When it comes to home inspection, this is pretty basic and you have heard it before: Keep the bushes, shrubs, trees and vines cut back from the siding and trim. Not only will the vegetation keep the siding wet, or shall we say damp, but also the vegetation can hide problems and it makes a wonderful freeway for carpenter ants and other wood destroying insects. Keeping the vegetation cut a foot back from the house is good for the homeowner and the home. Thanks for stopping by, Steven L. Smith
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Great advice Steven and it's on just about every one of my inspections. jay
The Inspectors who say Ni, A shrubbery? You want me to bring you a shrubbery?
I have very similar verbiage which prints on EVERY report I write.
Oh yes your post is so true! My neighbor cut up a bunch of wood then stacked it up on her concrete porch and right up her brick wall.... but this area has seen a lot of termite activity and I thought to myself that she would soon have a termite problem.... luckily her son came and removed all the wood in a weeks time. I still wondered if they got any termites in the studs during that time.
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