Originally Posted By: hspinnler This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Recently, I’ve been asked to inspect a mobile home where the buyer wanted the water heater and oven/cooktop inspected. The only problem is is that there was no liqued propane in the tank. Also, I was asked to inspect a foreclosed home where electric was not on. The referring agent asked if I had a generator that I could hook up the electric with. How far should one go to as Larry the Cable Guy would say “git-'r-done!”
Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
hspinnler wrote:
sorry for the typo, the phrase is "liquid" propane. don't want anyone to think I'm illiterate just because I'm from Georgia. 
Damn hillbillies
-- I have put the past behind me,
where , however, it now sits, making rude remarks.
Originally Posted By: hspinnler This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I have been turning breakers on. For example, a new home or unoccupied re-sale where the water heater breaker was off since it was not being used. I turn it on, wait 20-30 minutes and get a temperature reading on the hot water. Then, de-energize it.
How about if a breaker has been tripped before you get there? For example, an outdoor GFCI with reset in the panel?
Originally Posted By: rcooke This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
hspinnler wrote:
I have been turning breakers on. For example, a new home or unoccupied re-sale where the water heater breaker was off since it was not being used. I turn it on, wait 20-30 minutes and get a temperature reading on the hot water. Then, de-energize it.
How about if a breaker has been tripped before you get there? For example, an outdoor GFCI with reset in the panel?
And what happens if there is no water in the tank .
Then new elements required.
What happens if it of for a purpose you turn it on and a fire starts.
I too turn nothing on or turn nothing off.
Read the SOP.
Originally Posted By: Blaine Wiley This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I wouldn’t carry a Generator, and in no case will I ever turn on any gas that has been shut off, but in this area one wouldn’t be in business long if one didn’t either turn on the water heater breaker or plug it in and turn on the water. Most of the snowbirds are only here from Jan-April, and the water and breakers are routinely turned off when they leave.
Originally Posted By: hspinnler This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Of course, there has to be water to the tank before I’ll energize it, and I do ask for the sellers or builder’s permission first.
Now, if you have an LP tank in the yard that is empty, would anyone dare to bring along their portable LP tank to hook it up to test mechanical equipment and appliances? I'm leaning towards a big fat "no" personally.
Originally Posted By: lkage This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
hspinnler wrote:
...would anyone dare to bring along their portable LP tank to hook it up to test mechanical equipment and appliances? I'm leaning towards a big fat "no" personally.
No leaning here...no.
-- "I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him."
Galileo Galilei
Originally Posted By: lclark This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Hi All,
Must be that time of the year. I was supposed to have an inspection last Thursday on a property out side of town. When I went to pick up the key the realtor told me their was no propane in the tank and the electric was not on. She wanted to know if I could hook up a tank from her grill. I said, No that would not work because the regulater’s were different sizes. The bigger tanks have bigger regulater’s so the small tanks wont work.
Then she asked me if we could hook up the generator on her motor home to the house to get power to it. I asked her, what are we going to plug it into. She thought for a minute and said, I thought you would know. I told her we would have to get an electrician to put a special adapter on the panel to make it work. By the time we do all that we might as well spend the 50 bucks and have the power turned on. She finally agreed.
The thing is I have no idea if the BS I told her is true or not, I just needed an excuse not to do something that could be hazardous to my business. Plus it leaves her with thinking I know what I am talking about.
Don't stick your neck out. When in doubt, BS your way out.
-- " Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going."
Originally Posted By: hspinnler This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Ha Ha Larry. I liked that reply. What sparked the thread were similar inquiries like the ones you just described. We are often the ones they look to for answers and though I was able to BS sometimes when I was in sales, I think BS can and will undoubtedly come back to bite me. So, I stay away from it. If I don’t know, I don’t know. If I can find out though, I tell them I’ll get back to them.
