Condominium Real-Estate Home Inspector Rusted Steel Failure


Condominium Real-Estate Home Inspector Rusted Steel Failure. A nice family with two little children lived in a two story condominium located above a concrete and structural steel parking garage that was becoming structurally unsound and had the potential to collapse. A home inspector was employed by a nice lady to inspect the condominium that was located next door to this very nice family. The home inspector noticed that the exterior trench drains that were located at all the exterior common areas were rather small. The inspector insisted on inspecting the lower level common parking garage. While in the parking garage, the inspector noticed that upper level common area trench drains leaked and has caused severe rusting, corrosion and damaged to the structural steel the holds up all four of the condominiums. The home inspector also wondered what was happening to other parking garages in this same complex. The inspector informed the nice lady that building collapse or failure was possible if these conditions were not repaired. The nice lady called the condominium association board members which consisted mostly of retired elders. These elders stated, that nothing was wrong with their parking garage and that all the garage leaks were being properly controlled with plastic. The nice lady decided that the structural steel is going to kill this deal so her bough a different condominium at different complex the home inspector made and additional $325 dollars. The moral of the story is, home inspectors who find more house problems make more money. You are probably wondering what ever happed to the nice family with two little children, so are we because we have absolutly no clue. The End. Please rate and subscribe.

Aluminum Clad, Vinyl Clad, Window Deterioration THE TRUTH Pella Andersen


Video explains how aluminum clad and vinyl clad casement, awing, double hung, and single hung windows and slicing exterior doors deteriorate. The video shows four different ways these windows and doors fail. These windows and doors can deteriorate from, poor design, poor manufacturing, poor installation, and high indoor humidity. These windows and doors have an aluminum and vinyl exterior adhered window skin. This exterior window skin acts like an exterior vapor barrier which traps moisture and does not permit the drying to the exterior. When it is cold outside, which occurs in cold weather climate zones, which is roughly 60% of the USA, a dew point forms on the interior side of the vinyl and aluminum skin resulting in condensation, rot, deterioration and failure. Homes with moisture generators such as ventless heaters, poor dryer vents, furnace humidifiers, vented crawl spaces, foundation leaks, and sump pumps that do not have 100% sealed lids create high indoor humidity which augments and accelerated the deterioration process of these types of windows. . The video will teach the observer about building science, vapor diffusion, high indoor humidity, high indoor vapor pressure, condensation and residential window forensics. Additionally, the video will show examples of Marvin, Pella, and Andersen and other manufacturer windows that are experiencing window failure problems, homeowner complaints and class action lawsuits. ASHI certified Home inspector Marko Vovk from <a href="http://
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Popping House Zits


Exterior paint blisters, peeling, and cracking paint that occur on older homes may be the cause of high indoor humidity. High indoor humidity is caused by indoor moisture generators such as a running furnace humidifier, a ventless heater, a dirt crawl space, a leaking dryer vent, a bathroom fan not properly exhausting, and much more. When the homes indoor humidity is higher than the exterior humidity, and grains of water travel through the walls to the exterior through a veichal called vapor diffusion. Older houses have many layers of paint that act like a plastic vapor barrier that does not let the house breath. In the winter, it is colder and dew point temperature is reached on the backside of the many layers of paint. Condensation occurs and water starts to accumulate like a water balloon until it pops like a zit and leaks out. Marko Vovk ClevelandMold, ClevelandMarko <a href="http://
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