This course is focused on the most common home inspection defects that come up during inspections of old houses, with a focus on old Minneapolis and Saint Paul homes.  Topics include:

• General differences between old and new homes
• Chimneys, chimney inspections, stucco-covered chimneys
• Boilers
• Gravity furnaces
• Miscellaneous old-houses features (aka “doo-hickeys”)
• Bedrooms
• Plumbing: drum traps, floor drains, S-traps, steel drains, steel water lines, lead water supplies, cross-connections
• Asbestos
• Electrical – overhead wires, fuse panels, knob and tube wiring, ungrounded outlets and fixtures

This course has been approved by the Minnesota Commissioner of Commerce for 3 hours of Real Estate continuing education, course #1033017.