Jim Baird

Three cheers for innovation. All that device needs is a motor and an operator outside with a remote. I was never in the military but my belly crawl is fairly well polished, and would not accommodate another item of gear not to mention the added height.

If you scan it with your phone you can download the app that will bring one or more butlers scurrying to serve you, by subscription only. Deductible as meals and entertainment expense! I signed up last week.

I saw the same thing done with mod bit where low pitch valleys didn't give water a clear path. Air pockets and all.

#general inspection From my inspection blog. Boomtown I’ve written before about boom times, boom time builders, and boom time busts. Here we are again, buffeted like before by the hurry-up gusts, the chilled guts wrenches of ones missing out, the rising rates red skies morning warnings and lumber prices’ punches through the very ceiling. An authority’s inspector’s day is a dizzying path across a widespread area with less time to look, way less time to assess, and zero time to think. The honk, smile, and wave protocol blesses any builder that holds a handful of CO’s. Especially in boom times, buildings need scrutiny by disinterested, expert parties that deliver objective stories about what they find that day. Something I learned as an inspector for authority is that builders tend to get more activity started than they can control. I saw that both performance and management can suffer from ignorance of codes, ignorance of skills, and in many cases inability to even read instructions printed on delivered materials. Older homes need inspections for obvious reasons, but “boomer shacks” are also especially in need of a disinterested, experienced, and knowledgeable inspector.

No, but once I inspected an office addition to a machine shop where the owner had floored over old carpet glued to a slab with 3/4 T&G and left it bare. Employees had smelled something funny and had bored through the wood for a sniff. They were worried about stealth infection by toxic mold after seeing scary TV stories.

Around here windows that old and tall are often "triple hung".

A mason told me long ago that 12" block were called "birth control" block because no mason could summon the energy for conjugal activity after a day laying them.

So called "master traps" are paired with grease traps for commercial kitchen use. Grease trapping is a local sewer issue.

"These stairs are dangerous. Probably not feasible to correct, however."

Tubing say quest, but did not see any leaks. 1991 home. Comments?

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Sorry, but the OP appears to be a query by "Flipper McGee", just trying to "maximize his equity", as they teach them in MBA skool.

In our area there was a time (now we're talking early 60's) when a university here was granted approval to reduce floor/ceiling concrete slab thickness by some measure (not sure exactly the difference) by spraying ceilings with popcorn containing asbestos. The reason had to do with fire rating. It only made sense past a certain threshold of scale. These were 6 to 10 storey high rise dormitories using large amounts of concrete. About 15 yrs after occupancy a student noticed a thin dusty film on the top of a drink in a cup. Analysis found the film was asbestos fiber that had drifted from the soft popcorn ceiling finish. Does your ceiling look like it could shed fiber by mere effect of gravity? Doesn't look like it to me.

This post reads like a google translation from another language, ergo "wrench" instead of ranch. As an AHJ I inspected a home where new owners jumped the gun and moved in prior to final inspect. It was one of these "kit" homes where everything is engineered and parts are shipped for on site assembly. It used wood manufactured I-joists that bounced so much the newly moved in and loaded china cabinet rattled when you passed it.

If the buyer walked that faucet likely was not the only problem you found. The listing agent was likely used to the "other" kind of inspector who never causes a deal to go down.

With that age they have to be "Patina".

I usually leave crawl till end, and when I crawled a 70's ranch for a friend. I pushed my screwdriver through every joist I touched, declared house a bust, so my client made an offer only for the site, and declared he would remove the building one rolloff at a time. Seller accepted, and my friend moved in, though there are areas inside where floors are caving and he can't enter them.

No hablo Aleman de ninguna manera.

We were wondering whither the weather and whether it will be waxing, waning wintry, windy, wet, or what and where and when?

Just like residential brick veneer, where I have almost never seen weeps and flashing at openings and first floor, I usually don't go into that much description on 75 yr old houses.

Thanks for the replies. In this case the installer did not like the photos when shown them and returned to correct.

IRC calls for metal chimney cap to made so that water drains off. See pics of new cap not draining. Do you think the cap is not designed right, or is installation the problem?

Likely not just the splash but also the singing.

Those vinyl guys specialize in all kinds of coverups. They also like to wrap fascia and even window casings in enameled metal. Once they get done it is hard to tell the condition of those components. Flippers love the stuff.