Bill Kibbel

Contributing Writer
Bill Kibbel is a contributing writer and review editor for The Old House Web. Bill is an inspector and consultant that specializes in historic buildings with Tri-County Inspections . He has inspected more than 10,000 buildings between 100 and 350 years old and has been a consultant to historic sites in several States. Bill is a veteran old-house owner and restorer and has been contributing to OHW since 2001. For a full list of Bill's columns visit The Home Inspector in our How-To Advice section. Bill welcomes questions for possible future blog posts and articles. You may contact him at wkibbel(at)oldhouseweb.com
Recent posts:
Oct
25

Their House is a Museum When People Come to See ‘em

By: Bill Kibbel, Contributing Writer
In: house styles, old house inspection, old house musings
A local TV station is having its pre-Halloween Addams Family Show marathon. This, of course, leads to the annual comments from the wife about how she thinks the Munsters were better than the Addams Family. I’ll only admit that the Munsters had really cool cars, but the rest was lame as compared to the Addams Family. The best part of the mid 1960s sitcom for me was the Addams’ ...

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Oct
18

Newel Posts and Newel Postlore

By: Bill Kibbel, Contributing Writer
In: Old House History, old house inspection, old house terminology
In case you aren’t familiar with the term,  a newel is a central column around which winding stairs are attached.  A newel post is (the often highly decorative) post at the end of a stair that anchors the railing.  Newel posts are an architectural detail that had many style changes throughout history. In the early American colonies, simple lathe-turned posts, often similar in profile to the balusters of the railing, or ...

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Oct
01

Sagging Beams and Sloping Floors

By: Bill Kibbel, Contributing Writer
In: Uncategorized
Ever since the article, Sagging Floors - Serious flaw or charming old house character, appeared on OldHouseWeb, I regularly receive questions from readers about their own sloping floor issues.  I can’t reply to all the e-mails I get and of course, I can’t offer specific advice without seeing all issues first hand.  I can however, offer some insight.  I’ll spare you my usual comparison of old buildings to aging body ...

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