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Practice Home Fire Drills

Family safety should be taken seriously in every household, whether the children are youths or teens. You should also have a family fire safety plan, especially if you have elderly parents living with you. Everyone in your household needs to know and understand the family safety plan.

Grim Statistics:

• There were 1,584,500 fires in the United States in 2003
• Fires resulted in 3,925 deaths, 18,125 injuries, and $12.3 billion in damages
• Residential fire represented 25.4 percent of all fires and 77.4 percent of structural fires
• Eighty percent of civilian fire fatalities occurred in the home

These statistics show that family safety is a serious concern across the United States. Take your family fire safety seriously and come up with a plan for the event of an emergency.

Family Safety Plan Step #1: Install Smoke Alarms

A smoke alarm detects even the slightest puff of dangerous smoke and sets off a siren that alerts your family to the danger, giving everyone a chance to escape. Install a smoke alarm in every bedroom, the hallway, and the kitchen.

Family Safety Plan Step #2: Try Vocal Smoke Alarms

For families with young children or elderly adults, a vocal smoke alarm is an effective alternative to a regular smoke alarm. A vocal smoke alarm uses a recording of your own voice instead of a siren, as studies show children wake up more easily to the sound of their parents’ voices. You can even record family fire safety instructions, such as “Maddie, wake up. There’s a fire. Climb out your window and meet us at the mailbox.”

Family Safety Plan Step #3: Buy a Fire Safe

A fire safe can withstand temperatures of up to 1700°. Keep vital documents, such a birth certificates, marriage licenses, wills, and insurance policies in a fire safe to make recovery easier when the smoke clears.

Family Safety Plan Step #4: Buy a Fire Extinguisher

If a small fire breaks out, an easily accessible fire extinguisher can keep it from growing into a large engulfing blaze. Always keep a fire extinguisher in the kitchen, the hall closet, and near BBQ pits and grills.

Family Safety Plan Step #5: Feel the Door

Instruct your family to feel doors and door knobs before opening them. If the door is hot, there are flames on the other side, and they need to find another exit.

Family Fire Safety Plan Step #6: Lay Low

When escaping a house that is on fire, teach your family to stay low to the ground under the smoke to avoid inhaling the deadly fumes.

Family Safety Plan Step #7: Stop, Drop and Roll

Instruct your family that if their clothes catch on fire, they should stop, drop, and roll to extinguish the flames.

Family Safety Plan Step #8: Assign Helpers

If you have small children, elderly parents, or pets, assign a family member to be in charge of aiding those who need help escaping.

Family Safety Plan Step #9: Have a Meeting Place

Make sure everyone in your family knows to gather in one place once they have gotten out of the house, so you can easily count heads and know that everyone made it out safely.

Review your family safety plan every year and always make sure you have fresh batteries in your smoke alarm. Family fire safety saves thousands of lives each year, and it can save yours, too.

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Clothes Dryer Safety Tips

As a seasoned home inspector we routinely observe this type of arrangement with dryer vent hoses that are severely crimped. This compromises the air flow significantly and lengthens the operating time required to dry clothes properly. Be sure to check yours for proper air flow.

Here is another example of a dryer exhaust vent that is contributing to not only lengthy dryer cycles, but it’s also a potential fire hazard because lint is quite flammable (just ask the Boy Scouts…they use it for starting campfires). The photo was taken for one of our customers who requested a builder warranty inspection (first year of new construction). The lint accumulations happened in 11 months!!! Check yours!

Here’s a an interesting photo taken during a new construction inspection. What was forgotten you ask?

The dryer vent connection!

Hope you have found something useful here.
Gary Sloan, CMI
Advantage Inspection Peachtree
Atlanta - Peachtree Georgia

What are Parents Thinking?

Invariably we are summoned to perform a construction phase inspection for customers interested in ensuring their home is being assembled in a quality-like manner. This is usually not a challenge at all until the loving parents bring toddlers or small children. Folks, this is not a friendly environment for adults let alone little, curious ones.

There are numerous hazards found on virtually any construction site. Some that come to mind are:

* loose materials (during framing and roofing)
* sharp materials (including metal flashing that is razor sharp)
* electrical hazards (such as poorly maintained extension cords)
* dusty conditions (during sheetrock phase)
* silica dust generated from cutting fiber cement board (commonly known as Hardiplank)
* fall hazards (including temporary stairs without rails and scaffolding that looks like inviting “monkeybars”)
* hazardous materials such as paints, sealants, adhesives, gasoline
* Equipment movement like dump trucks, backhoes, forklifts
* And so on.

While inspecting a home in Atlanta, I was walking around the exterior of the home with the customer while looking up at the roof shingles. Just then I glanced down at the cluttered job-site to witness a rusty nail in a long 2×4 pierce the bottom of my left shoe and penetrate into my foot. I believe one of the small bones in the foot was kind enough to prevent the nail from coming out the top of my shoe. Very painful! I couldn’t help but mutter a profane word while thinking about the derelict contractor who knowingly left this nail exposed. Maybe I should have been more alert. I don’t know. I finished the inspection with blood pooling in my shoe. The customer felt bad. I felt pain. The point is…even a trained home inspector with tons of construction site experience is not immune from an unknown safety hazard. What chance do playful children have?

Don’t get me wrong. Inspectors love children. We love them enough to request parents make arrangements to not bring them to an active construction site and unnecessarily expose them to these conditions. So I beg of you parents with little ones…use good judgement and prolong the childrens’ invitation to the home until it’s near completion.

Caring for your home and your loved ones…The Home Inspector Community Across America

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Squirrels aren’t fun in the house

Squirrels are fun in the park–not in the house. Squirrels are attracted to wiring insulation and their damage can easily stage the house for a fire.

Small dogs find house urinal

Inspector observed sagging ductwork and was able to determine it was drooping due to two small dogs using the laundry room floor register as a urinal (for months).

The Home Inspector of choice

Gary Sloan has been the Home Inspector of choice for my clients and family since 2004. I give him an A+ for competency, knowledge and courtesy. He is always on time and never in a hurry to finish the job. He is very patient with my first time home buyers explaining to them the working and maintenance of their new home. He is detail-oriented and takes photos to document his findings. His reports are easy to access and read and very helpful with out of state clients who were unable to be present at the inspection.

My clients and I find Gary Sloan very knowledgeable and easy to work with.

Kavita (Kay) McInroe ABR
The Curtis McInroe Team,
Prudential Georgia Realty and the 2008 President Women’s Council of Realtors Fayette Chapter

The man I trust with my home

Passion to protect the homeowner, passion to be fair in business and friendship, passion for creating a safe living environment, and passion to excel in his knowledge and trade, combine to make Gary Sloan the man I trust with my home and business. Excellent customer service is a foregone conclusion with Advantage Inspection Peachtree. The surprise comes when Gary completes his incredibly thorough inspection and gives the customer a degree worthy education about their new home.

Frank Harris
CEO, Kedron Inc.

Happy Newnan Client…

I just moved with my family to the Newnan area. My wife and I found a nice home. From the first contact with Gary, I could tell he was very concerned about his customers. I have been in the customer service business over 40 years myself and felt very comfortable. After speaking at length with Gary, I could tell he was conscientious and caring and not some slick salesman. Overall the inspection went very well. Gary was very thorough and professional. The report was very detailed, yet easy to understand and comprehend. The photos were great. I had a list of questions after the inspection was completed and Gary and his office manager, Nicole, were very prompt in returning my calls and emails.

It is very refreshing to find such excellent customer service these days. I would recommend Gary Sloan and his company to anyone.

Trey Blackshire
Home Inspection Customer
Newnan, GA

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Termite Damage is Real!

We look for any damage caused by wood destroying insects and include the details in your report!

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