I love how Damon takes control of his situation and team. It was really a good moment when he kept telling the crew member he doesn’t want it close to level, he wants it LEVEL.
I've watched more of these episodes than I can count and every homeowner has been a nice couple or family, but Clay is absolutely delightful. If I lived in Canada I would absolutely want these two as my neighbors.
I'm super impressed with the home owners and their forethought to make sure things are up to code and doing things right with permits and what not. Definitely a rare thing to see but an extremely welcome one.
Linseed oil on the wood shingles will allow it to last much longer and keep the seasoning to grey to be held back for many more years. Keeping the beautiful rich brown color.... I have seen roofs and siding last 40-50 years with linseed oil every few years.. You don't want to stain or paint wood shingles as they need to breath. They should also be installed on lath strips. To help with the breathing of the shingles. Wood shings soak water up like a sponge. Unlike a sponge they keep the water and swell to keep water from dripping through. This is why lath as it created airflow to dry shingles after a good rain. Allowing the shingles to last....
I am so pleased how it turned out really nice. The couple were happy to see their brand-new porch. Matt did good job to protect his crew from harm. It was a good thing that Matt had to think of another way to make it work after he discovered the major problems. Mike and Matt had an excellent crews and contractors to finish the works. High fives!!
I'm not a structural engineer. I'm not a contractor. I have no idea what the building codes say about that kind of room. But even I can tell that it's not safe, and that whoever built it did not know what they were doing and/or hired the cheapest workers possible. And that scares me, because if people are getting away with building that sort of thing in _Canada,_ what horrors do we have down here in the US?
Well I will say that shady contractors are all over the world. And they'll keep trying to get away with whatever they can until they're caught or fined or something. Because they're ripping off and there work could hurt good honest people.
No joke my parents second to last house. we wanted to redo the porch roof because that was bad. turned out the entire porch was supported by one 2 by 4. and we lived their for nearly a decade.
I think they said they tied in to internal structure for lateral support, hopefully not just that old brick wall. Like the look of brick but that mortar does decay and I don't see any lateral strength in it, particularly when it comes to earthquakes. I don't think many insurance companies will deal with brick homes? I do think they're full of baloney on their cedar claims though. It's a great look but as someone who grew up in a home with cedar decks and all cedar siding, I can attest that it's a pain in the ass. Sunlight in particular will strip those natural oils in one summer. I spent many summers as a kid in blistering heat re-staining cedar. And if it isn't the elements ruining the cedar, bugs will attack it like crazy too. There was a period also when cedar shakes were all the craze and those were awful as well.
Excellent job!! Too bad we couldn't see the full drawing at the end because of the 3 panels advertising other episodes and the Homeful logo in the middle of the screen. I so love watching these episodes!!
Thank You for sharing this interesting episode. It feels good to see Mike and his crew, not only fix the important problems, but also complete beautiful work.
Some of the errors Mike and crew find are not just wrong, they're life threatening! I would be terrified living in those places! This couple is lucky their whole house didn't take a nose dive! Thanks, Mike and crew!
There is NO DOUBT in my mind that Damion &his crew had multiple "depends" moments during the dismantling & rebuilding that back room. Reminds me of my grandparents house where the shandy & back bedroom were just "hung" onto the back of the house!😱😵😭. Done on a week-end and a 6-pack. EGADS!😫😲🤐😱 Doug , great work team!
My wish, after purchasing a home is that we had a Mike here in Australia. We have learned that if the power is turned off when the inspector comes through the property, there is probably a reason. Please Mike, come to Australia, you will be more tan welcome, and greatly appreciated. Your compassion and team are amazing. If only i had learned my lessons from your show 18 years ago i would be in a better place.
I'm sorry as a retired contractor of 43 years. When I first saw that back addition, it needed to be torn down. Everything was done wrong. Putting a bandage on a heart attack is a joke.
Mike Holmes made it a point to state that, yes it should of been torn down, but he said it was a possibility of salvaging and engineers were consulted to effect a safe and sound structure. The cost of tearing down and rebuilding new would be extremely costly that the two young people couldn't afford. Essentially, the structure was reengineered and restructured in situ and appropriate safety was considered. In a perfect world, Mike Holmes wouldn't have had a show if every place had to be torn down to be rebuilt.
You know time an time again we see these amazing people good people being taken advantage of and why? Because of a dollar is why! I just thank the Lord for people like Mike and his son daughter and Damon because they ALL will do the job the CORRECT WAY!
I've only just found your channel and I love it, I could watch renovations/repairs all day. It is very similar to our UK version, DIY SOS. Our building regs are very different to yours, our houses are mainly brick, with cavity insulation and roof tiles. My question is, do you ever go find the dodgy housing inspectors? Is there any come back on them? They are clearly putting lives at risk.
It breaks my heart when I see new homeowners get taken advantage of like this even when they took all the right steps. I just watched one on UA-cam where it was a new construction, it passed every city inspection, once they passed the COO they moved in and things started falling apart. Bucked floors, sagging ceilings and dozens of other items! They hired there own engineer, had the head city inspector come in and inspect it. They had a two page list of things wrong. The city refused to claim any responability, the builder will not take there calls. Having worked in the trades off and on for over 50 years and having owned a company that worked on nothing but 100 plus year old houses most often I can just walk around the outside and inside and find dozens of things wrong that the "inspector" never mentioned that were in plain sight.
Had the inspection done, I was work. The water heater had a single wall aluminum pipe venting right into the Sheetrock and the other pipe with the cap resting against its side. Amazed the house never burned down. Yeah he missed it. The cap was just restored no on the pass through pipe, which was done right.
I don't like to put ANY face nails or screws in shingles or flashing...I like to under bend or overbend or better yet do what I call a compression bend, use some caulking underneath the flashing, so when a few fasteners are needed, the caulking will do what the fasteners do...less face nailing, less opportunity for leaks later.
Watching these videos. Brings a question to mind. When home inspectors do such a terrible job? Miss such obvious damage or potentially harmful situations? Can the home inspector be sued? Would they be liable for repairs? And why are they not mentioned by name? So potential home buyers know not to hire.
We had this happen to us we were told O you only have to replace one bord over the door when we got in the house we took that bord off and we almost had the the whole thing come off the house. One one side we had to go up 6in on the other side 11in we were so blessed it didn't fall of the house and kill one of us.
I can't believe that the Tremco window installer did not place an self adhesive waterproof window flashing tape that is require in all 50 states for the installation of new windows. This would be a big advantage in the cold weather of Canada.
imma civil engineer. veeery cool piece of work. i new those concrete piers were hollow with zero bar. now a stouter-than code-structure with natural mat’ls, great connections, architectural interest. i was fortunate to find 8” sq. cedar posts from a local mill way down here in sou. Indiana for our covered deck off of the loft in our monitor barn style house. love this stuff. binge watchin’ Holmes…
they didn't need to overdramatize that concrete pillar breaking off at the ground. just mix up some mortar and put it back! of course it can snap off the way it did, but that means nothing about its ability to handle a compressing load
I’m surprised the camera person got up in that attic with that small of an access to it 😂 I just have one question how was it getting the camera person down?😅
That was a great finish, and their names remind me of my late husband George and mine is of cause Georgina and one more little bit my father's name was George very confusing when we were all in the same room and someone said George 3 heads turned
Cant have furnace exhaust next to air conditioner, because if furnace doesn't light, it may exhaust unburned gas that could be ignited by electrical equipment .Since when do the furnace and air conditioner work at the same time.
I'm a mechanic one of my customers his house isn't up to code if you walk into the bathroom and half bath you see above the sinks a small window but if you go outside those small windows are full windows just 3/4 blocked in with paint on them the two toilets are connected by a T to the same pipe a contractor came in he said it's not up to code I replaced the bathroom vent fan it's hooked into the AC vent so it's blowing steam into the AC ducts and the house is leaning to one side because when they built the house they didn't build up the soil over here the soil is all sand no rocks
query..?? I'm Australian...our homes either have Colourbond steel roofs or terracotta tiles..in the northern hem, you guys have a different sort of roofing material...WHY..?? is it because of your very cold winters..?? would terracotta tiles not hold up to weeks of snow on your roofs, or possibly break from the temperature differences from one month to the next..?? I'm really curious about the different styles of building homes from one country to the next..
From some looking around it seems like cost and durability to the weather differences/ upkeep are why they're not more common. I guess it would make sense if your climate stays pretty consistent year around. I noticed them everywhere in Arizona for instance, which doesn't have extreme winters.
A huge problem is we're often optimistic when looking at a new home that could be ours. This starts a pinwheel of disasters. We need to be UNtrusting and pessimistic to uncover problems. Realtors don't have a clue and don't WANT to know the problems. That interferes with sales.
I am trying to figure out how and why the property is divided how it is. Its strange from the backyard. The house in white is connected to their back wall but its the house next door. Plus the house on the other side the fence is part way into there house. Looks insane.
Why are the home inspectors in Canada, or anywhere, so sub par?? They need to have more comprehensive rules they must follow to avoid these horrors for new home owners.
Dodgy Building-addons like that are strictly illegal here in Finland. Ye can't even begin to built an addon if you dont have permits, blueprints and architect engineers verifications of them for that.
Damon was right, it would have been faster, cheaper, and less work to drop the entire addition and start from scratch. As much as Mike wanted to limit environmental impact by throwing away the material, I suspect in net output it was less environmentally friendly to spend all the extra work, resources, time (which equaled gas, electricity, etc. to keep parts of it). And if they wanted to they could have stripped the old growth framing lumber from the structure and recycled it into a less structural project.
Mike says everyone should get a home inspector, but we see so many inspected homes that are filled with things that "should have been seen". How do you find and hire a good inspector?
they bought a fixer upper. youre buying the land, foundation, and maybe the studs. Anything else is a bonus. It’s their fault for prob cheaping out on inspection. You need someone who specializes in these, but they will cost more b/c takes more than 2 hours
I've wondered about why the exhaust vents by the AC compressor are a problem. There isn't any air being taken up from outside and brought into the house from it, it's just a big radiator with a fan and a compressor pumping cooled gas to the unit inside, it's a sealed system. The air that blows throughout the house is from inside the house itself. Interesting hearing about the electrical reason.
The fan will pull the natural gas into the unit. Add in a spark from old or faulty wiring and you have the makings of a very destructive bomb. I could easily see it taking out half that house in seconds.
Criminy! I don't even have any formal training; just my upbringing as a grease monkey to my dad, and as an assistant in a handyman/remodel/repair service my late husband had--he was formerly a GC. I'm a "Jill of all trades, master of none" person, but even I would have caught these egregious issues that the so-called "inspector" was blind to!!
Inspector rated it 3 out of 10….it’s not a great score…I’m not sure what you’d be expecting…granted he didn’t say anything about the 2nd story…a lot of these inspectors aren’t builders, took a few classes…
We need a bloopers reel.
We have one uploaded! Check it out here: ua-cam.com/video/jRkuMilLQ0M/v-deo.html :)
I love how Mike is teaching them as he goes
I love how Damon takes control of his situation and team. It was really a good moment when he kept telling the crew member he doesn’t want it close to level, he wants it LEVEL.
Ya levels like being dead. You're either dead or you're not
There is difference between getting paid and not getting paid. There is no almost. Better get it level.
those concrete blocks shearing just as they finished adding the structure shows just how close the whole thing really was to collapsing
I've watched more of these episodes than I can count and every homeowner has been a nice couple or family, but Clay is absolutely delightful. If I lived in Canada I would absolutely want these two as my neighbors.
I'm super impressed with the home owners and their forethought to make sure things are up to code and doing things right with permits and what not. Definitely a rare thing to see but an extremely welcome one.
To Daman you & your crew done an extremely very good job restructuring that room & bringing the old back to a modern structure!
I miss Holmes on Homes great show ive watched every episode wish they would return
Linseed oil on the wood shingles will allow it to last much longer and keep the seasoning to grey to be held back for many more years. Keeping the beautiful rich brown color.... I have seen roofs and siding last 40-50 years with linseed oil every few years.. You don't want to stain or paint wood shingles as they need to breath. They should also be installed on lath strips. To help with the breathing of the shingles. Wood shings soak water up like a sponge. Unlike a sponge they keep the water and swell to keep water from dripping through. This is why lath as it created airflow to dry shingles after a good rain. Allowing the shingles to last....
I am so pleased how it turned out really nice. The couple were happy to see their brand-new porch. Matt did good job to protect his crew from harm. It was a good thing that Matt had to think of another way to make it work after he discovered the major problems. Mike and Matt had an excellent crews and contractors to finish the works. High fives!!
I'm not a structural engineer. I'm not a contractor. I have no idea what the building codes say about that kind of room. But even I can tell that it's not safe, and that whoever built it did not know what they were doing and/or hired the cheapest workers possible.
And that scares me, because if people are getting away with building that sort of thing in _Canada,_ what horrors do we have down here in the US?
Canada is worse than we are for this shit dude. Always has been.
Well I will say that shady contractors are all over the world. And they'll keep trying to get away with whatever they can until they're caught or fined or something. Because they're ripping off and there work could hurt good honest people.
No joke my parents second to last house. we wanted to redo the porch roof because that was bad. turned out the entire porch was supported by one 2 by 4. and we lived their for nearly a decade.
I think they said they tied in to internal structure for lateral support, hopefully not just that old brick wall. Like the look of brick but that mortar does decay and I don't see any lateral strength in it, particularly when it comes to earthquakes. I don't think many insurance companies will deal with brick homes? I do think they're full of baloney on their cedar claims though. It's a great look but as someone who grew up in a home with cedar decks and all cedar siding, I can attest that it's a pain in the ass. Sunlight in particular will strip those natural oils in one summer. I spent many summers as a kid in blistering heat re-staining cedar. And if it isn't the elements ruining the cedar, bugs will attack it like crazy too. There was a period also when cedar shakes were all the craze and those were awful as well.
@@Revkor thank the Lord it was found and properly fixed before anyone got hurt!
Damon reminds me of Elvis when he smiles. So adorable.
Excellent job!! Too bad we couldn't see the full drawing at the end because of the 3 panels advertising other episodes and the Homeful logo in the middle of the screen. I so love watching these episodes!!
ua-cam.com/video/jRkuMilLQ0M/v-deo.htmlsi=a8NDbjuwOlTUe6ZX&t=119
they show it on the bloopers compilation this channel uploaded see the link for the picture
Thank You for sharing this interesting episode. It feels good to see Mike and his crew, not only fix the important problems, but also complete beautiful work.
Some of the errors Mike and crew find are not just wrong, they're life threatening! I would be terrified living in those places! This couple is lucky their whole house didn't take a nose dive! Thanks, Mike and crew!
This project is by far the scariest one that I have seen you do!!
There is NO DOUBT in my mind that Damion &his crew had multiple "depends" moments during the dismantling & rebuilding that back room. Reminds me of my grandparents house where the shandy & back bedroom were just "hung" onto the back of the house!😱😵😭. Done on a week-end and a 6-pack. EGADS!😫😲🤐😱 Doug , great work team!
So happy for you! Now your trip to Florida will be a breeze!
My wish, after purchasing a home is that we had a Mike here in Australia. We have learned that if the power is turned off when the inspector comes through the property, there is probably a reason. Please Mike, come to Australia, you will be more tan welcome, and greatly appreciated. Your compassion and team are amazing. If only i had learned my lessons from your show 18 years ago i would be in a better place.
Power off, water off, doors locked, attic access sealed shut, cabinets and crawlspaces padlocked... All big red flags.
What a great job the crew has done! It's now safe and usable.
Fun fact Paul had his own show at one point it was called decked out. This is awesome.
Who's that?
Thank you for the fun fact! That woodwork made me sigh with admiration. Time to go watch some of his videos.
I can't believe the Inspector did not feel that upstairs porch move. Be kind to each other. Stay safe. Love to all
I'm sorry as a retired contractor of 43 years. When I first saw that back addition, it needed to be torn down. Everything was done wrong. Putting a bandage on a heart attack is a joke.
Where you from
Yep, I agree. If it was my project and my house I'd be tearing that garbage down and starting new
Mike Holmes made it a point to state that, yes it should of been torn down, but he said it was a possibility of salvaging and engineers were consulted to effect a safe and sound structure. The cost of tearing down and rebuilding new would be extremely costly that the two young people couldn't afford. Essentially, the structure was reengineered and restructured in situ and appropriate safety was considered. In a perfect world, Mike Holmes wouldn't have had a show if every place had to be torn down to be rebuilt.
WOW!! I actually teared up when I saw the deck for the first time! Great Job!
Great to see you guys having fun
Best episode - Helping young people embrace reality.
You know time an time again we see these amazing people good people being taken advantage of and why? Because of a dollar is why! I just thank the Lord for people like Mike and his son daughter and Damon because they ALL will do the job the CORRECT WAY!
No words to describe this. WAOOOO
I'm proud of the renovation myself. That cedar looks so good. Great job everyone!!!!!!
I do like the stairs on the side !. No words to describe this. WAOOOO.
I've only just found your channel and I love it, I could watch renovations/repairs all day. It is very similar to our UK version, DIY SOS. Our building regs are very different to yours, our houses are mainly brick, with cavity insulation and roof tiles. My question is, do you ever go find the dodgy housing inspectors? Is there any come back on them? They are clearly putting lives at risk.
Great Job Guys.
It breaks my heart when I see new homeowners get taken advantage of like this even when they took all the right steps.
I just watched one on UA-cam where it was a new construction, it passed every city inspection, once they passed the COO they moved in and things started falling apart.
Bucked floors, sagging ceilings and dozens of other items!
They hired there own engineer, had the head city inspector come in and inspect it.
They had a two page list of things wrong.
The city refused to claim any responability, the builder will not take there calls.
Having worked in the trades off and on for over 50 years and having owned a company that worked on nothing but 100 plus year old houses most often I can just walk around the outside and inside and find dozens of things wrong that the "inspector" never mentioned that were in plain sight.
Babe Ruth for MLB. Wayne Gretzky for NHL and it used to be Bob Villa for Construction but I guess Mike Holmes takes that to whole new Level🤔👍
We need Mike and crew in Australia badly
Canadians love their Robertson drive fasteners! 😉 Great episode!
They are literally 1000x better than philips
@@tylersmith9868 Theres no argument there!
In the uk HVAC use them on duct work, drywall Phillips everything else posi
Had the inspection done, I was work. The water heater had a single wall aluminum pipe venting right into the Sheetrock and the other pipe with the cap resting against its side. Amazed the house never burned down. Yeah he missed it. The cap was just restored no on the pass through pipe, which was done right.
Loved this video
I don't like to put ANY face nails or screws in shingles or flashing...I like to under bend or overbend or better yet do what I call a compression bend, use some caulking underneath the flashing, so when a few fasteners are needed, the caulking will do what the fasteners do...less face nailing, less opportunity for leaks later.
Watching these videos. Brings a question to mind. When home inspectors do such a terrible job? Miss such obvious damage or potentially harmful situations? Can the home inspector be sued? Would they be liable for repairs? And why are they not mentioned by name? So potential home buyers know not to hire.
We had this happen to us we were told O you only have to replace one bord over the door when we got in the house we took that bord off and we almost had the the whole thing come off the house. One one side we had to go up 6in on the other side 11in we were so blessed it didn't fall of the house and kill one of us.
Got to say this one impressive awesome job
That turned out very nice.
I enjoyed your explaining history an pros an cons each sit up.
I do like the stairs on the side !
I've never seen bigger smiles on the young people. Nice job holmes team
Superb video. Thanks for sharing Your passion and adventures from Toronto Ontario Canada 😎👍❤️❤️💯💯✨️✨️✨️
I can't believe that the Tremco window installer did not place an self adhesive waterproof window flashing tape that is require in all 50 states for the installation of new windows. This would be a big advantage in the cold weather of Canada.
Nice catch! I missed that.
That external room had a look of being "down on the exposed corner". Now, following the rebuild, that droop is absent.
Duh
That vent on the water heater was fine. I'd rather have the straight aluminum tube than a steel flex line.
Aluminum is against code.
@@jayman105 If you replace it.
I wish we could get a decent contract to come in and fix things. We can’t get anyone to come. It’s very frustrating.
imma civil engineer. veeery cool piece of work. i new those concrete piers were hollow with zero bar. now a stouter-than code-structure with natural mat’ls, great connections, architectural interest. i was fortunate to find 8” sq. cedar posts from a local mill way down here in sou. Indiana for our covered deck off of the loft in our monitor barn style house. love this stuff. binge watchin’ Holmes…
Thank god because you would make a really bad English teacher 😂😂😂
Agreed
they didn't need to overdramatize that concrete pillar breaking off at the ground. just mix up some mortar and put it back! of course it can snap off the way it did, but that means nothing about its ability to handle a compressing load
My dad would call that a "rope job", attach a rope from the structure to the truck and drive. After that's cleaned up you can do it over properly.
I’m surprised the camera person got up in that attic with that small of an access to it 😂 I just have one question how was it getting the camera person down?😅
They added a toilet/sink/kitchenette up there for him.
Probably gave tiny Clay the camera for a moment. That attic access was small!
The deck guy is Paul LaFrance, who went on to get his own shows on hgtv.
Nice job, but did they replace the A/C unit? And if so, where did they put it?
water heater should have its own flue all the way to the top of the chimney
I like ice & water shield against a structure, not just sill seal
Damon called it right from the start, lose the whole extension and start new
That was a great finish, and their names remind me of my late husband George and mine is of cause Georgina and one more little bit my father's name was George very confusing when we were all in the same room and someone said George 3 heads turned
Cant have furnace exhaust next to air conditioner, because if furnace doesn't light, it may exhaust unburned gas that could be ignited by electrical equipment .Since when do the furnace and air conditioner work at the same time.
how much does a permit for this job cost? any idea?
So in the end, what happens to the original home inspectors that OKs these homes that should have just about been bulldozed and started over??
I'm a mechanic one of my customers his house isn't up to code if you walk into the bathroom and half bath you see above the sinks a small window but if you go outside those small windows are full windows just 3/4 blocked in with paint on them the two toilets are connected by a T to the same pipe a contractor came in he said it's not up to code I replaced the bathroom vent fan it's hooked into the AC vent so it's blowing steam into the AC ducts and the house is leaning to one side because when they built the house they didn't build up the soil over here the soil is all sand no rocks
Let's pay tribute to the bravery and strength of 2x6 😂
WOW, she's so tiny! Cute!!
query..?? I'm Australian...our homes either have Colourbond steel roofs or terracotta tiles..in the northern hem, you guys have a different sort of roofing material...WHY..?? is it because of your very cold winters..?? would terracotta tiles not hold up to weeks of snow on your roofs, or possibly break from the temperature differences from one month to the next..?? I'm really curious about the different styles of building homes from one country to the next..
From some looking around it seems like cost and durability to the weather differences/ upkeep are why they're not more common. I guess it would make sense if your climate stays pretty consistent year around. I noticed them everywhere in Arizona for instance, which doesn't have extreme winters.
How much did the reconstruction cost?
Dude looks like an adult version of Bobby Brady from The Brady Bunch sitcom.
A huge problem is we're often optimistic when looking at a new home that could be ours. This starts a pinwheel of disasters. We need to be UNtrusting and pessimistic to uncover problems. Realtors don't have a clue and don't WANT to know the problems. That interferes with sales.
I am trying to figure out how and why the property is divided how it is. Its strange from the backyard. The house in white is connected to their back wall but its the house next door. Plus the house on the other side the fence is part way into there house. Looks insane.
Are there any legal repercussions for the original home inspector who “missed” so many obviously dangerous issues?
I like how no one points out that the neighboring unit has an identical 3 season room....., and the house next door.
Did I just hear a professional say on camera that Aluminum would start rusting?!
Yes you did !
Aluminum does rust aka corrode.
Yes, aluminium do rust, under certain conditions yes.
It’s off an 1/8. I WANT IT LEVEL!!!!!!!
You know, I know very little about construction, but that addition looks scary as hell.
How can this happen
I’ve watched these
Why are they still in business
Hope they get taken to court
Did you end up recruiting the guy to help out on a job? That would be such an amusing flashback.
Why are the home inspectors in Canada, or anywhere, so sub par?? They need to have more comprehensive rules they must follow to avoid these horrors for new home owners.
Love to be an Inspector no consequences
Dodgy Building-addons like that are strictly illegal here in Finland. Ye can't even begin to built an addon if you dont have permits, blueprints and architect engineers verifications of them for that.
How did the camera man get into the attic?
Mike should come inspect my house
Do the couple have a chance of taking homes Inspector to court ?
Damon was right, it would have been faster, cheaper, and less work to drop the entire addition and start from scratch. As much as Mike wanted to limit environmental impact by throwing away the material, I suspect in net output it was less environmentally friendly to spend all the extra work, resources, time (which equaled gas, electricity, etc. to keep parts of it). And if they wanted to they could have stripped the old growth framing lumber from the structure and recycled it into a less structural project.
How'd they get the cameraman up in the attic to show he's stuck? It's all show.
Mike says everyone should get a home inspector, but we see so many inspected homes that are filled with things that "should have been seen". How do you find and hire a good inspector?
I don't think we can ever know.
they bought a fixer upper. youre buying the land, foundation, and maybe the studs. Anything else is a bonus. It’s their fault for prob cheaping out on inspection. You need someone who specializes in these, but they will cost more b/c takes more than 2 hours
im intersted in how the camera person got in and not mike
Drywall screws through the shingles?
It's amazing how terrible most of these home inspectors are. Issues they fail to notice, sometimes can or could be fatal.
I've wondered about why the exhaust vents by the AC compressor are a problem. There isn't any air being taken up from outside and brought into the house from it, it's just a big radiator with a fan and a compressor pumping cooled gas to the unit inside, it's a sealed system. The air that blows throughout the house is from inside the house itself. Interesting hearing about the electrical reason.
The fan will pull the natural gas into the unit. Add in a spark from old or faulty wiring and you have the makings of a very destructive bomb. I could easily see it taking out half that house in seconds.
Safety Helmet ?
That attic access is ridiculous lol
This is an old episode again? I'm confused.
All of these episodes are "old". They were broadcast between roughly 2003 and 2021, depending on which Holmes show they were from.
Criminy! I don't even have any formal training; just my upbringing as a grease monkey to my dad, and as an assistant in a handyman/remodel/repair service my late husband had--he was formerly a GC. I'm a "Jill of all trades, master of none" person, but even I would have caught these egregious issues that the so-called "inspector" was blind to!!
“Jill of all trades, master of none, is still better than master of one” (the full proverb)
Correct saying is a master of one not a master of none.
Inspector rated it 3 out of 10….it’s not a great score…I’m not sure what you’d be expecting…granted he didn’t say anything about the 2nd story…a lot of these inspectors aren’t builders, took a few classes…
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IMHO this was THE most dangerous job Mike has ever undertaken.
If they ever need a cup of sugar they can just reach into their neighbors window from their and grab it. lol
I would never buy a house you can walk out of your bathroom window and into your neighbors bedroom.. those houses are to close to the property lines.