http://www.oldstonehouse.ca/ugly-addition/our-house-has-an-ugly-secret/ To renovate is divine, to restore is to fix their mistakes... Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://www.oldstonehouse.ca/ugly-addition/our-house-has-an-ugly-secret/comment-page-1/#comment-9152 Old Stone House » Bad house inspection - Bad house inspector Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:13:17 +0000 http://www.oldstonehouse.ca/?p=157#comment-9152 [...] The soaking wet sun room wall.  This really had me chuffed. I told her there was no way the wall was wet (knowing full well that I had just ripped out the wall last fall) but agreed that the wall was curiously ’spongy’.  I plunged a knife into the wall and ripped open a hole to reveal a BONE DRY wall cavity complete with dusty ‘drywall’.  I showed her the reno pictures and explained how the wall had just been rebuilt this past fall.  The sponginess?  The drywall was not anchored against the studs - it was sitting out from the studs 1/8′” and so it had some play when you pushed on it - a result of not re-screwing the drywall after the exterior work had been completed. [...] [...] The soaking wet sun room wall.  This really had me chuffed. I told her there was no way the wall was wet (knowing full well that I had just ripped out the wall last fall) but agreed that the wall was curiously ’spongy’.  I plunged a knife into the wall and ripped open a hole to reveal a BONE DRY wall cavity complete with dusty ‘drywall’.  I showed her the reno pictures and explained how the wall had just been rebuilt this past fall.  The sponginess?  The drywall was not anchored against the studs – it was sitting out from the studs 1/8′” and so it had some play when you pushed on it – a result of not re-screwing the drywall after the exterior work had been completed. [...]

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