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New Home Inspection -The Pre Drywall Inspection for New Construction ! - YouTube

Channel: Eli Magids Luxury Homes Charlotte NC Fathom

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so you're building a new home and you

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want to know

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if you should get an inspection even

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before the walls go up

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well today i'm going to walk you through

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a pre-drywall inspection

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let you see what it is and let you find

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out why it's so important

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and we're getting started right now

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my name is eli mages and i'm a real

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in charlotte north carolina and the

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south carolina and i specialize in

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end so a pre-dry wall inspection

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is it important well i recommend it to

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all of my clients as its benefits

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and its peace of mind that it provides

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outweighs the cost of the inspection i

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want to thank

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aaron for agreeing to do this for us

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and i want to thank his company home

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inspection carolina

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for allowing him to do it as well

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sit back relax let's learn a little bit

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about a pre-dry oil inspection and why

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it's so important

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hi guys i'm here with aaron

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home inspection carolina he's going to

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walk us through a little bit of a

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pre-drywall inspection

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aaron how you doing guys it looks better

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with the mask on

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yeah um so so what do you look for

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when you're going through usually uh

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with a drywall inspection sorry we got

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some uh

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we've got some contractors in here

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working um the free

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free drywall basically we're looking at

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everything that's exposed everything we

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can see this is the best time to do

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any kind of structural inspection before

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we start closing up the walls and

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of course where we can of course

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insulation is going right now that's why

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i got in here as fast as possible

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but uh basically we're looking at the uh

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structure

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plummet electrical um ventilation

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duct work uh hvac install anything

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that's

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here basically um what i personally do

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is we're gonna actually start at the

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front of the house

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i personally start on the inside and i

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work my way through every room and i

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skirt from the bottom up

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um especially with free drywall we're

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always worried about structure so i'm

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looking for basically the strapping

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and the foundation bolts and we're

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looking for the spacing and

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so they can't be more than six foot

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apart and you have to have strapping and

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bolts within four inches

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um and then of course we'll work our way

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up from there and we go up and we start

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working our way up and looking for pack

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studs with pink studs

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and headers all the way up make sure we

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have proper bearings on our header

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and this orange pink ish material you

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see here is basically it's uh it's a

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sealant it's a clean sealant that we

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have at all our face

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uh baseboards or steel plates in our

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corners at the exterior walls and that

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reduces any kind of heat loss

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or air loss to the exterior we're also

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looking for the flashing tapes so we're

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looking for

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that's uh one of the most important

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parts is is making sure we don't have

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any water entry through the home's life

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um and basically we're looking for this

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flashing tape around your windows and

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your doors

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and making sure we have a nice tight um

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nice tight fit around those windows to

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make sure we don't have any

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water leakage anywhere so at this point

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that's basically what we're looking for

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the exposed framing

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with the electrical uh in the home

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basically what we're doing is i'm

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checking the box and making sure i'm

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checking each run to their outlet i'm

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making sure outlets are where they're

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supposed to be

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outlets have to be they have so many

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outlets in so many locations

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um so basically this is not a code

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enforcement inspection

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this is a standard inspection of

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standards

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for for basically building standards um

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so there are some things that i may call

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that the builders or the codes

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enforcement may not require

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so some of it is recommendations uh but

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some of it may pop up on a coat

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enforcement

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um this particular home uh has has

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already been inspected by the county

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because this is

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they're already putting insulation up so

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they have passed

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their city and and county code

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enforcement um inspections uh but now

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it's just

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i'm in here just make just doing one

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last check to make sure uh no one really

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overlooked anything um so far in this

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particular home everything's looking

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pretty good so far we do have some loose

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foundation bolts around the foundation

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of the seal plate

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um so those need to be tightened up we

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got a couple studs that are loose

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and are warped in here and there that's

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another thing we're looking for anything

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that's going to cause any kind of

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uh the defect in the wall such as a bow

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or a

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or or or maybe a loose tape joint that

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may form because of a wall that's bowed

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and how they press that

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press that drywall up on the wall um

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we're looking for protection plates

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um and all our plumbing and all our this

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is what these are they're protection

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plates so

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as a electrical cut electrical line

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enters through a

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a wall ju stud excuse me uh it cannot be

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more on than

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on it can't be out of one third so

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basically it can be the center third

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but once it moves out past that center

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third we all we have to put protection

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plates so we always find a few of those

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that are missing as well

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um we do have some a little bit of

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different framing here

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we have a true header which is good and

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they're jacks and their kings

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but this is for a pocket door that's

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coming in um

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but uh but so you'll see some

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things in this house that are a little

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bit different than a normal uh

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normal construction but not not much um

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in a good way or a bad way in a good way

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in a good way yeah

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basically what we're looking for as long

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as they have nice nice bearing

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all the way down to the floor is what

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we're looking for um if you step over

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here we're also looking

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uh at our hangers and our main girders

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where our point loads would be and any

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kind of

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downforce that that that's not supported

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uh properly

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but we're checking all our hangers on

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our lvls our laminated veneer

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lumber right here um and just making

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sure every

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hell hole is filled with a nail and we

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usually get those but it looks like

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they've got all those secured properly

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and it looks pretty good so um with that

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the downstairs as of right now looks

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looks great they've done a good job we

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can actually go upstairs

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and take a look and see see what's going

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upstairs now um i haven't been up here

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yet we'll actually go on a fresh walk

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through up here

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first thing i typically look for is i

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like downstairs i usually start at the

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bottom

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and i'm checking the um the joints in

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the flooring so as we see have some

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damaged

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sheathing right here that needs to be

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replaced and also any kind of uneven

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areas

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at these meeting joints of this floor

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sheathing

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and of course we don't know what kind of

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flooring is going in here it could be

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carpet it could be hardwood it could be

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tile

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who knows but again if you have tyler

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hardwood

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a lot of those uneven joints are really

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noticeable um so we do

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like to check those fairly heavy but

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yeah we can just start i usually start

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on my left

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and we'll go around so this right here

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is for a jumper so this will be

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um the laundry room of course and

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basically it's make up here for the

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dryer so you'll see some stuff and that

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is proper

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it seems to me they've done a good job

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on their ventilation

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i'm also checking the length on their

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dryer vent so it can

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be no more than 35 feet they have a

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calculated 31.

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that looks to be correct so again that's

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uh that's part of the ventilation

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inspection

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and it looks proper we're also pressure

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testing the plumbing lines right now

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and uh it is it is pressurized so they

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will check that to make sure that

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pressure hasn't dropped

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um you know whenever they come back so

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um again sealant

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at your uh penetrations through the

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ceilings and uh ceilings and floors any

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kind of uh

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horizontal penetration going through a

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horizontal surface should be fire of

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blocked

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fireball um and that's what this is it's

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basically fire block

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um the uh getting over here is basically

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all i'm doing now is just checking these

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studs

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make sure you don't have any twisted

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studs making sure these studs are equal

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or plumb or flush as we would say

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at the plates and at the top plates so

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just to make sure we don't have any

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warping

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or bending of that drywall when it is

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installed

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and of course you may have some nails

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sticking out here and there just they

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haven't really finished and

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really done some cleaning see there's a

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little bit of a little bit of a lip

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right here

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i will take a picture of this and note

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that it could be corrected

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again if you're putting carpet up here

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you're probably not going to notice

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something like that but uh

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with hardwoods or tile it is possible to

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have a little a little bit of a

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little bit of a raise right there so uh

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getting back to

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the framing one thing i will like to

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check is the truss system

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and the uh in in the attic area

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the trusses my main concern is making

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sure we don't have any mise engulfing

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plate gossip plates most plates will

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basically

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connect with plates right here and make

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sure we have a

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direct bearing just like the joists

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downstairs we have all our nails in our

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hangers

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like we're supposed to have and we have

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proper direct bearing on all this

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um these i do see a few

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that are attached to the top plates uh

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in in the home now this is common of

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builders

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and it's not against code and they are

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allowed to do it

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but technically if you have a truss

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system when you connect it to the

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interior walls it should either be

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floating or you should have something

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called a slide clip or better known as a

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simpson clip

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and a simpson clip just basically allows

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the truss system as it heats and

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heats uh as expands contracts to heat um

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it can actually move and shift without

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actually lifting or doing any damage to

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the interior walls

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that's a bit of an argument um because

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it's more of a manufacturer

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specification from the trust builders

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uh but you know builders like to say oh

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we like everything to

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expand and contract together uh but the

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trusts

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trusses are in an unconditioned area

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most the time and

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do have a lot more expansion contraction

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um so i will note that when trusses are

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attached to interior walls

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i can't say the builder always corrects

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it they usually do not because they

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don't have to

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uh but uh i that that is something that

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i normally mention

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in my reports gotcha um another thing

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that we check

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is basically again we're going through

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we're checking all our electrical lines

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making sure we don't have any missing

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plates two by sixes unless they're out

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really really far out they don't need

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those at all and you're basically

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checking the two by fours are out of

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center third

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uh same thing with two by six but they

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have a little bit more

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leniency um

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here we go also on the sheathing up at

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the uh

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the roof sheathing if we go back up

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we're also looking for the clips

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so you see these little clips at the

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butt joints or the joints of the roof

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sheathing and those are called h

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clips trusses are typically spaced 24 on

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center

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rafters are 16 on the center so when you

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expand to 24 ounce center with this uh

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with the osb a lot of times you can have

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a lot of sagging

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um at the sheathing and those h clips

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they prevent that from happening

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so basically i'm going through and by

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checking each one of these joints and

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making sure we don't have any missing

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h-clips

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um i always sometimes find a few here

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and there

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uh they are kind of a headache the way

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the best way to fix it basically builder

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goes up there and he blocks it

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he puts a 2x4 on the joint

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and nails it up and basically keeps it

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from saying uh that's that's the usual

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fix that i see

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uh but uh but yeah so that's pretty much

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what i'm looking for

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uh of course you know i still gotta run

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through this and do

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to do a full full full over on the full

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one over on this house

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um but uh but that's typically what

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we're looking for we we look basically i

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tell people we're looking for everything

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we're looking for everything that

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anything that could be wrong um

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and uh a lot of times we we we always

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find something

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let's help us find something you got to

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earn your money yeah but uh

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hopefully when we find stuff you

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hopefully it's it's minor minor nitpicky

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kind of stuff

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right okay and in your opinion would you

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recommend someone to have a free drywall

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inspection yes it's always a good idea

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to have a free drywall inspection

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um of course i mean there are builders

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around here that are

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very reputable and uh it depends on

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a lot of times it depends on the site

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manager and the builder and whoever's in

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control of the operation

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um if if you have someone that's really

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really on it then typically your build

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should be pretty tight

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um so you know it depends on how

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comfortable you are with the builder and

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the site manager

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um but we always recommend yes it's a

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good idea to have a pre-drywall

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inspection

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and that just lets us see the actual

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structure because when a home is

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finished

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there's a lot that we can't see so you

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know

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all this is covered i can't see any of

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this i can't see the electrical i can't

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see the ventilation well

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of course unless it's in the attic but

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all this that

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can't be seen is now is the time to now

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is the time to check

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thank you aaron for the walk through

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anytime thank you very much i appreciate

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and and now we're going to actually do

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the inspection yeah all right

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thanks a lot thanks so are you

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