Wood Destroying Organisms

ScribeWare co-founder Dylan Chalk started sharing his knowledge to the home inspection community through a blog, podcast, and continuing education classes long before he and his buddy Steve Lamb started to build the best inspection software that could be built. And he doesn’t plan on stopping anytime soon. The reality is that sharing professional best practices with the home inspection community at large is central to the whole point of ScribeWare: build the best inspection report software, and build it with templates, pre-written comments, and prompts so that it actually helps inspectors be better at their job.

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I’ve got moisture ants in my house?

What are moisture ants? Moisture ants are a wood-destroying organism that indicates there is wet wood in or around a house. Moisture ants are not a primary wood-destroying organism meaning they do not infest dry wood. Because wet wood is a prerequisite, moisture ants could be considered more of a symptom than a primary problem. Moisture ant queens are large ants and can be confused with carpenter ants, but the more prolific workers are small and almost an orange brownish color....