I’m not following what the dangerous situation was. Was there 200 Amp service through an undersized 100 Amp cable to a 200 Amp panel? That could be dangerous. Or was there a 200 Amp panel connected to a 100 amp cable being supplied by a 100 amp service. That is not a problem.
Maybe he was keeping them for a friend?
Not exactly a home inspection story but somewhat along the same line:
A previous owner of my house was a heavy drinker according to my neighbor. When
I tore down an old garden shed in the back yard I found about half a dozen beer
and liquor bottles hidden under the floor. Later I ripped up the grass in the back yard to
replace it with low water plants and found a vodka bottle buried under the
ground. It had a bit of clear liquid inside but I didn’t try tasting it to see if it
was vodka or rain water that had seeped into the bottle.
This wasn’t caught by the inspector, and we didn’t notice because the grass was knee-high. One of the lawn sprinklers had been replaced with a shower head. I found it with the lawn mower. After that it was a fountain for a couple of weeks.
A 100 Amp cable from the service head on the outside of the building, down the building, to the 200 AMP main panel.
A couple posters mentioned the cost, well it included the power company fee to turn off the power to the house. The old 100 amp had to be pulled and the new 200 amp cable had to be terminated at the service head. Here in this power company service area they had to be here for that change.
Not on inspection, but after move in of my house: In a closet that I wasn’t using, there was a bunch of spare closet parts for shelving. What I didn’t notice for a few months was the small box that was not spare closet parts, but a ball gag and a couple of leather wrist cuffs with small padlocks.
A trash sack full of Beanie Babies in the attic.
No they were not worth anything. I checked. I ended up just throwing them out.
I refuse to look this up on my work computer, but what is a masturbation sleeve???
That’s a given of course. Perhaps they were thinking of future plans?
It’s a fake vagina - in other words, the male version of a dildo.
We have a septic tank, and every five years we get it pumped.
The first time, about ten years ago, the septic guy asks, “Where’s your filter?”
He showed my husband where there’s supposed to be a filter thingy in the part of the septic tank that comes above ground (thick pipe, used for access.)
Hmmm, we say. We contact the contractor, who contacted the guy who put in the septic tank.
Turns out, this guy was using the same filter over and over. They were expensive, he figured the homeowner would never know (We only know to get our tank pumped every five years because my dad, who helps install them, made it a point of how important it was) and he would put it in for the inspection and take it out again.
The contractor must have blistered his ear, because he drove out that afternoon to put it in for us. But if it weren’t for my dad, we never would have known.
We had something similar - first thing that broke after I bought my house was the toilet started backing up. My plumber found that a) it was ancient clay pipe, possibly original to the house, which had essentially disintegrated, and b) that since at some point my lot had been subdivided it ran off our property. That was an expensive fix, and he would have charged more if he’d known just what a pain digging that new trench was gonna be.
A filter? :dubious: What is a filter for in a septic tank?
well thank you! solids? Aren’t they suppose to go in the tank?
I can see it being on the bottom end before it gets to the field but…
There’s an access pipe and they go in there.
Specifically, there’s an outflow pipe with aboveground access at the bottom end and that’s where the filter goes.
My first 11 years were spent in a house with a septic tank.
Thanks, I knew there was a pipe jutting out of the ground and that’s where the filter went. The last three times we got the tank pumped I was at work and Ivylad handled.
Is this state specific? We dont know of any around here. There was am new house, in fact a few new ones that do not have this item
That’s a real headscratcher, to be sure. Can you force the sellers to redo the insulation with something that isn’t, yanno, a FIRE HAZARD??
And what’s with attic access always being a trapdoor somewhere no human can get to? Our current house is like that. Our previous house was too (though we actually had pulldown stairs put in). The house I grew up in was like that too - and my parents actually used the attic for off-season storage.
Not the inspection, but the townhouse we moved into in the late 80s was less than 2 years old. When we first turned on the furnace that fall, it sounded like there was a very small, and very pissed-off, person stuck inside the furnace, kicking it to try to escape. We called a service company and described it, saying “Um, can we run the thing? is the house gonna burn down?”. The clerk put us on hold, and came back on the phone a few minutes later and said “The techs tell me that sometimes construction workers will toss in a soda can just as a prank”.
Well, the tech got there the next day and said “I don’t think that’s it at all”.
And he was right. he opened that thing up and no soda can.
There was, however, a quart-sized plastic jug that had contained some kind of “fruit” beverage at some point. :smack: