Hahahaa Helical anchors versus previously installed $$$ DEADman wall anchors

Specific Inspection Topics Structural Inspections
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from the onset, see the previously installed wall anchors? How much did that cost???

WHO, what company and-or structural engineer recommended this crap? Yeah same old shtt.

Diagonal cracks, horizontal, vertical… poured walls lololl

2:55… this guy says they backfill with same shtty soil AND lololllll, he says…
they DON’T have to worry about water intrusion into basement because they install their interior water diverting system 'n adds, NEVER any water in basement any longer!!!

Now how screwed up is this? They leave the exterior holes/gaps OPEN… they do not waterproof the existing cracks, they backfill with the same soil = total idiocy… costing HOW MUCH???

But as usual am sure some Nachi home inspectors will support this guy or what he claims, maybe he is one of Bowers guest speakers, i dunno

:40 mark, yeah they also installed an interior basement drainage system, homeowners out more $$$$

Amazing that ‘some’ Nachi inspectors rarely if ever call out companies like this who LIED n cheated homeowners out of many thousands $$$$$, nope, instead they gang up on the honest contractor, makes solid sense doesn’t it??? Are home inspectors like this who YOU want inspecting your house? Not me thank you very much.

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Can someone please inform Nick Gromicko this member should be refrained from posting.
He is in direct violation of their COE.

There is little to no benefit, other than dragging down this great organization, from using profanity coupled with the inability to correctly describe what the poster is observing.

Someone has to put an end to this.

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lolol ??? sure Robert, you r spot on again, truth is some of YOU cannot and will not admit the scams going on in this business, YOU dug your own holes on this-subject, that’s your problem, your incompetence not mine.

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It appears you can not write to read for one. Secondly, what you do write is a blatant disregard for COE.

Your lack of respect for the InterNACHI message board and most of its members is enough for me to lodge a direct complaint to the founder.

Mark. With all due respect. Think of me the way you wish. But I doubt highly you can teach me anything I do not already know.

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I have NO objection to Mark’s posts. They are informative and serve a much needed segment of our industry. In fact, I would rather read and learn from his posts over YOURS anyday!!

WAFI

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Mirror Man 2

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So Nick is accepting your emails again???

Two words… “Witches Bend”!!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!!

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Gotta say that this is one of Mark’s more benign postings. And, Mark’s grumpy-old-man rants have convinced me of several things that I’ve long believed about drying out basements. About eight years ago, I inspected one of those “dry” jobs where one of the franchise national companies had basically installed a huge “Depends” inside the small utility room basement of a 120 year old house. I reported my suspicions of the effectiveness of this vinyl diaper and got the “Who the H**L are you to doubt this $10K repair by this national basement company?”
I’ve made my comments about Mark’s style in a previous post, but Mark would be more effective in educating us with a less wagging-finger-in-your-face style (not that he gives a crap what I think, even if he should). It’s a akin to catching more flies with honey than excrement.

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Regarding that video; as a home inspector, we report what we see, but as a home buyer, There ain’t no way, no how, I would buy that house or let my daughter buy that disaster. I see brick foundations that are holding up much better than that.
Helical piers don’t last forever and somewhere down the road, an owner will be revisiting this bowl of jelly foundation.

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What a Friggin waste of money in those videos. That foundation has structurally failed big time, why waste your money on all this helical crap when the money spent would buy you a new foundation.
Everyone seems to be sucking as much blood as they can out of that client.

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Lon, Marcel, I concur on both your points. Thank you for weighing in.

The devil is in the contract.
Secondly, had the home owner been advised about the condition of the foundation.
Thirdly, why this type of system was contracted.

Having estimated foundation repairs, not water proofing systems, I tuned down more work due to the fact that the foundation could not be repaired. That did not stop prospective clients asking me was there a short term. cheaper or band-aid solution which would carry the home owners over for a couple of years.
Now we come back to the contract and why this type of system was contracted out.

To blatantly call a company a thief is wrong just as it would be to call a home inspector a thief for perceived/assumed errors or omissions.
It all boils down to the contract.

Any legitimate contractor will have insurance. If not the case plays itself out in the courts, IF there is a complaint.

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If you concur, you are agreeing with Marc then, for that is what he is saying. People are getting gyp. Contract or no contract, going to court there is no winner. And that is what these scammers rely on.

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Agreed Marcel, Funny how things come around full circle given enough time. One of the reasons I don’t show up around here much is shown in this very group of post’s. Everyone wants to beat up on the other guy to prove how much smarter they are. Nothing short of a bunch of foolishness.

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Marcel, hope this post finds you well.
Let me make several things clear. ‘I do not agree’ with Mark, his behavior, his writing style, his slanderous accusations leaved at other professionals without all the facts, his crass marketing tactics on the InterNACHI message board, nor his adolescent childish behavior one little bit.
So please Marcel, and with all due respect, saying I agree with Mark is disingenuous.

I do not know the facts!!! But I do know a troubled man when I hear one.
If any member here wrote like that, if you call it writing, he/she would be chased off the MB posthaste!

Professional contractors carry liability insurance. Let the client take it up with the proper authority.

What I do know. …This hurts InterNACHI. Read the COE if you disagree.

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Congrats.
YOU are now a disingenuous member-OMG

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If you don’t like to read or hear any of Marks post, then don’t. There is an ignore function on this board, so use it and stop your whining. Mark has shown some education values to his posts and I am sure it will continue.

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“Red rover, red rover, send Robert right over.”

If we are picking teams, I pick Mark Anderson 1st.

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Complacency. That old chestnut.
Hows that working out stateside after decades of inequality and racialism?

Mark Anderson displays negative qualities registered CPI know they should avoid. This Association COE requires ethical moral duties and respect of others. InterNACHI® Code of Ethics
1: Duty to the Public
2: The InterNACHI® member shall not engage in any practices that could be damaging to the public or bring discredit to the home inspection industry.
III. Duty to the Profession and to InterNACHI®

  1. The InterNACHI® member shall strive to improve the home inspection industry by sharing his/her lessons and/or experiences for the benefit of all. This does not preclude the member from copyrighting or marketing his/her expertise to other Inspectors or the public in any manner permitted by law.
  2. The InterNACHI® member shall not engage in any act or practice that could be deemed damaging, seditious or destructive to InterNACHI®, fellow InterNACHI® members, InterNACHI® employees, leadership or directors. Accusations of a member acting or deemed in violation of such rules shall trigger a review by the Ethics Committee for possible sanctions and/or expulsion from InterNACHI®.

Whats puzzling is, I always heard/read certain others bemoan to members here, and I can name several being run off the MB with cries of, “why would anyone want to do construction if you are a certified professional inspector?” Hm.

See it’s not about reading what Mr. Anderson wrote it’s he can’t write to read period. Hm?

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It appears to me it has been some time sense you played Red Rover, although that analogy is striking seeing we are grown men, professional, and I am trying trying to have a discussion on how one should act on the MB.

Red Rove objective, to end with the most players on your team by maintaining the integrity of your chain.
In grade 6 and 7, I was the leader and champion of Red Rover. ‘Picking where the weakest link in the chain’ is the directive for breaking the chain if I am not mistaken. For for through.

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Mr Young, i’ll call whoever a thief when they do lolol, ‘thiefy-things’

3/26 Nightmare - inadequate system originally installed by the so-called honest pros, then they charge more money $, ‘Here is what you need to know, only their system is under warranty…if they are at fault and install the wrong system homeowner is respnsible…’ lolol

These INT systems companies warranties do NOT cover water/moisture coming THROUGH walls aka penetrating the foundation walls which can most certainly lead to x-amount of MOLD, efflorescence on walls, usually BEHIND the cheap membrane/moisture barrier they slap on/against the inside of wall

https://www.bbb.org/us/il/caseyville/profile/waterproofing-contractors/helitech-waterproofing-foundation-repair-0734-310003414/complaints

1/29 had an existing INT system, they installed beams now water comes out from each bean every time it rains…

9/28 9 carbon fiber plates installed with 20 year guarantee, purpose was to prevent any misalignment in block wall…

8/01 $40,000 for interior system 114 linear feet (Helitech says about $30,000…) lol, LIETIME guarantee, water entering basement…

5/29 had 2 cracks opposite ends in basement, Helitech determined i needed 10 piers and they would lift a corner… …i paid $14,000 for the work, they committed significant errors and they damaged my home in the process and created new problems…

and on n on it goes and so, if it looks like a thief and smells like a fart, run!

have lost some good friends, some went off to Vietnam and were never the same, some were the kids that lived next door

he said he wanted heaven but praying was too slow, so he bought a one way ticket on an airline made of snow