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Phillip

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  1. Marc, For some reason I can not get the link to open. Says it cannot be found. Thanks to everyone that posted.
  2. It has been a while since I inspected an mobile home. The ones I have inspected are older ones. I inspected a 2010 model Saturday and there where no AFCI's in it. I know they are built by other guide lines but I thought they had to meet the National code. Where can I go to, to find out about this. Thanks for your help.
  3. Looks like a few around here. You can keep it.[:-dev3]
  4. Yes but all the bank wanted is what effect the non active/past damage the termite/power post beetle and wood fungus had done
  5. Saw this while I was doing an inspection for the bank based on the wood infestation report. Click to Enlarge 49.68 KB
  6. There was no pump to start with, just standing water
  7. Here is an repair on an house I re-inspections for an client. Click to Enlarge 47.21?KB
  8. But it was not mine to use an hammer on.[:-censore[:-slaphap
  9. I've got better things to be doing then to make up this crap.[][]
  10. So many things wrong. No vent hood. A tee instead of a ninety. Pipe is not the same size as the tee and it runs down hill Click to Enlarge 44.63 KB Click to Enlarge 34.53 KB Click to Enlarge 35.61 KB
  11. No fitting on top and the cables are not secured. Click to Enlarge 57.3 KB
  12. I open all the panel I can. Got to see if anything is wrong with it on the inside. This was done in 2005 by one of the bigger companies in the area.
  13. Click to Enlarge 44.16 KB Click to Enlarge 62.96 KB Click to Enlarge 81.52 KB I wonder how much time will be needed to fix this.
  14. On one inspection I found a furnace and water heater vented into a vent like that.
  15. I have found a few places where the roof decking that bucked up had torn the felt paper and water was getting in. I wish I could find that photo. I was there when it was raining.
  16. Yeah, he'll probably be dressed in bib overalls, and come with an infrared camera. Wonder who'll get the royalty for that? The person you are talking about is not a true home inspector. He just plays one on TV.
  17. I guess we need to come out with an Home Inspector Action Figure.
  18. Its some one way to not installed and island vent. I wrote up that that there was no trap seen. That this was not a normal set up.
  19. I got the link from John and Douglas. Since the house is a spec house the roof, would be installed under the 2009. (maybe)
  20. Tom its PVC. I know you where joking
  21. Brandon/ Here you go. now you have access to the IRC http://publicecodes.cyberregs.com/icod/irc/
  22. What would you comment on this? 1975 house Click to Enlarge 54.39 KB
  23. Of course, all of that is superceded by this: 905.1 . . . Roof assemblies shall be applied in accordance with this chapter and the manufacturer's installation instructions. . . " Jim, How many AHJs reads the manufacturer's installation instructions. Very few do. Most builders are not going to do more than what the AHJ makes them do.
  24. If the home is for an investor I report it a different way then I would for someone trying to buy a house to live in An investor knows what going on. A first time home buyer does not.
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