Two Certified Master Inspectors (CMI)® perform a residential home inspection according to the InterNACHI Residential Standards of Practice. The historic (heritage) home was built in 1886 and has many defects that are revealed during the inspection. The Standards are reviewed and applied to every system of the home. The viewer shall learn what is required of an inspector by the Standards of Practice.

It is recommended that you download the Standards before you watch the video so that you can follow along.

We asked Mr. David Ruskay, a master electrician, to build the Electrical Wall of Defects. The wall has 50 electrical defects every inspector should know. Throughout his career Ruskay has repaired electrical problems discovered by home inspectors. Ruskay built the wall to demonstrate the most common electrical problems that are missed by home inspectors.

The main electrical panel and subpanel are filled with electrical defects and improper installations.

21 wall receptacles are purposely wired with defects that a GFCI tester falsely describes as "Correctly wired." Receptacles are pulled out to show how they are improperly wired.

NACHI.TV’s Nick Gromicko talks with Schuyler Hellings of CH Insurance and Theresa Briggs of AIG about the new Independent Contractors’ Occupational Accident Insurance policy available to InterNACHI Members.

The purpose of the course is to define and teach good practice for conducting a mold inspection of a building. All types of sampling devices are demonstrated, and actual mold inspections are performed. The student will learn how to find and report mold growth that may exist in a building using a visual examination and mold sampling of the building. The student will learn: what mold is; the IAC2 Mold Inspection Standards of Practice; health effects related to mold exposure; what mold needs to grow; how to perform a visual examination of a building to find mold; the IAC2 Mold Sampling Decision Chart; the IAC2 Mold Sampling Procedures; proper use of tools, equipment and PPE; hypotheses development; building science and moisture; sampling devices and procedures; documentation of work; laboratory result interpretation; mold remediation; report writing; preventing mold growth. Dr. Shane, chief mycologist at Pro-Lab®, is a guest expert of the course and DEMONSTRATES how to use mold sampling equipment and devices. This course is a requirement for membership in IAC2 (www.IAC2.org). Be sure to view the commercial at http://www.nachi.org/videomoldcourse.htm