Article Shows Consumer Still Don't "Get It"

[Editor]

This article in the online edition of the Port Huron Times Herals clearly illustrates how the media and the home-buying public that hires inspectos still can't seem to comprehend the meaning of "exposed to view and accessible at the time and date of the inspection."

[montana]

Yes the article is somewhat disturbing in several respects. Despite reference to adhearence to ASHI standards, it still expects us to see through walls. Sorry, but I was born without superman x-ray vision.

However, in defense of the homeowner's expectations, the inspector probably was not very thorough in his job. All he had to do was use a cheap electrical outlet tester on at least a few outlets in each room to know that at least portions of the the wiring was ungrounded. With at least some of the outlets showing ungrounded and the age of the home, he should have then suspected knob & tube wiring still existed behind the walls and looked a little harder - or at least reported the presence of some ungrounded wiring.

[homnspector]

"a home inspector had given the house a clean bill of health before she bought it"

I read this alot and still don't understand what it means. Have any of you ever said anything like that?? Its like the seller asking "did I pass?"