Thread Home inspections! They do nothing!

[Valve1138]

Did I mention that I wouldn't feed chunky sirloin burger soup even to a hobo?

Too bad for joooooo. It's so good. Drop some oysterettes in

 

[Sarcasmo]

Its pouring rain, and this is the house going up behind me

yep. thats all OSB.

What a shitty house. It doesn't even have a roof.

 

[kiwi]

What a shitty house. It doesn't even have a roof.

Hope they spend the extra on the home inspection.

 

[JAXvillain]

Hope they spend the extra on the home inspection.

That worked out so well for DB!

 

[DJBrenton]

That worked out so well for DB!

A decent home inspector is bound to notice the lack of roof though.

 

[plot]

A decent home inspector is bound to notice the lack of roof though.

It's the less obvious stuff you need them to check though, like the lack of furnace and ac. And walls.

 

[DJBrenton]

It's the less obvious stuff you need them to check though, like the lack of furnace and ac. And walls.

There were walls missing? That passed me by completely. Just shows, it's not always the home inspector's fault small details get missed.

 

[dbzeag]

What's it set to, and is the house insulated correctly, specifically the attic type area and windows.

Not at all. Which will be rectified next year when the whole new HVAC system gets put in.

 

[dbzeag]

Need a hug, buddy?

From you? always

 

[dbzeag]

And I wouldn't do the repairs myself, even if I could. To get the house inspected, you have to be registered with the city ($300 fee). If you go with a contractor to do the certification of your work, they won't do it. My friend redid his whole electric system and cannot find a contractor to certified the work that was done. They want to do the work themselves, so it will cost him almost $10K for a contractor to come in and "redo" the work he put in (which btw technically IS up to code).

 

[plot]

If it passed inspection who will be looking at it?

 

[Valve1138]

What is the thermostat set too?

 

[fly]

And I wouldn't do the repairs myself, even if I could. To get the house inspected, you have to be registered with the city ($300 fee). If you go with a contractor to do the certification of your work, they won't do it. My friend redid his whole electric system and cannot find a contractor to certified the work that was done. They want to do the work themselves, so it will cost him almost $10K for a contractor to come in and "redo" the work he put in (which btw technically IS up to code).

Yeah, you need to find that person FIRST. Lesson learned.

 

[Domon]

Pfft, inspections. You're replacing existing systems. Who's to say they weren't always fixed just dyi it to code and no-one will ever know

 

[Amstel]

Pfft, inspections. You're replacing existing systems. Who's to say they weren't always fixed just dyi it to code and no-one will ever know

this depends on how major the diy. If a diy sunroom was never permited, 'code' is irrelevant. It needs to be permitted first. In our area, if you finish a basement, you can't advertise it's finished unless you can show permits. This is a great negotiating tool for prospective buyers.

 

[Valve1138]

Pfft, inspections. You're replacing existing systems. Who's to say they weren't always fixed just dyi it to code and no-one will ever know

Depends.

I do almost all my own electrical but there's other stuff I won't do myself.

 

[ZRH]

When I was framing my shed, I put down an OSB floor instead of plywood. figured it's it's inside the building's vapor envelope, it wouldn't get wet ordinarily, etc. I did everything proper, ran them perpendicular to the floor joists. It was solid.

Then when I was building the roof framing, we had a week of hard rain. The OSB swelled and I now had a spongy floor, end up putting plywood on top of it before I put down the flooring.

OSB is fine, letting sit in rain for a week was the mistake Plywood will warp and pull the nails right out in similar situations. -.-

 

[dbzeag]

What is the thermostat set too?

75-78. A bit too cold in the summer I find. It's down below that for the "winter".

 

[Valve1138]

75-78. A bit too cold in the summer I find. It's down below that for the "winter".

Ummm, yeah.

Insulation is cheap. Insulate your attic, now. You can DIY easily.

 

[Atan Nolme]

And I wouldn't do the repairs myself, even if I could. To get the house inspected, you have to be registered with the city ($300 fee). If you go with a contractor to do the certification of your work, they won't do it. My friend redid his whole electric system and cannot find a contractor to certified the work that was done. They want to do the work themselves, so it will cost him almost $10K for a contractor to come in and "redo" the work he put in (which btw technically IS up to code).

That is seriously F'ed Up.