Erby

Sediment build up in a gas water heater is like a layer of sand on the bottom of a pot of water on the stove. Gotta heat the sediment before you start heating the water. Don't hurt anything, just less energy efficient. I've found a couple over the years that I could hear the rocks chunking around in. Someplace I've got a sound video of it. Ain't no way to get it out when it's that bad. Easier to just replace the water heater or bear the cost of heating the sediment rocks before heating the water. Electric: Sediment on the bottom don't really do or harm anything.

Naughty Ezra, just naughty!

And what do you tell your client when you can hear the rocks burbling around inside a gas water heater?

Leach beds are designed to let the water leach back into the ground, not drain into a creek. Sounds like you've got all you need for recommending a fix.

I'd get bids for mud jacking and total replacement. Go with whichever is more economical.

Good link, Kurt. Ever notice how what was bad for you years ago, is now good. what was good for you years ago, is now bad. I"ll die of something, but I'm going to have fun getting there, not spending all my time worrying about how.

I get a bit of feedback. I use them to let other customers know what past customers have said. Post on facebook, my website, etc. Some customers look for them. Here's a recent one I added on Facebook. As first time home buyers, we wanted to make sure we choose a quality inspector who would work diligently on our behalf. After calling many inspectors who wouldn't go on roofs or in crawlspaces, we finally decided on Erby. He was very thorough in his inspection, and wanted us along on every part of it. He never made us feel rushed, or like we had stupid questions, but rather spend time explaining how things worked (or how they should work), what kind of fixes we were looking at, and helped us to differentiate major problems from minor ones. He went on the roof, into our attic and into the crawl. We left feeling like we had a complete inspection and will definitely recommend Erby in the future. How can you not love that! -

Drain for the flue condensate.

Lack of air circulation + condensation = mold growth.

Guess it would have been to hard to put the take off on the other side to start with. Makes you wonder? -

Such poise as you're falling. Not even a girlie scream. -

Sure, Jim. About thickness and diameter of a penny, made of copper.

C'mon Denny. It ain't that hard to fall off a cliff into the river! Even real old men could do it. [:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd[:-monkeyd

From this afternoon's inspection. It was easy to remove the cover plate. I just pulled down the paper poster they had thumbtacked over it. Click to Enlarge 35.96 KB -

Get rid of the counter. It's passe. Use a site tracker program to track your stats.

Seen in lots around Kentucky too. No big deal. Get the wood of the floor of the crawlspace.

Resize it. Water mark it. Shadow it. Border it. Put text on it. Click to Enlarge 50.9 KB And you an do it one at a time or a whole bunch at a time. Lot's you can do with Faststone. Don't know that I'd want to do all that but it's there if you want. I usually just resize and watermark. Click to Enlarge 54.17 KB Just gotta play with it to make it work for you! Here's the link. http://www.faststone.org/FSResizerDownload.htm -

They took an old single flue chimney, cut it off in the attic and stacked junk on it to make a bigger more impressive three flue chimney on the outside.

Mine was a little easier to diagnose. It was the bathtub water supply leaking. The supply was at the far end of the tub from the exterior wall but this was the only place the leak showed up. Just another reason to (at least) walk the exterior AFTER you've finished the inside. Click to Enlarge 70.02 KB -

Warning: Preparation H is NOT for oral use. Someone, somewhere has tried all of those. -

Yes, sadly it did pass the local code guys inspection from the street.

Did the same thing in a crawl space a few years ago, Bain. Elderly seller came home at about 9:30 PM to a freezing house. Erby was out in the snow at about 10:00 PM. I think most of us, if not all will admit it, have done a dumbass once or twice. You're not alone! -

Doug, your "slip meter riser" could really solve a lot of problems around here, IF they would have installed them. Unfortunately, I've NEVER seen one around here, though I've seen a LOT of conduit pulled apart and/or broken due to ground movement. -

Don't need an expansion joint there, John. They just needed to install it right. See it quite a bit around here with houses built on hillsides. Electricians get a pretty penny for fixing it. Especially when there's a ton of water in the conduit. -

at the stuff we see. This was bad enough! https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... C_ID=13693 Then yesterday along came this! Click to Enlarge 43.49 KB