Hidden Reason to get a Home Inspection
Just another example of why you should get a home inspection prior to spending your hard earned money on your dream home. As you can see by the picture, a shoddy repair job would have given a few clues something wasn’t right. As a buyer of a house, what would you have done next?
Part of my passion as a Dallas and Fort Worth area home inspector is to get to the bottom of little things that others wouldn’t think to observe. My first move was to look at different areas located around this particular area, ie, laundry room, bathroom, etc. When looking in a very small linen closet next to this room I came across another ceiling issue the present homeowner failed to look at or hide and the next pic shows what I had found.
As you can see, we got a little growth going on. Although the growth hasn’t been tested for mold yet, we can come to our own conclusions. So we know this is a moisture problem and the next step is to isolate where the moisture was coming from. Above the area in the attic, there was only the vent pipe for the dryer coming up through the ceiling and going up and discharging through the roof. As you can see by the next picture, someone definitely had come and repaired a previous leak from the dryer vent that penetrated through the roof.
Of course none of these issues were listed on the homeowner disclosure statement. Most things I find that have been previously repaired aren’t on a disclosure statement as expected by the report itself. When we removed some insulation from this area, the issue was extending through 4 different rooms and just a new fresh coat of paint was covering it up.
If your planning on buying a home, new or used, and don’t have the construction experience to inspect yourself, you owe it to yourself to get a home inspection from a quality home inspector.
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