dbhosttexas wrote:Tom&Shelly wrote:dbhosttexas wrote:Determined the failure of the closet rod in the master suite. The rod pocket was mounted to a 14" piece of 1x6 pine that was in turn nailed to the sheetrock wall.
Notice I did NOT mention any studs right?
F#$%ing geniouses that built my house...
Ah, yes: Load bearing dry wall! Shelly and I renovated a house once and discovered similar such marvels.
Tom
I am going to state this CAREFULLY and be clear I am NOT making any accusations, but I am CURIOUS IF the home inspectors when my house was built were being paid under the table by the contractors, or MAYBE they were thoroughly incompetent, because I have found things in the way my house was built that NEVER should have passed any reasonable inspection.
I am not asserting those things DID happen or WERE the case, but I am asseting I am curious IF these things happened or were the case...
Seriously though. Who the heck nails a pine board directly to drywall and expect it to be a supporting member?
I've bought houses in Kansas, California, and finally New Mexico (2), and sold the ones in Kansas and California. I believe the home inspection requirement is bogus, and the inspectors (especially in Los Angeles) are incompetent. I bought a condo there and the fool missed that a previous home owner had wired in his own heat lamp over a shower, using lamp cord in the walls!, and took out an outlet to make room for the switch. Then he re-wired the outlet on the side of the vanity, over the toilet, again using lamp cord (2 conductor--the ground didn't go anywhere), and with no outlet box.
I fixed all of that, after I moved in and discovered it, but, eleven years later, when I sold the place, a different inspector claimed there wasn't a GFI outlet for that bathroom, missing that the wiring for that, and an upstairs bathroom, were on the same circuit and used the same GFI. He screwed up in a few other ways as well, so I wrote a letter to the potential buyers, through my real estate agent, and let my opinion of the inspector be known in no uncertain terms. They bought the place anyway, and I'm certain were safer than they would have been if I hadn't lived there and made the fixes.
Needless to say, I didn't use the services of an inspector when I contracted to have the cabin built (of course, I visited the site nearly every evening--and the builder and I are still friends), or the one Shelly and I bought on foreclosure. That one we renovated and are now renting out. The county did send folks to inspect the cabin while it was being built, but my builder knew all of them. Can't say the inspectors added much value, although they generally seemed to be nice guys and knew their business. (Much of our county government seems a bit incompetent though, and it wouldn't surprise me a bit if many are corrupt, though I've never actually paid any off in my dealings with them.)
Anyway, that was a vent, and I'm with you!
Oh, the fellow who nailed the support into drywall: Day laborer--simply doesn't give a dam.
Tom