Kudzu

Long time since I posted here. But I have a question. I ran into a metal roof today that was installed with the fasteners in the valley of the corrugated sheets. I am under the impression that the fasteners should be installed on the ridges and not the valleys. Am I mistaken?

Anyone been seeing an increase or even their first lender required inspections? In the past two months I have had 4 (I think) inspections that the lender called for. Thats a first for me, just curious if anyone else was seeing this? I am an appraiser too and I have for years done abreviated inspection for USDA and HUD. But never had a lender require one. Well, except on a couple of Reverse Mortgages which I can understand.

Found no poltergeists while there. It did cross my mind []. No oil fired anything in the sunny south. Pattern just doesn't make sense with the urine idea. Residents are the owner, who uses the power chair and another lady that lives with her. Both are old enough I don't think it's accidents from wild parties or anything like that. Owner has lived there since 1982 and this just started in the past few months. I think that is a hint in itself. Also in thinking back it appears the stain is starting from the carpet down, not the slab up. Where we pulled up the carpet I saw virtually nothing on the slab or the padding. If it were coming up from the slab it would be wetter/more stained than the carpet. (BTW the hall looks worse in the photos than it really is). I am strongly leaning toward the power chair causing this. I didn't look at the chair but it about has to be the cause.

I am stumped on this one. I am hoping someone has the answer because I don't!! I was called to play detective because of mysterious stains that have appeared on the carpet. And Mysterious they are!! First the obvious. The house is built on a slab. I checked the water meter and there doesn't appear to be any water leaks. Teh pattern and distance of the stains appear to eliminate that. No roof leaks I can find and no signs of water penetration in any of the house. The owner said she had placed tissue paper on the stains and they never picked up any moisture. The stains don't feel wet. If you rub your fingers across it you fingers feel oily and dirty but not wet. The stains start near the front of the house and where I would expect the water main to enter under the slab. But note how it goes around the furniture! It goes to the right and then curves around a rug on the floor. We pulled it back in this photo. In the other direction looking down the hallway going towards two bathrooms. Stains were most pronounced here. Problem is the stain in along both walls. That seems to eliminate the water line idea. No stains on the other sides of any of the walls. Owner wanted me to pull up the carpet to take a look under it. I could see the carpet tape was stained and felt a bit oily, not wet. This is what we found under the padding. Just this dark stains. I could take a screw driver and they would scrape off the concrete. The slab appeared darker in the area of the stain but only slightly. No smells either. I am stumped. The only thing I can possibly think of is that one the residents is in a motorized wheel chair. I thouhgt maybe it was leaking oil of something but the stains are not consistent. The room she spends most of her time in has no stains at all. Just the hall way and along the front exterior wall of the house and they are in spots and not consitant with her travels through the house. BTW The hallway is in the center of the house, not along an outside wall like the other area that is stained. Any clues??