Hi Charlie,

Very interesting.  I suppose we should go around and make sure we no longer have rubber hose connections.  Thanks. 

That is funny, Interesting comparison of the budge in the hose to a Hematoma. At first I was expecting you to say something fell on you and gave you a Hematoma. Good post and very creative.

Sean Allen

Charlie, you are so prolific with this blogging that I can't keep up with all of them!  Methinks you are just showing off your camera!   I researched the camera and I fear having to buy batteries all the time and at the wrong time.  Can it not be charged at home?

Hey, another new "word usage" post.  I love it, thanks.  Great point though, I have ALL stainless steel hoses all though my house.  Washing machine, dishwasher supply, all sink supplies, and anywhere else a hose is needed for a constant supply.

P. S.   I also developed a backtoma from trying to see behind my washing machine to see if there was a hematoma.  There was a lotta dust back there! 

Leslie, I can just picture everyone leaving their computer and scurrying off to check their hoses!

Sean, at least I didn't get a hematoma "doing" the laundry:)

Barbara, I can see myself settling down to a slower rate of blogging----right now I am just having too much fun.  It is getting a lot harder now that it is getting busier with inspections.  I use rechargeables.  I rotate through 3 sets of 4----four last about a year before they start to not hold a long enough charge for me to get through a whole inspection.  That is a whole lot of pictures. (at least 17,000 pictures per set of four)

David,----not exactly a technically correct use of the word---even if is acurate:)

Barbara, you wouldn't believe the things I see behind there:) 

A washing machine? That would be great.  I still take my laundry to the river and clean them on the rocks  :-)

Good post and good advice!

Glad to see you aren't letting the wife do it

Good post Charles. After seeing this on a few inspections of my own, I decided to upgrade to the SS hoses.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kc3m0ooNT0

Charlie,

You ever seen these, link above. Only a bit more expensive than a plain metal jacket. After a relative had major water damage from a washing machine a couple years ago I went to these at my rentals and my house. They work great so far, no problems and I hoping that in a crisis they will work as shown. Seems good insurance for a low price.

Charlie,

By the way, impressed you know what a hematoma is. I had one removed from a blood vessel in my jaw, after an injury, about 25 years ago.

Guilty...My wife kept reminding me to replace the old hoses and I procrastinated. Well when I was in Colorado this year it happened. So, everyone replace your old hoses tomorrow. Your friendly home inspector....Carl

Carl, thanks to Steve above, we may have to add this upgrade---better than the usual recommendation of upgrading to stainless steel type---looks like a great new item from Watts.

Interestingly enough, I was just thinking about this when reading your last blog on the freezing whatchamacallit.  My hoses burst a couple years ago.  Yes, while I was working in Denver.  Thank goodness someone had stopped by to feed the cat.  I use steel braided hoses now.  :)

Where have you been hiding Melissa?  At last---a good use for cats!

Aren't they good for chasing off moles too?  Or rats at least.  Who knows, I don't have him anymore.

May have been a hematoma but it looks like an aneurism to me!  Stainless, or the flood stops are the only way to go.

Melissa, yes I guess they are good for those things too:)

David, nice to see you around.  I was also considering "embolism".