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Home Inspector with King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. Home Inspector Lic #207

I was moments away from entering a crawl space which the seller told me had, in the past, been a hangout for rats. This was an inside the house crawl space hatch. I had just opened the hatch, put on my respirator and it was time to go down under.

It just so happened that, next to me, was a mirror. I took this photo of one home inspector who is dressed in his SWAT outfit to deal with the unknown creatures below.

 

Thanks for stopping by,

Steven L. Smith

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Jay Markanich
Jay Markanich Real Estate Inspections, LLC - Bristow, VA
Home Inspector - servicing all Northern Virginia

Wow, there was already an inspector down there?  What timing!  Coincidence?  You being followed?  Or are you following somebody else?

Aug 26, 2010 01:37 PM
Lizette Fitzpatrick
Lizette Realty - Richmond KY - Lexington, KY
Lizette Realty, Lexington KY MLS - Kentucky Homes

Wow! that just made me get a chill. THere's no way I would go in there.

Aug 26, 2010 01:40 PM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Steve, you would scare anything looking like that

Aug 26, 2010 02:51 PM
Jason Channell
Diadem Property Inspections - Serving Southeast Michigan - Troy, MI
The House Sleuth

Crawlspaces... the absolute worst thing about the job! (At least IMHO).

Aug 26, 2010 02:56 PM
Jay Lloyd
Cape Coral Florida - Cape Coral, FL
Allpro Home Inspection

Hi Steve, Glad to see you wear a respirator. I wear one in attics, crawls, smoking homes, old moldy homes. I did an inspection a couple weeks ago for a doctor that insisted the immune system could handle all the above....I didn't buy it and donned my respirator. jay  ps: did you find any rodents?

Aug 26, 2010 04:40 PM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Jay,

Nope, did not see any eye to eye.

Aug 26, 2010 04:51 PM
James Quarello
JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC - Wallingford, CT
Connecticut Home Inspector

Crawl space? What's a crawl space? I recall seeing ol Charlie B disappearing down a floor hatch earlier this summer. I thought I heard some sobbing while he was down in there, but I couldn't be sure.

Aug 27, 2010 12:53 AM
Charles Buell
Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA
Seattle Home Inspector

Jim that was probably "grunting"----then again probably "sobbing"

Aug 27, 2010 02:59 AM
Barbara S. Duncan
RE/MAX Advantage - Searcy, AR
GRI, e-PRO, Executive Broker, Searcy AR

Steve, if you plan to pose for pictures, you need to comb your hair.  LOL

Aug 28, 2010 03:05 PM
Steven L. Smith
King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA
Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Barbara,

Nutsy and me don't need no stinking combs.

Aug 28, 2010 07:22 PM