Did you know that Locals Love Us voted Pelican State Inspection 1st Place in Home Inspection for Shreveport and Bossier City in both 2015 and 2016? We have also been an award winner every year since 2011.

Sometimes after a home inspection you may see in your report “Recommend evaluation by an asbestos professional.” But what does an asbestos professional do? Asbestos professionals have been trained to deal with asbestos material, and the kind of professional you get will depend on the kind of product to be looked at and how the problem can be corrected. While you can hire a general asbestos contractor, it’s best to hire a professional asbestos contractor to handle certain products. What do they do? They carry out inspections, take samples of materials suspected of containing asbestos, look over the area and...

Pesticides in the home are always a concern. As a home inspector I see pesticides all over. Here are a few things to remember: Human Exposure – Ultimately, there are three ways in which pesticides can enter the human body and we have listed them from most to least dangerous here. Inhaled – When used in powders, vapors, or airborne droplets, pesticides can be inhaled rather easily and this is dangerous. With low-pressure applications, the hazard is quite limited because the droplets cannot remain in the air when too large or heavy. However, high-pressure applications present a serious danger because...