It’s an unfortunate fact that home inspectors are often not mould experts. When inspections are done on new homes, revenue properties, or even just your own house, things can be missed. A home inspection helps to reduce your risk of buying a home with costly problems, but it isn’t perfect and often misses things. Hidden
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Have you ever picked up your dish cloth or sponge just to be surprised by a rank smell coming from it? That’s mould. It’s likely too soon to see any black (or other coloured) spots growing out of the cloth, but your nose can already detect the growth. While mould growth in the walls, basement,
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We’ve written many articles on the places asbestos hides in your home, how being exposed to asbestos can cause health problems, and why you need to have your home checked for asbestos especially if you’re planning renos. However, we don’t often discuss just what asbestos is. It’s important to remember that there are several types
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Frequently we have blogs that discuss complicated questions where the answer falls in the grey area of “maybe.” This is not one of those times. As much as we wish it wasn’t true, because asbestos is an excellent material in almost every other respect, asbestos is absolutely linked to an increased likelihood of developing certain
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