Comments on: Inspection items – what’s wrong with your home? http://crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/ Austin Real Estate Blog Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:40:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shireen http://crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-973 shireen Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:10:01 +0000 http://ben.crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-973 Okay, please keep these happy 1960s era slab foundation stories coming! We just passed on a house that had a 5.5 inch slope in one room and a 2.5 inch slope front to back. Foundations can be fixed but the house was sited poorly, back yard drained towards the house, clay soil, seemed like the problems would reoccur. That plus the need for new ac, roof, windows, put us off. I am spoiled by my highly insulated house and low electrical bills. We had a 1951 house, pier and beam foundation was great but no insulation in the walls meant that you tell if a cold front had come through just by putting your hands on the wall. And the electric bills were high! Okay, please keep these happy 1960s era slab foundation stories coming!

We just passed on a house that had a 5.5 inch slope in one room and a 2.5 inch slope front to back. Foundations can be fixed but the house was sited poorly, back yard drained towards the house, clay soil, seemed like the problems would reoccur. That plus the need for new ac, roof, windows, put us off. I am spoiled by my highly insulated house and low electrical bills. We had a 1951 house, pier and beam foundation was great but no insulation in the walls meant that you tell if a cold front had come through just by putting your hands on the wall. And the electric bills were high!

]]> By: Enoch http://crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-974 Enoch Thu, 04 Oct 2007 20:25:49 +0000 http://ben.crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-974 I've lived in slab or pier-and-beam houses all my life -- every one of them built in the '50s or '60s...and they do fine. Sometimes the doors stick, sometimes they don't. I’ve lived in slab or pier-and-beam houses all my life — every one of them built in the ’50s or ’60s…and they do fine. Sometimes the doors stick, sometimes they don’t.

]]> By: shireen http://crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-972 shireen Wed, 03 Oct 2007 22:33:06 +0000 http://ben.crosslandteam.com/blog/2007/10/03/inspection-items-whats-wrong-with-your-home/#comment-972 My house is just 6 years old and we supervised the construction. Its built like a tank and a three-star green builder to boot! Six inch studs, lots of insulation, low-E windows, new wiring, no lead paint. It kills me that we will have to sell it at some point and move into a 1960s era slab foundation to get our kids into a decent public high school. I shudder at all the potential problems: electrical issues, sewer issues, foundation, on and on. Now our house isn't perfect, the sprinkler system has a leak, and the electric starter on the gas stove likes to click and the ac coils need cleaning but I have great confidence in the overall construction of this house and I so fear moving back into an older house!! Ack! My house is just 6 years old and we supervised the construction. Its built like a tank and a three-star green builder to boot! Six inch studs, lots of insulation, low-E windows, new wiring, no lead paint. It kills me that we will have to sell it at some point and move into a 1960s era slab foundation to get our kids into a decent public high school. I shudder at all the potential problems: electrical issues, sewer issues, foundation, on and on.

Now our house isn’t perfect, the sprinkler system has a leak, and the electric starter on the gas stove likes to click and the ac coils need cleaning but I have great confidence in the overall construction of this house and I so fear moving back into an older house!! Ack!

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