Some people clearly should not try to fix anything in their home! This homeowner connected the bathroom fan vent hose directly to the B-vent flue stack that the natural gas water heater was actively discharging into. Let's just say that they had a "slight" chance of carbon monoxide and other fl
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02/24/2015
From the outside, the brick exterior didn't look too bad. There were some cracks in the center of the wall where the dining room was located. The cracks weren't that wide, but when you eyed down the mortar joints, that's when you could see the house drop. When you walked in the front door, you
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02/17/2015
The CSST gas line has a potential of rupturing leading to a fire or an explosion if a house is struck by lightning and that gas line is not properly bonded. "Bonded" means the gas line is connected & tied back to the main electrical ground of the home. CSST (Corrugated Stainless Steel Tubing) ga
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02/13/2015
The home inspection was going really well until I looked closer into the corners and saw small vertical cracks. It turned out that every inner corner throughout the entire home had vertical cracks, except 3. There was no drywall tape up the corners of the walls. To properly correct this "mista
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02/07/2015
Finding electrical hazards during our home inspections in the Omaha, Nebraska area is common, but who's responsible and where? On overhead service lines, OPPD is responsible from the pole to where the overhead service line splices together with the 120 lines coming out of the masthead and also r
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02/04/2015
Homebuyers purchasing new construction need to educate themselves on the building process and products/systems that are selected to go into their home. Having knowledge before you select your Builder, researching products and systems before you break ground, and making sure there are quality sub
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02/02/2015
