A home inspection is an interesting thing. As a home inspector we need to walk into a home that we likely have never been in before, with an audience of people we have likely never met before, and in a relatively short period of time try to figure out all the things that have ever happened in the home, all the things that might happen in the future, and understand how it all fits together.
So how is it done then? Well, some may call it "guess work", but I call it skill an reasoning. When you look at the picture in this blog post, you see an old exterior outlet being used as a junction box.... that someone painted over... and that the door was half hanging off of. So needless to say when I, as a home inspector, see something like this it puts me on high alert. I wonder "if they were willing to do something like that, what else could they have done?".
Needless to say there was a lot more in this home's electrical system that looked a lot like this...
So how is it done then? Well, some may call it "guess work", but I call it skill an reasoning. When you look at the picture in this blog post, you see an old exterior outlet being used as a junction box.... that someone painted over... and that the door was half hanging off of. So needless to say when I, as a home inspector, see something like this it puts me on high alert. I wonder "if they were willing to do something like that, what else could they have done?".
Needless to say there was a lot more in this home's electrical system that looked a lot like this...
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