Pacific Coast Inspections, Inc.
 Everyone wins with a Listing Inspection
Put More Money In Your Pocket
”Regardless of the marketplace, it’s to a seller’s advantage to perform a professional pre-sale or listing inspection.
A listing inspection will put more money in your pocket, facilitate a smoother transaction put
potential buyers at ease, reduce negotiating points, and bypass annoying delays.
Supplemental disclosure provided by a seller’s listing inspection encourages trust between the
buyer and the seller, and sets a positive tone for escrow.
In today’s market, if there’s been a listing inspection, repairs made, accurate pricing, and the
house staged to show… the odds are the house will sell quicker. Get the jump on your
competition with a listing inspection today.” - Pacific Coast Inspections
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The home inspectors at Pacific Coast Inspections, Inc encounter grey duct tape being used all the time – mainly on heating and cooling ducts – which turns out to be a non-compliant use of the tape.
It’s probably true, that duct tape has a 1001 uses. There’s even a book about duct tape that you can buy this year at Amazon.com called… you guessed it… the Duct Tape book.
In the photo, the inspector spotted a single rust-streak on the duct tape on a water supply pipe above the 2005 model water heater.
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Learn about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asbestos
Home inspectors routinely encounter asbestos materials installed in older houses.
What is asbestos? It’s a mineral fiber. It can be positively identified only with a special type of microscope. In the past, asbestos was added to a variety of products to strengthen them and to provide heat insulation and fire resistance.
The photo shows a floor register ‘duct transition boot’ wrapped in an asbestos-like material.
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Home inspectors occasionally are asked, what they think about Duraflame™ fire logs.
Some home inspectors render an opinion and say it’s okay to use them and others will tell you, the residue from the man-made fire logs gums up the chimney flue.
While Duraflame™ pre-fab logs burn long and relative clean, they do produce a wax-like build up that sticks to everything inside your chimney. This substance coats your flue tiles, lining, damper gears, chimney cap, everything… just like soot from regular wood burning.
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In the photo, the home inspector discovered that a homeowner had plugged in 5 extension cords and the washing machine into a power strip located in a garage. 
Every year, thousands of fires result from surge protectors, power strips and electrical cords.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimates that about 3,300 residential fires originate in extension cords/power strips each year, killing 50 people and injuring about 270 others.
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