kurt

See it all the time. Never thought anything about it. It's how ignition is accomplished down the line. That, or I'm an ignorant oaf. Or, I'm right and still an oaf.

I see a lot of different ones. The touch pad types have gotten fairly easy to understand. Nest is really easy; very intuitive.

Same here. I tell them revisits cost extra. I love having realtors turn stuff on. Had a full tilt flood one time. Not my fault.

I've shown a few realtors how to turn on water and gas mains. I'm fine with them doing it for me.

I'll light a pilot here and there depending on a few things. I'll never turn on a main water or gas valve.

I like it because it's what you originally planned, and I have a soft spot for nicely soldered pans and flashing details. If you can get it done before Alana decides she's had enough and kicks you into the blueberry patch, even better.

No, wait....back up to what Jim said. That's not how cost approximations are delivered and no one knows "who pays" because the whole thing is up for grabs with that kind of statement.

Same here. We call them horse collars. Is that name used in other areas?

Sounds like a Doctor for Hire.

If you tell someone there's no flashing and it can cause water damage, people are concerned. If you tell someone there's no flashing, it can cause water damage, and on that particular building it will cost $75,000-90,000 to repair, people are informed. I'm not so sure I like the idea of licensing prohibiting citing cost approximations. It reinforces the idea that HI's are functional morons with no understanding of construction, costs, or anything. Which, of course, is true in a lot of instances.

The article sounds like a rodeo of incompetence. I don't see how it has much to do with providing estimates. It sounds like the usual lousy home inspection followed by the usual demand letter. I provide estimates all the time. How that estimate is delivered depends on the particulars. All estimates are bracketed with descriptions of variables. Some stuff is impossible. Some stuff is easy. If it's easy, I do it.

From what I'm seeing, there's no flashing or water management details anywhere....not on the deck, the window, the sills, the rim joist/subfloor....nothing. My WAG is the lack of flashing anywhere is allowing incidental amounts of water, in multiple locations, to enter the walls. The water dissipates out into adjacent materials creating the readings you're getting, which aren't all that bad, not bad enough to make stuff look or feel wet, but they're enough to give you elevated moisture levels and enough to mess up a wood floor. The readings don't provide a smoking gun to a single source; they're like what I find in simple boxes lacking flashing anywhere.

Could somebody explain again about the concentric ring thing messing things up?

Two.

How many aren't testing because it doesn't provide useful information, and at base have the opinion that it's a complete dog and pony show populated by shyster morons?

Bogii is the plural of bogus. You got some bogii there.

You guys need to stop spraying stuff on your but(t)s.

What Scott said. Someone was killing wasps in the soffit vents.

Yeah, I think Douglas made a statement a long while back indicating they'd like us to use them in our reports. If I got that wrong, strike me down....

I have the Code Check stuff in the library, but hardly use it anymore. It's amazing what turns up when one googles a condition; I grab a lot of stuff out of the interweb. Probably/certainly violating copyrights on some of it. If someone is serious, they watermark it nowadays, so I use the un-watermarked stuff. I've been building my own library out of my own pics......another advantage of having a facile DB.

Or second.....

In the amount of time we've argued about membranes, you could have the thing soldered and done. Why are you taking up our valuable time with trifling?

I did a fine job of communicating my thoughts. Folks just don't like the delivery or the thoughts. I stopped being pleasant and warm a long time ago. Actually, I've never been pleasant and warm. Time on large scale projects isn't ever pleasant and warm. It's a lot of screaming and yelling by guys with hairy knuckles for 16 hour days. I like the guys with hairy knuckles. They know stuff. The revolution is not a dinner party......Mao Tse Tung Neither is the inspection business.

It isn't condescension. It's loud overbearing insistence on how to think about roofing. I don't give a rat's ass how many acres of roofing someone's installed; they might be doing it right, but they might not be thinking about it right. When I finally shut up and started seeking out people that know something (re: PM's on big commercial projects, preferably hospitals), I started to learn something. I learned that I didn't understand how to do roofing. I'm explaining how to do roofing. HI's, as a group, trend toward thinking they're being insulted instead of being schooled. I shut up and stopped taking advice as an affront, and the world opened up. The whole world's a school. I'm actively enrolled.

Because the roofer cheesed out on the last course of shingles on the right side. They scrunched the ridge shingles over in lieu of a shingle course. At least, that's what it looks like.