Tom Raymond

Why are all the valves closed?

That is from a leak.

Not all modern dishwashers have factory installed high loops. I just installed an 18" Frigidaire that didn't.

Speed would be a be huge plus. Currently a fast report takes at least as long to generate as the inspection. A house deserving of Erby's stamp, the writing is a day's work.

How big is the house? In my climate anything over 1000sf or more than one floor would have multiple loops. With a single loop you could have balance issues.

Why would I remove the word mess? It's an accurate description. The bathroom remodel was a 1958 cape, 22 x 30. It was occupied, so the bathroom had to remain functional as long as possible. I did eventually go through the floor, most of it was mulch. I replaced 8 joists, the subfloor in the bath and adjacent closet, will plates and rim joists half way around the house, over a dozen wall studs and16' of wall sill plates on interior and exterior walls, and all the sheathing on the back wall. I didn't touch the piers. Those were replaced with the girder in 1992. Between the rotten wood and wet crawl floor it took 6 days and massive cribbing to get the house to move at all. The place was literally sinking as fast as we could lift it.

That steel lally is going to hurt someone when it falls over. I have no idea what the strap is doing, need a better pic.

3 of the 4 sinks in my house have s traps. They never go dry. The drum trap on my bathtub goes dry once or twice a year, always in summer, always around a frontal system and major swings in the barometer. Blum, that boiler plate is a mess.

Fine. 1. The crawl space is a mess. There are multiple masonry piers with blocks placed on their sides. Concrete blocks are not designed to carry loads on this axis and could fail at any time. 2. There are several improvised support posts with improper bearing surfaces top and bottom. Crawl spaces are difficult to work in, appropriate repairs will be expensive. There are dozens of other defects in this crawl that will be detailed in appropriate sections of this report. (ie branch circuits lying in the dirt, missing vapor barrier, poorly supported pipes and wires, so on and so forth) Chad, your 4 figure estimate is light. I just completed a 5' x 8' bath remodel that started with removing the insulation and poly vapor barrier from the bottom of the floor joists in a nightmare of a crawl. The job took 3 weeks, with only 4 days spent on the interior of the bath. The contract on this gig was $17k

I am slowly evolving from something very much like Chad's prose to something akin to Kurt's list. Evolution is painfully slow.

I was recently in a house that had all but 6 of the joists sistered. When those were eaten by carpenter ants they were sistered again. Several of those, half of the band joist and three quarters of the sill plate were rotting again. That was too many.

So we do have a like button...

You placed your point marker directly on the problem. Makes the image hard to read. Loose connection. Fixing it will be far less effort than reporting it.

It clearly violates Lamb's citation, plus nearly all appliance manufacturers will have a minimum distance to operable windows, doors and intakes. Those tend to be less than 8' but generally require termination above or below the opening.

Not nice. Funny, but not nice.

Marc is (was?) deaf.

I grew up with a phone just like that. I also remember party lines, but only just. Mom's house got touch tone service only a few years before I got my first cell, a bag phone.

I've seen UFFI that is almost orange. I would attribute the color variation to tannin stains. Did they really flood attics with the stuff? There is far too much water in the modern counterparts for that to be viable.

Is that an earthquake thing? A nipple and a union would be easier to install than that mess.

I have seen cellulose fine enough to blown through 1 1/2" holes. It's almost fluffy and looks very much like the stuff in the pic. The reason there is insulation stuck to the floor joists is because they are wet. Look at the pic again and you will see the condensation "water line". That's what happens when a vapor barrier is placed on the cold side of a cavity in a heating climate. Personally, I would be far more worried about rotten structure than asbestos. From here it looks like the nastiest stuff you will find in that insulation is rodent excrement.

The A team was on the back slope, the B team on the front. The low slope doesn't help any. Unless it's a monsoon the run off pace will be approaching glacial.

My insurance company tried to cancel me for "missing siding", until I explained to my agent the required gap between wood siding and a rroof covering.

Cross blades with Uma Thurman.

BIL has an AO Smith in his house that has been going strong for 43 years. 3 miles down the road I am on my third Rheem in 13 years.

I was refused entry at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum because of my Swiss Army knife. My father-in-law stashed it in the landscaping and marked it with a plastic knife. Six hours later both were still there.