessly use electric heaters -- especially the baseboard heaters.&nbsp;I know, from experience,&nbsp; that it can be easy ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-04-01 00:48:01</pubDate>
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    <title>Washington State Home Inspector Licensing and Training</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Things are changing in Washington State now that&nbsp;a home inspector licensing law has been passed and signed by the Governor. The way it will all work out, ultimately, is going to be determined to a large degree by the home inspector licensing boa... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-03-31 23:20:33</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Home Inspector (King of the House): Pyrolysis and Your Safety</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
&quot;Pyrolysis&quot; The word shares a root word with the term&nbsp;&quot;pyromaniac&quot;. &nbsp;That is not a coincidence as both involve fire.&nbsp;Pyrolysis is sometimes present when&nbsp;hot things, like metal chimneys, are too close to wood ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2008-02-11 23:33:22</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspection (King of the House): Carpenter Ants At Work</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
I did an inspection the other day and found something rather dramatic in the crawl space. If you look at the top photo, this fine sawdust or shavings (at the sill plate) is a condition that a competent structural pest inspector will be on the looko... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-12-09 21:14:54</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Real Estate Inspection (King of the House): Flat Roof Leaks</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ The picture below is an interior ceiling area that is located right below a flat roof. By a flat roof, I mean a low-sloped roof --even a flat roof should be designed to have some drainage so the water runs off the surface. The flat roof in the photo,... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-12-03 12:50:27</pubDate>
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    <title>Whatcom County Home Inspection (King of the House): Standing Water and Mold</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ &nbsp;&nbsp;
As a home inspector, I see quite a lot of standing water in crawl spaces and, less frequently, in basements. I have found, over the years, that the amount of water that is actually in the crawl space can be deceiving and way more than i... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-11-21 15:58:52</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspector (King of the House): Chemical Treatment For Anobiid Beetles</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I have done a number of posts online about the&nbsp;anobiid beetle --&nbsp;which is so common in crawl spaces here in the Pacific Northwest. The insect leaves exit holes in soft lumber under our homes and will live for years and years if the conditio... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-11-12 00:05:04</pubDate>
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    <title>Whatcom County Home Inspection (King of the House): Unsafe Wood Stoves</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ A few times I have seen homes where the wood stove (burner) was some concoction designed by the homeowner. This dual arrangement of old metal barrels (photo below) &nbsp;probably took the cake in my book. I remember seeing a number of single barrels ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-10-20 22:12:12</pubDate>
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    <title>Real Estate Test (King of the House): Should You Do Your Own Home Inspection?</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Magazines are full of people taking tests for all kinds of mostly silly reasons. Since this is a website for real estate professionals, I thought these three tests I created might be of interest. I designed them primarily for prospective home inspect... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-09-08 17:22:57</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspection (King of the House) : Conducive Conditions</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ 
In the state of Washington, unlike many other states, those of us who do real estate property inspections are required to perform structural&nbsp;pest inspections and to be state licensed to do so. A number of states exclude home inspectors from di... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-09-06 16:27:28</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspection (King of the House) : Inadequate Electric Panel Access</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I guess it is a cosmetic thing, they hate the look of the electric panel, but many homeowners insist on putting up obstacles that make access to their electric panels unsafe. That in itself is a defect that should be called out on a home inspection r... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-09-03 18:13:54</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspection (King of the House): Fogged Thermal-seal windows</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ As a Bellingham home inspector I always try to be on the lookout for fogged thermal-seal windows. Truth is, sometimes they can be hard to spot, depending on how cloudy they have become and how many blinds and drapes are pulled over them. Another fact... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-09-01 01:32:24</pubDate>
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    <title>Home Inspection Training From Bellingham Technical College</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Bellingham Technical College, part of the state college system, offers the only fast-track college level home inspection training program in the state of Washington. Many of the top inspectors in the state, east and west of the mountains, have gradua... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-08-25 00:10:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA Home Inspection (King of the House) : Vermiculite Attic Insulation and Asbestos</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Asbestos in homes is found in many locations. One place that often surprises people, and one of the lesser known locations, is vermiculite attic insulation installed prior to 1991. Prior to that year, the vermiculite in the USA came from a mine near ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-08-11 20:05:00</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Washington Property Inspections (King of the House): Sink traps</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ It is a common belief, among do it yourself plumbers, that as long as the pipes connect together and do not leak, then all&nbsp;is well with the system. That is not always the case -- especially with drains. For example, take the S-trap under the sin... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-28 11:05:01</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham Home Inspections (King of the House): Temperature Pressure Relief Valves</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ The Temperature pressure relief (TPR)&nbsp; valve, and the drain line, are among the most misunderstood safety devices in all of plumbing. Why is a missing or incorrectly plumbed TPR a critical safety issue?&nbsp; The simple answer is that it is the ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-12 01:32:03</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA home inspections (King of the House): Anobiid beetles</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ Here in the northwest, clients are always asking if I will check the crawl space for powderpost beetles. Well, I do look for the nasty powderpost beetles, but they (the lyctid) tend to be in hardwoods and inside: floors, picture frames, furniture. No... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-08 01:19:06</pubDate>
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    <title>Home Inspection Bellingham, WA (King of the House): Your dribbling air-gap</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ I overheard two people speaking the other day. One was explaining to the other&nbsp;that the air-gap on the sink was an overflow for the dishwasher. She commented that, at her house, it always dribbles water back into the sink. This is the second or ... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-07-04 00:03:44</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA home inspections (King of the House): Creosote and fire safety</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ A Bellingham home inspector sees some amazing chimneys when inspecting wood stoves or fireplaces. I believe that just about anyone, even those who know nothing about home inspection, will realize that this chimney shown below is a fire waiting to hap... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-06-25 01:44:53</pubDate>
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    <title>Bellingham WA home inspector (King of the House): Mold in the home</title>
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    <description> <![CDATA[ A Bellingham&nbsp;home inspector, working in the wet Pacific Northwest, sees lots of moisture issues. There is a&nbsp;misconception regarding mold in the home. That revolves around the belief that, if mold is found in the home, a sample should be tak... ]]> </description>
    <pubDate>2007-06-16 17:50:36</pubDate>
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