Once again, The Word invites you to travel into the dark realm of subjects that may be of interest to home inspectors. The Word hopes you will find this trip informative and maybe a little entertaining. Our subject this month is fire words. The Word finds this subject interesting because there are lots of words in building codes that deal with slowing the spread of fire and smoke in a building. Some of these words sound similar, so there’s often confusion about what they mean and about how to inspect the components described by these fire words. Let’s try to ...
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