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Home Inspection Answers - Home Buyers
As a home buyer you will want to inspect your prospective home, and your purchase contract (the Columbus Board of REALTORS® purchase contract) has a lot of information about your rights to have a home inspection(s) and tests on the property. Central Ohio Home Inspection recommendations on my website.
Read your contract for your time frames, rights and obligations when it comes to inspecting the Central Ohio home you are in contract on.
The Home Inspection Crossword Puzzle - Answers
It is not too late to try your luck at the home inspection crossword puzzle. Click on the link to go to the original with a much larger crossword puzzle.
The Home Inspection Crossword Puzzle Answers are bold and in caps!
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4. The home inspector may tell you if your water PRESSURE is low
6. The home inspector will look at the homes downspouts and gutters, the roof's DRAINAGE system
9. If the kitchen APPLIANCES are staying the inspector should check the oven, the stoves burners, run the dishwasher, etc.
12. The home inspector will open the ELECTRICAL service panel and look at the wiring for you. ***DANGER*** DO NOT DO THIS YOURSELF!
14. An INSPECTION clause allows you to have professional(s) look at the physical condition of the home you have a purchase contract on
16. Radon MITIGATION is when the level of radon is reduced to a safe level in the home.
17. The home inspector inspects the homes structural components including the FOUNDATION and framing.
18. ASHI is a home inspection professional organization, others are NIBI and NAHI. ASHI stands for AMERICAN Society Home Inspectors
19. Home inspectors are not LICENSED in the state of Ohio
24. The inspection clause in your purchase contract is a CONTINGENCY, because there is language like "contingent on home inspection"
25. A pest inspector can look for signs of subterranean TERMITES eating the wood parts of your future home
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1. If the house was built before 1978 the seller will do a LEAD paint disclosure, and you may test for it's presence, during the home inspection period per your contract
2. RADON is an odorless naturally occurring gas that you may want to test for during your home inspection period
3. Mold grows because there is MOISTURE
4. When the home inspector looks at the pipes that is the PLUMBING system
5. The pipes in your home may include copper, PVC, GALVANIZED and more.
7. The home inspection is a VISUAL inspection of the home and it's systems.
8. Your home inspector will be looking for components and systems within the house that need repair or REPLACEMENT
10. Your home inspector may suggest you get a mold inspection based on water INTRUSION
11. Some home inspectors are ENGINEERS
13. In the winter months, often your home inspector is unable to test the air CONDITIONING unit for you because it is too cold
15. An ASHI (American Society of Home Inspectors) member follows the ASHI STANDARDS of Practice and Code of Ehtics
18. CARPENTER ants or bees might be discovered by your pest inspector, the insects have hammers and wear an itty apron with pockets <---- just a pest joke... your pest inspector can tell you how they know 'em when they see 'em
19. The wiring in the home and the electrical service to the property may be ALUMINUM or copper
20. Your home inspector is going to look at the FURNACE and tell you whether there are defects and if it is going to keep you toasty warm in the winter
23. Your home inspector is not doing a CODE inspection, that is done by a municipal inspector on new construction or remodeling
More about home inspection:
Do you see what I see? - Infrared imaging in home inspection
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