Originally Posted By: jpope This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
rwills wrote:
Just found this download freeware called 20/20. You can add arrows to photos easily and also highlight sections of a photo in any shade you want. http://www.hotfreeware.com/
-- Jeff Pope
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Originally Posted By: tallen This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I find all number of things wrong in any givin home, but you, Jeff have a calling for electrical problems. I really like and appreciate all of your posts.
Originally Posted By: dbowers This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Very Innovative & Enterprising. Lets give credit where its due. I don’t think most of us have the patience to rig that type of spaghetti - when doing it right would have so much easier and more simple.
Originally Posted By: Greg Fretwell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Are all of these things found by an HI working for the buyer?
I can’t imagine a realtor actually listing a house with crap like this out in the open. I can understand finding something strange hidden in the attic but these things look like they are just “out there”. Do the realtors actually walk the houses before they list them? You don’t need to be Dick Tracy to spot stuff that is this ugly.
Originally Posted By: Greg Fretwell This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
I was thinking these may be homes that came on to the market “as is” from forclosures and estate sales. I can’t believe any realtor in their right mind would actually have extension cords, run as building wiring and bare wires poked in receptacles if they knew a buyer was coming to look at the house. Maybe they are changing the term “tear down” to “burn down”.
Originally Posted By: ssmith3 This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
It seems that we have a lot of those zinsco panels out here on the left coast. My neighborhood was built in 1971 and ALL the houses still have original panels. I was going to post pics of mine but don’t dare open it for fear I’ll have to cough 3-5 grand to replace it.
The funny thing is I owned property in the next town up from me and was having problems with the lights flickering for no reason. Called Sparky out and he pulled my old Zinsco panel. When he got the inside cover off there was a dead mouse in it  . We could not figure out how it got in there in the first place as there were no open knock-outs and the cover was on secure.
Wellll, we upgraded the service to 200 amp and no more problems.
– Scott Smith
Marinspection
Vice President NorCal NACHI Chapter
I graduated from collage. Now my life is all mixed up.
Originally Posted By: dedwards This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
Greg,
Unfortunately these kinds of electrical discrepancies are not all that uncommon. I find Jeff seems to find more than his share of them but I too find way more than I like to. As far as the realtors goes, often the realtor is seeing the home for the first or second time when they bring the HI in to do the inspection. The listing agent doesn’t normally look for glaring errors like this as most are scrambling trying to make a buck too. That figured in with how much crap is deliberately hidden by sellers is amazing. I did one house recently and every, I repeat every wire splice in the attic was standing at attention about 8 inches high, not one wire nut or junction box in sight. Looked like a mine field. I just took several pictures, backed out and told them I would come back to do a reinspection once all the wiring was completed. It helps when the home inspector educates the Realtors they work with about the liablilty problems these situations create. BTW, I always enjoy yours and many others posts, insights to the issues HIs face every day. Thanks for the inputs.
Originally Posted By: Brian A. Goodman This post was automatically imported from our archived forum.
A lot of the realtors around here would ignore all of that, they just want the listing (half of the deal no matter who sells it). I did one where the carport was held together front-to-back with a steel cable because the crappy framing was trying to force the walls apart…wasn’t even in the disclosure.
with this “screw in receptacle” and an extension cord. . .
