My daughter just bought a brand new house and just closed about a month ago.
I inspected it for her and even went through a final walkthrough with the builder.
So I have walked around the outside of the home several times. Yesterday when I was there all of a sudden Boom I noticed melted siding on the northwest wall and the southwest wall at the corner of the garage. The true outside corner faces due west. I know that melted siding is a lot of time blamed on sun reflecting off windows next door, but this is a new neighborhood & there are no other homes yet within several hundred feet. Also we have been hard pressed to get any hot days here yet to speak of. Could this be such cheap siding that it can't withstand the sun??:mad:

I'm studying for my IL license and am looking for good books etc to get me ready for the exam. Any suggestions?

Trying to figure out with the client what this is. I thought it was part of thermometer. Looks also to be something electrical but no wires running to or from it.

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Has anyone seen this and how to positively I.D.?

http://pittsburghcorning.com/product...t-windows.aspx

I have the understanding that an electric baseboard heater should not attain a temp above about 165 degrees. Is that a code issue, a manuf. stat, a rule of thumb? I have seen it before on this board, but can't find it. I run into many that will reach a temp of 190-205. Way too hot for me. Any help?

Did you know
That the percentage of Canadian residential mortgages that were three months or more in arrears trended downward from 0.41% in 2011 to 0.36% in the first half of 2012? See the Chapter 2: Housing Financefor more information or view the full version of the2012 Canadian Housing Observer.

Happy birthday Nick, 51? (for tomorrow) and you already got a forklift??

I am aware that a lot of inspectors have used the service of one of the local vendors on the this message board to purchase their IR/THERMAL imaging equipment, and some have had good service from them , but I recently purchased a T420 camera from a well known vendor from this board and after 5 weeks I have not been able to recieve nothing more than a reciept for funds. I have asked every one that will answer the phone when I can expect a due date for my camera. All I get is LIE after LIE. No one in this company knows or even gives a damn about the customer that they took $ 8,000. dollars from. I was told it would be shipped on this day or that day. I talked to the sales person today and was told the factory had stopped production on the T420. I asked for the free Level 1 that was included and was told I would get the info today. This was at 9:00 am Arizona time, well at 10:15 pm Eastern time I have not recieved an email yet, there I been LIED to again, this has happened 3 times before by the service rep. If you plan to buy a IR camera do not buy it from AC tool supply. All this company does is lie . By the way I ordered the camera 5 weeks ago and it took a week to even get a receipt for the purchase. If you are buying a camera BEWARE there customer service SUCKS . I will never buy from them again. If I treated my customers this way I would not have a buisness.

If you have had good service then you are fortunate.
For me there service totally SUCKS.

I don't expect favorable replies. I want you to be informed.
I even tried to speak to Jason Kaylor and his exact words were
" why did they transfer you to me"
It appears no one ,even the president does not give a damn.

Any of you ever, or would you ever, cancel/leave an inspection after you start but before you are done? When I take calls I may turn away a customer I feel will be difficult by quoting a high price putting them off. What if during the inspection you just KNOW these people are going to cause you problems down the road? Maybe even legal problems. Do you walk away?

Here's some polybutylene found today - I see a hot, cold and.......Ground? What the hell could the third line be for?
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Boy that sure is a good looking truck, whats that you say...oh yeah the roof............Have a Happy Memorial Day ! Got one scheduled for monday had to really think hard on it, but hey I got to help out our clients for we are InterNACHI Inspectors #1.
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Sorry no bathroom in this one...found it the other day. Great truck only need very minor modifications to be ready...

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Runs great and only had 8000 miles on it!
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Looking into buying four of these. These would be used during OSHA audits to determine if a hearing conservation program is necessary in an industrial environment. Anybody have one? Looking for some purchasing advice.

I have a client who wanted to know why, when her oven was on, her countertop on both sides of oven got really hot, and the oven housing hot to the touch. Is that oven malfunction?

This home was built in 2005. I don't think I will be doing a wind mitigation inspection for the home, but if I were, what would this be classified as on the 1802 form?

I'll contact Simpson Tuesday as I seem to remember seeing this strap in their catalog.
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When I went to furnace school a long time ago, we were told that furnace room doors should open out. However, I am unable to find this in the Alberta building code, it only says that furnace rooms must have a door, (DOH!)

The reasoning was that if a someone was in the room and passed out because they electrocuted or gassed themselves, they might fall in front of the door, so if the door opens in, the dead or incapacitated service man would be blocking the door.

I just left a door opening in furnace room but it was plenty big enough that a service man down could be shoved aside and the door opened, provided of course that the service guy or gal was smaller than William the Refrigerator Perry, so I don't want to say anything about it unless I have to.

Need age of Clare gas furnace M/N BAS-100, S/N 0-4343.

Have a fun and relaxing weekend everyone!

Need help diagnosing this deposit on the water line.

Well water
Hot water heater Hot side
Copper pipe

Is the deposit build up from a previous leak?

Is the deposit on the copper pipe Salt, Calcium, or Lime?

Not an active leak during the inspection.

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I'm having issues with a blower motor at my own house. I noticed a slight burning smell almost like a curling iron that has been left on if anyone is familiar with that smell. So I popped open the Air Handler access panel and noticed the motor seemed to be running slower than usual. I went ahead and replaced the run capacitor, however, that didn't help even though the other one was slightly under tolerance.

So I pulled the 1/6 HP blower motor out. It is a 3 spd single phase, 1060 RPM, 230V. There was one red wire coming to the B terminal on the motor, which I have to believe is the power source. The motor was rated at 1.15 AMPS and when I put a clampon meter across the line I was getting that. It is 14 years old. It only has 1 yellow wire coming from it and 1 black wire. Then there is the ground that was screwed to one of the mounting bolts. I checked the resistance across all the terminals and this is what I found:

Yel to Blk = 88.3 ohms

Blk to Term A = 52.5 ohms
Blk to Term B = 37.9 ohms
Blk to Term C = 33.0 ohms

Yel to Term A = 74.7 ohms
Yel to Term B = 60.1 ohms
Yel to Term C = 55.2 ohms

A to B = 14.6
B to C = 4.9
C to A = 19.4

Problem is I'm not totally certain on what these measurements mean, other than the sum of the terminals A to B and B to C equal the measurment between the terminals C to A.

I just need to know if this is a bad motor because of the smell that we were smelling from the vents directly below where the Air Handler sits in the attic. Can someone please explain how much of this is relevant and what it should or should not read. The only examples I could find on line had a lot more wires coming from the motor, whereas mine only had the Yellow and Black. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.


Regards,

Steve :(