I spoke to a Exclusive Buyer Agent friend this week from another state and she told me about an inspection she just had for a buyer.

When the inspector tested the microwave the blower for the airconditioning stopped working. The microwave apparently tripped the breaker. Upon further investigatioin at the electrical panel the microwave circuit was double tapped onto the furnace circuit. (The blower is part of the furnace circuit in this case.)

(Double taps are a common electrical code violation and are often evidence of amateur electrical work. The exception is very low current devices like doorbell transformers, which commonly share a breaker with other circuits.)

So the question becomes, how could the seller not have known this before? The installations appeared to be at least a couple years old so how often was the microwave used while the air conditioner or the furnace were working? You would think this would have been discovered long before the home inspection.

What do you think?

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