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17 Jul 2025
#Scotland calls, and Collum answers. But what #ancient #secrets, and what relentless pursuit, await him there? Get ready for a classic chase driven by a deep connection to his past. Subscribe to "#TheParchmentSecret" for weekly updates!
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6 Jul 2025
Are you ready for this? The calculations show that this small, 12.5 square foot attic stairway opening, with its mere R-1 insulation, dramatically drags down the effective R-value of your entire 1000 square foot attic from R-38 all the way down to approximately R-26! #insulation #Rvalue
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4 Jul 2025
Coming Thursday, July 10: The Parchment Secret
A Mississippi home inspector stumbles on something impossible: a hidden chamber, a parchment sealed by blood… and a prophecy pointing to Scotland's Highlands.
Episode 1: The Inspector’s Discovery drops this Wednesday. Subscribe now so you don’t miss it: 👉 msinspector.substack.com
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4 Jul 2025
Before tossing that leftover #icecream salt from your #IndependenceDay fun, take a moment to protect your #deck, hardware, and home from unexpected #corrosion!
Visual guide to download and share:
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✅Best ways to store leftover #saltwater
✅How to prevent hidden moisture damage in #storagerooms
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26 Jun 2025
The Consultant's Glossary: The Language of Building 🏠 Simplified.
Term of the Day: Post-On-Pipe
What is a "Post on Pipe"? It's your fence's best friend in tricky or wet soil. More here:
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25 Jun 2025
A few ways to maintain your home without using tools.
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23 Jun 2025
He Turned His A/C Into A Dirt Cannon 🎯 Don't make this DIY mistake.
- How To Do It Right -
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23 Jun 2025
The Language of Building 🏠 Simplified.
Term of the Day: Aumbry
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#aumbry
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22 Jun 2025
The Language of Building 🏠 Simplified.
- - Term of the Day: Tusk Tenon
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#Glossary #ConstructionTerms
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18 Jun 2025
Two commonly interchanged terms: “Brick Pointing” and "Tuckpointing."
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While sometimes used synonymously in the U.S., they refer to two distinct processes - one may surprise you.
#tuckpointing #brickpointing #masonry #building #consultant
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18 Jun 2025
What a joke. This isn't a referee or player issue, this is a league management issue - big time = correct this from the top down - it's spinning into a shit show.
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18 Jun 2025
What in the world?
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31 May 2025
Each player in the game is driven by hope and expectation, and each is nervous, expecting life to be fair. They know, or will soon find out, life isn’t fair. A fair is full of game booths, cotton candy, and carnival rides. There is nothing fair about real estate. That view, the fairness part, never seems to shift too far from the center.
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28 May 2025
I may be too old to witness this new trend firsthand, but... after binge-watching old late 50s TV shows and being born in 1955, where I lived through that time and into the 60s and 70s, my perspective is keen.
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5 May 2025
- Where the House Speaks -
Where I #inspect, the ground beneath me doesn’t stay still. It rises and folds like an old man trying to get comfortable in a chair too young for him. That’s the clay here—slow-breathing, deep-rooted, and stubborn as a mule with its own sense of time. It doesn’t #crack. It reshapes.
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3 May 2025
The Core Contradiction of the Home Inspection Profession #exposed
Short Essay Here:
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#HomeInspection #HomeInspector #ASHI #InterNACHI #Inspector
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