Author

Topic:   always look first - 749 visits (2 today, 5 this week)

wes owens
Member


Posts: 768
From:Florence, SC
Registered: Aug 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 22, 2007 08:21 PM            

This is one reason I always look around before entering a crawlspace.
Click for photo (86488 Bytes)

But sometimes they are hiding and you don't see them until its too late.
I crawled under this one and didn't see her going in, and then she crawled out and was waiting for me, or so it seemed.

I figured she would dress out at around three pounds. OK, maybe not, but she was big.
I may not have seen her because I was looking at the snake skin I was crawling over going in.
Snake skin under me, 3 pound spider over me.
Did I say 3 pound, I meant 4.

------------------
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage

Wes Owens
Absolute Home Inspections,LLC

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

Dominic Egan
Member


Posts: 20
From:Santa Rosa CA
Registered: Jan 2006

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 22, 2007 08:51 PM            

Wes that little beauty was still recovering from snake otherwise? who would have gone in after you? certanly not the realtor.Pass me the phone I'll get another HI on the line.

wes owens
Member


Posts: 768
From:Florence, SC
Registered: Aug 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 23, 2007 08:19 AM            

I'm just glad I didn't see it before I went in.
As far as snakes are concerned, they don't bother me at all. I grew up playing with snakes because my uncle use to raise them.

But I do have arachnophobia, although forcing myself to do this type of work has really helped me a lot. Of course there are the occasional set backs.

Like that 5 pounder waiting to pounce and sink its 2 1/2 inch long fangs into my neck.

------------------
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage

Wes Owens
Absolute Home Inspections,LLC

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

Tim Moreira
Member


Posts: 830
From:New Port Richey, Florida
Registered: Jan 2006

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 23, 2007 09:45 AM            

Wes,

That is the exact reason I am grateful to live and inspect where I am. 90% slabs here, thankfully. Although I do come across some crawls every now and then.

Like the old saying goes, "ya don't have to like it, ya just have to do it"

------------------
Tim Moreira
Suncoast Home Inspections
Suncoasthomeinspections@yahoo.com

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

Anthony Alderman
New Member


Posts: 12
From:Durham, NC
Registered: Feb 2006

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 23, 2007 03:27 PM            

I would think that crawlspaces in Fl would be worse. You know man and eating lizards, cobras and gaters in the septic systems not to mention spiders that carry off small dogs.....
Tony

wes owens
Member


Posts: 768
From:Florence, SC
Registered: Aug 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 23, 2007 06:03 PM            

My Uncle was a Plumber in Charleston, S.C. and while in a crawlspace one day he ran up on an Alligator. He said he hit every floor joist with his head on the way out.

------------------
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage

Wes Owens
Absolute Home Inspections,LLC

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

Jerry Peck
Member





Posts: 11907
From:Ormond Beach, Florida
Registered: Feb 2003

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 23, 2007 09:55 PM            

"while in a crawlspace one day he ran up on an Alligator. He said he hit every floor joist with his head on the way out."

Well ... Yeah!

If he'd have just left the gator back there and not tried to bring it out for supper, he would not have had that problem.

------------------
Jerry Peck
Ormond Beach
(i.e., Daytona Beach area)

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

wes owens
Member


Posts: 768
From:Florence, SC
Registered: Aug 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 24, 2007 12:13 PM            

Tasted like chicken.

------------------
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage

Wes Owens
Absolute Home Inspections,LLC

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools

Jeff Gainey
Member


Posts: 226
From:Muncie, Indiana
Registered: Feb 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 25, 2007 06:33 PM            

It looks like I miss all he fun in Indiana. We only have raccoons, spiders, snakes and the occasional possum up here. Here is a picture of one of my friends I met one day when I turned over from entering the crawl.
Click for photo (77518 Bytes)
The worst scare came from a dog though. I was in a long crawl space that I had entered another section and was in there for about 20 minutes. When I was coming back out about 20 ft from the entrance I saw these pair of eyes running straight toward me. It was the seller's Jack Russell Terrier. Lucky for me I had already gave it a treat once and he just wanted another one.
A different adventure everyday...Jeff G

Rick Hurst
Member



Posts: 5413
From:Rockwall, TX (near Dallas)
Registered: Oct 2003

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 25, 2007 06:47 PM            

My scariest crawl was once when I had crawled about 30 minutes to the back side of this home, and turned around to see the sellers 4 yr. son almost on my heels.

The kid had never made a sound. His mom acted like no big deal. He's just curious.

Rick

wes owens
Member


Posts: 768
From:Florence, SC
Registered: Aug 2004

Sponsors keep
InspectionNews.com FREE.
Have you clicked on a
banner ad today?

If you don't click,
who will?

posted March 26, 2007 02:21 PM            

Jeff,
That one looks like a 6 pounder.

------------------
"I reject your reality and substitute my own!" – Adam Savage

Wes Owens
Absolute Home Inspections,LLC

===================================

Books-Reports-Scheduling-Tools