I was thinking about this, the spacing was enlarged so the whole roof section is some percentage weaker than designed. Say maybe 5-10%. So you make each truss that much stronger, idk with plywood webbing or something. Or the engineer calculates it still has a sufficient margin of safety. Just thoughts from a mechanical engineer.
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610my first time watching, how come you don't know that particular gas furnace pulls its combustion air from outside. Why do you think they have two pipes going outside?
Yeah . . . I'm not thinking about the load-carrying capacity. Even if you add stud shoes, I think the wall is weaker - front to back. Sheetrock isn't going to strengthen the wall. . . . All in all, I wouldn't use 2X4s for that wall.
Nearly ALL third party real estate inspectors do GREAT jobs inspecting homes because it's their PROFESSION. Takes a lot of years and education and experience to get "State Certified" and requirements are difficult in most states. As a 30 year real estate appraiser I always really appreciated these guys' work....
Right?!? I recently purchased a home that was a newer build. I've had to spend more than 5 figures fixing what my "inspector" missed. Good Job @inspectorhomesinc.7610
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610 And that is what the ones in power want. The USA is quickly becoming a third world country. I am a licensed electrician with 40 years of experience and I have seen the steady decline first hand.
@@doubleslit9513I built 2 new homes, when it came to walls having a lot of mechanical running through them? I ran to the lumber yard and just used 2x6's as studs and the problem was solved?
The more I watch inspection videos, the less I could build a new home at this point. The builder would never finish or would end up walking away from the job, with all the things wrong that I would point out. 🤠👍
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610that would be great. I'd love to know how they fixed omitting a truss, cutting the lip of the engineered joist, etc. To me, as a non carpenter, it seems insurmountable. Great video! I'm going to subscribe so I get a notification when you release the follow up video. 😅
@@robjohnston5292you pay out the backside to have an engineer do the calculations and verify that it still meets structural requirements... then pay even more when they find out it doesn't.
This was amazing! Thanks for making it. I just got call from a friend yesterday. They had a new 2 story home built on popular lake, it's rented all summer. There was a fan over the ceiling of lower front porch (under floor of top porch) and it broke off as people were carrying their stuff in the front door! No one hurt luckily. Turns out it was not mounted to any real support system at all. Lasted a couple years. Terrible that this was not inspected properly. Thanks for what you do sir. And being kind at the same time when you deliver the not so good news.
Never heard of a Stud Shoe before. Seems like a legit fix for many situations I've seen. Learn something new every day. This video was very informative. Framing was wrong, plumbing was wrong, electrical was wrong. HVAS was wrong. Was there a single trade that did their job correctly? Wow.
Thank goodness for thorough, knowledgeable inspectors! I've lived in developing countries. I know what things look like when there are no building codes or inspectors. It's terrifying.
@@FlockinIcehole Texas has building codes and inspectors. Even if they're insufficient, it's far better than in places without building codes or any pretense of inspections.
@@FlockinIcehole I've owned a couple of houses in Texas. One had inspection tags on electrical work that should've failed. The other had code violations on the oven gas line that could easily have killed someone. Indeed, the wonders of no accountability. 🙄
It depends on what state you live in and what county. I live in Missouri, in a third class county. No building codes... period. Other counties, second and first class, have building codes. I have spent the last ten yeas, since moving into a 2000 year built house, discovering and trying to fix issues. Some can be fixed, but some just can not because obviously the time to do it right, is during the construction phase. A lot of water leakage type of issues because of incorrect, or non-existing flashing. Cheap, incorrectly applied house wrap. No moisture barrier applied to the exterior of the foundation walls makes for a very damp basement (how do you fix that without a very large expense), several wiring issues (inadequate kitchen circuits) etc.😞
Educational. Nice job. Everything about the code makes perfect sense and there wasn’t anything that wasn’t reasonable nor costing much more if any money to do it right. Whomever this builder is either doesn’t know or doesn’t care or some combination of such.
@@icevariable9600 it’s not part of the NEC. It’s part of the IRC. The purpose is so you can nail baseboard trim and crown trim without hitting wires and/or plumbing.
Being a contractor this inspector is very thorough. One comment I do have is that all nails holes do not need to be filled in on joist hangers. On the box of joist hangers it will tell you how many nails or screws and the size of that nail and screw. Just had an inspector question on an inspection and I showed him the manufacturer’s literature and passed inspection. I had one joist hanger require nine nails and another one required ten nails.
The framers aren’t looking out for the drywallers, I noticed several areas where nothing would support the ceiling drywall near walls. I’d ‘fur’ the entire ceiling 16 OC to help smooth it out and get a better ceiling.
Excellent instructional video. He shows how bad home construction is in 2024. Cover all this up with sheetrock and the house will look good and sell, but start falling apart, slowly.
However he stated that the gas furnace pulls combustion air from out of the bedroom. That's 100 percent false, those furnaces have two pipes going outside, one is intake for the COMBUSTION AIR and one is the exhaust. Why doesn't a qualified home inspector not know this?
Yep, otherwise you have guys just going standard. "Winging it" to get 💩 done. I've worked with many Architect at drawing stage (in Fenestration not plumbing) To head off these issues before they occur. Its the best way.
I've long held the belief that architects should have at least one year of field experience in all of the major construction trades. I've made a lot of money working around drawings that were unbuildable, or where the architect didn't realize that water flows down hill.
Absolutely. With the advent of email, when faced with such a situation, and the architect or owner declined to agree to 2x6 framing; I would send an email, outlining my concerns. This is called an aide-memoire. So, if there's blowback later on, I'm somewhat covered by that email. Additionally, I've never been so starving that I couldn't just decline to do the job, and move on to other work, where building principles were honored.
Makes me wonder how you can sadly build a home on a slab and have mechanical rooms washers dryer, simks tubs and toilets and all their trains and vents in the areas that people want them in? Or it means they built the plans with an engineer and then changed the location of everything and that means there were no plans to to safely move these locations to. A bit of a builder's nightmare sd well as for the owner.
Great Job pointing out those items. Also don't forget that the CSST gas piping may need to be sleeved entirely in that scenario depending on the stud spacing and insulation. Protection for CCST piping is required in horizontal runs where less than or equal to 24", and the insulation should be installed behind the piping. In this scenario, the piping is in contact with the interior drywall and would require protection (Both a metal sleeve as well as extended butterfly -or proprietary strike plates)
Inspectors exist for a reason, they aren't the bad guy unless of course if you're the type of builder that habitually cuts corners. Nice video, well done!
they wont fix anything correctly and the city inspector already approved it, assuming they try to fix anything they’ll make it worse. the courts will side mostly with the builder who will walk leaving the structure to rot.
Going through a reno now. Unfortunately, many of these seem common, especially (as I’ve been told), many MEP contractors don’t themselves keep very abreast of changing structural repairs as required by updated code when they make these deep cuts/notches/bores through studs and top/bottom plates. They often seem to think, “Well code requires me to run this large a pipe through this wall *somehow*, so this just must be allowed..”. So issues like these become rather common. Many of these are reparable. (Simpson Ties.. and reinforcement plates, stud shoes, straps, ties (CTS18s) have become my fast friends, and another section of the budget for post-MEP structural repairs.) The only one I don’t know what the project owner is gonna be able to do anything about easily is the cut I-joist. The plumbing contractor really seemed to be just handwaving it at that point..
Yup for sure !! And no general contractor on site is typical. And what do u want to bet the builder tries to back charge all the MEP contractors for repairing these deficiencies.
Great Job Knowing Your Sh*t. Thats Impressive and Valuable I do remodels on all kinds of homes 10-100yrs old and I warn the homeowner something was done very wrong by the visual aspects prior to tearing walls open. This is rhe damn stuff I find. These houses have issues after 10+ yrs with faulty construction.
I learned a lot. Never even heard of stud shoes but never new of anyone drilling a 2 1/2 inch hole through a stud either. The errors in this build make you wonder who they even let near it. The home owner might as well have built it themselves. Some brutal oversights to be sure
They make metal floor joist with six inch holes that run the entire length. That would accommodate even all the waste pipes you have to run. All types of these perforated vertical & horizontal supports should be made and be required throughout the building. What is taking the building industry so long to make this kind of innovation. How many decades do we have to be subjected to Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC subs who will mindlessly cut a hole in anything to run a line?
The only job that I ran, as the supervisor, involved adding fiberglass insulation in the attic . . . one of the guys went up there and laid it out . . . so, I went up to inspect - shure enough, he laid it upside down. I told him to go back and turn it over. He argued, telling me that he had installed insulation in hundreds of homes (always a giveaway) and refused to turn it over, even though I had him read the instructions on the backing paper. Then, he wanted to take me out into the street to settle the matter - I declined and sent him to the contractor's office to pick up his check . . . and this was a gringo, no less - no language barrier.
Oh no the boogie man! As a project manager of million dollar homes in S.C. I have walked along side of many inspectors. Most contractors are terrified of them but I welcomed the learning experience. Good inspectors are respected as are good contractors, good project managers are often caught between.
That double LVL beam has bigger problems than missing joist hangers. It really needs double jack stud supports, not hangers. And the left side has been butchered away so that the reaction force is held by only about 1/3 of the beam. A split in the making.
There were cases, in Los Angeles, in the 70s where the water heater was in the conditioned space. This was at a time when people were beginning to seal up houses, in order to conserve on energy. And the water heater was getting its combustion air from the conditioned space. The local code was changed after a few elderly folks woke up dead from asphyxiation. You'd think that any builder, worth his salt, would think logically!
I understood very little of what he said, but I am grateful there are people like this to better guarantee the safety of all structures to be occupied.
My dad was a carpenter for 50 years before he passed away. He always told me never buy new construction most of it is junk. Have a reputable company build it and check on their work EVERY Day !!!
I wish they had an inspector like that when they built my house. The contractors got away with a lot, took me a lot to fix them all over the years, especially with the stucco it was over sanded and the scratche coat was to dry with the scratches because you could peel the brown coat from it and cracks every wherever and for my dryer vent was a gutter down spout I think people who worked on it were on cracks or something.
Great video! I'm shocked by how many code violations there are. The inspector points them out without much surprise as if this is commonplace. I'm curious as to how this home compares to the average new construction that he inspects.
Wow, worried about a hole being 1/4 off that will be covered with drywall, I wish we had ppl like this guy to go and do monthly inspections at these big food processing plants, it’s crazy that the codes you have to go by on a home is more intense than inspections at a big giant food supplier, the government and there silly little codes and violations are just ignorant,
But you understand how unnecessary it is though, right? The hole will NEVER be penetrated by a 1.25 inch drywall screw as .5 inchs of the crew will be imbedded in the dryall. That means only .75 of it will be imbedded in the stud!
Only going to comment because a lot of comments are critical of the work or the inspector. 1. You cannot claim that the "Inspector Homes" is wrong / "does not know what he is talking about" without knowing the adopted building code of the town/ county where the home is built. What is acceptable in one town may be totally different in the next town over. The East end of San Miguel County, CO has some of the most stringent building codes in the USA. The West end of the county has no building codes. None, zero, nada. In the west end only electrical work must comply with Colorado state code. 2. As for quality of work. Every stud issue can be addressed pretty quickly. Needs about a $600 in metal plates added. Need to contact floor joist manufacturer. Tell them of the issue / send pics and then follow the fix they prescribe. They will send a stamped engineers letter approving the fix. Need to contact roof truss manufacturer. Tell them of the issue / send pics and then follow the fix they prescribe. They will send a stamped engineers letter approving the fix. Need to confirm dryer is heat pump. Dryer venting to outside are a leading cause of home fires. Gas lines and make up air for furnace ... looks like plumber did not finish job. Plumber needs to come back and finish. 3. Builder is smart to hire "Inspector Homes" to view and catch issues before having city inspector come to home. City inspectors want to come 1 time and see work done correctly. They dont want to have to visit a house 3 times fail the builder and electrician and plumber 3x and see shoddy work. Overall house does not need to be torn down. It just needs a bunch of things fixed. Before calling for city inspection. Before they are covered over with drywall.
Well done inspection. I'm NOT a contractor, but certainly knew most of this. Somewhat shoddy construction, unfortunately. The missing truss seems to be able to be fixed easily enough, (with engineers assistance) but some of the other stuff is going to cost them time and money. Putting the gas heater and water heater in there is definitely going to be a problem, but they might get around that with by putting a door into that area from another place, maybe a hallway? And closing off the entrance from the bedroom. I can't imagine any decent framer not putting the hangers on that big beam!!!??? Maybe there were supposed to be trimmer studs under the beam?? Nice video
I would install a sealed door and add upper and lower combustion air vents in the exterior wall. Modern homes are usually sealed tight so exhaust fans create a negative pressure, not what you want for your gas appliances.
The gas appliances in a utility room off a bedroom isn’t a big deal, ton of exceptions for how that one is alright. Type of venting, type of appliance, sealed door with outside air intake, etc.
Given there was a missing truss and the ones installed were placed at increased spacing, it isn't so easy to fix. The builder didn't leave one big gap that could be fixed with a visit to Home Depot! Given the goal to seal houses more tightly, gas water and air heaters are available with 'sealed combustion'. The one I had installed in my house has the exhaust combustion fumes exiting in the center tubing that runs in the middle of the intake tubing. This heats the intake air so that less gas is needed to raise it to the desired temperature.
No load bearing studs underneath micro lams, holy smoking ignorance Batman. No joist hangar can replace the strength of through load. Subs will never do high quality code compliant work the way in-house craftsmen used to do! Homeowners are doomed! Imagine buying a new house that had to be remodeled during construction!! 😏
I'm glad all my wires are in conduit. No worry of nails splitting a wire or simple vibrations cutting a wire. Plus it's basically your grounding so no need for grounding wires.
I’m remodeling an old rental I have in a small Oregon town. While I will be adding significantly to the framing, I won’t be doing anything that requires inspection structurally. I know all the trades through my years as a heavy equipment operator and am doing a complete gutting, new electrical, plumbing, mechanical and adding a gas instant water heater and mini split. I’m allowed to do my own electrical but hiring subs for the rest. I’ve built all of the 5 homes I’ve lived in myself and just observed the other tradesmen asked questions, and became a Jack of all trades through the years. NEVERTHELESS…..I’m plan on paying whatever fee required and plan to have the inspector do a looksy before I install drywall. I’ve been photographing all work I’ve done to stay with the house. I’ve seen too many flipped houses having rotten work covered up and personally would not buy a flipped house. I feel awful for what folks have had to deal with. Whoever ends up with this after I’m gone will have all the evidence and signature of the inspector . He was a tradesman in his past as are many of those guys. I’m not afraid to be advised or of doing it right, which is why I watch these videos. There have been a lot of changes of code in my 50 years of building and I put a premium on quality work though I’ve used a significant amount of recycled materials. Before Covid, I bought loads of materials at the auction. I had stacks of 9ply coated 3/4 form plywood I got for $10 a sheet that I used for wall and roof sheathing. Those were the days! I brought home loads of TJIs and engineered beams that sold for Pennys on the $. Once I got a huge truck and trailer of 13 ply boards 6 to 10 feet long and 10” wide for $10. I used them for ultra strong shelving and headers. I got very creative. The inspectors got a laugh out of the 7/8 rebar I used in footings. A phone tower installer gave me several tons of 13’ long leftovers from jobs. What a score! I used all of them through the years.
My garage was pencil whipped by a retiring county building inspector. Now bear in mind this was an unfinished space at the first inspection. The roof was stick framed and was bowing and sagging. After a bunch of back and forth with the GC and him wanting to rig it, I hired a commercial structural engineering firm to inspect the entire building and contacted a lawyer specializing in construction cases. My roof was stick built allowing space for a lift. The lumber size used for my roof was undersized and had to be replaced. After one set of trusses did not work with the 1986 built trusses we had to run the new trusses 90 degrees from the house trusses. That engineering visit and subsequent report was $2,100!
We build houses a lot different in the northern reagents of our country. I built a home in 2001. When the inspection was made before the sheet rock. 0 mistakes. That home could not take a 80 MOH wind
There’s going to be some serious money spent to resolve some of these issues. If this is a custom build I would not want to be the homeowner. Builder should know this stuff and kudos to the inspector
What a nightmare. So many issues! Big $ just to get past this stage. My guess is that none of the builders / installers were qualified. Serious structural issues are a huge problem! The buyers will undoubtedly be spending a pile of money for a house that ultimately won't be worth it.
Come to NYC, where there is no inspections but one final, everything is self certified and the final is everything has it be complete and painted wall. Then they tell you, your short an outlet in a room, etc. homeowner nightmare. Injustice that no pre inspections where perform and screwing you with a final that can possible see any of the internals but what can be seen and should it fail leave the homeowner having a costly fight to get corrected. Completely f’ed up system here
Very informative, I can't believe some people can seriously waste your time and everyones time with a house so completely out of code, if this is typical of your inspections then you will not be a very popular person. So many of these infractions are easily preventable, maybe a listing of the codes should be provided at the time they get their building permits, why use oversize holes for items to pass through the wood supports.
How did the city plan review miss the fact of the gas fired heating unit and water heater in the bedroom? The municipality is the authority having jurisdiction, did they possibly waive that code requirement? Are you an independent inspector for the buyer or are you hired by the municipality to do the inspection? I don't understand how that could have been overlooked in the planning stage, and at this stage of the construction would be a huge issue to resolve.
The issues should have been first been caught by the person supervising the construction of the house. Subs will be subs..it’s the project manager’s job to kick ass BEFORE the inspection…
@@cardboardboxification Bradford White does manufacture power direct vent tank water heaters that use outside air for combustion. For example the RG2PDV40S6N. The water heater in the video is a cheaper power vent model similar to the RG1PV40S6N. These use the air in the room for combustion, you can tell by the vents at the bottom of the unit. Both styles usually top out around 80%.
The general contractor and the sub trades have made some costly mistakes. This inspector is very thorough and he is definitely doing his job!! Very nice!
I've seen a GC make the Sub rip off all of the sheathing/decking, cut all of the nails and move the trusses to the proper position and re-install everything to proper specs, on their own dime. I had a sub make some really stupid, but simple mistakes on a rehab. So I pointed them all out to him and said he needs to rip/replace everything up to code, on his own dime and his own time. He walked over to his truck, honked his horn and told his crew to take care of everything and then he left. They didn't speak a lot of English, so they didn't understand what I needed to be performed. Then, one by one, they all seemed to disappear from the site. Only one stuck around to try and help. Unfortunately none of them were properly trained, and I later found out that they were mostly hired from Lowe's parking lot, even After I not only specified to all of my subs that all labor on any of my sites will be in the country legally, but also made them sign the contract that had this in writing, or they would instantly be removed from the site and all future sites. The worst part is that I am typically on site every day, but they built the two walls on a day when I was not there. This entire fiasco set my project back about two weeks, because I had to find another sub with a crew to fill in, and while I was looking, I had to perform all of the repairs myself. Luckily I had not paid the Sub for the portion of work he had messed up on, so I was only out of pocket for the cost of materials, and of course a few weeks longer getting the house on the market.
This is why we should demand all workers on site be able to read and fluently speak English. Unfortunately American labor is expensive and no one wants to pay for it
I used to work for this contractor here in Charlotte North Carolina ... and I remember they used to have the trusses delivered and then later a crane will show up and help us installed the trusses on top of the house and we will frame them and nail them all together. I remember we used to count them and mark them before we even started ..... how did they missed or lost a truss ? What ?
One major thing you didn’t address for pre drywall is, none of the bottom plate or top plate penetrations were caulk with flame safe fire stop caulk. Not to mention fire stops in the framing where required. This looks like the builder and subs first job. It’s going to be very expensive to remedy.
I went to measure for cabinets for a butlers kitchen in a millionaires house . It was all framed and water was there but no drain. Asked the contractor about it and he said the concrete floor could not be cut to add the drain because it was a prestressed slab. Didn’t do the job so have no idea how it came out.
I did hvac for over 10 years, relocating all that hvac equipment is going to be a pain in the ass hopefully theres attic space right above that they can use and keep the unit accessable so they can service it and all that stuff
It doesn't need to be relocated, that particular furnace gets its combustion air from outside. Why do you run two pipes outside??? Are you sure you work in HVAC? However if I was the HVAC company, I'd move it, then show the home owner the inspection was wrong and give the home owner the extra bill for moving it. 😊
@@Bryan-Hensley I'm just going off what the inspector said. If he said it has to be moved then I'm guessing it has to be moved so the Inspection will pass and yeah I'm sure I did HVAC for 10 years but never new construction I did service work. New installs on homes that were most of the time at least 15 years old. Nothing new like this
@@VAisForGrowers sorry for being rude. I'm starting to turn down new construction installs because of BS like on this video. People come out and inspect my work that doesn't have a clue what they are doing. Even the insurance companies are sending people out now that doesn't have a clue what's going on..I had a unit hit by lightning from a tree getting struck 20 feet away.. there were arch marks inside the condenser unit. A hole blown in one of the copper lines. Then the insurance inspector comes out and says everything was caused by a bad fan motor. I've stopped doing anything with insurance companies, I give the homeowner a quote and let them blame it on lightning.
10 years when, and were you a helper the whole time? Seriously, people like you defer to experts, because you yourself dont know better. Meanwhile, those of us who ACTUALLY know better than the so-called experts, have to listen to people who listen to the bureaucratic experts, like this guy, tell us we are wrong.
@@calvinhobbes6118 can you not read well or just plain stupid. Read what I wrote him again and try reading it slower and see if it makes sense in your half working brain
I'd like to hear about how the contractor resolved the missing truss . .. seems like a bonifide nightmare.
Well, it would be nice to see the engineering specs on that roofing system.
Probably had had to pay an engineer a lot of money to draw up a new set of drawings and approve them
It’s not too difficult to build a truss or truss equivalent in place.
@@jimkeith2335 Those were spaced wrong. That would be a big problem.
I was thinking about this, the spacing was enlarged so the whole roof section is some percentage weaker than designed. Say maybe 5-10%. So you make each truss that much stronger, idk with plywood webbing or something. Or the engineer calculates it still has a sufficient margin of safety. Just thoughts from a mechanical engineer.
Licensed contractor here. Those are some expensive mistakes that were made, and I’m happy you found them.
Not the expense.... SAFETY and dangerous possibilities. Its the knowledge lack and the common sense and lack of quality.
Same with the LVL missing hangers. How TF do you fix that. It's already load bearing lol
It looks like that LVL should have been resting on a wall
They ended up paying a significant amount in engineering to fix the issues.
Did they do Anything correct?
I think that is the mother-in-law’s bedroom with the gas appliances.
Yes and is should be exempt.
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I had a "belly laugh" moment on that one. 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610my first time watching, how come you don't know that particular gas furnace pulls its combustion air from outside. Why do you think they have two pipes going outside?
Seems to me, all plumbing walls should be 2X6.
Getting a drain through a 2x4 just seems like a nightmare structurally
If it’s a non load bearing wall it doesn’t matter at all. But….. what you’re saying 100% makes very logical sense and would be a good idea.
Yeah . . . I'm not thinking about the load-carrying capacity. Even if you add stud shoes, I think the wall is weaker - front to back. Sheetrock isn't going to strengthen the wall. . . . All in all, I wouldn't use 2X4s for that wall.
@@wrdennig if it’s not load carrying it doesn’t matter, there’s not structural capacity.
Some areas call for that and others dont. Building regs vary greatly by where you live.
It’s nice to see an inspector who actually inspects.
Nearly ALL third party real estate inspectors do GREAT jobs inspecting homes because it's their PROFESSION. Takes a lot of years and education and experience to get "State Certified" and requirements are difficult in most states. As a 30 year real estate appraiser I always really appreciated these guys' work....
Thank you
Inspectors I see run through the place pencil whip the form on to the next one. Paid by the inspection not the hour.
Right?!? I recently purchased a home that was a newer build. I've had to spend more than 5 figures fixing what my "inspector" missed. Good Job @inspectorhomesinc.7610
I keep reading how builders are cutting more corners than ever and this video is a good example of that !
Many more unskilled workers in the USA than ever.
@@robertellison4691 And greedy contractors using them to keep costs down.
They been doing it for a very long time.
Unskilled and cannot read English plan sets. It makes for a perfect storm of issues
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610 And that is what the ones in power want. The USA is quickly becoming a third world country. I am a licensed electrician with 40 years of experience and I have seen the steady decline first hand.
Over-notched...that's a bit of an understatement...🤣
No kidding. That wall stud was reduced to a toothpick.
Right? Why even have a stud there? They could have just cut 3” right out of the stud and ended up with just as much support.
@@doubleslit9513I built 2 new homes, when it came to walls having a lot of mechanical running through them? I ran to the lumber yard and just used 2x6's as studs and the problem was solved?
The more I watch inspection videos, the less I could build a new home at this point. The builder would never finish or would end up walking away from the job, with all the things wrong that I would point out. 🤠👍
No, I think you could actually build your own home…but I mean literally build your own home.
If he front loaded the payment schedule, you are probably correct. He will disappear.
Great video, right to the point and very informative. I’d love to see an epilogue where we find out what was resolved on re-inspection
Great suggestion!
@@inspectorhomesinc.7610that would be great. I'd love to know how they fixed omitting a truss, cutting the lip of the engineered joist, etc. To me, as a non carpenter, it seems insurmountable. Great video! I'm going to subscribe so I get a notification when you release the follow up video. 😅
@@robjohnston5292you pay out the backside to have an engineer do the calculations and verify that it still meets structural requirements... then pay even more when they find out it doesn't.
It's great to see and hear from an inspector who calls it as he sees it.
That builder should have paid attention, but now it's too late.
This was amazing! Thanks for making it. I just got call from a friend yesterday. They had a new 2 story home built on popular lake, it's rented all summer. There was a fan over the ceiling of lower front porch (under floor of top porch) and it broke off as people were carrying their stuff in the front door! No one hurt luckily. Turns out it was not mounted to any real support system at all. Lasted a couple years. Terrible that this was not inspected properly. Thanks for what you do sir. And being kind at the same time when you deliver the not so good news.
I just watched about three dozen of your videos. Very enjoyable and great learning experience!
Thank you!!
Never heard of a Stud Shoe before. Seems like a legit fix for many situations I've seen. Learn something new every day. This video was very informative. Framing was wrong, plumbing was wrong, electrical was wrong. HVAS was wrong. Was there a single trade that did their job correctly? Wow.
Thank goodness for thorough, knowledgeable inspectors!
I've lived in developing countries. I know what things look like when there are no building codes or inspectors. It's terrifying.
You mean like Texas?
@@FlockinIcehole Texas has building codes and inspectors. Even if they're insufficient, it's far better than in places without building codes or any pretense of inspections.
@@ncooty file for a permit and build a house. No inspections required! Texas
@@FlockinIcehole I've owned a couple of houses in Texas. One had inspection tags on electrical work that should've failed. The other had code violations on the oven gas line that could easily have killed someone. Indeed, the wonders of no accountability. 🙄
It depends on what state you live in and what county. I live in Missouri, in a third class county. No building codes... period. Other counties, second and first class, have building codes. I have spent the last ten yeas, since moving into a 2000 year built house, discovering and trying to fix issues. Some can be fixed, but some just can not because obviously the time to do it right, is during the construction phase. A lot of water leakage type of issues because of incorrect, or non-existing flashing. Cheap, incorrectly applied house wrap. No moisture barrier applied to the exterior of the foundation walls makes for a very damp basement (how do you fix that without a very large expense), several wiring issues (inadequate kitchen circuits) etc.😞
I hope and pray this is first house this contractor has ever built…😮
Actually this builder has been in business over 15 years.
And the last one
all the big ones are like this
Educational. Nice job. Everything about the code makes perfect sense and there wasn’t anything that wasn’t reasonable nor costing much more if any money to do it right. Whomever this builder is either doesn’t know or doesn’t care or some combination of such.
Hey I watched your whole video and enjoyed it.. I'm a licensed plumber and I learned some things from you.. thanks
I’m also a code inspector. I’ve been doing this for 24 years and I learn new things every week. Thanks for watching
Sparky here. I was not aware of that larger nail plate when cables were going through floors. Thanks.
Has been code for some time now
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Yeah? I checked the NEC. Can’t find it. So What is the code for a larger nail plate for romex penetrating floors?
@@icevariable9600 it’s not part of the NEC. It’s part of the IRC. The purpose is so you can nail baseboard trim and crown trim without hitting wires and/or plumbing.
@@icevariable9600 regardless, I’m sure you electrical work looks much better than this house!!
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Welp. I only worry about the NEC. There’s enough to learn in there for me to not worry about some other code.
Being a contractor this inspector is very thorough. One comment I do have is that all nails holes do not need to be filled in on joist hangers. On the box of joist hangers it will tell you how many nails or screws and the size of that nail and screw. Just had an inspector question on an inspection and I showed him the manufacturer’s literature and passed inspection. I had one joist hanger require nine nails and another one required ten nails.
Regardless of the manufacturer's recommendation, in our area it's a local code that all holes need fasteners.
The framers aren’t looking out for the drywallers, I noticed several areas where nothing would support the ceiling drywall near walls. I’d ‘fur’ the entire ceiling 16 OC to help smooth it out and get a better ceiling.
I'd Fir it too. ;)
Excellent instructional video. He shows how bad home construction is in 2024. Cover all this up with sheetrock and the house will look good and sell, but start falling apart, slowly.
I like that this guy is not arrogant like the other inspectors I see.
However he stated that the gas furnace pulls combustion air from out of the bedroom. That's 100 percent false, those furnaces have two pipes going outside, one is intake for the COMBUSTION AIR and one is the exhaust. Why doesn't a qualified home inspector not know this?
The architect should design plumbing walls so that they don't have this problem.
Yep, otherwise you have guys just going standard. "Winging it" to get 💩 done.
I've worked with many Architect at drawing stage (in Fenestration not plumbing) To head off these issues before they occur. Its the best way.
I've long held the belief that architects should have at least one year of field experience in all of the major construction trades. I've made a lot of money working around drawings that were unbuildable, or where the architect didn't realize that water flows down hill.
They ignore that. Whatever the owner wants, they layout; then they leave the responsibility of any necessities to the next discipline.
Wet walls should be 2x6 framing. A decent builder will do that after reviewing the mechanical drawings.
Absolutely. With the advent of email, when faced with such a situation, and the architect or owner declined to agree to 2x6 framing; I would send an email, outlining my concerns. This is called an aide-memoire. So, if there's blowback later on, I'm somewhat covered by that email. Additionally, I've never been so starving that I couldn't just decline to do the job, and move on to other work, where building principles were honored.
Makes me wonder how you can sadly build a home on a slab and have mechanical rooms washers dryer, simks tubs and toilets and all their trains and vents in the areas that people want them in? Or it means they built the plans with an engineer and then changed the location of everything and that means there were no plans to to safely move these locations to. A bit of a builder's nightmare sd well as for the owner.
Great Job pointing out those items. Also don't forget that the CSST gas piping may need to be sleeved entirely in that scenario depending on the stud spacing and insulation. Protection for CCST piping is required in horizontal runs where less than or equal to 24", and the insulation should be installed behind the piping. In this scenario, the piping is in contact with the interior drywall and would require protection (Both a metal sleeve as well as extended butterfly -or proprietary strike plates)
Inspectors exist for a reason, they aren't the bad guy unless of course if you're the type of builder that habitually cuts corners. Nice video, well done!
I like it.
When you state an abbreviation, say what it stands for, at least the first time you use it - for us amateurs.
Yes, that irks the hell outta me as well.
Outstanding. Doing it right the first time is always a good idea.
Thanks for bringing theses shortcuts to light.
never time to do it right, but always time to do it over
I enjoy videos like this. They help me avoid mistakes when working on my house. Thank you!
they wont fix anything correctly and the city inspector already approved it, assuming they try to fix anything they’ll make it worse. the courts will side mostly with the builder who will walk leaving the structure to rot.
Just found this by accident, loved it. I know nothing about what's going on but it sure seems like someone should be fired.
Holy Shit Batman! That Builder SUCKS
The builder obviously does not employ a project manager who would pick up all these errors BEFORE calling for a pre drywall.
Going through a reno now. Unfortunately, many of these seem common, especially (as I’ve been told), many MEP contractors don’t themselves keep very abreast of changing structural repairs as required by updated code when they make these deep cuts/notches/bores through studs and top/bottom plates. They often seem to think, “Well code requires me to run this large a pipe through this wall *somehow*, so this just must be allowed..”. So issues like these become rather common.
Many of these are reparable. (Simpson Ties.. and reinforcement plates, stud shoes, straps, ties (CTS18s) have become my fast friends, and another section of the budget for post-MEP structural repairs.) The only one I don’t know what the project owner is gonna be able to do anything about easily is the cut I-joist. The plumbing contractor really seemed to be just handwaving it at that point..
That’s a lot of expensive repair work due to the lack of one good foreman.
Just subscribed!
Yup for sure !! And no general contractor on site is typical. And what do u want to bet the builder tries to back charge all the MEP contractors for repairing these deficiencies.
Fascinating! Dryer may be heat pump based which has no vent.
Learned a lot thank you
I learned quite a bit and therefore you earned my subscription. Look forward to watching more of your videos.
This always makes me wonder if the contractor followed the approved drawings.
Great Job Knowing Your Sh*t.
Thats Impressive and Valuable
I do remodels on all kinds of homes 10-100yrs old and I warn the homeowner something was done very wrong by the visual aspects prior to tearing walls open. This is rhe damn stuff I find. These houses have issues after 10+ yrs with faulty construction.
I learned a lot. Never even heard of stud shoes but never new of anyone drilling a 2 1/2 inch hole through a stud either. The errors in this build make you wonder who they even let near it. The home owner might as well have built it themselves. Some brutal oversights to be sure
Great info! I can’t believe the contractor and subs don’t know what’s required! These issues will surely cost the contractor some big dollars!
What i really hate and despise about inspectors is that they show up when it is Too gdam Late
Builders should build correctly. Then the inspector can inspect.
They also nitpick if they never worked in the industry.
Nice call outs… insightful, thank you for sharing.😊
Glad it was helpful!
Man the contractors on this job screwed up.
They make metal floor joist with six inch holes that run the entire length. That would accommodate even all the waste pipes you have to run. All types of these perforated vertical & horizontal supports should be made and be required throughout the building. What is taking the building industry so long to make this kind of innovation.
How many decades do we have to be subjected to Plumbing, Electrical, HVAC subs who will mindlessly cut a hole in anything to run a line?
Floor trusses are an insurance policy that has a cost. An expense that skilled builders can do without.
The only job that I ran, as the supervisor, involved adding fiberglass insulation in the attic . . . one of the guys went up there and laid it out . . . so, I went up to inspect - shure enough, he laid it upside down. I told him to go back and turn it over. He argued, telling me that he had installed insulation in hundreds of homes (always a giveaway) and refused to turn it over, even though I had him read the instructions on the backing paper. Then, he wanted to take me out into the street to settle the matter - I declined and sent him to the contractor's office to pick up his check . . . and this was a gringo, no less - no language barrier.
Oh no the boogie man! As a project manager of million dollar homes in S.C. I have walked along side of many inspectors. Most contractors are terrified of them but I welcomed the learning experience. Good inspectors are respected as are good contractors, good project managers are often caught between.
That double LVL beam has bigger problems than missing joist hangers. It really needs double jack stud supports, not hangers. And the left side has been butchered away so that the reaction force is held by only about 1/3 of the beam. A split in the making.
There were cases, in Los Angeles, in the 70s where the water heater was in the conditioned space. This was at a time when people were beginning to seal up houses, in order to conserve on energy. And the water heater was getting its combustion air from the conditioned space. The local code was changed after a few elderly folks woke up dead from asphyxiation. You'd think that any builder, worth his salt, would think logically!
OK, so they didn't wake up . . . they were found dead.
@@wrdennig Nice remark ¡
I understood very little of what he said, but I am grateful there are people like this to better guarantee the safety of all structures to be occupied.
Serious oversights. No corners can be cut to fix these major issues. Especially the gas HVAC, Hot Water Heater, missing/compromised truss/joists.
All they have to do for the mechanical room is bring in fresh air for the appliances, pretty common thing instead of moving major appliances.
I like how you broke down the code violations it was helpful and informative
I didn’t know about needing oversized nail plates on top and bottom plates. Thanks!
Wow that was great I'm going to subscribe very enjoyable!!
My dad was a carpenter for 50 years before he passed away. He always told me never buy new construction most of it is junk. Have a reputable company build it and check on their work EVERY Day !!!
I wish they had an inspector like that when they built my house. The contractors got away with a lot, took me a lot to fix them all over the years, especially with the stucco it was over sanded and the scratche coat was to dry with the scratches because you could peel the brown coat from it and cracks every wherever and for my dryer vent was a gutter down spout I think people who worked on it were on cracks or something.
I learned more than I expected. thank you!
Great video! I'm shocked by how many code violations there are. The inspector points them out without much surprise as if this is commonplace. I'm curious as to how this home compares to the average new construction that he inspects.
Wow, worried about a hole being 1/4 off that will be covered with drywall, I wish we had ppl like this guy to go and do monthly inspections at these big food processing plants, it’s crazy that the codes you have to go by on a home is more intense than inspections at a big giant food supplier, the government and there silly little codes and violations are just ignorant,
But you understand how unnecessary it is though, right? The hole will NEVER be penetrated by a 1.25 inch drywall screw as .5 inchs of the crew will be imbedded in the dryall. That means only .75 of it will be imbedded in the stud!
Fantastically pedantic, love it!
Many thanks!
The cost involved in correcting this abomination has to be ridiculously expensive.
Damn homie, this video just took off!
Good to see the builders where you are as sloppy as the ones here in Victoria Australia.
Only going to comment because a lot of comments are critical of the work or the inspector.
1. You cannot claim that the "Inspector Homes" is wrong / "does not know what he is talking about" without knowing the adopted building code of the town/ county where the home is built. What is acceptable in one town may be totally different in the next town over. The East end of San Miguel County, CO has some of the most stringent building codes in the USA. The West end of the county has no building codes. None, zero, nada. In the west end only electrical work must comply with Colorado state code.
2. As for quality of work.
Every stud issue can be addressed pretty quickly. Needs about a $600 in metal plates added.
Need to contact floor joist manufacturer. Tell them of the issue / send pics and then follow the fix they prescribe. They will send a stamped engineers letter approving the fix.
Need to contact roof truss manufacturer. Tell them of the issue / send pics and then follow the fix they prescribe. They will send a stamped engineers letter approving the fix.
Need to confirm dryer is heat pump. Dryer venting to outside are a leading cause of home fires.
Gas lines and make up air for furnace ... looks like plumber did not finish job. Plumber needs to come back and finish.
3. Builder is smart to hire "Inspector Homes" to view and catch issues before having city inspector come to home. City inspectors want to come 1 time and see work done correctly. They dont want to have to visit a house 3 times fail the builder and electrician and plumber 3x and see shoddy work.
Overall house does not need to be torn down. It just needs a bunch of things fixed. Before calling for city inspection. Before they are covered over with drywall.
I’m guessing the dryer is a ventless dryer which is becoming more common out west.
Well done inspection. I'm NOT a contractor, but certainly knew most of this. Somewhat shoddy construction, unfortunately. The missing truss seems to be able to be fixed easily enough, (with engineers assistance) but some of the other stuff is going to cost them time and money. Putting the gas heater and water heater in there is definitely going to be a problem, but they might get around that with by putting a door into that area from another place, maybe a hallway? And closing off the entrance from the bedroom. I can't imagine any decent framer not putting the hangers on that big beam!!!??? Maybe there were supposed to be trimmer studs under the beam?? Nice video
I would install a sealed door and add upper and lower combustion air vents in the exterior wall. Modern homes are usually sealed tight so exhaust fans create a negative pressure, not what you want for your gas appliances.
The gas appliances in a utility room off a bedroom isn’t a big deal, ton of exceptions for how that one is alright. Type of venting, type of appliance, sealed door with outside air intake, etc.
Given there was a missing truss and the ones installed were placed at increased spacing, it isn't so easy to fix. The builder didn't leave one big gap that could be fixed with a visit to Home Depot!
Given the goal to seal houses more tightly, gas water and air heaters are available with 'sealed combustion'. The one I had installed in my house has the exhaust combustion fumes exiting in the center tubing that runs in the middle of the intake tubing. This heats the intake air so that less gas is needed to raise it to the desired temperature.
@@saty580 You don’t have to fix it, you just need the engineer to sign off that the increased spacing is fine. Which it will be.
Dude - use an app to get rid of the shakiness of your beginning and end shots. The info you are providing is too precious!
No load bearing studs underneath micro lams, holy smoking ignorance Batman. No joist hangar can replace the strength of through load. Subs will never do high quality code compliant work the way in-house craftsmen used to do! Homeowners are doomed! Imagine buying a new house that had to be remodeled during construction!! 😏
Not required in Mexico. Thats where every worker on this job were from apparently
The contractor was not fast...he is halffast!😂
I'm glad all my wires are in conduit. No worry of nails splitting a wire or simple vibrations cutting a wire. Plus it's basically your grounding so no need for grounding wires.
Is that the BX wire type?
I’m remodeling an old rental I have in a small Oregon town. While I will be adding significantly to the framing, I won’t be doing anything that requires inspection structurally. I know all the trades through my years as a heavy equipment operator and am doing a complete gutting, new electrical, plumbing, mechanical and adding a gas instant water heater and mini split. I’m allowed to do my own electrical but hiring subs for the rest. I’ve built all of the 5 homes I’ve lived in myself and just observed the other tradesmen asked questions, and became a Jack of all trades through the years.
NEVERTHELESS…..I’m plan on paying whatever fee required and plan to have the inspector do a looksy before I install drywall. I’ve been photographing all work I’ve done to stay with the house. I’ve seen too many flipped houses having rotten work covered up and personally would not buy a flipped house. I feel awful for what folks have had to deal with. Whoever ends up with this after I’m gone will have all the evidence and signature of the inspector . He was a tradesman in his past as are many of those guys. I’m not afraid to be advised or of doing it right, which is why I watch these videos. There have been a lot of changes of code in my 50 years of building and I put a premium on quality work though I’ve used a significant amount of recycled materials. Before Covid, I bought loads of materials at the auction. I had stacks of 9ply coated 3/4 form plywood I got for $10 a sheet that I used for wall and roof sheathing. Those were the days! I brought home loads of TJIs and engineered beams that sold for Pennys on the $. Once I got a huge truck and trailer of 13 ply boards 6 to 10 feet long and 10” wide for $10. I used them for ultra strong shelving and headers. I got very creative. The inspectors got a laugh out of the 7/8 rebar I used in footings. A phone tower installer gave me several tons of 13’ long leftovers from jobs. What a score! I used all of them through the years.
Dope! Good luck with the build.
It will be great because you’re looking out 😊
Love this kind of stuff. Knowledge is power.
My garage was pencil whipped by a retiring county building inspector.
Now bear in mind this was an unfinished space at the first inspection.
The roof was stick framed and was bowing and sagging. After a bunch of back and forth with the GC and him wanting to rig it, I hired a commercial structural engineering firm to inspect the entire building and contacted a lawyer specializing in construction cases. My roof was stick built allowing space for a lift. The lumber size used for my roof was undersized and had to be replaced. After one set of trusses did not work with the 1986 built trusses we had to run the new trusses 90 degrees from the house trusses.
That engineering visit and subsequent report was $2,100!
I wish you had inspected my home in 1985 when it was built.
For the missing dryer vent they are going to use a GE all in one condensing washer and dryer which only needs a 120v outlet and a drain. LOL 😂
So “dryer vent” should not be required in building codes.
@@HarnessedGnat It depends on the proposed installation. Remarks like yours makes social media junk.
A dryer vent can be easily added. Easy fix.
Man, a bunch of hackers worked on this place. Be thankful if you have a good inspector!
You're wrong about the furnace and water heater. Those units have fresh air intake directly from outside
We build houses a lot different in the northern reagents of our country. I built a home in 2001. When the inspection was made before the sheet rock. 0 mistakes. That home could not take a 80 MOH wind
There’s going to be some serious money spent to resolve some of these issues. If this is a custom build I would not want to be the homeowner. Builder should know this stuff and kudos to the inspector
I put all of my electrical wires in conduit in the walls in the attic everywhere I just like the look
Great job. Thanks for sharing 👍
What a nightmare. So many issues! Big $ just to get past this stage. My guess is that none of the builders / installers were qualified. Serious structural issues are a huge problem! The buyers will undoubtedly be spending a pile of money for a house that ultimately won't be worth it.
I need that guy to inspect my new home!!!!!
Come to NYC, where there is no inspections but one final, everything is self certified and the final is everything has it be complete and painted wall. Then they tell you, your short an outlet in a room, etc. homeowner nightmare. Injustice that no pre inspections where perform and screwing you with a final that can possible see any of the internals but what can be seen and should it fail leave the homeowner having a costly fight to get corrected. Completely f’ed up system here
People are fleeing NY for many of the same reasons you just stated.
Excellent job!
And I learned a lot.
Very informative, I can't believe some people can seriously waste your time and everyones time with a house so completely out of code, if this is typical of your inspections then you will not be a very popular person. So many of these infractions are easily preventable, maybe a listing of the codes should be provided at the time they get their building permits, why use oversize holes for items to pass through the wood supports.
How did the city plan review miss the fact of the gas fired heating unit and water heater in the bedroom? The municipality is the authority having jurisdiction, did they possibly waive that code requirement? Are you an independent inspector for the buyer or are you hired by the municipality to do the inspection? I don't understand how that could have been overlooked in the planning stage, and at this stage of the construction would be a huge issue to resolve.
90% furnace , I'm sure the hot water heater is 90% also , they are sealed and get combustion air from outside
@daven...Suppose they just decide to NOT use it as a bedroom but a utility room instead. 🙏❤😊
The issues should have been first been caught by the person supervising the construction of the house. Subs will be subs..it’s the project manager’s job to kick ass BEFORE the inspection…
@@cardboardboxification Bradford White does manufacture power direct vent tank water heaters that use outside air for combustion. For example the RG2PDV40S6N. The water heater in the video is a cheaper power vent model similar to the RG1PV40S6N. These use the air in the room for combustion, you can tell by the vents at the bottom of the unit. Both styles usually top out around 80%.
@@cardboardboxificationstill not allowed to be in bedrooms.
Thanks for letting us tag along.
The general contractor and the sub trades have made some costly mistakes. This inspector is very thorough and he is definitely doing his job!! Very nice!
How does a contractor address these issues?
I understand the small things but what about the big things (missing truss) ?
Agreed
I've seen a GC make the Sub rip off all of the sheathing/decking, cut all of the nails and move the trusses to the proper position and re-install everything to proper specs, on their own dime. I had a sub make some really stupid, but simple mistakes on a rehab. So I pointed them all out to him and said he needs to rip/replace everything up to code, on his own dime and his own time. He walked over to his truck, honked his horn and told his crew to take care of everything and then he left. They didn't speak a lot of English, so they didn't understand what I needed to be performed. Then, one by one, they all seemed to disappear from the site. Only one stuck around to try and help.
Unfortunately none of them were properly trained, and I later found out that they were mostly hired from Lowe's parking lot, even After I not only specified to all of my subs that all labor on any of my sites will be in the country legally, but also made them sign the contract that had this in writing, or they would instantly be removed from the site and all future sites. The worst part is that I am typically on site every day, but they built the two walls on a day when I was not there. This entire fiasco set my project back about two weeks, because I had to find another sub with a crew to fill in, and while I was looking, I had to perform all of the repairs myself. Luckily I had not paid the Sub for the portion of work he had messed up on, so I was only out of pocket for the cost of materials, and of course a few weeks longer getting the house on the market.
This is why we should demand all workers on site be able to read and fluently speak English. Unfortunately American labor is expensive and no one wants to pay for it
Maybe planning on a heat pump dryer that does not have a vent.
Then it will fail and the next homeowner will buy a conventional unit. Hey where is this hose supposed to go?
Condensing dryers don’t need a vent either. Haven’t seen vented dryers in ages. Must be an American thing.
I used to work for this contractor here in Charlotte North Carolina ... and I remember they used to have the trusses delivered and then later a crane will show up and help us installed the trusses on top of the house and we will frame them and nail them all together. I remember we used to count them and mark them before we even started ..... how did they missed or lost a truss ? What ?
I've seen many new builds go up without ever being inspected. 😮😮😮😮
One major thing you didn’t address for pre drywall is, none of the bottom plate or top plate penetrations were caulk with flame safe fire stop caulk. Not to mention fire stops in the framing where required. This looks like the builder and subs first job. It’s going to be very expensive to remedy.
Bummers O' plenty with this inspection. I would have issued barf bags for the homeowner and G. C.
I went to measure for cabinets for a butlers kitchen in a millionaires house . It was all framed and water was there but no drain. Asked the contractor about it and he said the concrete floor could not be cut to add the drain because it was a prestressed slab. Didn’t do the job so have no idea how it came out.
good stuff, thanks for sharing and explaining
I did hvac for over 10 years, relocating all that hvac equipment is going to be a pain in the ass hopefully theres attic space right above that they can use and keep the unit accessable so they can service it and all that stuff
It doesn't need to be relocated, that particular furnace gets its combustion air from outside. Why do you run two pipes outside??? Are you sure you work in HVAC? However if I was the HVAC company, I'd move it, then show the home owner the inspection was wrong and give the home owner the extra bill for moving it. 😊
@@Bryan-Hensley I'm just going off what the inspector said. If he said it has to be moved then I'm guessing it has to be moved so the Inspection will pass and yeah I'm sure I did HVAC for 10 years but never new construction I did service work. New installs on homes that were most of the time at least 15 years old. Nothing new like this
@@VAisForGrowers sorry for being rude. I'm starting to turn down new construction installs because of BS like on this video. People come out and inspect my work that doesn't have a clue what they are doing. Even the insurance companies are sending people out now that doesn't have a clue what's going on..I had a unit hit by lightning from a tree getting struck 20 feet away.. there were arch marks inside the condenser unit. A hole blown in one of the copper lines. Then the insurance inspector comes out and says everything was caused by a bad fan motor. I've stopped doing anything with insurance companies, I give the homeowner a quote and let them blame it on lightning.
10 years when, and were you a helper the whole time? Seriously, people like you defer to experts, because you yourself dont know better.
Meanwhile, those of us who ACTUALLY know better than the so-called experts, have to listen to people who listen to the bureaucratic experts, like this guy, tell us we are wrong.
@@calvinhobbes6118 can you not read well or just plain stupid. Read what I wrote him again and try reading it slower and see if it makes sense in your half working brain
Wow, that house was built like crap. How does this contractor stay in business. This baffles me how shoddy the work was. Thanks
Probably a Spec home. Drywall & siding hides all sins.