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Being Consistent...

By TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.

Home Inspector with Complete Home Inspections, Inc. TN Lic#050

November 19, 2008 08:25 PM

According to Merriam Webster's, Consistent is defined as follows:

2 a: marked by harmony, regularity, or steady continuity : free from variation or contradiction b: marked by agreement : compatible —usually used with with<statements not consistent with the truth>

Now, I am sure that the plumber who installed these water heaters wanted them to be in perfect harmony and free from variation or contradiction with each other. And, most he likely wanted them to be in agreement be totally compatible with each other, so if you are going to consistent, why not be consistently wrong?

For those of you who are not home inspectors, both water heaters are missing the TPR extensions that are required for all new water heater installations. And, just to be even more consistent, the codes official missed these in his final inspection.

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Susie Blackmon

Ocala, FL

Ocala, Horses, Western Wear, Horse Farms, Marketing

TPR extentions?? Hmmm. I won't go there.

Nov 19, 2008 08:30 PM

Sharon Harris

Keller Williams Keystone Realty - Hanover, PA

Realtor

Know you got to have them. but have seen many home in PA without them. gets picked up by the inspectors during a sale. Good post. I am off to join Blog happens

Nov 19, 2008 10:46 PM

Tracy Williams Pender

Carolina MaxRealty, Inc. - Raleigh, NC

MBA, Knightdale & Raleigh, NC Real Estate

#1 - What's a TPR extension?

#2 - How much hot water do these folks need?! Those are some large heaters. Do you really need two? Or is this a duplex or something?

Nov 19, 2008 11:39 PM

Kelly Willey

Long and Foster BEL AIR MARYLAND - Bel Air, MD

Short Sale Agent - Harford County Maryland Real Estate

Michael: We see that all the time, in fact, I am going downstairs because I think they missed it on MY water heater.

Nov 19, 2008 11:40 PM

Betina Foreman

WJK Realty - Austin, TX

Realtor, C.N.E., with WJK REALTY

It always amazes me to see things like this that multiple people missed. I have seen problems like this on new construction. It just prooves the value of a great inspector!

Betina

Nov 19, 2008 11:48 PM

Alan May

Jameson Sotheby's International Realty - Evanston, IL

Home is where the hearth is.

I assume that TPR extensions, somehow mean the "overflow" tubes that bring the hot water directly to the floor.

I recently saw an installation, where the plumber had brought a nice copper pipe, threaded and all... but left it standing in ther corner, instead of installing it. Brilliant, no?

Nov 19, 2008 11:50 PM

James Wexler

wexzilla.com - Scottsdale, AZ

too many are consistently wrong, happens often in real estate as well, as the barrier to entry to a complicated profession are way too low

Nov 20, 2008 01:22 AM

Nancy Larson

I am a licensed referral agent in NJ - Hutchinson Island, FL

I need to take a course on what am I suppose to know in a home inspection.

Great posts Michael, you do a wonderful job at keep us informed. Wish you were cloned and had one of you in New Jersey.

Nov 20, 2008 08:40 AM

Steven L. Smith

King of the House Home Inspection, Inc. - Bellingham, WA

Bellingham WA Home Inspector

Michael,

That is one of the things that I usually do not see the code guys missing. Hmmmm, pretty sloppy.

Nov 20, 2008 09:22 AM

Mike Jones

SUNSTREET MORTGAGE, LLC (BK-0907366, NMLS 145171) - Tucson, AZ

Mike Jones NMLS 223495

Michael,

I like the little guy in the boot at the bottom of your post! Code people missing things like this is not unusual in our neck of the woods. I enjoy your posts, and appreciate the photos showing what went wrong. You should consider a book of these things. I'd buy one!

Mike in Tucson

Nov 20, 2008 08:07 PM

Harold "Hal" Place

A1 Connection Realty, Inc. - Sun City Center, FL

Morning Michael,

One would wonder why the installer wouldn't have completed the installation properly. More-so, how could a code inspector pass the installation with such an obvious violation!

Nov 20, 2008 11:38 PM