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So, when I pull up to a house and see a front porch stoop like this, I know I have to be a preposition, here and throughout the house.
put a snake down there to clean out the drain line should it become clogged.
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23 Comments on Be A Preposition On A Home Inspection
IMHO * Clean out access is VERY IMPORTANT - more so than a "stoop". I had not thought about a termite issue....Double YEOW!
Thank you Josh, and thanks for stopping by every post!
Michael - and when you see the same thing elsewhere in the neighborhood, it makes you look further!
James - the house in the post linked in this post had had a termite policy for 10 years and they had been there 8 days prior to my inspection. I immediately saw the termite potential there, and the sellers argued with me that they termite company said their house was termite free! Then I showed them my photos. The termite guy was called back and said, "Oh."
Wallace - read the post linked in this post!
Good blog,
Interestingly enough in the state of Wisconsin, our preposition is very simular in that it is presumed that we know a thing or two about homes and potential adverse facts. So when I role up to a home like this to list, it makes it very difficult to market the home because you don't believe in it. Many times, I've recommended that a home be pre inspected on the prepostion that I believed the home would not sell in it's present state.
Kevin - that is probably a good policy! I have tried for years to market pre-listing inspections around here with absolutely no success.
Jay ... I like that home inspection metaphor for a preposition - "you can go inside, or be outside, over or under, beside or behind or in between, before or after, up and down. All those kinds of words are prepositions. They describe relation to a noun and govern it."
Thank you Harrison. They are indeed! That is pretty much what we need to do on a home inspection!
Jay -- I don't know if your "8th grade English teacher, Miss Braun," was prescient, or just subconsiously giving a young man an idea of how he could relate to houses, that showed him a way into his profession.
Jay, you managed to fit in a grammar lesson with your tips today... You are a jack of all trades, and expert at many =)
Jay, by the 8th grade I was all confused between "prepositions" and "propositions" and have never entirely figured it out.
Steven - I ASSURE you that Miss Braun (pronounced brown) would be incredibly impressed that I remember anything at all from that year!
Chris - a little fun to make the point that I had to look carefully at all side of that front porch monster!
Charlie - it's easy. The one is for preppies and the other for the pros. You are a pro in my book, but I would still worry about the prepositions on home inspections if I was you. I'm sure you do!
Who would have thought a lesson in what not to do and an grammar catch-up as well. ActiveRain is certainly a learning environment. And here the sellers, learned, the buyers learned and the termite guy learned as well.
So Ed, are you saying they learned from a proposition from a preposition?
Funny thing is I hated English class in 8th grade and beyond. Now I write reports and blog posts. Irony, is that a preposition?
How's the the pitch on the porch? Did it slope away or was it level or worse back towards the house.
Good point! Miss Braun (pronounced brown) would be GREATLY impressed to know that I can write something beyond 3 words! I bet your 8th grade teacher would be too Jim!
The porch was very level, but if you look at the photo you can see that it slopes gently downwards on the front and sides.
I'm sure you're right about the permits, but I gotta share a story that a heating contractor shared with me last week.
He was called out to service a furnace his company had installed six years ago, because the furnace kept shutting off. He couldn't find any problems with the furnace, but then found a tankless 200,000 btu water heater sharing the same 4" vent connector as the furnace. Duh! Every time the water heater fired up, the high limit switch shut the furnace down.
He exclaimed that there was absolutely no way that the water heater could have been installed by a licensed contractor, and no way in hell that it was inspected by the city. As it turned out, he was wrong on both counts. The city inspector was just horrible at his job.
After hearing his story last week, I decided that I'm not going to make assumptions about permits any more. I might raise the question, but that's all.
That gets to the old cliche about you know what happens when we ASSume Reubs. As to this place, there were so many things (like the dryer vent on the other post, same house) and so many "remodels," that if there were permits and County inspections we are all screwed.
Yeah, I assumed that was the case.
(See what I did there?)
Yes, Bub, but it was U and not ME.
Jay- that porch is a wreck, an accident just waiting to happen.
I thought I heard termites saying yum, Eric. The buyers backed off.
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