Title

October 2018 NOVA ASHI Fall Seminar

Summary

8 hrs: Wood Science for the Home Inspector - John Bouldin
Electrical/Roofing - Dave Rushton

Description

 

 

2018 Fall Seminar

INSPECTING ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS, WOOD SCIENCE FOR THE HOME INSPECTOR and ELECTRICAL SERVICE and Roof INSPECTIONS

 

Saturday, October 13, 2018

Oakton United Methodist Church

2951 Chain Bridge Road, Oakton, VA 22124

 

Seminar approved for 7 ASHI CE credits, MD CEs approved

VA and WV accept ASHI CE credits

 

7:30 – 8:15 AM	Registration
8:15 – 10:15 AM	Inspecting Engineered Wood Products by John Bouldin, PhD.
10:15 – 10:30 AM	Break
10:30 – 12:30 PM	Wood Science for the Home Inspector by John Bouldin, PhD.
12:30 – 1:15 PM	Lunch provided by NOVA ASHI
1:15 – 3:15 PM	Electrical Service Inspections by David Rushton
3:15 – 3:30 PM	Break
3:30 – 4:30 PM	Roof Inspections by David Rushton

 

 

Inspecting Engineered Wood Products

I-Joists and Engineered Beams

By John Bouldin, Ph.D.

 

 

Welcome and Introduction to engineered wood products.

Building codes and third party specifications for engineered wood products.

1. The International Residential Code
2. Manufacturer specifications

Differences between EWPs and dimension lumber.

1. Holes, notches, and bearing differences
2. Utilization of scarce resources

I-joists and engineered lumber beam construction errors and inspection methods. 

1. Fasteners
2. Hanger hardware
3. Bearing surfaces
4. Modifications to EWPs
5. Load paths and blocking

Joist hangers and EWP connections. 

1. Fasteners
2. Hanger hardware
3. Bearing surfaces
4. Modifications to hangers

Questions and discussion

 

Wood Science for the Home Inspector

By John Bouldin, Ph.D.

 

1. Wood Science                                                                                 
2. Wood Anatomy
3. Wood Decay
4. Pressure Preservative Treatment
5. Wood/Moisture Relationship
6. Tributary Area
7. Beam Theory and Basic Loads    
8. Questions and Discussion

 

 

 

 

 

Electrical Service Inspections

By David Rushton, ACI

 

Electrical services are installed in every home. Electrical services, panelboards and subpanels must be installed properly. The details for installation of the service are very important. Main panels and subpanels, grounding and bonding and the separation of grounding and neutral conductors will be explained. Unusual and obsolete services will be illustrated. The electrical service installations can be safe or scary. This seminar will help both beginning and experienced inspectors properly evaluate electrical service installations, understand and describe their components, detect and report problems with the electrical service.

 

What Your Mother Never Taught You about Roofing

By David Rushton, ACI

 

The roof is one of the most important systems in a home and one of the most difficult to inspect. Consequences from problems with the roof can affect the structure and habitability of the home. Repairs can be simple or as costly as replacing the roof materials. This seminar will illustrate obvious and not-so obvious problems with roof designs and installations that will enable an inspector to identify problematic situations with the roof. Whether you inspect the roof from the ground and the attic hatch or you climb the roof and traverse the entire attic, the seminar will illustrate many different problems in roofing systems, how to discover and identify those problems during the inspection and not after the buyer has moved into the home.

 

 

Registration Information

Registration is $115.00 for NOVA ASHI members, $125.00 for non-members. Please send payment to our Chapter treasurer. Make checks payable to NOVA ASHI.

Please print your name legibly on the check - the Treasurer does not know you by your Company name!

 

Scott Robertson
NOVA ASHI Treasurer
139 11th Street SE

Washington, DC 20003

Click to register for the seminar

Speaker Biographies

John Bouldin, PhD.

John Bouldin has been a professional home inspector for over 20 years and has earned a Ph.D. in Wood Science from Virginia Tech.  His dissertation was on the Inspection of Engineered Wood Products in Residential Construction.  John has served two terms on the Virginia Board for Home Inspectors and has held Virginia Home Inspection Certification.  He is a faculty member at Virginia Tech and has conducted research into engineered wood products, wood connections, decks, and pallets and packaging.  His articles on decks and inspection-related topics have been published in civil engineering journals, Structure Magazine, Wood Design Focus, among others.

 

David Rushton

David Rushton studied architecture at M.I.T., graduating in 1976. He began his own general and electrical contracting company after college. He became a licensed master electrician and general contractor in California in 1982, New Jersey in 1983 and Virginia in 1999. He worked 17 years in residential and light commercial renovation and electrical construction projects in his own company and was the managing licensed electrician in Deutsch Electric for 5 years. He founded ABLE Building Inspection, Inc. in 1993 in southern New Jersey and relocated to the Blue Ridge Mountain area of northern Virginia in 1999. An ASHI certified inspector since 1996, David is a Past President of the Northern Virginia ASHI chapter and the Virginia Association of Real Estate Inspectors. He is a licensed home inspector in Virginia, Maryland and West Virginia. He is also a licensed Class A General Contractor and Electrical Contractor in Virginia.

Start Date And Time

10/13/2018 07:30 am

End Date And Time

10/13/2018 04:30 pm

Location

Oakton United Methodist Church
2951 Chain Bridge Rd Oakton VA 22124