Welcome to our portfolio where you can see some of the findings we came across during our inspections.



Structural Defect...

This photo was taken in the basement of an inspected property. It's apparent that the person who installed the heat duct didn't let a floor joist get in their way.

Aside from the obvious weakness caused by cutting through the floor joist, this added insult to the floor structure because the spacing between the floor joists was already 24 inches on center (most floors are constructed spacing the floor joists 16 inches on center) plus the floor joists are 2" x 4" boards! Now there was a 48 inch span between two floor joists, which happened to be under the kitchen.

You know the old saying, "too many cooks spoil the broth", in this case too many cooks in the kitchen could collapse the floor!

Just Plain Nasty!

This photo was taken in a crawl space of a house. While the house is approximately 20 years old, this defect was only 6 months old at the time the picture was taken.

The homeowner had a new bathroom installed 6 months before the inspection. The plumber failed to hook up the waste drain pipes under the new bathroom, which resulted in a 6 month old "swamp" under the house. If this situation had gone undetected, it would have eventually caused some rot to develop in the surrounding structural wood, due to the high moisture content in the air.

This too would have posed a health risk from both mold development and not to mention what you see below the pipe on the ground (YUCK!).

Electrical Shock Hazard...

I don't think this photo needs too much explanation. That is an electrical light switch installed in the shower wall. Now I have to ask, would you actually use the switch while in the shower?

Fire Hazard...

This photo was taken of a main electrical panel. Can you say double tap? This is an improperly ran electrical circuit to the main 100 amp breaker. Not only is this a multiple tapping problem (that's why the insulation is melting), and an over fused (overcurrent device too large) condition, but the 120 volt appliance is connected across 240 volts. When it is turned on, the appliance is drawing twice the current intended. This hazardous defect was reported and an electrician was called in to properly wire the electrical panel.

Fire Hazard...

This photo was taken of an electrical disconnect for an AC unit. The AC must have had a short somewhere because it kept blowing the large fuses in the panel. So this bright fellow decided the way to fix the problem was to eliminate the fuses all together and install 2 short pieces of copper pipe instead.