Home inspection questions.

[th3w01f]

Home inspector should look for mold.

I had a troop get orders to Belgium and had to sell his house in Florissant quickly.
The buyer's inspection found his attic was full of mold.
The builder had vented the bathrooms and laundry directly into the attic.
Sale fell through. I believe he had to sue the builder - not sure how it turned out in the end.

Yes, Colorado has mold.

Cool, I've checekd a copule of places recommend on this thread and they both charge about a $200 additional fee for a mold check putting general, well, radon and mold at about $1100. I've never done one before but I can see how it makes sense.

[fitz19d]

METH TEST!

After what we went thru, for the money it seems like a worthwhile investment. Unless it's single owner ever and you are beyond a doubt they were clean.


Other thing is, I dont know what the market your looking at is like (high end enough to not be as competitive), but one thing that seems shitty about this hot market, is that as easy as it is to sell, sellers are getting off with not fixing/conceding a lot. Worst case they say no, and in 1-3 days have a new contract.

[Walker2970]

have a smoke test done on the hvac heat ex-changer it it is forced air this is a fool proof way to see if there are any issues with it

[th3w01f]

METH TEST!

After what we went thru, for the money it seems like a worthwhile investment. Unless it's single owner ever and you are beyond a doubt they were clean.


Other thing is, I dont know what the market your looking at is like (high end enough to not be as competitive), but one thing that seems shitty about this hot market, is that as easy as it is to sell, sellers are getting off with not fixing/conceding a lot. Worst case they say no, and in 1-3 days have a new contract.

Single owner and high enough that around Elizabeth it has been on the market for 6 months even though it's fairly priced. Hopefully they weren't cooking meth but you never know. We're making a full price offer with a somewhat unusual contingency (non-refundable earnest) so we will see what happens tomorrow. We're going that route since our house won't be on the market for another week and we don't want to run into a situation where ours sells and there's no place to go.

[electronman1729]

Why?

I had one the inspector missed that was not part of the main drain line and the pipe had completely dissolved under the slab.

[electronman1729]

Yeah but what are you going to do about it? Most pipes under slab should be drain pipes, but I see them collapse regularly.

Had the inspector caught it, I would of walked away from the house.

This "extra" drain line was the drain for the sink in the kitchen that Tee'ed off the main under my slab. When water went down the pipe my sump well would fill with the water from the sink and the sump would kick on.

[Irving]

Had the inspector caught it, I would of walked away from the house.

This "extra" drain line was the drain for the sink in the kitchen that Tee'ed off the main under my slab. When water went down the pipe my sump well would fill with the water from the sink and the sump would kick on.

I thought you meant that you'd walk away from a house that had pipes under the slab, period. Broken ones, of course I agree.

[fitz19d]

I know this is not you, but for anyone else reading re meth: http://www.9news.com/story/news/2015...ouse/26911991/

TLDR for mine was, we ended up losing a fair bit in inspection and a lot of time because the last thing to come back was the meth. Seller was a current Police officer. Whernt able to work it out, and so he was left with either A: Lying to next seller like in article, B: Remediating which cost many many thousands and depending how thourough means belongings in home should be destroyed I was told... Guy still lives there, think gave up on selling and just got a roomate to keep the house (Believe it was a sale from divorce).

Now caveat to all that is. I guess there is no real substantive proof on what levels are high enough to actually affect people. So the state limits (higher in CO than elsewhere) are all pretty low. A slight reading over limit I even agree is probably no big deal, just dont lick the walls. I dont remember the numbers but seemed like limit was .5 and that house had a reading of 2.5.

Course now the current house has some small but decent levels of radon I need to get around to making a system for. (unused basement)

[Wulf202]

I thought you meant that you'd walk away from a house that had pipes under the slab, period. Broken ones, of course I agree.

The last two places ive bought have had bad sewer mains.

Discounts are good

[fitz19d]

On the shitty line issue, I also have a line out in my front yard that came "unglued" or something they said from the scope, so it's pulled apart an inch and dropped an inch for an offset. Another fun problem to watch and see if I need to drop the 3k+ to get the front yard trenched and fixed...

So yeah do sewer line scopes too.