Russel Ray, Property Consultant

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Does the fire door protect the living area from
the garage, or the garage from the living area?
In most areas of the country, a fire door assembly
is required between the garage and the living area,
the premise being that many dangerous items are
commonly located in the garage (gas dryer, gas
water heater, gas furnace, gas... (read the article)

Monday morning laughs and a tour of Southern
California....
....garages, that is! Real estate is expensive here in
Southern California, except in the rarest of
circumstances being the most expensive thing we'll
ever buy. So it's common to convert our garages to
some other purpose and leave.... (read the article)

What the heck was he thinking? (garage)
Several years ago, I did an inspection on a house
being sold by a certain professional race car driver.
Figure 1 shows what I found in the garage. Back
there to the left is a gas water heater. That means
that it has an open flame.... (read the article)

What the heck were they thinking? (garage)
Many of our older homes here don't have a garage,
so parking that Cadillac Escalade or Ford F350 can
sometimes be a challenge, especially if one has
toddlers or sacks full of groceries. The following
picture is of a home on.... (read the article)