Holmes Inspection - Go With The Flow
- There should be a drain by the furnace. Furnaces have pumps in them to remove water from condensation. Humidifiers and air conditioners have pumps as well. Should the pumps fail, the water may overflow out of them. You don’t want to come home at the end of the day and find a surprise swimming pool in the furnace room.
- Washer and dryers are better suited to be in the basement so that if it should leak, it won’t leak on the mainfloor or bedrooms.
- Hot water heaters need to be properly vented to have it’s gasses exit the house. Same with the fireplace.
- If a vapour barrier has stains, it could be water from a leak. Or it could be urine from an animal.
- “I have to make it right. I have to make it better than what it is”
- Not all fireplaces are the same. Some are rated to be fit into concrete/masonry enclosures. Don’t use those fireplaces inside a wooden or drywall enclosure. Combustible materials might ignite.
- Vents: The joints need to be sealed so that there is no loss in transfer; Chance of carbon monoxide leakage
- Electrical: Junction boxes should be covered so that any sparks will be contained within them and not to surrounding areas like wood or pipes. Especially gas pipes; Also remember that Junction boxes always have to be accessible. So don’t dry wall over it!
- Fireplaces: New exhaust systems are two walled alumn tubes. The inner tube is for the exhaust from the fireplace. The outer tube is to pull in oxygen from outside of the house and into the fireplace
