After a deck collapsed in Morayfield, Queensland and eight people were injured, decks in Australia are coming under closer scrutiny by building officials.
According to home inspectors in Australia, there are thousands of unsafe decks currently in use and decks in coastal regions fail more frequently than those in non-coastal regions. To read more about the deck collapse, click here....
On Sunday, October 18th, two people, one of them a professional home inspector, Paul A. Craig, 59, died in what is said to have been an electrical accident involving a hot tub in Federal Way, WA.
The Medical Examiner's office has yet to issue a formal cause of death but friends are saying that investigators have told them that the cause of the death was most likely accidental. Craig's son disputes that and claims that the hot tub has been used safely for more than five years without an issue.
If you know you should have expanded your personal library long ago but have been putting it off, you might want to visit the JLC Bookstore real soon. For a limited time only, JLC is selling every book in their inventory at half price.
A civil lawsuit wending its way through the Harris County Texas district court system has the potential, if the plaintiff prevails, to set an alarming precedent that could have a chilling effect for home inspectors everywhere.
On June 25th, 2009, a Houston attorney, homeowner Gary R. Maze and his wife filed a lawsuit against Houston inspection firm Fox Inspection Group and specifically, inspector Rubin Santillan Jr., alleging tortious interference with prospective contracts. In his complaint, Maze alleges that Santillan, who is not a licensed engineer, made structural assessments that amount to the illegal practice of engineering about Maz...
Public meetings will be held in Florida over the next few weeks for stakeholders in the mold assessment and remediation professions to address those portions of Senate Bill 2234 (2007); an act relating to the regulation of building inspection professionals, that deal with the regulation of mold assessment and remediation professionals within the state of Florida.
This bill will become effective July 1, 2010. It provides for licensure and regulation of mold assessment and remediation professionals but does not provide for a Board of Mold Assessors and Remediators and will be administered by the Florida Department of Business and Professiona...
Editor's Note: Though appliances are outside the scope of an inspection in many jurisdictions, more than 100 people have been injured by these ranges so TIJ is providing inspectors this information so that they can warn clients and sellers about this danger.
