Mark P

yes - just feeling a little funny this am.

For the past 30 daze I had 100 impressions & 8 actions Here are the key words home inspectors 17 2. home inspector 16 3. home inspection 13 4. radon 11 5. radon testing 10 6. home inspections 6 7. radon test 5 8. inspector 3 9. house inspections 2 10. house inspector 2 Other 9

Your Crazy!

"As the trial continued in Hartford, Jackson's lawyer, Michael Feldman, called BVH Vice President Greg van Deusen to the witness stand and said the big issue is the company's claim that it was only hired to do a rough walk-around inspection. "Point to me in the contract where it says that physical observation is limited to a walk-around visual inspection of the property? Those exact words were not used," said Michael Feldman, Jackson's attorney" I believe every HI in America that uses a PIA states it is a "visual inspection". Did BVH a multi-disciplined consulting engineering firm overlook that detail? Also why would BVH subcontract an architect to perorm a HI on a 50,000 sq st mansion? Seems to me that employing a team of qualiied folks would have been better.

Cost? What the inspection Entails? Inspectors Experience? Scheduling Availability

I would not mention it, not an issue with me.

Thanks everyone, another day in TIJ school.

I am surprised to find a 2440 SqFt house built in 1995 w/ only 100 amp service. It has the following electrical appliances: - dryer - a/c - range/oven - microwave - garbage disposal - dishwasher Using one of the free online load calculators it came up with a minimum service of 181 amps. I verbally explained that it is very unusual for a house of this size and age to only have 100 amps service, but I could not necessarily say it would be inadequate. That would depend on what all was to be installed when they moved in. So my question is how do I write this up? Do I just explain that it is unusually small and maybe inadequate or do I call for a sparky to perform a load test? I’m not quite awake yet, but this is what I have now “FYI: The house’s electrical service is 100 amps. This is unusually small for a house of this size and age. A typical house of this size and age has 200 amps to adequately provide for all the electronics of a modern house.â€

What a crock!

Tauton Press is running a 50% off on some books. There is some good reference material here. http://www.taunton.com/finehomebuilding ... -sale.html

Mine has been ordered.

I did one recently and the owner said they were 50 year shingles. However, the ridge shingles did not look as thick and I just mentioned verbally that the ridges may not last as long as the rest of the roof. Click to Enlarge 111.51 KB Click to Enlarge 89.49 KB Click to Enlarge 68.49 KB Click to Enlarge 106.26 KB

Tom, What does "Booking" mean?

It was several months ago. I said “Rip off all the roofing and start over. There are way too many layers of shingles on the roof. The maximum recommend layers is 2, this house has somewhere around 6, with the original wood under all of that. That is too much weight and if it has not already caused a problem (it may be why the joist have failed in the crawl,) wait till you get a good snow & ice load up there. When the roofers get everything off, have a qualified carpenter do a good inspection of all the rafters to see if any have cracked or otherwise need repaired. This house was a POS and I did not want the - single Mom, 1st time buyer – to buy it. The realtor was on my nerves from the second she arrived. The report was brutal, and hopefully shocked some sense into the young lady. I guarantee I’ll never hear from that realtor again. Maybe I’ll follow up with her, the buyer, this week to see what happened.

Correction, Don't you mean a layer of rift-cut cedar shingles? I doubt that even with that many layers that you could get a shake roof as smooth as that shown in the background. However, 50 to 60 years ago it was common to butt up over a cedar shingle roof and run asphalt. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike I'm sure you're correct Mike. Here is a pic from inside the attic. Click to Enlarge 43.16 KB

This is a sub-panel in a detached garage. I don't understand what this wire is doing here. Is it somthing that needs changed? Click to Enlarge 95.96 KB

It is one of a kind around here. I've driven by it a few times. I just decided to snap a picture the other day. You can't tell from the pictures, but it is well over 20 years old.

I may have posted these pictures before - I’m not sure. What I found most interesting is that numerous things on the house were to be fixed, including the roof, and I was asked to come back and check them. Through the realtor, I was told everything would be done by Wednesday, so I could go back on Thursday, and they would close on Fri. The seller knew I was coming and was telling everyone he had people working on the issues. When I arrived nothing had changed - I stood dumb founded. Of course they still bought the house. Click to Enlarge 103.02 KB Click to Enlarge 113.74 KB

The City had already passed this house. Click to Enlarge 18.69 KB

After I struggled through this crawlspace I felt like I had really accomplished something. One of the tightest squeezes ever. So I decided to capture the moment for all to share. Click to Enlarge 26.4 KB

And under all that asphalt is a layer of shake. Click to Enlarge 54.25 KB

Why all the unusual colored wires. What is the significance of and rules behind using the different colors? How is this better then white, Black, Green? Click to Enlarge 52.4 KB Click to Enlarge 61.36 KB Click to Enlarge 61.01 KB

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Mine too, but with a $500 deductable. So really not very good.

Not around the St. Louis area