Truss repair - serious enough to back out of sale? (see pics) Please help! (build, damage)
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As I have gone thru the inspector of hell, who bragged about the king of killing deals. $200 and back in business. Thanks to you tube and people willing to teach. Nothing like newies home buyers that are taken as dummies. When previous owner fail to maintain a property,
scars are left, and the fact of being old. Inspector are just a course with credits...so I wrought my inspector: Experience...his finding and the end..this inspector scared the hell out of those young.buyers...Next!
Our experience with a highly recommended professional inspector went like this
Pay $250.00 for an inspection of a 93 year old house were were looking at.
Receive a cut and paste form report which is mostly common sense BS included just to make the report longer and look more professional (who will pay $250 for a 1-2 page report).
The meat of the report:
Electricl wiring looks old, you should have an electrician check it.
Plumbing looks old, you should have a plumber check it.
floors are uneven in places, might just be differential settlement or could indicate a foundation problem, yu should have a foundation specialist check it.
Framing appears to be balloon framing. Inspector is unfamiliar with balloon framing so we shold have someone familiar with balloon framing inspect it. Also have someone check for termite damage.
Brick foundation in form corner appears to be failing have a foundation specialist check this too (it was just non-structural brick veneer, which I could see by looking at it. Removed and placed for about $300.
water stains on the ceiling, could have been form a bathroom overflow, or might be a plumbing problem.
Given the age of the house, it might not have good insulation.
There is a knob missing from one of the kitchen drawers.
He noted he did not enter the crawlspace (just poked his head in) or the attic because they were dirty and had limited access (crawl through a trapdoor for both) and he wss not dressed to get dirty.
For $250 what the inspector really came up with was that a knob was missing from a drawer in the kitchen. The rest was pointing out the obvious and suggesting we hire other inspectors to inspect things.
For our next house (180 years old) we decided to pass on the inspector. By then I had learned enough to do my own actually meaningful inspection anyway.
Last edited by Coldjensens; 11-16-2017 at 10:48 AM..
As I have gone thru the inspector of hell, who bragged about the king of killing deals. $200 and back in business. Thanks to you tube and people willing to teach. Nothing like newies home buyers that are taken as dummies. When previous owner fail to maintain a property,
scars are left, and the fact of being old. Inspector are just a course with credits...so I wrought my inspector: Experience...his finding and the end..this inspector scared the hell out of those young.buyers...Next!
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Originally Posted by Coldjensens
Our experience with a highly recommended professional inspector went like this
Pay $250.00 for an inspection of a 93 year old house were were looking at.
Receive a cut and paste form report which is mostly common sense BS included just to make the report longer and look more professional (who will pay $250 for a 1-2 page report).
The meat of the report:
Electricl wiring looks old, you should have an electrician check it.
Plumbing looks old, you should have a plumber check it.
floors are uneven in places, might just be differential settlement or could indicate a foundation problem, yu should have a foundation specialist check it.
Brick foundation in form corner appears to be failing have a foundation specialist check this too (it was just non-structural brick veneer, which I could see by looking at it. Removed and placed for about $300.
water stains on the ceiling, could have been form a bathroom overflow, or might be a plumbing problem.
Given the age of the house, it might not have good insulation.
There is a knob missing from one of the kitchen drawers.
For $250 what the inspector really came up with was that a knob was missing from a drawer in the kitchen. The rest was pointing out the obvious and suggesting we hire other inspectors to inspect things.
For our next house (180 years old) we decided to pass on the inspector. By then I had learned enough to do my own actually meaningful inspection anyway.
And therein is part of the problem. I won't fire my truck up for $250.00!
I have just received a report from an inspector stating broken roof truss. What is the rough cost of repair on a broken truss?
"The cost to repair the broken truss?"- that cost is minimal; usually. The cost to have a letter from a PE that states how the repair should be made, and was verified by said PE, and has a "wet seal"...
Well, that can be a little pricey! But, if it were ever to come into question in the future you pull out that letter and "BAM!", the "problem" goes away.
I have just received a report from an inspector stating broken roof truss. What is the rough cost of repair on a broken truss?
Roughly?
It could be anywhere from a couple hundred bucks to have it scissored (very dangerous from an engineering perspective as trusses are meant to behave in a very certain manner) to a few thousand dollars to have the roof torn off, the truss removed and replaced, and the whole deal put back together. LOTS of exogenous factors...like are we talking a two story house with no attic access for the contractor, for example.
Start with an engineer, then get a contractor to determine the cost to follow the engineer's suggestions to make it safe.
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