Meet the Team

Eric Boll

Eric Boll is your local, Virginia-based professional Pillar To Post home inspector, proudly serving Arlington County, Alexandria City, Falls Church City, Fauquier County, Fairfax County, and Loudoun County. With more than 2500 inspections successfully completed, you can trust the Boll team with your home inspection.
Prior to becoming a professional home inspector and owning his own business, Eric attended McGill University in Montreal Canada, where he earned a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Electrical). He spent almost two decades in the semiconductor industry as an applications engineer, supporting customers, training salespeople, field applications engineers, and, customers. Additionally, Eric visited customers in numerous European and Asian countries providing on-site technical support, presenting new product overviews, and working closely with strategic customers to define new products.
Since moving to the US, Eric has mostly purchased homes that were foreclosure or headed that way and has done a lot of home repair and upgrade work over the years. Eric and his wife, Beth Riddick, redid their kitchen in 2010-2011. They gutted three rooms down to the sheathing and created a large combined kitchen and dining area. The company that supplied the cabinets and countertops liked the kitchen so much that they highlighted it on their website for many years.
Becoming a professional home inspector has had many benefits for Eric and his family. He very much enjoys meeting people from different backgrounds and cultures. In his previous career, Eric had the opportunity to travel to many countries. He and his wife, Beth, like good food from a wide variety of cultures. This helps make a personal connection with many clients. It is fun to learn about how similar people are in many ways, even when from different cultures.
Eric’s first priority is to be there for the client—to educate them in a friendly and professional manner, putting things in the proper context without being an alarmist. To him, a home inspection is an educational event for the home buyer.
In Eric’s free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, electronics, trying food from all over the world, and doing home construction projects. He brewed beer as a hobby for 20 years, his favorites being IPAs and stouts.

Previous Experience
– Electrical Engineering Degree from McGill University in Montreal Canada.
– Approximately 20 years Eric worked in the semiconductor industry as an applications engineer, strategic marketer, systems engineer, and, program manager. Technologies that he supported include telecom ISDN, system on a chip microcontroller, ultra-wideband wireless, and, lithium-ion battery management. This work took him to numerous countries.
– Member of an internal R&D team for a major defense contractor.
– The first company Eric worked for after engineering school in Montreal made betting systems and infield display boards for the horse racing industry.
– 2-1/2 year ex-pat assignment in Toulouse France from late-1997 through mid-2000. Eric’s son was born there. His daughter started public school in France when she was three. Both kids speak very good French. Eric also speaks French.

 

Beth Riddick

Beth Riddick is our radon professional. She performs the radon measurements and provides the associated analytical services and reports.

Member of AARST and NRPP

Beth is an affiliate member of the Northern Virginia Association of Realtors. This allows her to have a Sentrilock card, so she can access homes to place and pick up radon tests.

Eric Frolia

Inspector (20+ Years)