Ellie Ridge

I can tell you this house was built in the 20s just by looking at the construction methods. One clue is the angle of the foundation wall. A battered (angled) foundation tells me this hou

This is a prefabricated shearwall, called a strong-wall, that resists lateral force in an earthquake and can ameliorate a soft story (living space over a weaker first floor, like a room

GFCI outlets protect you from shock and are required within 6 ft of a basin — i.e. your kitchen and bathrooms and maybe a garage utility sink. If you’re relatively handy you can likely i

I was looking forward to this video because capillary action is such a cool way to see nature working… even though it can be to the detriment of our structures. But I love thinking about

How to profit from real estate and buy a house WITHOUT the secret ingredient that so many people have, but few talk about… money from family. This is the exact strategy I used to buy my

Line wire stucco is a 50s60s framing technique that I see all the time in the mid-century ranchers here in Richmond, El Cerrito and El Sobrante. Essentially the walls lack the shear valu

I love heat pumps. I think they’re the future of HVAC. They both heat and cool, they’re space saving because the unit is outside and they don’t require ducts, they’re highly energy effic

Let’s put a house on the market 🤝🏼🤍

Come on an inspection with me 🌷✨💖 couldn’t bring you through the whole thing in 90 seconds so I focused on the crawl. Fun way to hang out with my dad and learn from him while becoming

My hot take is that asbestos is underrated!! I kid of course but before the toxic nature of asbestos was known it was widely used as a building material because of qualities like durabil