Home (Greece) Inspection

Greetings,

It's time for the pre-home inspection...

which means... the Housing Department from the base comes with our Land Lord to pre-inspect our humble abode. 

They peruse the premises to inspect for damage incurred by our habitating in his house.  The landlord (well we just simple to do like him) inspects with his evil eye... trying to scam as much money from us as he can.  As if he doesn't already every month when we pay double rent prices (Greek residence pay half of what we pay).

With clipboard in hand.... they enter the house.  They do not know... I have formulated a plan... to point out all the problems with the house caused by poor construction so they do not notice all our little minor everyday use wear and tear on the house (candle wax stains and damaged counter tops). 

I point out the leaking toilet. 

The mold in the kitchen.

The mold in the bathroom.

The front door that leaks every time it rains.

The mold forming around the door that leaks every time it rains. 

The window seals that leak every time it rains.

The mold growing around the windows that leak every time it rains. 


THIS IS starting to sound like a DR SEUSS book. 


Then we arrive at the fireplace. 

There is grave concern about the smoke damage, on the walls, from the fireplace, where the smoke billows in, from a poorly constructed chimney. 

The Housing Lady looks more than a little concerned.

She wants to know how and why this is happening.  I respond with a ...me too answer.  I inform her that I have notified Housing and the landlord attempted to rectify the problem... only to do absolutely zero for our little smoke problem.

Huge patches of stained stucco line the walls and ceilings. 

 

Housing Lady speaks to the Landlord in Greek... so I have no clue what's being said.  She has a furrowed brow?

This is the before picture....

Before the Hansen's moved in and ruined the walls. 

Nice shiny and clean.

The Landlord wants to know if we opened the flue.  Ah, yeah... I think we know to open the flue. 

 

The problem occurs when we have a ragging fire... and along comes a gust of wind and sends smoke back.

Filling our house with a fine mist of soot.

We spent a long time with the smoke problem.

Then we moved on to the electrical problem...

We were given "proper" instruction on how to unplug an appliance... as if I yanked them all out of the walls on purpose.  I might by that... if it were not almost every outlet in the house. 

Here is the before the Hansen's defaced the Landlords house photo...

The crew finished up the house...

all in all... we have taken pretty good care of his house. 

The major problem the landlord had with our up keeping of his house was the patio outside. 

He found some rust stains on the tile.

Perfect circular rings all over the place. 

All over the place.

The rings are from our patio furniture..

that rusted...

from the constant rain...

all winter...

and improper construction....

of the patio....

where the rain water ...

does not drain off.

So there are MANY little circular rings... all over the patio.

Here's the before the Hansen's made rusty rings all over the Landlords patio photo...

 

We made it through the inspection, needing only minor repairs.  The final inspection might reveal more problems...? 

Anyone have any ideas how to remove rust stains from tile?

Blessings,