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Event :: June 2021 OMG Meeting

Title

June 2021 OMG Meeting


Summary

Inspecting Split-system Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps by Kevin O'Hornett Mike's Minute: Fire Stop & Block


Description

Split-System Air Conditioners and Heat Pumps by Kevin O'Hornett

Topic Title:

Inspecting Conventional Split System Cooling and Air Source Heat Pump Systems

Content Description:

Inspection of conventional split system and air source heat pump cooling systems starting with a short review of how they work,  and moving on to what conditions and components to inspect, what adverse conditions to look for, how to document adverse conditions, and prototype recommendations to make regarding addressing adverse conditions.  

BIOGRAPHY

KEVIN M. O’HORNETT

Kevin M. O’Hornett is the founder of ProSpex, InSpex, Inc., InSpex of Boulder, Inc., and Residential Property Inspection. A Colorado resident since 1969, he started the first professional home inspection company in Boulder County, Colorado in 1983.  He currently resides in the Golden area west of Denver, Colorado.  He was active in the building inspection profession conducting residential, commercial, and industrial building and building systems inspections in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, and Oklahoma from 1983 to 1995. He has fifty years of experience in residential building construction, general contracting, roofing, design, construction, renovation, and consulting. He has been a technical advisor to three professional building inspection companies in the Denver metropolitan area and has consulted and participated in construction, inspection, and roofing litigation and dispute resolution in Colorado, New Mexico, Kansas, and Arizona. He has also served as an arbitrator/umpire in homeowner insurance dispute resolution. Kevin was an affiliate member of the Boulder County Board of Realtors for eleven years. He is also an author, lecturer, consultant, and instructor in the fields of home and building inspection, radon gas testing and mitigation, environmental issues, and wildfire hazard mitigation and has presented home inspection seminars in Colorado, New Mexico, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Kansas, Ohio, Louisiana, and in Toronto, Canada.

Kevin has been granted a Private Occupational Credential Certificate from the State of Colorado Department of Higher Education, Division of Private Occupational Schools as a Trades and Industry Construction Trades Inspection Instructor and Program Supervisor. He has been approved by the State of Colorado Real Estate Commission and The State of Colorado Board of Appraisers to teach continuing education course work in the fields of Building Inspection, Building Structural Issues and Building Environmental Issues.

He is a former active and retired member of the American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI).  While an active ASHI member, he was also a member of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of ASHI serving on the Chapter board of directors for nine years.  He held the position of Chapter president for two years and chaired the bylaws, standards and legal / legislative issues committees. He has also written three marketing guides for home inspectors: “The Home Buyer’s Guide to Home Inspection,” “The Home Seller’s Guide to Home Inspection,” and “The Real Estate Professional’s Guide to Home Inspection”.

Kevin served on the board of directors of national ASHI for five years and chaired a long range planning committee task force as well as the education committee.  During his tenure as education committee chair, he was responsible for establishing an ongoing ASHI seminar program to take ASHI seminars to cities in the United States and Canada.  He has also developed and taught course work for ASHI chapters in both the U.S. and Canada. He has been a member of the International Conference of Building Officials, the International Code Conference and certified by the ICC as a “Uniform Building Code” and an “International Residential Code” inspector. He has also been a member of the International Association of Electrical Inspectors, the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials, and the National Fire Protection Association and has served on the board of directors of the American Association of Radon Scientists and Technologists (AARST) holding the office of president of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of AARST in 1988.

He has successfully completed course work at the Colorado School of Mines on Radon and the Indoor Environment and has been a guest lecturer at the school on the mechanics of radon gas entry into buildings. He has also been a guest lecturer on entrepreneurial skills at the University of Northern Colorado, on business formation and building inspection at Red Rocks Community College, and on radon gas testing and mitigation at the Colorado School of Mines.

Kevin has been certified as a Special Inspector for Structural Masonry by the Masonry Industry Quality Control Committee and approved as a HUD I FHA and VA certification inspector and a HUD / FHA 203-K, 203-B and 223-E loan program inspector.  From 1992 to 1995 he served on an advisory board for Arapahoe Community College in Denver to assist the school in planning a two-year associate degree program in building inspection.  He sold lnSpex of Boulder, Inc. in 1995, after having performed over 10,000 home and commercial building inspections, and retired from full time work in the inspection profession.  He has been a consultant to Commercial Building Inspection, Inc. in Denver, Colorado since 1998.

In 2002 Kevin was approved by the State of Arizona as an instructor for the State’s required home inspector educational curriculum and he taught an 160 hour course on home inspection for Arizona SunTech in Phoenix, Arizona from June of 2002 to June of 2004. This course is required for all inspectors in Arizona as part of the mandatory State of Arizona program for certification of home inspectors.  His courses averaged between one hundred and one hundred and ten hours of classroom work and included a full professional home inspector training curriculum, preparation for the four-hour EBPHI National Home Inspector Examination, and field training consisting of the complete inspection of approximately thirty homes during the course of each four week session.  Of the one hundred and seventeen students whom he taught and who took the EBPHI National Home Inspector Examination, over 95% of them passed it on their first sitting.

In November of 2004 Kevin started ProSpex, a consulting, resource, education, training, and support service for professional home inspectors.  Through its annual subscription program, ProSpex provides home inspectors with consulting and rapid support services for technical issues, report writing, marketing, document review, complaint review, and complaint management as well as technical information updates relevant to the home inspection industry.  ProSpex also provides educational seminars for professional home inspectors throughout the United States.  In 2020-2021 Kevin assisted the New Mexico Chapter of ASHI in working with the State of New Mexico to establish regulations pertaining to home inspection. In late March of 2021 he presented a Zoom seminar for the New Mexico Chapter to assist members in understanding and meeting the requirements of the new State regulations. He regularly reviews various state and home inspector trade association standards to assist home inspectors in understanding both any ambiguities and inconsistencies these standards may contain and the potential issues and concerns such ambiguities and inconsistencies may entail.

Sponsor: Inspector Pro Insurance


Start Date And Time

06/09/2021 08:00 pm


End Date And Time

06/09/2021 09:30 pm


Location

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