Jerry Simon

Apparently, every english-speaking country, save for the USA, spells it that way. Jerry, sometimes it takes a very special person to appreciate your comments! Hi Les... I was serious, and I believe correct about that. Not sure what you mean...

Apparently, every english-speaking country, save for the USA, spells it that way.

Daft, maybe, but I have it on good authority you could field-strip a 1911 in about 22 seconds. You da man.

Let the sumbitch fall. Friggin know-it-all. Ugly bastard, too.

From today's inspection. Mold in the attic; musta had a dream. Click to Enlarge 64.38 KB Nobody else want to say what they'd say in their report about such???

Many people feel mold is a problem. Maybe even many many. So if we, as home inspectors, find, say, an attic where the underside of the roof deck is covered with black splotches (obvious mold), how do we report it so as to: Cover our arse... Cover our client's arse... Reason I ask; regardless of what we as professionals suspect is the truth, many people are deathly afraid of mold; some even feel it is evil. If our client sees mold after they move in, and we haven't said "something", we risk a lawsuit. Even if we report it, an attorney could argue we sugar-coated the issue (by telling the *truth*), or even blew it out of proportion, depending on whose side the attorney is on. If our client goes to sell the house, and an inspector brings up the mold issue, the seller risks losing the sale. I'm not afraid of being sued; ask anyone who knows me. But again, with that in mind, how do you all think we report mold? I'm not looking for disclaimers; I have such. But if I see an obvious mold issue, such as the attic one I started off with, I'm going to be specific about it in my report. I just wonder if I can report on such in a different and better way.

Oh my. Gotta go find my whistle fire extinguisher.

Yeah, but by the time they sense the fire, you're already a crispy critter. They're interesting artifacts but nearly worthless compared to the marvel of a modern smoke alarm. BTW, no one's sent in a picture of an old style carbon tet fire grenade lately. - Jim Katen, Oregon Have you ever seen these old fire alarm whistles? Click to Enlarge 99.42 KB Click to Enlarge 25.03 KB

What if you wrote something along the lines of "Have it fixed, now (or sooner, if possible)".

Geiger's out of jail?

Uh, no, that would be the watery, muddy, puddle-filled crawl space I crawled around for about 20 minutes before finding clumps of used toilet paper. (Seller: "whadaya mean plumbing problem?")

Maybe I did too much in the 70's, but I truly think it looks really, really neat. Really.

That's one of the funniest construction pictures I've ever seen. Like those weird pictures...the more you stare, the more you see you can't believe.

Matthew, This might help. http://www.contractorreferral.com/gloss ... php?s=trap

Plus the tattered, tear-stained child's doll on the bedroom floor.

Maybe? Maybe!? Could you please keep accurate counts and be more specific/exact? Jeesh.

Well, Les, that, and the fact that all of a sudden I don't think we'll match the Lion's record of last season.

Just wanted to change my avatar...no particular reason.

Thank You! Got five more this a.m. alone.

The last week or so I've been getting an S-load of junk emails...the kind where I can get 5.5 million out of Zimfrickinbobway or somewhere like that with a simple email reply or phone call. Up until the past week, I'd get maybe a couple a month at best. Now, I'm getting a dozen or more a day. Anyone else notice this?

Sounds like a neutral problem on that circuit.

What about the ones hiding in my closet and only talk to me at night?

If you can design out the cracks, come to Texas and make a fortune. Don't the Buddists or some such folk use fly ash concrete 'cause it doesn't crack? They can't have their prayer meetings or whatever on a cracked floor, or so I heard...bad juju.

At least we don't have to worry about the split-face block buildings.

If you accidentally stick your utility knife blade into synthetic stucco, hard to mistake it for hardboard or cement stucco (or vicy-versy).