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You are short one roof truss, stop or finish building? andy everett 06-27-2005
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Posted by andy everett on June 27, 2005, 8:41 pm
Did a small repair today on a home that is to be sold. A home inspection
discovered that one section of roof truss is missing. 39 inches is the
distance between the second to last and the end roof trusses. The other
trusses are on 2 foot centers. Both the roof plywood and the ceiling
drywall span 39 inches between supports.

The home had been inspected when it was last sold and the home inspector
did not notice the missing truss. Should a home inspector be responsible
for something like that even if the inspection was done 3 years ago?

Thanks for any input.

Posted by on June 27, 2005, 8:50 pm
I doubt that would hold up, going after the inspector, that is. Three
years is a long time. Whoever would do the going-after would only get
back what they spent on the inspection, anyway. Whoever built the d***
thing should have their head examined.


Posted by on June 28, 2005, 5:02 am

>I doubt that would hold up, going after the inspector, that is. Three
>years is a long time. Whoever would do the going-after would only get
>back what they spent on the inspection, anyway...

My neighbor's 5 year old barn ended up with no ground, just 2 wires in
metallic conduit, and the builder had gone out of business. She called
the electrical inspectors, who revisited, saw their sticker on the load
center, and paid $4K for an electrician to rewire it.

Nick


Posted by Goedjn on June 28, 2005, 3:05 pm
On 27 Jun 2005 17:50:15 -0700, roger61611@yahoo.com wrote:

>I doubt that would hold up, going after the inspector, that is. Three
>years is a long time. Whoever would do the going-after would only get
>back what they spent on the inspection, anyway. Whoever built the d***
>thing should have their head examined.

Why? It's still there isn't it?


Posted by wayne on June 27, 2005, 10:29 pm
most of the time the limits of liability is the refunding of the cost
of the estimate. I would contact them for missing it just as a matter
of priciple as it should have been pretty obvious unless it is
difficult to get to that spot?

Wayne

andy everett wrote:

> Did a small repair today on a home that is to be sold. A home
> inspection discovered that one section of roof truss is missing. 39
> inches is the distance between the second to last and the end roof
> trusses. The other trusses are on 2 foot centers. Both the roof
> plywood and the ceiling drywall span 39 inches between supports.
>
> The home had been inspected when it was last sold and the home
> inspector did not notice the missing truss. Should a home inspector
> be responsible for something like that even if the inspection was
> done 3 years ago?
>
> Thanks for any input.

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