Sick WRXCalvinball wrote:So, first things first, before getting into the inspection.
Here's a pano of the gayrage:
Sent from the beer depository
Lots of room in there brah!
Sick WRXCalvinball wrote:So, first things first, before getting into the inspection.
Here's a pano of the gayrage:
Sent from the beer depository
Lots of houses in our area have high radon readings. Can be addressed with airflow and sealing as [user not found] said.Calvinball wrote:So the good: pretty much everything is newer. Roof, furnace, water heater, electrical, windows, all updated and done so recently. The electric was probably the oldest update, more on that later. Other stuff looks to all be 3-7 years old.The house has a full house fan, which according to @[user not found] and our inspector is the tits, and explains no a/c. They also put a little duct with a small electrical fan from the den with the fireplace to the second floor. Nifty.
There's some minor stuff. All the toilets need to wax rings. A couple of the steps to the second floor need to be repaired, unfortunately from underneath meaning going through the ceiling in the basement.
The minor to moderate stuff: A whole bunch of outlets have reverse polarity. He suspected that happened when it was upgraded from 2 prong to 3 prong. There's 200 amp electrical, but the breaker box was upgraded from 100. There might be an issue with crowded slim circuits. He thinks it's probably fine but would like an electrician to eyeball it. There's two outdoor outlets, one isn't grounded and the other had no power.
The biggies: The firewall in the gayrage isn't complete in the loft area. Technically against code cause it backs up to living space (the den). The real sticker is the radon test though. Limit is 4, it came back 4.2.
Yeah that one I'm not worried about.wap wrote:NBD, in other words.
Yep. No cracks to fix, so they'd just drill a few holes, put pipes in said holes, then pipe from that to a new exterior hole that leads to the fan/piping up the side of the house like [user not found] posted.[user not found] wrote:Vent fan:Desertbreh wrote:
Thank you for the informative answer, unlike our Domestic Airboater
Vent stack:
Sealing at sump pump:
Fixed foundation cracks:
No big deal.
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Yeah it's damn near big enough for three cars.Johnny_P wrote:Sick WRXCalvinball wrote:So, first things first, before getting into the inspection.
Here's a pano of the gayrage:
Sent from the beer depository
Lots of room in there brah!
Yeah that one is weird. So simple. Inspector said it's no big deal with older electronics, but with modern tvs and such it's an issue.Johnny_P wrote:Lots of houses in our area have high radon readings. Can be addressed with airflow and sealing as [user not found] said.Calvinball wrote:So the good: pretty much everything is newer. Roof, furnace, water heater, electrical, windows, all updated and done so recently. The electric was probably the oldest update, more on that later. Other stuff looks to all be 3-7 years old.The house has a full house fan, which according to @[user not found] and our inspector is the tits, and explains no a/c. They also put a little duct with a small electrical fan from the den with the fireplace to the second floor. Nifty.
There's some minor stuff. All the toilets need to wax rings. A couple of the steps to the second floor need to be repaired, unfortunately from underneath meaning going through the ceiling in the basement.
The minor to moderate stuff: A whole bunch of outlets have reverse polarity. He suspected that happened when it was upgraded from 2 prong to 3 prong. There's 200 amp electrical, but the breaker box was upgraded from 100. There might be an issue with crowded slim circuits. He thinks it's probably fine but would like an electrician to eyeball it. There's two outdoor outlets, one isn't grounded and the other had no power.
The biggies: The firewall in the gayrage isn't complete in the loft area. Technically against code cause it backs up to living space (the den). The real sticker is the radon test though. Limit is 4, it came back 4.2.
House fan is tits man. You'll like it. Dafuq on the electric though, seems like a home DIY gone wrong.
The United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) issued a report in December 2012 that concluded radiation is less dangerous than we have been treating it all along
UNSCEAR “does not recommend multiplying low doses by large numbers of individuals to estimate numbers of radiation-induced health effects within a population exposed to incremental doses at levels equivalent to or below natural background levels.”
Put another way, risk does not become statically significant until above levels of 10 REM. Between levels of 10 and 100 REM large populations are needed to measure the effects of the dose
http://www.wise-uranium.org/rdcrn.htmlFor equivalent dose, the unit corresponding to rads is the rem (roentgen equivalent man). If the absorbed dose is in grays then the unit for dose equivalent is sievert (Sv). Thus, 1 Sv = 100 rem. Roughly 1 rem is the average dose received in three years of exposure to natural radiation.
Yeah there are some things I won't push on, like the wiring and toilet seals, but the radon is a dealbuster.Detroit wrote:Can get a polarity tester for cheap at HF, and rewire the outlets yourself if it bothered you enough.
Radon is scary, definitely want to figure out a remediation plan on that one.
Calvinball wrote:Yeah there are some things I won't push on, like the wiring and toilet seals, but the radon is a dealbuster.Detroit wrote:Can get a polarity tester for cheap at HF, and rewire the outlets yourself if it bothered you enough.
Radon is scary, definitely want to figure out a remediation plan on that one.
I think every house has some sort of wiring problem. You shoulda seen the janky wiring splices in my house. Knob and tube bridged with new wire, connected with electrical tape.Big Brain Bradley wrote:Calvinball wrote:
Yeah there are some things I won't push on, like the wiring and toilet seals, but the radon is a dealbuster.
shit water on floor is not ok. Make them fix that.
"reverse polarity plugs" might let them slide on that shit doe
Oh none of the toilets are actually leaking yet, but they will be soon.Big Brain Bradley wrote:Calvinball wrote:
Yeah there are some things I won't push on, like the wiring and toilet seals, but the radon is a dealbuster.
shit water on floor is not ok. Make them fix that.
"reverse polarity plugs" might let them slide on that shit doe
how do you tell that they are close to leaking? There is either shit water on the floor, or not.....Calvinball wrote:Oh none of the toilets are actually leaking yet, but they will be soon.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
shit water on floor is not ok. Make them fix that.
"reverse polarity plugs" might let them slide on that shit doe
We're gonna start off asking them to do eryting and see what they counter with.
Moisture meter.Big Brain Bradley wrote:how do you tell that they are close to leaking? There is either shit water on the floor, or not.....Calvinball wrote:
Oh none of the toilets are actually leaking yet, but they will be soon.
We're gonna start off asking them to do eryting and see what they counter with.
Calvinball wrote:Moisture meter.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
how do you tell that they are close to leaking? There is either shit water on the floor, or not.....
Calvinball wrote:Moisture meter.Big Brain Bradley wrote:
how do you tell that they are close to leaking? There is either shit water on the floor, or not.....
Hansgustaf wrote:Calvinball wrote:
Moisture meter.
Yeah, such[user not found] wrote:Is that with the 40% flood discount?Melon wrote:I need some help with paint.
I went by the Sherwin William's store and they're 5-gal of interior satin is ~$150.
I'm wondering about going with Valspar or Behr which seem to be ~ $95-$120 for 5-gal.