Picture this. You're standing in your dream home, watching the inspector move through every room with a clipboard and flashlight. You assume they're documenting everything wrong with the place. Here's ...

Mar. 21—The Cumberland County Commission approved an updated fee schedule for the residential and commercial building codes department with a life safety/occupancy inspection fee of $250. This is the ...

People often refer to inspections in generic terms–and in so doing, get the entire concept of code enforcement mixed up. An inspection is an inspection, right? The answer is no. For those involved in ...

Once drywall comes down, you are no longer in a cosmetic project, you are in the middle of an electrical job that building ...

In last week's blog post, which I did not post here on the Star Tribune, I mentioned that there is an upcoming seminar for Minnesota home inspectors, being taught by building code guru Douglas Hansen ...