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Camera inspection: An inspection camera is a tool that inspectors use to collect visual data. These tools can include digital inspection cameras, snake cameras, or remote visual inspection (RVI) tools, like drones. Inspection cameras allow inspectors to zoom in on problem areas and help inspectors collect data in hard to reach or inaccessible spaces. Inspection cameras are an important tool in any inspector’s toolbox. If you Google “inspection camera” the top results might make you think that the only types of cameras used for inspections are borescopes or snake cameras—cameras attached to the end of a cable that are made to enter sewer pipes or other tiny spaces, with a digital live feed available on a screen. But the truth is that almost any camera can be an inspection camera. A home inspector might use a common digital camera to collect images of a house while conducting an inspection.  An industrial inspector working inside a large pressure vessel might use a drone equipped with a high-quality RGB digital camera to collect images for a visual inspection. And a roof inspector might use a thermal camera to collect infrared data showing where heat is escaping from a roof. What makes a camera an inspection camera isn’t that it has a high-tech scope or that it’s made just for inspectors—it’s how the camera is used.

What is a Shower Pan Stress Test? Now let's fast forward to the home inspection world involving shower pans. Some home inspector employ the practice of stress testing shower pans during the course of a routine, visual home inspection. This is a poor practice in my opinion and here’s why. The shower should be tested using its normal operation and it specifically states in the The American Society of Home Inspectors (ASHI) Standard of Practice that the inspector is not required to fill shower pans to test for leaks. So imagine the scenario of a home inspector doing a stress test on an inspection of an occupied home that is 15 years old. The original owners of this home use the master shower at least daily and have in their ownership. The inspector decides to do a stress test of the shower pan during the inspection. There is a tear in the liner at the rear bottom corner in the very back of the stall that water has not hit in 15 years and can’t due to the angle and placement of the shower head. The shower stall curb is 6 inches high. A few minutes into this test, the old nail hole begins to leak. The inspector fills the shower pan as high as he can and then makes a mark on the pan to note the water level. He then proceeds to inspect the rest of the bathroom. All the while the shower is leaking down to the ceiling below. For round numbers we’ll say the shower is 5 feet by 5 feet at 6 inches deep. That’s 12.5 Cubic feet which equates to about 90 gallons of water.

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What is Mold? Molds are microscopic organisms found virtually everywhere, indoors and outdoors. Mold will grow and multiply under the right conditions, needing only sufficient moisture (e.g.in the form of very high humidity, condensation, or water from a leaking pipe, etc.) and organic material specifically cellulose (e.g., ceiling tile, drywall, paper, or natural fiber carpet padding). Mold growths often appear as discoloration, staining, or fuzzy growth on building materials or furnishings and are varied colors of white, gray, brow, black, yellow, and green. In large quantities, molds can cause allergic symptoms when inhaled or through the toxins the molds emit.

GUIDELINES FOR MOLD TESTING AND ASSESSMENTS: Common biological dust components such as mold and pollen are as of this date not regulated by any State or Federal agency, and as such have no mandated permissible exposure limits (PEL) or threshold limit values by which to unilaterally determine the habitability of any indoor environment. Further, all individuals react differently to exposure to indoor molds, which makes establishing such limits applicable to all individuals virtually impossible. When assessing the indoor air quality of an environment, one must take into consideration the occupants or proposed occupants and their individual sensitivity with respect to indoor environmental contaminants. However, in the absence of State and Federal exposure limits for mold in indoor environments, several current industry guidelines exist that we believe accurately address the air quality of an indoor environment. During all mold assessments, Partner follows the guidelines and recommendations provided by the California Department of Health Services (DHS), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the New York Guidelines for Assessment of Fungi in Indoor Environments.

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