FIND AN INSPECTOR

Poor Birdie

By Edited by ASHI Staff | July 01, 2002

The seller of the home said, “The attic power fan only worked a few months, then it stopped. I called the roofer, but he never came back.”
I looked in the attic. “I found out why your attic fan stopped working,” I said to the seller. “Dead bird! A bird got pinned between the fan blade and the shroud.”

John R. Sebring
Sebring Home Inspection Co.
Painesville, Ohio

Postcard from far afield

Even when on vacation in Amsterdam one is always alert to structural issues – or did someone have too much too drink?

Marty Cohen
AmeriPro Inspection Corp.
St. Augustine, Fla.

Edited by ASHI Staff

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