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The maximum riser height for stairs shall be 7.25 inches. The greatest riser height within any flight of stairs shall not exceed the smallest by more than 3/8 inch. R311.5.3.1

Archive for May, 2008

TREC Proposed Revisions Which Affect Inspectors

Well like many of my fellow inspectors I have tried to keep up with the ebb and flow of news as revisions to the inspector’s standards of practice from the Texas Real Estate Commission (TREC) trickle out to the public. I have to say I was critical of the process up to this point [...]

Look at This

If you are in the inspection business, of any kind, you know it’s summer time in Texas. The temperature is getting hight and so is the humidity. I was in an attic the other day and saw the insulation falling off the steel duct pipe with condensation forming and dripping to the insulation [...]

Getting the foundation poured

As I stated in my first blog I don’t think it wise to put the fox in charge of the hen house so I had a 3rd party inspector look over the foundation pre-pour. Turns out it was a good move as they found a number of items that the home builder was going to [...]

Bees In the Walls

Recently, I was performing a pre-purchase inspection on a home for a buyer, and I noticed that bees were entering and exiting the siding at one corner of the building. This is an indication that bees have built a nest inside the structure of the building. Bees nesting inside the structure create quite [...]

ASHI

In the midst of all the turbulence in Texas recently regarding some of the local inspector organizations, I wanted to take a short amount of time and give a compliment to American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI). This is one of a number of national trade organizations for home inspectors set up to set [...]