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what exactly are you referring to when you mentioned a membership in "top" with inspectors services group? I'm not finding this on Google or anywhere else. Can you point me in the right direction?

SB 382 raises important questions. Experience is valuable, but education is crucial. Home buyers deserve thorough inspections. Balancing experience and education is key to maintaining industry trust.

Google Earth Pro is a game-changer. Tracking roof repairs is brilliant. Could this be used for commercial properties too? Great demo

This moisture intrusion course is timely. Solid SOPs are crucial for hurricane season.

As a heating and air guy we like to get a bucket of mastic and take the brush and seal the seam between the Sheetrock and the boot to prevent this being careful not to get the mastic on parts of the Sheetrock that the grill doesn’t cover. You can also use a good silicone.

Usually just the 1 in the bathroom has condensation.

I see this a lot in businesses especially restaurants. It's largely because they ran the fan constantly and when the compressor turns off the fan not only keeps running, but it continues to bring outside air in. On a humid day that humidity is coming in along with the water on the coil evaporating. There is also major swings in comfort levels. This is why two or more stages is important and having a system that closes the outside damper and turns the fan off between cycles on humid days. Also having overcooling and making use of the BK terminal to slow the fan speed down when it's humid. You would think this wouldn't be an issue by now, but it still is.

Wow absolutely now how to. Unless you mean sign up for our course.

Hi I have a first floor kitchen duct sweating and about 3 feet away from duct on bring is a water spot forming would cutting drywall be only option as line is in between floors? Thanks

In my area, the engineer of record ( EOR) is responsible for doing the final inspection of any shear walls and structural components.

This saved me a lot of time and money! Thanks!

since 1998?!?!?!?!??

There are so many changes every year with construction materials, design, and failing systems from the past. For example masonite siding or PEX pipe. Without CE, these types of things will get a pass and the public will be the victim of lazy ass people ( like their not already)

How does anyone think this is a good idea?

Seems like it will just push the clients to go back to seeking those with professional association memberships, most with much higher CE requisites, like before senseless government regulation. The state just wants the fees, not the administrative work...

Great video, Jon!

How did you get your business started? Did you visit realtors?

Great channel, but stop being cheap by yourself a laser pointer stop using this annoying tape measure and get a real good lens for your camera. Your information is phenomenal. Your presentation is horrific. This is to elevate you not to put you down. You have a wonderful super channel, however self sabotaging.

It's a great investment in your education as an inspector. I went through it and learned stuff that i never even thought about for inspecting pools.

What software do you recommend

I'm a Mortgage Loan officers in Indiana & Florida ,interested on how anyone is doing in these States before I take that step.

I’m in California.

Good afternoon John , my name is josue silva , I’m a certified home inspector but my employer sold the co . And I’m looking to go on my own and need advice on purchasing an insurance, Any advice on an insurance is appreciated . Thank you in advance.

loved this video 😅

You should run your audio through a noise suppression filter.

I wish inspectors would recommend other tests outside your scope, and say that testing is highly unlikely to break working components. My Realtor recommended against hydrostatic testing of the sewer lines because I would be responsible if the testing caused any damage. I live where most of the houses have cast iron sewer pipes under the slab, and when they rust out, it can cost $40,000 to dig under the house to replace this pipes. The test only fills the sewer with water, and checks that it doesn't drain significantly until a test ball is removed. A list of other tests you don't perform along with some suggested people, and the things those tests may find and the cost to fix them would be very helpful. Pool equipment is another area where leaky pipes can be expensive to fix.

Both home inspectors from my previous 2 houses damaged things without any reasonable excuse. The first one was a 3 year old house. He had neglected to turn the shower valve all the way off after "testing to see if the shower worked". Instead of shutting it off all the way, he left the handle a few degrees off from center....and left a steady stream of water running for 24 hours and we had very hard (calcium carbonate) city water. As a result, when I went to shut off the shower valve all the way, it still dripped continuously for the first time ever. Replacing the o-ring, the valve, and generously lubeing it with silicone grease didn't help, as he had allowed a channel of calcium deposits to form inside the shower valve body, requiring $300 to replace the shower valve body. The second home the inspector broke the gas fireplace on/off switch because he didn't know the correct direction to push it. He jammed it so hard in the wrong direction that it completely broke into pieces. He had the nerve to say that it was already broken. I knew this was false because I had just gone through and tested that exact fireplace because the entire time we lived there I never used that fireplace so I wanted to be sure the gas valve was turned back on and the pilot light plumbing was cleared of air (it takes a long time to light it when you haven't used it in awhile.) and fired up that fireplace before he came. This was the same home inspector that cost me $400 because he claimed that there was terrain leaning toward my foundation and that water could get into the basement. 10 years before (after I bought the house) I had noticed a 12 inch puddle after a heavy rain and hired a contractor to regrade the area and there was never any more settling there (The house was already 10 years old when I bought it) and there was never again any small water puddle on the bare concrete floor there after a rain. And yet even after I told him this he still wrote me up and the buyer asked me to provide receipts that I corrected it. You should have seen the look of disbelief when I hired a separate contractor who came out and looked and said "This is perfectly fine the way it is...if you want me to come here and add some dirt and look as if I did something that really doesn't need to be done, it'll cost you $400". A 3rd moronic home inspector told me (when buying my current house) that I had a completely defective door that needed to be entirely replaced because it didn't close properly. It took me all of 5 minutes of tightening the door knob hardware (It was an outside solid oak door that was susceptible to loosening of hardware with the changing of humidity from very cold winters to very humid summers). He was shocked that I was able to fix it so easily so that the door closed properly. This same inspector never reported that 4 light switches in the main living room all needed to be replaced because they were all on the same circuit and they were each malfunctioning. All he said was "I can't figure out what these light switches are for." If you ask me, home inspectors are fantastical idiots, they have never caught anything that I wasn't already aware of, they break things, and they don't catch things that really should have been caught. My dad was a realtor and home builder for 50 years, and every homeowner that ever got a pre-inspection of their own, and whose buyer got their own different inspection with a different company, or if the deal fell through and subsequent buyers hired different inspectors, they all came up with a list of completely different items, none of which were real. Your profession is full of a bunch of know-nothing crooks.

I sold a rental property a few years ago. The buyer's inspector called out that the breaker for the A/C was 50A while the fuse for the A/C (at the unit) was only 30A. He claimed they should be the same. I tried to tell him that the breaker is intended to protect the wiring and the fuse is intended to protect the equipment. I even pointed out specific text in the NEC. The inspector argued back and forth with me and the only argument he could give is that they should match. The buyer's realtor finally just said "Replace it. It's only $15". So I did, reluctantly. The realtor was right. At the time, I was a professional engineer earning over $100/hr at my day job. I just wanted the deal to go through. Replacing the breaker wouldn't really hurt anything. Worst case, it would just force somebody to open up the panel and check the wiring and possibly change out the breaker again the next time a new AC unit was installed. It definitely wasn't worth my time to argue with somebody that is paid to understand building code, but obviously doesn't.

My next-door neighbors sold their house in January 2024. The breaker boxes in our neighborhood are surface mounted on the outside of the house. I saw the inspector had removed the interior panel of the breaker box so he could see the wiring. There are only 2 screws that hold the panel in place. Late in the evening several hours after the inspector left, I saw the breaker box door was open. I tried to close it but couldn't. I told my neighbor about it and we looked at it together and saw that both screws were missing on the interior panel cover, and neither screw was anywhere to be found. We took the screws out of my breaker box to see what size they were, then we found some appropriate replacements, and went to re-install them. It took a little bit of pressure on the box in the right place to get the screws holes to line up, but it wasn't difficult, and the box closed just fine after that. Is that damage? Maybe. It's bordering on negligent. I'm a retired engineer and I have no tolerance for that kind of behavior.

Engineered trusses shouldn't be altered at all without a structural engineer signing off on it.

Many years ago I did a few home inspections, mostly for friends and customers of my remodel business. Checking under a sink, I noticed corrosion on the bottom of a "P" trap under a sink. I informed the customer. who was with me on the inspection, that the trap metal looked awfully thin. I pushed on it with my thumb and the chrome plating, which was the only metal remaining as the brass had all been worn away, crumbled in my hand. I apologized profusely and did an emergency repair with tape.

Great video! Completely agree with your thought process.

I can't believe what passes in my area as well. Zone 6 with R-19 in the walls! No ice shield on the roof! But the three main contractors are the city's inspection board!

It's Florida! What else could you possibly say about crappy construction practices and paid off inspectors.

Funny that all that code and those inspections add to the final costs, but not the final product.

4:20 I can't say for certain, but I know that this particular evidence of neck down building has landed right around..... 4:20 .... and I'll just leave it at that.

The problem is that crap work like this is passed by the city, town or county inspectors. Wtf is the point of having permits and inspections if they are just gonna rubber stamp garbage work that doesn’t satisfy the code!! Once the structure passes inspection the liability should rest at least in part with the government body that said the work was to code.

Friend in Alabama had a concrete slab with brick veneer new home built. The earth grade was several inches above the bottom of the bricks. The termite weep hole highway was open for business. This was in 2006.

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Great information, saving it for later. The intro and outro music is SUPER grating though. at least turn the volume down a few clicks.

I’m happy I found this video! You mentioned a gasket, is there one or a brand you can suggest/recommend? Thank you. 1:25

Awesome, thanks

In 1994 I had a Custom house built for me in a rural county in Texas. NO INSPECTIONS... My bank sent over an inspector who saved my butt. What always amazed me is the builder's total DISREGARD of the blueprints. He treated them like "suggestions" rather than actual SPECIFICATIONS. I was constantly arguing and asking WHY something was missing, and WHY stud sizes did NOT match the blueprints. YES, I made life HELL for my builder !!! AND we still got screwed... We found things that were wrong about a year after we moved in. By then, the contractor had already gone out of business. So much for warranties. Moral of the story? GET AN reliable INSPECTOR TO LOOK at ANY property you buy. It will be money WELL SPENT.

Once again new construction! Realtor probably said it's new build, you won't need an inspection.. i just did a new construction where half of the bottom plate anchors were missing on exterior walls.. but it passed the county inspection

Drop that intro music volume, or just plain drop it.

Some of those may require engineering sign off. The supports with 30% cut out may have been designed to be of excessive size to account for this known issue. It's important to go back to the plans to check what instructions have been given by the engineer. Even then, it doesn't hurt to have the contractor send an RFI with pictures to the engineer to validate that it's within engineering design.

The media always portrays inspectors as power tripping a-holes with clip boards but having watched a lot of these videos lately you guys are genuinely saving lives and should get a Lot more respect for holding these scammers to account for such unbelievably bad work

the thing you have to remember is that houses are high value items and any pay out on a claim is going to be quite large, now insurance companies make money from selling premiums but make losses when they have to pay out on a claim. so they are not going to want to insure anything that doesn't look like a safe bet.

Just did a new construction where the house wrap was exposed for over a year. Looks like a bunch of strings flapping in the wind. This builder is so bad it failed 11 county inspections and all my phase inspection. Took the woman's money and have not been close to the next phase yet..

Hi John, do you think I could be a handyman and an inspector? or would this be selling myself short? I am a one man show, currently just starting out to be a home inspector. I do not even have my license yet for the State of Illinois. I remember that when I bought my own house, there were about $1,000 of repairs that had to be made based on the home inspection. Can I do the repairs as a handyman that I called out on the home inspection report, or would this be a conflict of interest? Thank you, Jeremy Stuart