Omaha Home Inspections by Greg Wayman, ASHI Certified Inspector

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My blog is packed full of home inspection related articles that are useful for homeowners, Buyers, Sellers, and real estate agents. I also post interesting inspection pics regularly as I run across something on my inspections that peak my interest. Enjoy!

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2010 

This is a house located just north of the humane society in Council Bluffs in a new development.  The ice dam membrane is supposed to be installed from the eave up 2' past where the exterior wall meets the roof.  They are 1 row short.  Oops!  The sad thing is the new homeowner will never know unt...
09/30/2010
When homeowners have their roofs replaced, many expect a new roof to last at least the length of the manufacturer’s warranty.  If the homeowner chooses the 35-yr asphalt composite architectural shingle, then common sense figures that the roof should last outwards of 35 years before needing to be ...
09/28/2010
Last week, I inspected a foreclosure.  The furnace was from the 1970's and looked like it had about 4 cracks in the heat exchanger.  I wasn't able to verify them due to the fact that the furnace wouldn't stay running for more than about 25 seconds at a time.  What was happening was the flue pipe ...
09/27/2010
Caring For Your Septic System  (For a PDF version, click here.) By Greg Wayman, ASHI Certified Inspector How Septic Systems Work Before we jump into providing pointers on how to maintain your septic system, we need to first cover the basics of how a septic system works.  A septic system consists ...
09/25/2010
This Omaha deck was built by the Homeowner.  Overall, it looked great at first...until you got underneath.  Instead of running the joists perpendicular to the foundation and supporting up the ends by securing them to the ledger board, he had installed them parallel.  The only thing the ledger boa...
09/24/2010
This vacant house had the utilities turned off.  Some genius patching the drywall tried to dump the mud down the toilet.  I'm guessing only 1 flush left in the tank with the water off.  What are people thinking??? To see more brilliance, check out our photo galleries at www.omaha-home-inspection....
09/11/2010
When I inspected this house, it was vacant.  I honestly didn't know if the previous owners had been electrocuted from this shower install.  This is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen on any of my home inspections.  You're looking at a shower aiming at a 120 amp electric furnace.  Yes, the f...
09/06/2010
This photo was taken in a 3 year old house that had a family with 2 little daughters.  They played in their playroom in the basement right next to the utility room.  A bird's nest clogged the B-vent flue pipe and was causing 100% of the flue gases from the furnace and water heater to backdraft in...
09/04/2010
You never know what you're going to find.  This 1900's home located along the river in South Omaha had 2 crawlspaces and a basement.  There were lots of half used paint cans stacked all along the one wall of the basement and junk everywhere.  The house had a ton of issues which my clients could h...
09/02/2010
This was a 2 year old townhome.  It had just started to rain at the beginning of the inspection.  When I was finished water had come in here at such a steady stream that the water was pooling on over 1/2 of the unfinished basement.  It pays to have a good water proofing company.  The only way to ...
09/01/2010
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My blog is packed full of home inspection related articles that are useful for homeowners, Buyers, Sellers, and real estate agents. I also post interesting inspection pics regularly as I run across something on my inspections that peak my interest. Enjoy!