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The average, dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers, HOME INSPECTOR will never notice!

OK, I did not get this one right away and maybe you won't either. If you have a hard time passing this test...Use a home Inspector when making a home purchase. This is a new home and they need to have inspections too!

Via Charles Buell, Seattle, WA, Home Inspector (Charles Buell Inspections.com):

     I often wonder, about some of the things I find wrong in homes.

     Is it really only home inspectors that would ever notice these things?

     I wish that I could take a poll of everyone that sees this post to find out how many of my readers recognize the problem before I “enlightened” them.

     So---be honest----before scrolling down----what is the defect?

     I just tested my sweetie with the picture and she didn’t pick out the defect without a little coaching. I said, “The drain has no trap---you know that thing that gets in the way of the garbage can?” So perhaps it is not as “obvious” as I would like to think.

     While this defect would be great for the jumbo trash can, it might not be what anyone would consider a very desirable “air freshener.”

Charles Buell

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Posted by Dinah Lee Griffey Allyn, Belfair,& LakeLand-Homes & Land on 11/01/2009 06:52 PM

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11 Comments on The average, dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers, HOME INSPECTOR will never notice!

NOV

As a home inspector I feel somewhat offended by this statement:

"The average, dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers, HOME INSPECTOR will never notice."

Are you saying the average home inspector is dumb as a bag of hammers?

And, yes, I immediately noticed the defect. (We're not ALL dumb.)

Dinah, thanks for the re-blog!

Bruce, this is a re-blog of my tongue in cheek post. Do you really think this is Dinah's opinion of home inspectors? Dinah LOVES home inspectors:)

Thanks Charles. I do love home inspectors!

I see, Charles. But you must admit the "dumb as a bag of hammers" comment could be offensive to a home inspector regardless of whether it is said by you (a home inspector) or a real estate agent.

Bruce it was meant to be said by whoever installed the drain that way. I am actually quite good at being "dumb-as-a-bag-of-hammers" sometimes:)

OK. I get it now. I guess I'm just slow. Ya gotta admit quotation marks around the statement would have made that more apparent.

And why say the HOME INSPECTOR won't notice? How about the building inspector (the building department guy)?

Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Dinah- Glad to say I found this one right away, but I don't care care if I'm selling a builder a house I still recommend a home inspection. You never know what you might miss... when you love the house.

NOV

I didn't figure it out either, but from now on everytime I look under a sink I will looking for the trap to be there.

I got it right. This is funny. I wonder who plummed that thing. Have a great week.

NOV

I actually guessed this one right. And that would be the extent of my sink knowledge :)

NOV

I think most of us have seen worst if we only knew what we were looking at. I fit that statement some times but I say "that I am as dumb as a box of rcks"

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