Examples of Defects Found During Utah Home Inspections


This BLOG contains problems I discovered during my home inspections. Does this condition exist in your new home. Or can there be other “*material defect:”* A material defect is a situation that has a significant safety, structural, or financial condition. Following are conditions I found and additional comments from highly respected and experts in the home inspection industry.

	InfraRed Picture of Stucco Exterior and Rotten Wood.


	Posted June 1, 2010 by Kurt Salomon - Advocate inspections.


	This is an InfraRed picture of a stucco areas of a house in Sandy. The color variation shows lower temperatures and associated moisture. The probes on the right showed the wood was saturated and rotten.


	Leaking Basement in Brand New House


	Posted May 15, 2009 by Kurt Salomon - Advocate Inspections.


	This is a brand new home with a leaking basement. And who out there says you do not to have a home inspection on a brand new house?


	Lack of Secondary Overflow of AC on Second Floor


	Posted May 8, 2009 by Scott Patterson - Trace Inspections, TN




		Note the red plug is where there should be a secondary line.




		At the old right plug there is a safety water sensor to shut of the air conditioner for safety

Secondary Overflow Ever notice the water under your car after your AC has been running. This is the AC condensation. in the basement, it goes onto the concrete and there to a floor drain. But if the AC furnace is on the second floor there needs to be the sensor on the right or a pipe with discharge to a conspectus location. If there is malfunction, the water will damage the drywall ceiling below.


	Improper Foundation Walls


	Posted May 1, 2009 by Kurt Salomon - Advocate Inspections, Midvale, UT




		This is a cement block foundation wall that does not have a footer below the wall as required. To make matters worse this house is in a seismic area.




	Railroad ties can be used for landscaping, but not retaining walls of a stairway leading to a cellar.


	Foundation Walls The foundation walls and associated footers provide the stability and base of the house. This house, over one hundred years old has several significant defects in regard to the foundation. Some of the foundation walls are dirt, stone and wood. Woo is me.

Kurt Salomon

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Examples of Defects Found During Utah Home Inspections