Home inspectors are SO necessary! We paid for 3 home inspections at 500$ each on 3 different homes (2006). They saved our butts on 2 homes that had big issues! One was a brand new home that has SO many issues despite looking beautiful! The 3rd inspection was on the home we bought. That 1500 saved our butts and I encourage everyone to at least get a home inspection..by someone who is through! Good luck to all those looking to buy!
I get that but in all honesty i find it kind of irritating that Holmes is saying " it's bad not getting a home inspection done" but on the other hand in every episode he rags on every inspector of every home he does work in ... And if you have a bad inspector you can't even sue them as it seems they're always covered but the client is not. After watching all the episodes it's hard to believe there are decent home inspectors , and if they exist , they seem to be the exception rather than the rule ...
Got to love a Flir camera, they are a brilliant piece of equipment, I’d like one but too expensive to warrant one just to find heat loss and cold ingress".. one day....
I love watching Mike Holmes inspections and home improvements (corrections?) videos - he seems to be one of the few who know what they are doing and how it should be done. If I were to do have home improvements done by his crew, I'd feel confident. Unfortunately, I don't really know how many out of contractors out there are even remotely approaching Mike's standard. I would envision introducing a "Mike Holmes Scale" to evaluate homebuilders in Ontario and in Canada in general. Like in, Mike Holmes is 1MH, and everyone else must catch up to this mark. Any contractor above 0.9MH would be really good, between 0.9MH and 0.8MH would be not bad, or so-so (get them to do the work but watch them like a hawk), below 0.8MH - questionable skills, questionable knowledge and questionable work ethics. Less than that? Forget it, run like hell from these guys. What is the one point I would take exception to is the matter of having a home inspector before you buy. It's pointless, at least in Ontario. Simply put, Ontario does not require licensing home inspectors, so I could go to the city hall tomorrow, pay a fee of $25 and get a paper that I'm a home inspector (and I do not pretend to have anything close to the required level of knowledge). So, it may make more sense to ask your brother-in-law's distant cousin who used to run a construction site 20 years ago to go with you and take a look at the house you're planning to buy, rather than rely on the guy who today is a home inspector but, just a week ago, was selling groceries, and a couple of month from now will work a forklift in Amazon warehouse.
i have a great one. so here is how i found him. i looked up "passive home canada". called one of the architects in the list in my area. i think she would know who are the good builders. since building a passive home requires tradesmen with eyes for detail like mike holmes. she didn't pick up my job as due to her busy schedule. but she did refer me to a classmate of hers who is also passionate about building passive homes. she took my case as my architect. she refered me to a builder who has similar ethnics, so far nothing has gone wrong yet. and if something has a bit of an issue, he always come back and fix them for free. he charges by time. he also explained me to me each step of the plan. e.g. what should have been done first. what are my options. i told him to fix anything he finds. just let me know. i would like a home which would be problem free for a very long time. he has not missed any little things like slopes where water will go. unfortunately the last home owner messed all those up on the deck and balcony. it was on my home report as well. thanks to my architect, she also recommended a good inspector as well. Mike holmes educated me enough to find the right professionals. :-)
Seeing things like this house is the reason why, no matter how many projects I take on, electrical is something I leave entirely up to the sparkies. Mudding and tape, you can learn through trial and error. Framing can take time, but get a nail gun and keep your design simple, and you are fine. But electrical... Hook something up backwards or put the wrong amp breaker in and your entire home can burn before you know it.
The realtor that said that a home inspection isn't necessary should have had their license revoked because of all the red flags that popped up right away after the family moved in. And for the record, that electrical work in the kitchen makes me sick to my stomach. Great job to Holmes and company for putting that house back right again.
The Right Home Inspector. Where would you find those people on a list. You know those ones who don't bullshit the people that are paying them to do the best job and give the home buyer the most information on what they may need to have repaired.
It would be cool if Mike Holmes, + his chosen partners, could structure a system of licensing exams + skill-proofs for anyone to gain the title & permits-to-work of an "accredited contractor". Yes, he'd have to work w a road-tested, extremely honest, + talented public policy team of wonks, because creating good public policy is a huge & rare skill itself. Can this homeowner sue the real estate agent for really, really bad advice about whether or not to get a home inspection. A $12,000.00 electrical system rewire???? Note to self: 25:19 Show MP, this is exactly the situation in my home of 25 years. A model home, built in 1989. This is likely the 3rd dw replacement, and, one or both of them were installed by an amateur. Terrific.
home inspections are a lose lose event. I have only dealt with one four times but one reported problems that did not exist the others missed expensive problems.
There are so many resources to learn from, there is no reason not to be able to learn. I've done all our home inspections and now we are building a log home and I'm running the subcontractors.
One question: In the basement where the son's play area is but NO RAILING along the sides of the stairs in case he were to fall off of them. Boys love to climb and that's why it caught my eye.
WHO PAYS for this???? Virginia is one very blessed lady. To receive $60,000+ worth of work done for her, just to be great guys. An upgraded carpet pad for our install was 7 mil, they put in 10 mil!
i always leave some slack on my panelbox wires incase another electrican wants to move the panelbox or move a breaker to a new spot for a new doublebreaker
I was looking at the front porch awning and thinking how cool it would be to have those over every window, too... and then Damon rips the darn thing right off. Because it was 'old'. FFS.
Dwayne I have a deck which was rotted the base.the deck it fine but my inspector said I should re,over it and this show sign of water damage to the wall.anything driving water towards the house be removed or fixed
He didn't rip it out because it was old he ripped it out because it was rusting, no longer fit for purpose and dumping water on the step. He only sounded like he wouldn't lose any sleep over demoing it as it was old, and only liked by some due to its kitsch factor.
Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland 1979 mother's mother, bungalow. I only saw a red pull cord from the bathroom (water closet) ceiling. The light switch was on the out side of wall. Red pull cord is hooked up to security. I pulled it. Cord pant tripped a wall switch if elderly (connected to security and light out back flashes) have heart attack or other emergency, crawl to wall, not pull telephone or get up and not live. Neighbour knocked on back door, "MISS. MILES ARE YOU OK, YOU LIGHT IS FLASHING.
Time 31:43 did I just see a finished basement without handrails on the steps of the basement? WOW Mike didn't make that right I'm shock everyone missed that!!
Sadly, not the first time either. In another episode, his team did the same thing, but at least one side was a wall. This one is worse in there's no wall on either side and staircase appears to be higher. Accident waiting to happen. Hopefully in the past 13 years since this aired, someone had sense to add handrails.
If you're willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house, why would you not spend the 500 bucks or so to have it inspected? Never would I buy property without it.
@@MultiTurbospeed Banks are starting to require relatively clean home inspections (no more than cosmetic damage) as a requirement for them to authorize a loan. Not to mention that along with the payment that you give them for appraising the house they also do a basic home inspection.
In the top right corner has options for configuration. There you can put subtitles or change the speed of the video. Put the 0.75x option and you should be good to go. Greetings from Brazil.
At the end around 31:40 they show the basement stairs. They have no railings. How did Mike let that happen? It's only required on the stairs on the first floor?
Wow, that's bad! Same issue in another episode, but at least one side was a wall. These stairs are open on both sides and appears to go higher. That's an accident waiting to happen. They spent something like $60K (in 2010 dollars) and yet skimped on railings. Don't understand it.
I would think it has something to do with space being very restricted at the base of those stairs there doesn't appear to be room to have those stairs railed all the way to the bottom and have someone exit the steps . It is surely not beyong 'the wit of man' to have some sort of 90° turn at the bottom of those stairs and thus have room for railing all the way to the ground.
Home Inspector, schmome inspector. HOW many shows have you done showing a bad home inspection. Yes there was many problems in this particular house. Do you really think a home inspector would have found any of this?
its a finish nailer the nails are not long enough to reach all the way through it and im sure hes done that a million times and knows his tools and how they work
Weird to hear her get such a hard time for not getting a home inspection, when half MH's videos seem to be about how the home inspector was crap at his job. Would they still be giving her a hard time about getting a crap home inspector had she done so?
Please slow this rebroadcast down to normal speed. By the speech pattern and music you can tell it comes thru too fast. Seems pushed. Makes it unwatchable
I don’t know how this guy gets work. This lady knows she messed up by not getting the proper people to look at the house before the purchase. But he is belittling her about getting a proper home inspection.
It’s always a pleasure to see craftsmen/professionals ply their trade…the rewiring must have been a HUGE job but worth it!!!
An inspection, this show is about inspections and a waste of money. Thanks Mike.
Where to get a proper inspection, good luck. Buying South of the border will not help.
Home inspectors are SO necessary! We paid for 3 home inspections at 500$ each on 3 different homes (2006). They saved our butts on 2 homes that had big issues! One was a brand new home that has SO many issues despite looking beautiful! The 3rd inspection was on the home we bought. That 1500 saved our butts and I encourage everyone to at least get a home inspection..by someone who is through! Good luck to all those looking to buy!
I get that but in all honesty i find it kind of irritating that Holmes is saying " it's bad not getting a home inspection done" but on the other hand in every episode he rags on every inspector of every home he does work in ... And if you have a bad inspector you can't even sue them as it seems they're always covered but the client is not. After watching all the episodes it's hard to believe there are decent home inspectors , and if they exist , they seem to be the exception rather than the rule ...
Most of the other jobs Mike has to do have had home inspections so seems a waste of time 🙄
your crew and you saved another home Mike. Nice job!
Got to love a Flir camera, they are a brilliant piece of equipment, I’d like one but too expensive to warrant one just to find heat loss and cold ingress".. one day....
That’s the way it should be.👌🏾👌🏾👌🏾
Loved the show
I love watching Mike Holmes inspections and home improvements (corrections?) videos - he seems to be one of the few who know what they are doing and how it should be done. If I were to do have home improvements done by his crew, I'd feel confident. Unfortunately, I don't really know how many out of contractors out there are even remotely approaching Mike's standard. I would envision introducing a "Mike Holmes Scale" to evaluate homebuilders in Ontario and in Canada in general. Like in, Mike Holmes is 1MH, and everyone else must catch up to this mark. Any contractor above 0.9MH would be really good, between 0.9MH and 0.8MH would be not bad, or so-so (get them to do the work but watch them like a hawk), below 0.8MH - questionable skills, questionable knowledge and questionable work ethics. Less than that? Forget it, run like hell from these guys.
What is the one point I would take exception to is the matter of having a home inspector before you buy. It's pointless, at least in Ontario. Simply put, Ontario does not require licensing home inspectors, so I could go to the city hall tomorrow, pay a fee of $25 and get a paper that I'm a home inspector (and I do not pretend to have anything close to the required level of knowledge). So, it may make more sense to ask your brother-in-law's distant cousin who used to run a construction site 20 years ago to go with you and take a look at the house you're planning to buy, rather than rely on the guy who today is a home inspector but, just a week ago, was selling groceries, and a couple of month from now will work a forklift in Amazon warehouse.
i have a great one. so here is how i found him. i looked up "passive home canada". called one of the architects in the list in my area. i think she would know who are the good builders. since building a passive home requires tradesmen with eyes for detail like mike holmes. she didn't pick up my job as due to her busy schedule. but she did refer me to a classmate of hers who is also passionate about building passive homes. she took my case as my architect. she refered me to a builder who has similar ethnics, so far nothing has gone wrong yet. and if something has a bit of an issue, he always come back and fix them for free. he charges by time. he also explained me to me each step of the plan. e.g. what should have been done first. what are my options. i told him to fix anything he finds. just let me know. i would like a home which would be problem free for a very long time. he has not missed any little things like slopes where water will go. unfortunately the last home owner messed all those up on the deck and balcony. it was on my home report as well. thanks to my architect, she also recommended a good inspector as well. Mike holmes educated me enough to find the right professionals. :-)
Seeing things like this house is the reason why, no matter how many projects I take on, electrical is something I leave entirely up to the sparkies. Mudding and tape, you can learn through trial and error. Framing can take time, but get a nail gun and keep your design simple, and you are fine. But electrical... Hook something up backwards or put the wrong amp breaker in and your entire home can burn before you know it.
The realtor that said that a home inspection isn't necessary should have had their license revoked because of all the red flags that popped up right away after the family moved in. And for the record, that electrical work in the kitchen makes me sick to my stomach. Great job to Holmes and company for putting that house back right again.
Mike It Right!
And Mike should teach it
The Right Home Inspector. Where would you find those people on a list. You know those ones who don't bullshit the people that are paying them to do the best job and give the home buyer the most information on what they may need to have repaired.
It would be cool if Mike Holmes, + his chosen partners, could structure a system of licensing exams + skill-proofs for anyone to gain the title & permits-to-work of an "accredited contractor".
Yes, he'd have to work w a road-tested, extremely honest, + talented public policy team of wonks, because creating good public policy is a huge & rare skill itself.
Can this homeowner sue the real estate agent for really, really bad advice about whether or not to get a home inspection.
A $12,000.00 electrical system rewire????
Note to self: 25:19 Show MP, this is exactly the situation in my home of 25 years. A model home, built in 1989. This is likely the 3rd dw replacement, and, one or both of them were installed by an amateur. Terrific.
What did you just try to say? 😂
home inspections are a lose lose event. I have only dealt with one four times but one reported problems that did not exist the others missed expensive problems.
Odd. If i remember correctly, we were required to get a home inspection done when we bought our house. I guess some states don't require it.
This is filmed in Ontario, Canada. Most lendors these days require a home inspection ( this episode was shot in 2009).
There should be a course to teach about house maintenance. She didn’t sort out the drain... *sigh* that’s so simple
Better off living in an apartment
Some people, including my wife, are just not mechanically inclined nor able to figure out stuff like that.
There are so many resources to learn from, there is no reason not to be able to learn. I've done all our home inspections and now we are building a log home and I'm running the subcontractors.
I am looking at these projects as classes!! I sure know a lot more than I did before I started watching!!
Yep. The moment she described the symptoms I thought, "There's a big hair-ball in that drain."
One question: In the basement where the son's play area is but NO RAILING along the sides of the stairs in case he were to fall off of them. Boys love to climb and that's why it caught my eye.
The basement staircase doesn't have any handrails?
WHO PAYS for this???? Virginia is one very blessed lady.
To receive $60,000+ worth of work done for her, just to be great guys.
An upgraded carpet pad for our install was 7 mil, they put in 10 mil!
i always leave some slack on my panelbox wires incase another electrican wants to move the panelbox or move a breaker to a new spot for a new doublebreaker
I was looking at the front porch awning and thinking how cool it would be to have those over every window, too... and then Damon rips the darn thing right off. Because it was 'old'. FFS.
Dwayne I have a deck which was rotted the base.the deck it fine but my inspector said I should re,over it and this show sign of water damage to the wall.anything driving water towards the house be removed or fixed
He didn't rip it out because it was old he ripped it out because it was rusting, no longer fit for purpose and dumping water on the step.
He only sounded like he wouldn't lose any sleep over demoing it as it was old, and only liked by some due to its kitsch factor.
Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland 1979 mother's mother, bungalow. I only saw a red pull cord from the bathroom (water closet) ceiling. The light switch was on the out side of wall. Red pull cord is hooked up to security. I pulled it. Cord pant tripped a wall switch if elderly (connected to security and light out back flashes) have heart attack or other emergency, crawl to wall, not pull telephone or get up and not live. Neighbour knocked on back door, "MISS. MILES ARE YOU OK, YOU LIGHT IS FLASHING.
If there's anything I've learned from Holmes on Homes, it's that home inspections don't matter a whole lot. Mostly useless
Why are there no railings on the basement stairs?
Child's bedroom, heat register top out, not flush. Windows important, not inside room.
Time 31:43 did I just see a finished basement without handrails on the steps of the basement? WOW Mike didn't make that right I'm shock everyone missed that!!
Sadly, not the first time either. In another episode, his team did the same thing, but at least one side was a wall. This one is worse in there's no wall on either side and staircase appears to be higher. Accident waiting to happen. Hopefully in the past 13 years since this aired, someone had sense to add handrails.
would think that was on the homeowner fix list
I've never seen a central vac in person. Is/was this popular in Canada?
For a certain age of homes it is popular. I think mostly homes built in the 80's and 90's. Nowadays it is out of fashion.
What does your title mean???????
It's playing like 3x faster
I agree about getting a home inspection but at the same time how many dozens of shows have you done where people did get inspections that were crap.
Makes you wonder if you would be better off to buy a gutted house to begin with ?
Do You call it drywall or cover wall? Control the Mud, don't let the Mud Control You.
If you're willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on a house, why would you not spend the 500 bucks or so to have it inspected? Never would I buy property without it.
I personally think if you decline to have a house inspection then you should be automatically declined from buying a house.
@@MultiTurbospeed Banks are starting to require relatively clean home inspections (no more than cosmetic damage) as a requirement for them to authorize a loan. Not to mention that along with the payment that you give them for appraising the house they also do a basic home inspection.
How can audio be slowed slightly. They are talking too fast
In the top right corner has options for configuration. There you can put subtitles or change the speed of the video. Put the 0.75x option and you should be good to go. Greetings from Brazil.
TBH, I would do a better home inspection than 95% of the home inspectors that I've heard about on this showw. And I'm blind.
Does everyone in Ottawa speak really fast?
This episode is played at 1.2x to avoid censorship
At the end around 31:40 they show the basement stairs. They have no railings. How did Mike let that happen? It's only required on the stairs on the first floor?
Wow, that's bad! Same issue in another episode, but at least one side was a wall. These stairs are open on both sides and appears to go higher. That's an accident waiting to happen. They spent something like $60K (in 2010 dollars) and yet skimped on railings. Don't understand it.
I would think it has something to do with space being very restricted at the base of those stairs there doesn't appear to be room to have those stairs railed all the way to the bottom and have someone exit the steps .
It is surely not beyong 'the wit of man' to have some sort of 90° turn at the bottom of those stairs and thus have room for railing all the way to the ground.
Home Inspector, schmome inspector. HOW many shows have you done showing a bad home inspection. Yes there was many problems in this particular house. Do you really think a home inspector would have found any of this?
Who's paying for all these repairs ?? Its getting expensive??
is this the oldest mom with a toddler in show history? Canadian?
Problem is , that Mike Holmes does it right , but no one else does.
The solution is a gas can and matches .
At 21:12, the guy has his hand directly in the line of fire of the nail gun. Absolutely never do that.
its a finish nailer the nails are not long enough to reach all the way through it
and im sure hes done that a million times and knows his tools and how they work
they talk to fast?
Slow playback speed to 0.75. They sped it up to avoid censorship
Really old episode as who buys white appliances and uses a wall mount heat thermo for a tub lol
White appliance are cheap. Black ones cost about $2000 more and stainless steel cost more than black and white together
Stop speeding up this series UA-cam shame on you
It’s not UA-cam. It’s a this channel to avoid censorship. Slow playback to 0.75 and it’s normal
WHY EVERY EPISODE IS SPED UP
BECAUSE THE TALKING IS RAMBLING
WHY DID THEY DO IT
TO GET MORE SHOW
SPEED TALKING AND HARD TO FOLLOE
To avoid censorship. Just slow playback speed to 0.75 and it’s normal
How many times is he going to make her feel worse about not getting a home inspection. He is calling her stupid. Good way to work with a client
Weird to hear her get such a hard time for not getting a home inspection, when half MH's videos seem to be about how the home inspector was crap at his job.
Would they still be giving her a hard time about getting a crap home inspector had she done so?
Please slow this rebroadcast down to normal speed. By the speech pattern and music you can tell it comes thru too fast. Seems pushed. Makes it unwatchable
It’s to avoid censorship. Just slow playback to 0.75. Lots of channels do this that rebroadcast shows that not theirs
I don’t know how this guy gets work. This lady knows she messed up by not getting the proper people to look at the house before the purchase. But he is belittling her about getting a proper home inspection.