House frame inspection, almost perfect but?

Today I inspected house frame that was well built and by a competent team of framers. You would be excused for thinking: why waste money on frame inspection, this looks so good? However my client wanted peace of mind and as it turned out it was a good call.

There was only one simple error but potentially very serious. It seems to me that in the lapse of attention framing carpenter swapped lintels. One lintel was to go over non load bearing wall and the other into a wall bearing roof truss loads. At the time of my inspection roof was loaded with tiles and the deflection of top plate over the lintel was visible to a sharp eye.

So, the carpenter made a simple error but why has supervisor not picked it up? Even worse why has building inspector not picked up on it? I can’t say, all I know is that I did.

I have no doubt that my inspection has saved my client a lot of grief, imagine finding serious ceiling sag at handover, or not finding it at all.

Do you think you should skip  on building stage inspections? it’s your investment. it’s your call.

 

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One Response to House frame inspection, almost perfect but?

  1. With the help of this blog I know about the drawback of the home frame inspection. I like your way of explanation.

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