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  1. Les
    WHAT! you don't want to go visit your MOTHER? Those bevel washers often deform more when tightening. Good luck
  2. Les
    of course I can't see everything I need to see in the photos. I'm with Bill Kibbel. I am know as one of the most "optimistic" inspectors around and I would advise my kid to walk away based on these photos. sorry to be late to the conversation.
  3. Les
    tv antennae .
  4. Les
    Sorry I have been off the grid for a couple of weeks and just saw this. I have no problem with pre-sale inspections. I was in the business for nearly four decades and owned a multi-inspector company. My company did one. I don't think you can do both and I am a believer that our profession was founded/based on the buyer inspection model. The guy that bought my company started doing them and immediately found out they are not the same product. I would not start if I were you.
  5. Les
    Martha's lipstick tube? Can't tell the shade 'tho.
  6. Les
    yes and no. it is a solvent base for asphalt shingles. penetrates and viola' it extends life by 231years!
  7. Les
    very popular in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. I don't caare for it
  8. Les
    Merle, your photos do not make sense and regardless they can't be uploaded. Please re-consider reading this entire thread for you own peace of mind. Regards.
  9. Les
    Thanks Mike. Guess I should have capitalized my answers. Merle - my apology. I'm in this business for over fifty years and sometimes I forget everyone does not have the same access to my "memory" knowledge or skill set. Asbestos is not a joke but it is manageable if understood and removed from emotion.
  10. Les
    Merle, No, no and no. Please do some more reading. Furthermore, you can not prove a negative.
  11. Les
    Mike O called me AI once. I think it was in Kansas City or maybe St Louis. I pretty sure he really meant : Almost Ignorant!!
  12. Les
    My first inclination was - Here is another person commenting yet saying nothing. But I'm wrong. They are being pretty logical in their thought process. I'm not endorsing his statements, just his thinking.
  13. Les
    couple of things: foundation health is hard to define. foundation condition is quite important. Drainage is the most important factor for us in the Mid-west and northwest. Always important. Of course, if you live on a slab of concrete then drainage loses some of it's importance. And - there are many components to a house foundation and any one could have a problem. Sill, plate, vapor barrier, wall, knee wall, floor post, pillar post, tile, gravel fasteners, material, type of wood, etc. Often it is just easy to tell them "you have a foundation therefore you will have a problem". Eventually.
  14. Les
    they left the top open to allow excess heat to escape!
  15. Les
    the load path would be like a jigsaw puzzle !
  16. Les
    I know a guy on the west coast that deal in issues like this! remember Bonnie Trenga?
  17. Les
    Great! I had a similar experience with Delta couple months ago. Patience, carefully chosen words, and a smiling telephone voice!
  18. Les
    I had reservations about how that meeting would go. Happy to see both of you are still sucking air and able to stimulate each other. I should be so lucky.
  19. Les
    I would guess it is mortar because of the pattern and being in Chicago I'd also guess calcium chloride. Bill quote - "The reporting is ok, except I've never met a porch specialist." I met one and had dinner with him in San Diego 2019.
  20. Les
    I go along with Mike on the copper. Soft copper tubing does not oxidize but ridgid does when left stagnant with treated water; chlorine, salt, potassium permanganate or even activated charcoal filtered. the configuration of faucet is something i have never seen.
  21. Les
    very nice. Was the brickwork original?
  22. Les
    I think they are pretty cool! Kinda feel like Cesare while bathing!! Add me to the list of know it alls that has never seen one!
  23. Les

    Roof inspections

    Les replied to tabir's topic in Roof Forum

    My first inclination was to delete the link. But, it does have lots of information both specific and inferred. Drones have a real place in our business.
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    Nate

    Les replied to Jerry Simon's topic in Roof Forum

    I'm thinking that stool is not OSHA approved.
  25. Les
    we poured slip form concrete silos. 80' was the tallest. couple decades later it toppled! Five foot per day. Grease the form, three guys to lift and collect your pay!. My all time most unusual inspection was a pipe organ; you could walk around in it! Did a steeple just once on the inside. two water towers, a 100' car elevator, etc. I had a drone. Never got comfortable with it tho.
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