Last week I told you about the poor unfortunate that did not have a home inspection prior to moving in. Poor guy finished his roughed in bath and started flushing his toilet beneath his house for about six months. This week I write about a wise soul that DID have his new construction home inspected prior to moving. Lucky for him too, read on...
Horror Story #2
This was a brand new $1million+ home...a very big home in our area. It was 3 floors and a finished basement. The house had 3 zone HVAC. Gas furnaces for the basement, 1st and 2nd floors and a heat pump for the 3rd floor. When testing gas furnaces I'll typically turn up the thermostat, go to the unit, pull the cover and watch the burn. For some reason while I was in the garage my guardian angel tapped me on the should and said "You're here now, pull the panel off the furnace before you fire it up". So I did. Guess where the HVAC installer put the installation and user docs for the furnace? You guessed it, right on top of the burners! I went up to the furnace in the attic of the second floor and found the same thing...the docs on the burners. Now this inspection was in June and the homeowner was months away from using his furnace. Had he not had an inspection he would have had not one, but two FIRES when he fired the furnaces up for the first time in the fall. He probably would have found the one in the garage fairly quickly but not the one in the attic!
A lesson learned for me too...I always pull the panel covers on gas furnaces before firing them up on new construction!
Next week...just one more reason to have a new home inspected before closing!
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