7 Defects Found On This New Construction Home

Brian Murphy here with a action realtor inspection services wanted to bring you a couple of good finds here with new construction so it's always important to have your new construction before you do your final walkthrough with your Builder to have it inspected just a couple of things want to share with you I've found several things on the outside one of them that we found this is the fresh air intake for the air conditioner you can see where it is missing its outside cover and then right here the sightings in contact with the roofing material this is fiber cement siding and it's basically suggested by the Builder and not suggested but required by the manufacturer to have two inches of clearance I'm going to show you several other finds here again new construction should be inspected and we have this additional finding that's on the roof what you can see is this flashing detail was cut short so the flashing right here should have gone all the way to the brick in so all they did was cop this right here so caulking will eventually fail and that'll allow water intrusion into the roof structure here over on the east side of the house add the upper window and they did not the caulking around this particular window as we come around the corner we can see the gas meter and the gas lines in a home should be bonded you do have a bonding clamp here which is in the appropriate location but you can see here where they left the tape in place and then they did not clean the paint off so this bonding clamp will not get a good will not get the contact with the gas recommend moving the clamp to an area after cleaning the paint off here's a good find over on the west side of house you should have an outlet for your mechanic servicing your mechanical equipment and you can see right here that the outlet on this particular wall is not even secured in place big hole on the other side off to another good fine while we're outside if you look here on the HVAC equipment the outside convinced early conduit it's not properly attached so what'll eventually happened is the vibration of here could potentially cut into the the wiring which could cause a short electrical shorten that area you see is the same way after the let's get back so we're in the half bath area of the media room this is an exterior wall right over here again we're new construction important to have new construction inspected using thermal imaging you see that orange square right there that's missing insulation this is the third location in the home that we found missing insulation last but not least something to share with you the reason why you should get a home inspection this is the gas cooktop right here it's got a nice exhaust vent but the exhaust vent was not connected I removed the cabinetry cover and found that it was not connected so new construction should be inspected by professional home inspector on your next home inspection call eight action realty inspection services

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Length: 3min 29sec (209 seconds)

Published: Tue Oct 30 2018