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android devices are geting more and more powerful like a low end windows pc, I still can not type with two thumbs as fast as ten fingures, but good enough for now, so I'm seriously looking at android inspection apps, it is still ongoing but not looking good. There are very few players on the mobile market, even the big boys don't have standalone inspection apps. I even ran into software maker's website still using flash, don't they know flash support has been dropped by android. I skipped past any softwares that requires ongoing costs, I just can't imagine when I turn on my PC, microsoft ask me for a couple doolars. I don't want to be anyone's cash cow. It's a great business model for sure, I wish I can charge my client $10 a month for whatever reasons.

Someone slap my head, please

no idea what are you guys talking about

I've bumped into this problem quite often, only on some receptacles located under sink for garburator and inside kitchen cabinet for range hood. When I plug in my receptacle testers (yes, I tried a few), it showed nothing, black, as if the receptacles were not connected at all. But when I plug in the garburator or range hood, they worked just fine. It happens so often that I no longer call it out, is anyone else out there see the same thing?

I think that's a good thing for our industry, lawyers can charge big bucks because they have a strong, single association with teeth. The only way home inspection industry can survive and thrive is make it very very hard to become one and keep being one. And start charging by the hour like any other good old trades. Ninety percent of home inspectors give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

Thanks everyone for your input. Seems like we have come to a consensus. Next time I see one of these, if it has no display and not respond to control, I'll open it up to check if it needs batteries. And then write it up as "possibly a timer switch for exhaust fan, ask owner for instructions." Thanks again

Thanks everyone for pitching in, but I'm still not really sure, because in both cases, the switches were in interior rooms, far away from any exterior wall, and in the case of the high rise condo, it's on a 26th floor and not much is on the outside. And when I play with the switch, nothing happened, no display at all. Could both be faulty?

I ran into this dimmer-looking switch for the second time, first time it's outside a bathroom of a 5 year old town house. I thought it was some kind of control for the bathroom fan, but didn't seem to be working. This time it's on a 3 year old high rise condo, inside a closet that facing front entrance door, still looked the same, still seemed not controlling anything. Does anyone seen this before and know what is it for? Click to Enlarge 22.79 KB

Thanks Erby, maybe the realtor is right and I just made a fool of myself. I'll email my client and let him know. Thanks again.

Hi, there, A 7 year old stackable washer dryer, the top of the washing machine agitator formed a bowl, I always thought there is a cap and the top should be flat. I called it out in my report stating "the cap for the agitator missing". But the realtor emailed my client saying she's seen the agitator without a cap, there is actually a bowl for something. Click to Enlarge 21.17?KB So am I wrong on the cap thing? Thanks for your help

Yeah, I'm just wondering how time consuming it is to add a discussion forum on Whisper Solution's website and ask a couple users to work as moderators. It's common practice in open source community and could be very helpful to users without costing the company an arm and a leg in terms of manpower.

Hi, Nolan, Thanks for the quick reply. It helped me a lot. I was making my own template that fit Nachi SOP from Texas template. It's pretty much done. As for the text that display red but print black, you suggested using lock text feature, which worked great, thanks. The software's documentation sucks, btw. I hope the developers at Whisper Solutions will make cloakable text more visible on their next version, fingers crossed. It was after reading your posts on this forum that I decided to give Whisper Reporter a try, it takes so few clicks to generate a nice looking report, I'll never even think of using my open office based system again.

I just started using Whisper Reporter, and in the process of setting up my own template, I ran into a few problems. I know there are a few experienced Whisper Reporter users on this forum. I hope someone can lend me a hand. 1. I'm using the Texas template and I saw some subjects with picklist in them are italic and red, so to remind you to pick something from the picklist, yet they print black so they won't stand out. I know they are coded texts but I like the idea of having them red on display but black when printed as PDF. Is there anyway I can make some of my texts the same way? 2. The cloakable text are the feature I like the most, but the 25% grey is really hard on my eyes, especially when displayed on some monitors. Is there any way I can set the color differently? 3. The default image text wrap is not very visually pleasing, I have to manually set them for every image. How can I set the default differently? 4. The topic check box has a tendency to show a hand with pencil as checked when printing, even though I just set it with a swish check box, many times. But it keeps return to the hand every time I print. Is it a bug or it's just me.

Yeah, even here in Canada, the tax payers supported CBC are propagating the weeping mom's mold horror stories, with mike holmes thrown in for good measure. Have a look, knock yourself out. [:-monkeyd CBC_Marketplace Growop Coverup http://www.cbc.ca/marketplace/2010/grow_op_cover_up/main.html

My order of Testo 875-1i arrived this morning from ITM's Calgary office, pretty fast, shipped via Purolator. Only one problem: the battery seemed died. After I plugged it in, it showed external power, instead of charging. When I unplugged it after 8 hours, it's dead as a door nail. I'm just wondering how you guys deal with this kind of issues? Through Testo or it's distributor? Thanks again for your help.