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Pump Me Up- Wenatchee and Chelan Home inspection

By Donald Hester

Home Inspector with NCW Home Inspections, LLC

July 09, 2011 08:11 AM

Pump Me Up- Wenatchee and Chelan Home inspection

The best part of being a home inspection service is I get to play in crawlspaces. I mean, really who wouldn't want to go down there in the cool dark climate that a crawlspace provides.

I think crawlspaces get a bad rap. You get to see the most interesting things there. Creativity abounds.

Here is a perfect example. If this can hold up a multi-ton vehicle it surely can hold up this little piece of wood.

Pump Me Up

And this fine item... conditioning a space with natural fibers that will make you feel warm and fuzzy. Plus this one took a little carpentry skills.

Carpentry 101

Or is it that you are missing someone dear that you wonder where they went to.

Here - Kitty Kitty

All I can say is that I am the luckiest guy on earth to have this much fun and get paid for it.

NCW Home Inspections, LLC is located in Wenatchee Washington serving Chelan County, Douglas County, Kittitas County, Okanogan County and Grant County Washington and the cities of Wenatchee, Leavenworth, Cashmere, Orville, Cle Elum, East Wenatchee, Quincy and many more...

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Bonnie Jean Hart

Home Smart Professionals-La Quinta, Indian Wells, Palm Desert, Indio, CA - Indio, CA

Bonnie J. Hart - 25+ yrs Exp - Real Estate - L

OMG! I certainly don't envy you for that...so many homes here are built on slabs, the worst thing they probably have to do is go into the attic in 115 degree weather.

Jul 09, 2011 08:19 AM

Donald Hester

NCW Home Inspections, LLC - Wenatchee, WA

NCW Home Inspections, LLC

Bonnie,

Yeah it can be an adventure at times. You just never know what you are going to find. I also get the 120 degree attics here, sometime it feels pretty good to be in the crawlspace, if they are nice.

Jul 09, 2011 08:25 AM

Charles Buell

Charles Buell Inspections Inc. - Seattle, WA

Seattle Home Inspector

Nice cat mummy Don---I agree---and the greatest blog fodder is to be found in crawl spaces

Jul 09, 2011 11:17 AM

Charlie,

That was one of the better preserved ones I have found. Poor cats, I see them fairly often in crawls. You would think of they figured their way in they would find a way out. They also may be being poisoned by laced rodents.

Jul 09, 2011 11:44 AM

James Quarello

JRV Home Inspection Services, LLC - Wallingford, CT

Connecticut Home Inspector

You are lucky Don, I hardly ever get to go into a crawl space. We have basement here in CT.

Jul 10, 2011 11:41 AM

Jim,

You just do not know what you are missing. They are always the best part of the inspection.

Jul 10, 2011 11:54 AM

Robert Butler

Aspect Inspection - Montreal West Island, QC

Montreal Home Inspector | Aspect Inspection

I get crawlspaces about 10 % of the time. I couldn't get into yesterday's crawlspace but the camera got in there and did a decent job, even found the sump pump.

Jul 10, 2011 02:36 PM

Robert,

Out here I see them on over 50% of the homes. They are always an adventure.

Per our state standards we are to go to each corner and evaluate each plumbing drop.

Jul 10, 2011 02:42 PM

You can't go to each corner it you can't get in there. I have to note that as a limitation to the inspection.

Jul 11, 2011 02:04 AM

I totally understand. Been there many times.

My comment was not very clear, I was stating what our minimum is and anything less than that we have to write up as a limitation.

I see that this is an area where some of the inspectors take many short cuts or just call out that restrictive area and exempt much of the crawlspace.

Do you get much activity from termites and such in your area?

Jul 11, 2011 02:20 AM

We don't have termites here at all as far. The only WDO we have is carpenter ants. For termites we sat 'so far' because global climate change means they are following the warmer weather. They are reported in Toronto now. Normally out winter freeze keeps them out.

Jul 12, 2011 01:36 AM

Well, You are lucky there. They are the most expensive pest to manage other than the Lyctid (true powder post beetle) infestation.

Jul 12, 2011 01:49 AM

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