Category Archives: Appliances
Kitchen Cabinet To Accommodate A Microwave Oven
Amateur Microwave Installation
By Pete Busch
One of the best parts of being a home inspector is finding things like this. This is an amateur installation of kitchen cabinets and a built in microwave oven that I found while performing a home inspection in Plymouth Minnesota.
In this first picture you can see the microwave is installed close to the kitchen wall. At first glance you would not recognize this as a problem, neither did I.
In this.
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Home Safety “Tip” Is Your Gas Or Electric Range Safe?
Just yesterday while I was performing a Maple Grove, Minnesota home inspection I found another free standing range without the required anti-tip brackets installed. Anti-tip brackets are included in the installation kit with every new gas or electric range and are designed to prevent the range from tipping forward. These are normally attached to a rear leg of the range or screwed into the wall behind the range. Image this scenario, you’ve got one or more pots of boiling food on cooking on the.
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