Mamadrama19 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 18, 2019 8:47 am
Hey,
I've never purchased a home but didn't they have their inspection before closing?
What do they do during the inspections? How did they look pass a broken water pipe...
Inspections occur within 2 weeks of an offer being accepted and going under contract, typically. I'd like to think any inspector worth their cost would inspect the sprinkler system for any damage but they would simply turn the system on and run it temporarily to ensure it was in working order, not dig up pipes to inspect their status. I'm not fully sure if inspectors are responsible for inspecting things OUTSIDE of the house, though, but I never owned a property with a sprinkler system TO inspect so I'm not sure.
What could have happened here was:
1) it wasn't broken at the time of inspection and it broke due to a shift in the earth (happened to my sewage drain pipe at my first house I owned after a massive rain where the dirt swelled and then dried up causing the pipe to crack)
2) it WAS broken during the time of inspection but there wasn't enough water running through the pipe to soak the ground to make the break visible
3) the inspector didn't check the sprinkler system and the water was turned off until they closed so nobody knew of its status until Rash and Justine moved in and turned the water on so it flooded enough to be visible.
We had a pin hole leak in our water main into our house and we were told it likely had been leaking for awhile to bring enough water to the surface of the earth to run down our front yard to the street. Their pipe was cracked in two so either they had a smaller stress fracture that was leaking and going unnoticed until it finally cracked enough to pour water out or it broke recently or it just recently broke. Her Mom kept yapping about a local earthquake by J&R's area so that could have been the culprit, though they said they didn't feel it there.