Garage door photoelectric sensors, also called “photo eyes” are the small black boxes you see mounted on the door track that usually have a round glass lens like a camera lens on them. They are mounted towards the base of the garage door track near the garage floor (or, at least they should be mounted there). These sensors are designed as a safety feature to […]
I had the pleasure of inspecting a new construction build recently. The deck was one of the worst new deck builds I’ve ever inspected and it somehow managed to pass city inspection (I found that out later). I wanted to go over exactly what was wrong with this deck by listing out the issues and going into explanation of why these things are issues. The […]
An open ground receptacle is an electrical receptacle that is not showing a ground wire connected. This could be because the ground wire disconnected on the receptacle or somewhere in the circuit or series or because there simply isn’t a ground wire (because it is an old 2 wire electrical system). The reason this is unsafe is that although the receptacle appears to be grounded, […]
Rigid Inspections, LLC offers Radon testing in O’Fallon Missouri. We also do Radon testing in St. Charles county, St. Louis County, and St. Louis city. What is Radon? Radon is a radioactive, colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, occurring naturally as a decay product of radium. Radon enters your home through the soil and it is everywhere, some areas just have higher levels of it. Why is Radon […]