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My home inspector basically called me out for ignoring the attic and I feel stupid now
When I bought my first house last fall in Columbus, I thought I was being super thorough. I checked all the faucets, flipped every light switch, even brought a level to check the floors. But the inspector got up in the attic and spent like 20 minutes up there. When he came down he just looked at me and said 'you never checked the insulation depth or for any roof leaks up there, did you?' and I felt like a total idiot. Turns out the previous owner had stuffed cheap fiberglass batts in wrong and there were water stains from a small leak around the vent pipe that I would have totally missed. I spent my first weekend up there adding more insulation and patching that spot with some roofing cement. Has anyone else had that moment where the inspector made you realize how much you were skipping over?
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the_zara26d ago
My buddy literally had the same attic shame moment last year.
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clairebaker26d ago
The_zara knows that attic shame hits different, my fridge ice maker leaked into the crawl space last week.
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