Home Inspection Perspective From The 1970's

[hausdok]

Hi All,

Quite by accident this afternoon I was doing a google search for beveled siding, of all things, when I stumbled across a home inspection guide for consumers that was published by the Cooperative Extension Service of the USDA back in the mid-1980's. That pub was based on some other texts from the the 1970's and early 1980's. By poking around on the web with google, I was able to locate one of those references in a read-only format.

I thought that those of you who weren't in the business in those days might be interested in getting a little perspective on how inspections were viewed back in those days.

Enjoy.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

Printable PDF version of the Home Inspection Guide by John Merrill

Readable version of Basic Housing Inspection - USPHS 1976

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike

[mwg27]

I have a book or two by a Merrill... I'll have to look and see if its John..

Definitely intersting reading... I like 'the flow of electricity in the home' part [^]

[DLRambo]

Sorry - I just saw this topic. I went to both sites but didn't see home inspections. Have I missed something??

[hausdok]

Yeah,

You have dig a little. Remember, home inspection wasn't a trade back then. On the first link, go to "home and family" and then click on "housing" then pick the home inspection guide. Ignore the place in shopping cart thing for $1, click on view pdf copy and print it off.

On the other one, everything on that page is the Public Health Service's guide for housing inspection.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[n/a30]

The first link mentioned no longer works.

http://learningstore.uwex.edu/pdf%5CNCR320.pdf

This one works.

[joisted]

New working link as of "today":

www.learningstore.uwex.edu/Assets/pdfs/NCR320.pdf

http://learningstore.uwex.edu/Assets/pdfs/NCR320.pdf

[hausdok]

Thank you,

We appreciate you re-posting that.

ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!!

Mike