Inspector Mills....
Wednesday, April 11, 2007
If you don't know the song then, you... are... not... OLD.
Anyway, as we were up for having the house inspected already, Joen (as usual) di
d some research on Home Inspectors here in Omaha. We had forgotten then that Nancy had already given us brochures of 2 Home Inspection companies that were in CBS Homes' preferred list. Anyway, as Joen was researching, he came across this article http://independentinspectors.org/inspection-pdf-files/homeinspectorsinvestigated.pdf which mentioned that CBS and AmeriSpec were under media investigation last 2005. Allegedly, CBS Homes got paid by AmeriSpec, HBP and two other Home Inspection companies for including them in the list. They
denied these claims and we're not sure how it all ended but anyway, this article mentioned this home inspector, Larry Crouch, who independently opted out of being on the preferred list. If this is indeed true (we don't know actually if it is), the conflict of interest makes sense so we decided to just play it safe and go with Larry Crouch.
Today, we had the home inspection at 3:30 pm. He was already right about done when we arrived so we just went ahead and sat down to go over the findings with him. He found 5 minor things that needed to be fixed. These were all Safety issues:
1) The Deck Door lock wasn't working
2) Repair the gas leak at the drip cap at the basement utility room (sealed in red tape)
3) The railings of the stairs leading to the downstairs Family Room might need to be reinstalled (here it is leaning against the laundry room wall)
4) Provide vents into the furnace room for combustion air
5) Install a grounding jumper at the water softener piping
Nancy... poor Nancy who had to drive down from Chicago dropped by for a short while to get her copy of the inspection results. She was obviously short of breath from all the running around she had to do that day. Hope she gets to relax soon. Joen and I were there for about an hour and a half with Larry as he explained to us in detail what things to look out for and what things to do during what season. We were very happy with Larry.
Oh, and here are some pics I forgot to take before.
The kitchen sink faucet turned out to be a pull-out. Weeee!!
The showerhead turned out to be a Raindrop showerhead. Weee!!! Weee!!!
Here are some things we need to be on the look-out.
We need to put some more dirt at this side of the house every Spring to make sure that water flows out of the house at all times. Keeping this part sloping keeps the water away from the house. We need to put some more dirt below this gravel by the outside steps as well keep the water out. We also need to change the air filter here every month or so. And in the occurrence of a water pipe leakage, we're supposed to switch this green thing to shut off all the water.
Joen and I call each other "Homey" now. Hehe
Anyway, as we were up for having the house inspected already, Joen (as usual) di
d some research on Home Inspectors here in Omaha. We had forgotten then that Nancy had already given us brochures of 2 Home Inspection companies that were in CBS Homes' preferred list. Anyway, as Joen was researching, he came across this article http://independentinspectors.org/inspection-pdf-files/homeinspectorsinvestigated.pdf which mentioned that CBS and AmeriSpec were under media investigation last 2005. Allegedly, CBS Homes got paid by AmeriSpec, HBP and two other Home Inspection companies for including them in the list. They
denied these claims and we're not sure how it all ended but anyway, this article mentioned this home inspector, Larry Crouch, who independently opted out of being on the preferred list. If this is indeed true (we don't know actually if it is), the conflict of interest makes sense so we decided to just play it safe and go with Larry Crouch. Today, we had the home inspection at 3:30 pm. He was already right about done when we arrived so we just went ahead and sat down to go over the findings with him. He found 5 minor things that needed to be fixed. These were all Safety issues:
1) The Deck Door lock wasn't working
2) Repair the gas leak at the drip cap at the basement utility room (sealed in red tape)
3) The railings of the stairs leading to the downstairs Family Room might need to be reinstalled (here it is leaning against the laundry room wall)
4) Provide vents into the furnace room for combustion air
5) Install a grounding jumper at the water softener piping
Nancy... poor Nancy who had to drive down from Chicago dropped by for a short while to get her copy of the inspection results. She was obviously short of breath from all the running around she had to do that day. Hope she gets to relax soon. Joen and I were there for about an hour and a half with Larry as he explained to us in detail what things to look out for and what things to do during what season. We were very happy with Larry.
Oh, and here are some pics I forgot to take before.
The kitchen sink faucet turned out to be a pull-out. Weeee!!
The showerhead turned out to be a Raindrop showerhead. Weee!!! Weee!!!
Here are some things we need to be on the look-out.
We need to put some more dirt at this side of the house every Spring to make sure that water flows out of the house at all times. Keeping this part sloping keeps the water away from the house. We need to put some more dirt below this gravel by the outside steps as well keep the water out. We also need to change the air filter here every month or so. And in the occurrence of a water pipe leakage, we're supposed to switch this green thing to shut off all the water.
Joen and I call each other "Homey" now. Hehe
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