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I was checking a flue in an old house in Portland and found something that made me change my whole routine.
I was doing a standard visual check with my mirror and light, like I always do. The homeowner mentioned a faint, weird smell after rain, but I didn't see any obvious cracks. On a hunch, I ran my camera up from the bottom of the cleanout instead of the top. The footage showed a huge, hidden crack in the clay liner about eight feet up, completely blocked from my usual top-down view. Water had been seeping in there for who knows how long. Has anyone else had a case where switching your inspection angle caught a major problem?
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riley_king165d ago
Man, that's a smart move checking from the bottom. It reminds me of this time I was helping my buddy with his car, hearing a weird rattle. We looked under the hood forever, found nothing. Finally got it up on ramps and saw the whole exhaust hanger had rusted through from the top down, totally hidden from our first look. Sometimes you just gotta get a different angle on things, you know? Makes me wonder how many other problems are hiding just out of plain sight.
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lily895d ago
Totally feel that. I had a leak under my kitchen sink that drove me nuts for a week. I kept wiping up water but couldn't see where it was coming from. Finally laid on the floor with a flashlight and saw it was a tiny crack on the back side of the pipe fitting, only visible from below. It's crazy what you miss from the usual view. What's the weirdest place you've ever found a problem?
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