Chad Fabry

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It's definitely a liquid pump. My bet is a gasoline pump. What brand was it? The name is cast into the base but the forum resolution isn't good enough for me to make it out.

you'll serve life for that much crack. edit: sorry Steven, I didn't see that you beat me to this punch line. Yours was better than mine, it cracked me up with its cheeky reference to Mike being the butt of the joke. Sorry to be repetitive, Sometimes I can be so anal.

On a warning note, contractors around here install the GE Profile line of appliances. There are major and pervasive issues with the refrigerators, gas stoves and dishwashers. Half of the units are swapped out within 3 years.

It's hard to get anything on the far left to work. Boom cha. Spiders?

In my area, extracting heat from conditioned space to heat domestic water is dumb 8 months a year. Super cool vintage HW set-up though.

It's also all so sales oriented, I took out your link. If you'd like to advertise your home inspection software here, you're welcome to pay for the privilege. As usual, Kurt is being too kind. The survey was crap and I regretted taking the time to read the questions.

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It's called editorializing. If you're an expert witness, you're supposed to be a fair witness to conditions and describe them without bias or subjectivity. While I might have commentary in a summary similar to your comments, when I'm running down the list I keep it to specific facts and let the facts show why it's a problem. More in a minute....I'm writing a real report now. I can't show you how my report would look without importing the pics and putting it all together in the finished format. It also wouldn't show the interface where I assemble the report, which is a big part of the operation. Our report styles are very, very similar. I use 1/8 to 1/4 page pictures and insert text boxes in the photo. I supplement the text box with the body o f the report which wraps around the the photo. There is no editorializing in the the comment I made. If you're referring to "hodge podge" it's a term that means confused mess or disorganized disarray. Words have meanings and I always endeavor to use the best choice. I just re-read my comment, Breslawski's comment, Baird's comment and Marc's comment. With a photo and some annotation, they're all fine. I like your report look, but it's not the look that makes me want to try it, it's the speed that you claim that makes me envious. I bet each of us says something like "call me to discuss further". I say, "If you have any questions at all, feel free to contact me now and any time in the future." We disagree here, the report is the document that everybody will refer to- it should include enough information so that future communication to further discuss the conditions at the inspection site are unnecessary.

I think that merits a video. Hmmm, I'm not sure I could perform under that kind of pressure.

I agree that as Katen suggested, genuine s traps are benign. That said, a urinal in the town hall where work has a 1-1/4 s trap. I can make it siphon by streaming directly into one of the holes in the bottom of the bowl.

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Did someone steal your password and post this? Look. You get who they give you for instructors at licensing school. I blame them. ...........I'm pressing my "like button" again [:-graduat..........Greg You guys are funny. Not as funny as Blum's boiler plate, but pretty funny.

I based the number on 300-500 per footing and column. I assumed 10 of them. It'd be easy money.

Did someone steal your password and post this?

That's an easy one. Write a comment about the photos for this topic. There numerous defects from the block orientation to no footer to column out of plumb to non rated columns, to no wind uplift restraint and on and on and on. I think it's unnecessary and imprudent to "list" the defects. I'm genuinely curious to see the different styles.

I'd like to see Gary's and Tom's actual remarks- and Kurt's too. Write exactly what you would put in the report. I just checked, worked for 24 attorney referred clients last year coming from 6 different attorneys for a total of 31 inspections. None of the attorneys suggested that my reporting left me susceptible to conflict. What concerns did your attorney have, Kurt?

I'll expose my soft underbelly here- it'd be nice to see how some of the rest of you would actually write this up. The piers supporting the floor system are a hodge-podge of poorly conceived, poorly built assemblies employing a variety of inappropriate methods and materials. Have a competent trades-person install footings and rated columns to an approved standard or engineered design. Expect to spend low to mid four-figures.

I almost always write first person, active voice. I'll admit though, that it's easier to write in third person, passive voice.

BUR but the laps are wrong?

The only mission here is the individual pursuit of excellence. The topic you introduced is interesting, debatable, and I bet some of us never considered the topic. I can speak only for myself: your presentation was condescending and baiting. Most of us have "water under the bridge", and like you, we're a fairly seasoned group. Had you asked, " Have any of you noticed a small delta t between the legs supplying a range-top indicate that there is an identifiable connection issue?", you would have sparked (sparked, ha, an inspection pun) an excellent conversation. If you're too old to change your ways, you're too old to learn. And, you're never too old to learn. We're mostly silverbacks. You're baiting us with inspection school scenarios.

Do people in OK always install their compressors in the dirt? Is that acceptable?

Are you using your phone as an inspection camera?

Are there any direct vent appliances that use B-vents? No