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InspectAPedia tolerates no conflicts of interest. We have no relationship with advertisers, products, or services discussed at this website.

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About InspectAPedia.com

InspectApedia.com® - first published under this name in 2005, trademarked in 2007, InspectApedia is a free online encyclopedia of building & environmental inspection, testing, diagnosis, repair, & problem prevention advice - illustrated, detailed, in-depth research on finding, diagnosing, testing, correcting, & preventing building defects, energy conservation, & indoor environmental hazards.

We began researching and publishing these topics in 1986 as a private computer network for ASHI. Today our authors include experts who've worked in the field since the 1970s.

We are dedicated to making our information as accurate, complete, useful, and unbiased as possible: we very much welcome critique, questions, or content suggestions for our web articles.

We provide a more comprehensive INDEX to RELATED ARTICLES for most topics, but we recommend that you use the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need.

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InspectApedia does not collect, sell, nor retain any information about individual readers or visitors to our website.

Building, Home, Energy, & Environment Topics at InspectAPedia.com

Information at this website is for residential & commercial property owners, home owners, home buyers, home inspectors, architects, builders, building tradesmen, engineers, environmental inspectors, & industrial hygienists.

In addition to website topics listed at the top of each of our pages along with drop-down menus for each of those, see

InspectApedia MAIN TOPICS - for more links to each topic home page.

Use the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX to ask a question or to search for help on a topic.

Use the page bottom COMMENTS BOX to ask questions about any InspectApedia article or to suggest content additions or corrections.

Who We Are

In addition to individual contributors who are listed in specific articles at InspectAPedia.com, the primary author and editors of the technical content at this website are:

InspectApedia.com Publisher, Author & Editors

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Contributing Authors & Technical Reviewers of InspectApedia Articles

Are listed, along with a brief summary of their expertise and credentials,

at InspectApedia ARTICLE CONTRIBUTORS & REVIEWERS

 

Find Information at InspectApedia.com

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InspectAPedia.com Website Policies

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Who Our Readers Are: international audience

Readers are mostly English speaking people from countries around the world, largely Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand, the U.S., the U.K.and Latin America, but also including people from more than fifty other countries and speaking other languages.

InspectApedia.com articles have been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, even Serbian.

In addition to the breadth of topics covered at the website, we have a special interest in assisting in parts of the world where housing or infrastructure such as septic system or waste disposal or provision of sanitary drinking water are especially difficult to provide or obtain.

Readers typically come to InspectApedia for

  • Information:

    Readers are searching for the answer to a problem with a building or because of a concern with the building's indoor environment (mold, odors, noises, air quality)..
  • How to guides:

    Readers include owners or occupants of buildings and professional contractors, service providers, investigators, inspectors, engineers, architects, builders, etc. who want information on the best way to build, diagnose, & repair, or who are looking for technical depth, education, training.

Watch out: in many of our articles as well as in responses to reader questions, where you see us including a Watch out: ... warning, we are saying that in our OPINION, there are serious life/safety or economic risks involved in the question or topic being discussed, so immediate action or extra caution is needed.

What InspectAPedia wants from our readers: Read, Ask, Tell, Contribute

  • Read:

    We want our readers to find and read the solution to their question or need in the researched articles provided at this website and found by a search engine or by using the search box found on our web pages. Be sure to read both the landing article and closely-related articles that they ought to know about.
  • Ask us

    If you can't find the answer to your need: use the COMMENTS BOX found at the bottom of each article to post a comment or ask a question. We monitor comments constantly and respond usually within minutes to a few hours.
  • Tell us

    If you have read something that you consider incomplete or incorrect.
  • Contribute to InspectApedia's online content

    by critique, question, reference citation, or content suggestion by remarks posted in

    our COMMENTS BOX

    • Website content contributors, even if it's just a small correction, are cited, quoted, and linked-to from the appropriate additional web pages and articles - which benefits us both. Working together and exchanging information makes us better informed than any individual can be working alone.


InspectApedia does not sell any product nor service.

To avoid any possible conflict of interest and to help readers understand the trustworthiness of our articles we emphasize that our only product is authoritative, researched, in-depth public information, the creation and hosting of which are supported by Google AdSense advertising income.

InspectAPedia is an independent publisher of building, environmental, and forensic inspection, diagnosis, and repair information for the public - we do not sell anything, no products, no services, and we have no business nor financial connection with any product, manufacturer or service provider discussed at our website.

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Just about every other page or article found at this website includes a page bottom Comments Box where you are invited to leave a comment or question.

To be most effective at getting a useful reply, comments are best posted on a page pertinent to the topic of concern.

Please also try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find information you need and to find pages most relevant to your question.



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