Okay, so our house is finally under contract and the home inspection comes up. I have always heard that home inspectors were a joke and get their certification in two weeks and know about as much as the next Joe Blow does about houses.
I want to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and trust, since our house is only two years old.
We get our home inspection report back and my suspicions are confirmed. This guy doesn't seem to know what he is doing. We have pre-fabbed I beam floor joists, for a lack of a better description, and they have engineer placed holes through them to allow for ductwork, electrical etc. Mr. Inspector says we have compromised the structural integrity of our home and we need to replace ALL of the openings in the floor joists (about 100 12" ovals), and we need to call out a structural engineer to verify the structure.
Okay. Whatever. I call the builder and they send out the original structural engineer who gives me copies of all the permits, joist details and layout. Problem solved. However, shouldn't a home inspector in that area KNOW what to look for in terms of questionable structure? Like something without a structural engineers signed inspection sticker? Or obvious signs that this is how the house was built, inspected, approved and documented?
#2 is radon. Now let me say this right off. F radon and its impact on residential real estate. It's a boogie man for all I am concerned. That being said testing I supposed to be done on non rainy days for 2-7 days duration. This cat runs a test over a torrential downpour weekend (48 hrs) and we get a high reading back saying we need to foot the bill for a $1200+ system to reduce the radon in the dwelling. After many phone calls and arguments later the testing box is back in our house redoing the test, still out of what the EPA guidelines say. Whatever again, as long as it comes back favorable.
My rant ends in this: This asshat has introduced unnecessary amounts or fear and anxiety for the buyers, slander in my opinion. There is nothing wrong with the house, why make the buyers think its a rickety nuclear disaster zone?
I want to give this guy the benefit of the doubt and trust, since our house is only two years old.
We get our home inspection report back and my suspicions are confirmed. This guy doesn't seem to know what he is doing. We have pre-fabbed I beam floor joists, for a lack of a better description, and they have engineer placed holes through them to allow for ductwork, electrical etc. Mr. Inspector says we have compromised the structural integrity of our home and we need to replace ALL of the openings in the floor joists (about 100 12" ovals), and we need to call out a structural engineer to verify the structure.
Okay. Whatever. I call the builder and they send out the original structural engineer who gives me copies of all the permits, joist details and layout. Problem solved. However, shouldn't a home inspector in that area KNOW what to look for in terms of questionable structure? Like something without a structural engineers signed inspection sticker? Or obvious signs that this is how the house was built, inspected, approved and documented?
#2 is radon. Now let me say this right off. F radon and its impact on residential real estate. It's a boogie man for all I am concerned. That being said testing I supposed to be done on non rainy days for 2-7 days duration. This cat runs a test over a torrential downpour weekend (48 hrs) and we get a high reading back saying we need to foot the bill for a $1200+ system to reduce the radon in the dwelling. After many phone calls and arguments later the testing box is back in our house redoing the test, still out of what the EPA guidelines say. Whatever again, as long as it comes back favorable.
My rant ends in this: This asshat has introduced unnecessary amounts or fear and anxiety for the buyers, slander in my opinion. There is nothing wrong with the house, why make the buyers think its a rickety nuclear disaster zone?
