I’ve been inspecting house for 27 years. I will never say that I’ve seen it all, but I have seen enough to curl a home owners toes on new costruction. There are too many unsafe conditions to ever cover in this blog, but you would think someone with half a brain was supervising the construction. These days, construction super attendants are accounting majors with little experience. It took 20 years to get the builders to start attaching pulldown attic stairway to the ceiling properly. I know two inspectors that were very seriously hurt when a stairway came loose from the ceiling while they were on it. I have had two come loose from the ceiling – once while I was on it and another one when my client just got off the stairway.

Homebuyers know what they want when they pick a house out. Number of bedrooms, location, color and amienities. They do not know the proper placement of a support beam from an improper placement. There is a lot more to construction than most people know. Builders and contractors included.