Inspector Makes Questionable Excuse To Not Inspect Roof | Holmes Inspection 209
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2024
- Stuart and Kim hired a home inspector before they purchased, just to be safe. But he seemed reluctant to go up on the roof and they later discovered he had declined to do a full roof inspection due to “snow and ice.” In July! He missed all sorts of entry holes for critters and cold draughts. Sure enough, their bathroom is almost too cold to use in winter weather. What else did this home inspector miss? Mike Holmes will find out, and Damon and the crew will help Make It Right®.
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My wife and I wanted to buy a house. It needed a lot of work. We put money down with a purchase agreement dependent on a home inspection. The inspector came and asked us for $300 for the inspection. A half hour later he said "don't buy this house, I am only going to charge you $150". That is a home inspector. We didn't buy the house.
How lucky is Sherry. Having Mike as a Dad means not only learning construction from the best, but also learning how to be a good human being.
She has a great sense of humor too :)
Mike: Am I going to have to dig a hole?
(Cut to Mike Jr. digging a hole.)
Classic dad action.
But Junior always has a smile on!
Even though I live in Australia, I have learnt alot from watching Mike Holmes. ❤
You find a void between the bathroom and the outside wall, why not eliminate the void and give that space back to the house? Right after I ask the question, Damon answers it. But the real reason is that it was cheaper to go their way.
turning a cold zone into a warm zone requires redrawing the plans, which could take months to get full approval on
The fact he says "I personally guarantee it." and you know he means it! Love that.
99% of home inspector are not trade certified including Mike Holmes
Not necessarily, very recently, a few new houses his company built had to be torn down from major flaws in the build, I think these were houses built by his team with out him being present during the build..
The construction company that built that house certainly dropped the ball!
Why did they leave all of those empty spaces above the garage and in the attic?
Always interesting seeing the difference in building techniques and materials across the pond.
No one sees all of the work behind the walls. Boy that is right. When I did my last house, fully insulating the bedroom walls(exterior and interior), individual electric circuit to each bedroom, 6 ml vapor barrier, drywall, baseboard and paint. $2000 in materials and the only thing you see in the room is $300 in drywall and $50 in paint.
What you can't see is what's most important.
The wife does not care..... As long as it looks ok.@@Jeff-xy7fv
Just like a haircut tells you nothing about your cardiac health.
after purchasing three houses (i know way to many times) we have found that you cannot trust home inspectors to do their job...
But their job is to get the transaction completed, which they always do
I remember seeing this house when the episode first aired and my question is... Why did the builder build in that 3 foot gap instead of just making the bathroom 3 feet bigger? The entire bathroom issue was created because they created that 3 foot attic space instead of just pushing the wall out the rest of the way to the exterior wall and insulating like a exterior wall.
When you buy a house the realtor will give you some contact numbers for an inspector. He will tell you that you pay the inspector ( you pay a lot) so he works for you not the realter . BS if the inspector finds too much wrong the deal falls through. Simple right ? you are not gonna pay full price with a bunch of defects..Most inspectors will overlook a lot so the realtor makes the sale. The realtor gives out his name a lot. One hand washes the other. If you can hire a contractor on your own to do the inspection.
Good video. @33:53 I like the Time Horton's cup stopping up the toilet drain. 🤣
I hate when plumbers do that. It doesn't stop the stink, only stops stuff from falling in.
I always have to take it out and put a sponge in a bag and re block it.
Sure, not having pipes secure is one reason they bang, but I know a lot of areas who DONT require air chambers...I don't agree w this...I have ALWAYS used air chambers when doing plumbing.
That ensuite bath is PALATIAL! Wonderful!
Carpet in the bathroom that is a big no no 😮
Back in the day that was cool
@@1packatak you got that right
Once upon a time, it was the “in” thing. It was never a good idea, but it was common. One major difference was the grade of plywood used. Also, it was often painted, so it was sealed
@@mattbarrett41 that is so true about that matter of how the sub floor was treated and the type of carpet that was used to cover the floor
I'm 60. I remember when bathroom carpeting was "swanky". Until you have to live with it! Gack! Always wet after a bath or shower, and the guys had to be careful around the toilet. Ick! Nope. Go tile!
You can mix the floor grout a LITTLE wetter...& I like to spray or sprinkle/mist the tile as I go so the grout spreads nice & easy & so the tile doesn't soak up the moisture out of the grout as I'm goin.
Thank You for sharing this episode! It is one I haven't seen and I enjoyed very much.
Some question on how 'good' or 'proficient' Mike really is. I have watched hundreds of these shows & can say with decent certainty that he is in the 80-90% bracket. I have found some things he can do better. One is I DO NOT believe in using plastic as a vapor barrier. If ANY moisture gets trapped on EITHER side of the plastic...it stays trapped. He uses a lot of spray foam, which I love. However, he uses a lot of batt insulation w NO paper barrier. We called this paper 'faced' insulation. Another is they don't use drywall glue when installing drywall. I think this is a HUGE no no. I have been glueing my drywall for 40+ years. I would love to have my own show. Maybe in my next life. Oh wait...there won't be drywall in Heaven...just a lot of gold.
No one glues drywall in North America you slap it on the studs screw it and mud it.
Gold in heaven ROFLMAO...no heaven no hell no gold no diamonds sorry...
I agree about the plastic. I was in my daughter’s first house when it was being built. I was astounded to see plastic on all the walls before the drywall was installed! When I commented on it, she told me that it was done according to British Columbia’s building code. I don’t like it as then the house can’t breathe. It might be good for the rest of Canada, but the weather is very different on the west coast. 🇨🇦
I love it how the electricians say 'circuit is overloaded'. People should really differentiate oversubscribed and overloaded... I very much doubt the circuit was actually overloaded (they are pushing more current through the X number of outlets than the circuit is rated for)
Might be a difference in terminology from different countries.
Another example is Marrettes, which is a brand name, and in Canada is used as an all-around name for what we in the US call wire caps, wire nuts, thimble connectors, or one of a few other names.
As an electrician myself. It comes down to demand factoring. An average cct can only have 12 devices on it. Plugs and or lights. Most branch ccts are run with 14awg. Good for 15 amps. However if you have 20 plugs and lights on a cct. It’s likely that if all the plugs are used and all the lights are on. it will overload the cct and trip the breaker. To avoid nuisance tripping you should only load the breaker at 80% capacity. There are some ccts that are also supposed to be dedicated and cannot be share with other devices. A good example of this is making the refrigerator a dedicated receptacle. This is done so that overloading that plug cct won’t likely trip the breaker and causing your food to spoil.
Also, when I got started in the trades, I worked for the first 15 years or so hanging & taping drywall. Sure, the house looks great when done, but NO ONE sees behind the drywall. I did, & the workmanship 90% of the time was hideous. Welcome to America!!
Why is there not a “Liability Bond” as well as “Malpractice Insurance” required for home inspectors who DON’T do their own due-diligence?.
That way? There would be recourse….
Home inspectors are mostly a tool for the real estate industry to sell houses. Even hiring one separately is no guarantee. There are very few qualifications for being an inspector. Waiving liability is standard. There's essentially no accountability.
ALWAYS educational !
Good pick up in the garage. Seeing intact, sealed drywall, I wouldn’t have touched it. The bathroom was an obvious gut/renovation. If the space was that cold, it needed to be investigated. And rug around the toilet……….. clearly decorated by someone who wasn’t thinking about men peeing
I guarantee they trapped that squirrel in there when they sealed that vent. Little dude couldn’t get back out. That’s the risk you take if no one way door or trap isn’t used prior to the exclusion work. Ended up nice though!!
Watch out for stablok breakers they dont trip and set your house on fire.
Make sure if you see them during a inspection or you are looking yourself there red breakers and the box itself is labeled stablok.
It's a 15,000 repair take 15,000 off the house
Nice work Mike!
Praise the Lord....this may be the NICEST attic I've seen on a show yet...but I haven't seen the whole video yet.
The fabled carpeted bathroom. Whoever back in the day proposed the idea is a true troll
I’m sure our Lord is smiling at you. You are so generous and I love your videos, and I try not miss one. Thank you. Guy in California.
You can honestly say that each house that they work on would be considered the diamonds in the rough after they’ve worked on these houses you say they are the brightest things in the whole neighborhood that they work in
Sadly I've a cold house too ! Mike if your listening !! 🙏
I hate modern home construction that creates voluminous voids between the interior and exterior of the structure..... Just for aesthetics.
m o a r d o r n e r s
I just found your channel. Wish I waa able to get lucky enough to own a home let alone having a whole team make a bullet proof home like the episode I watched first.
I'm curious, what ever happened to the homes you help build and then they had to get demolished because of the dangers?
Thank you for bringing this up! I worked with a guy who worked for Mike and said he was a complete hack. Real tradesmen don't think very highly of this guy at all.
@LoudandclearRC I worked with a guy who worked for Mike?
People don't like this show because Mike doesn't name names of inspectors, here you are doing the same thing.
Name your guy!
Question? Why was the bathroom wall not extended to the outer wall to gain more space?
Amazing when you have the Tools to do the job right the first time.
Along with the knowledge, the workers, and the caring for others.
The thing that is real scary. The home inspector that gave you a bad home inspection is going to continue giving bad home inspection's. Which are going to cost new home buyer's a lot of money after they buy the home. That inspector will never be fined, billed, or arrested. This need's to have been changed a long time ago.
why mike doesnt bring in the home owners at the spray foam moment to show the deep internal work before drywall always seemed like a missed appreciation opportunity to me
Ray Stevens Mississippi Squirrel Revival . This reminds me of the song when Mike Holmes talks about pulling his overalls on in case he finds animals. I mean in the song the squirrel ran up the one guy's overalls
When your father asks "Do I have to dig a hole?"
When Mike puts on the overalls, you know it's serious
I didnt know you could mount circuit breaker panels horizontally. Ive never seen mounted like that in chicago so far
most are vertical. It's strange to see one horizontal unless space or framing is an issue, plus a horizontal panel harder to wire.
If I had full permission to knock down walls and demolish the house I'd probably find hidden problems too! Lol you give clients options of levels of inspections and then the price package goes up and up depending on add-ons. You want thermal imaging of the whole house it's gonna cost a whole lot more and most people don't want to pay that but some do.
There are companies in England that are taking out foam insulation because it rots the wood
Hey Martin, just an idea. Use a shop vac to clean out pipes like that. Simple & easy
Exactly what I was thinking. Also great for cleaning wet leaves from gutters.
Is it a Canada thing that all the electrical panels are sideways? Is there a perk to this?
Not usually most are vertical. It's strange to see one horizontal unless space or framing is an issue, plus a horizontal panel harder to wire.
It is weirdly common on this show.
I've said it so many times, why do inspectors always get away with getting something completely wrong with an inspection so often?
Now they cannot be held accountable at all.
Home buyers should also look up documentation on the most common defects that occur in homes and do more research before purchasing a home, because it appears that most inspectors have absolutely no idea what is and is not allowed for defects.
I understand that you don't know anything about construction, etc., but there are so many simple things that a home buyer can investigate when buying a house.
The builder of that subdivision used the homes name to make money . Mike has helped so many people over the years . Do u really think he would build houses that had to be demolished. Maybe you should really think that threw bud
I don't understand why you would not get rid of that void that would make the bathroom a lot bigger
One plus one equals two. Two plus two equals crap in my world. Lol
What about the bay window issue?
I had a year long battle with possums. They got in my ductwork and had babies. I found their entrance and fixed it than trapped a lot but one big one died. I had to locate it and drag it out. Also, maybe the babies died in the ductwork and man what a nightmare that was.
I would have moved the gable wall back under the eave. Giving better coverage to keep the snow from piling up against the wall.
That would’ve given them the option of having that extra 2 foot on the bathroom interior as well. That useless void that they boxed in on that window wall? Yea that was odd
The show might not be able to name the inspector but nothing can stop the home owners from putting it on the Internet which I would not only do that but would add this show for them to view 😮
It’s a three day course provided by individual states. Simple money maker to make homeowners and banks happy so they get a loan. Just check the box
Hopefully you used the wasted space in the bathroom and made storage for towels or a bench something
I think I know how this is going to start, take it all down I want to see what else he missed. Then I can make it right this is a Holmes inspection.
What was the final cost for all of this job
Inspectors arent liable to being sued if they do such bad job?
They must have forgotten the bay window bottom.
I heard his houses had to get torn down
They make much too big of a deal about "offgassing from vehicles". Nobody idles their car for hours in the garage, and nobody backs into a garage, so the amount of exposure is tiny. You breathe in far more just crossing the street. Sure, it SHOULD be sealed off, but it's just not an issue in the grand scheme of things. The heat escaping through it is a MUCH bigger problem. It just feels like a scummy scare tactic.
Yes, thank you.
Do people have any idea how long you'd have to run your car to get lethal amounts of co under those door gaps.
@@Scubamike4499 It's more than CO entering the home. There can be solvents, pesticides, etc. that can leak into the home.
Oh dear, spray foam?!
At least 70-80% of homeowners DON'T maintain their homes...thus, they fall into disrepair.
I have so many friends that I'm the "handy man" for.
I can't believe how many don't know how to change a furnace filter, shut off water main, even shut off a breaker.
Homeowners need to educate themselves about their homes.
That's the best thing about UA-cam
Hey Mike how's 3rd line homes coming along the one you backed up with the 8 million dollar lawsuit after 2 year old houses being torn down !😨
once again, ain't nobody fitting a car in that garage with all that crap in the way.
? are these home inspectors licenced... what responsibilities do they have .... can they be prosecuted or their license revoked ?
😊 should be so proud of your team 😊🤗😁
I really wish people would stop putting this guy on a pedestal.
I do really wish these shows would actually help out the working class and not the middle class with fixing their homes. I assume there is no money to be made helping more needy homeowners though. Better to help people who can afford to pay someone to fix it.
What most people DON'T know is that programs like Mikes get almost all the financial support from sponsors. Homeowners rarely have to come up with money, if any. But, you have a great idea.
You don't watch this show much
Mike pays for most of the fixes and the home owners are only responsible for 10%
"home inspectors"
Well, I'm paid time for the next house, "everything looks good"
Home owners, yay!
2 weeks later, call mike
Mike, dig a hole
Make it right, except for your company.
foam is not a good solution. the owners will feel the smell and get sick. soon this guy will be sued
13:30 Raccoons make latrines and do their business in the same latrine over and over. Fascinating, if disgusting.
Bullshit...any decent HVAC guy will tape all the joints...WHY, because they have integrity.
How stupid would you have to be to put carpet in a wet room ?
Home inspectors are a total waste of money. They work with the realtor and to ensure they continue working for the realtor they must not find anything of any value on the inspection.
That's why *you* pay for one and don't go with the realtor's.
Kate and Sheri look like they are just as tough as the guys.
'promo sm' 🏃
Dude needs to exercise more and snowmobile less
People still sharing Mike Holmes videos despite the fact that he worked with builders so bad new homes had to be torn down?
Although the homebuilder was approved by Holmes they did not buy the inspection package that would have ensured they were inspected by Holmes inspectors. The builder only wanted to be able to use Mike's name a had no intention of following code.
Holmes said his company had no access to the development's houses during construction, so it was unable to "assist in verifying or identifying potential problems."
Holmes also said he continues to stand proudly by his record, and that he and his company "will not be deterred in our mission to help homeowners Make It Right."
It's not the first time or last time a company will word something in a contract that the buyer misses.
Get your facts straight
@@thomaskohler482 They're pretty straight. He lent his clout to a terrible builder.
PLEASE FIX THE LIVESTREAM
It’s working now
I BLAME THE CITY INSPECTORS. THEY ALLOW THIS SHITTY WORMANSHIP TO CONTINUE IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!!!!!
All that work, time and money and they didn't bother to replace/upgrade that cheesy and outdated bathroom sink and cabinetry. Boggles the mind to say the least.
Where was this filmed? It's nice to see blond women working construction. :)
You shouldn't have continued with the area off the garage until you put on masks and maybe more to remove that raccoon poop. Raccoon poop is dangerous to humans!!!
Every drywall screw was threw the paper.. thats not quality.. those sheets will pop loose down the road.. maybe 5 years, maybe 10.. but it will. Ive yet to see an episode where the drywall hanging looked quality.. and you dimwhits can say "anyone can hang drywall" but who wants a sheet of 5/8s drywall falling off their ceiling and killing their child cause it wasnt screwed off properly?
I am genuinely astonished that this individual continues to present himself as an authority on home construction and renovations, a claim that his actual expertise does not support. The glaring gaps in his comprehension are not only evident but also quite disconcerting. It leaves me shaking my head. I find myself contemplating the idea of revisiting the residences he claimed to have "made right" to witness firsthand how enduring his purported repairs have proven to be. Individuals of this caliber pose a significant risk to homeowners, and their semblance of knowledge can be profoundly misleading. It underscores the importance for homeowners to exercise caution and steer clear of those whose understanding of the subject matter is evidently lacking. A little knowledge is a very dangerous thing.
that music absolutely sucks..................ggggooooonnnnnneeeeee
wtf..
toilet... ontop of carpet ? sorry but the more i see of us building 'technic' ...its like 7 idiots , and 2 flat out frauds out of 10 examples :/ ontop of so lose laws for building code a sodding 10 years old could do better just searching the tube for 'how to' vids from other continents :/
Loud, obnoxious music makes this unwatchable.
I am disappointed in Mike so I am not watching. Mike if you put your name on something you need to make it right. 😢
Mike You have no trade certification. I wouldn't let you inspect a shit house
For being stupid now that this home zone video your insurance company won't pay your claim for putting gas cans it's like you're setting this up to burn
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