Field Inspection Program

[Mr Rex]

I lost a home inspector friend this past summer. He fell from a roof during an inspection. No roofs for me.

Not to diminish your point, I lost a RE agent friend that was a youth choir minister and an all around good guy after his wife asked him to remove some Christmas decorations from a relatively low sloped roof... Its still kinda weird seeing his listings closing later...I an still see him standing at the bottom of my ladder and offering to anchor the ladder at an inspection a few months earlier...You never know...

 

[Raven59]

I had a contractor friend digging a ditch around a basement foundation. The ground caved and he suffocated. Sorry to hear about your friend. Life it too short.

 

[ICT RE]

I had a contractor friend digging a ditch around a basement foundation. The ground caved and he suffocated. Sorry to hear about your friend. Life it too short.

Stuff like that doesn’t have to happen. If it happened to a commercial contractor the OSHA fines for not using a trench box (probably not applicable in that case) or benching the trench would possibly put them out of business.

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

it happened to a commercial contractor the OSHA fines for not using a trench box

An old geology professor who was once a vertebrate paleontologist for the Chicago Museum of Natural History, retired in the early 70s. He went out the true way old RockHounds should. He caved a bank in on himself up in Nebraska digging bison bones out of a wash. RIP.

 

[CANative]

I had a contractor friend digging a ditch around a basement foundation. The ground caved and he suffocated. Sorry to hear about your friend. Life it too short.

My grandson and son-in-law used to do roofing - in the Lake Arrowhead/Big Bear area. Two or more stories up on a nearly vertical slope so the back roof edge was maybe 150 to 200 feet down. Not for me.

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

If it's flat I don't mind. But even a typical slope that does not look steep from the street looks steep when you are standing on it. To me, anyway. Asphalt shingles are not grippy for the shoes either.

 

[Evincere]

Had a friend go up on a roof to check for what he thought were loose shingles. Turns out bees nested in a nearby tree swarmed him. caught of guard he panicked and Jumped from the roof landing on his feet. He broke them both and was laid up, unable to walk for 7 months.

 

[Tim The Enchanter]

You people are worse than my wife.

 

[JCONNOR3]

drones

 

[J Grant]

drones

Lee- "I did their online training / see if you qualify thing.
The biggest focus seems to be on the roof. Looking for hail damage, wind damage, etc, for insurance.
Checking out roof vents, turbines, pipe jacks, etc. WTF is a pipe jack? Marking a 10' x 10' area and marking the hail hits or other damage with chalk and photographing"

They want the inspector up on the roof, not using a drone. For the risk involved climbing on a roof the fee is low- they are too cheap to hire licensed /qualified roof inspectors, are preying on desperate for cash appraisers or home inspectors or anyone calling themselves a home inspector (since home inspectors are not licensed in some states) to climb on a roof for them.

A growing trend to send people on inspections who are not qualified for the inspection purpose.. Coming to appraisals soon with bifurcated- because it makes too much sense to send a licensed, experienced appraiser to inspect for an appraisal purpose (sarcasm intended )