While I’m a building inspector these days, I started my path toward this industry as a health department inspector. I was sent to restaurants and diners in my county to look for health code violations. While many of the food service companies in this area really care about their products and their customers who eat […]
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I work at a contractor supply store and our supply chain issues are still present
My first job was at a fruit supplier company. I was in the orange and citrus department and loaded massive barrels of fruit every single day at work. It was an honest living, but I ended up hurting my back during a normal work procedure one afternoon and it put me in the hospital for […]
My region is constantly hit with rain and thunderstorms year long
Before I moved into this area, I was used to having very little precipitation throughout the year. In the winter the temperatures hovered in the high 30s and only snowed every now and then. As far as rain was concerned, that was almost always confined to the late summer months, with perhaps a few thunderstorms […]
I want to build a new footbridge leading into my small koi pond out back
At some point in the last few years, I lost any sort of restraint when it came to my backyard and the improvements and projects therein. It started with the metal-frame swimming pool and the large wooden deck that I built around it. I even built a water slide for my kids to use, which […]
My brother is stressed out because his company needs supplies but can’t get them
I’m extremely happy to see my brother excelling as a small business owner here in our home town. Back in our younger years, I worried about his reckless behavior and how it would eventually affect his future. He had a group of friends that would go out and drink away their weekends until slinking back […]
I warned the apartment manager against not using rebar in the sidewalk construction
It’s always hard when you sign leases on apartments that get sold while your contract is still active. You are six months into your annual lease and suddenly you are renting from a new company altogether, often one that is seeking to run the same business with lower operating costs to squeeze what little profit […]
It’s great that our condo building was made with almost all America made materials
It wasn’t my plan to downsize after retiring, in fact I always dreamed about having a large house on a huge plot of land. I saw my kids growing older, moving away, having families of their own, and bringing their children back home to the property to play like they did when they were that […]
There are solutions for rust-resistant rebar wire in coastal construction applications
I moved to the ocean after years of living up north and subjecting myself to worsening winter freezes. Temperatures at negative thirty degrees fahrenheit are no joke, especially when the wind chill is even colder than that. I asked myself how much more of this I could subject myself to before losing my mind of […]