{"id":400,"date":"2014-01-29T01:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-01-29T01:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/?p=400"},"modified":"2023-09-08T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T04:05:15","slug":"building-inspections-mentione-sub-floor-plumbing-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/building-inspections-mentione-sub-floor-plumbing-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Inspections Mentone &#8211; Sub Floor Plumbing Leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Mr Inspector is a qualified building inspector in Melbourne and this photograph was taken during a building inspection in Mentone. It shows excessive water ponding in the sub floor area.<\/h5>\n<p>This is considered a major defect as further deterioration of the building or its elements could occur.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes it may be something minor causing the problem like a down pipe not aligned at the base causing water to flow in under the home and other times it can be something major like a broken water pipe under ground or inadequate surface drainage or landscaping which can be expensive to rectify.<\/p>\n<p>In this <a href=\"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/\">building inspection<\/a> it was a water connection to the bathroom and a plumber had to attend to rectify. \u00a0If this was not found during the house inspection the likely problems would be settlement in the stump footings and possible a termite infestation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Inspector is a qualified building inspector in Melbourne and this photograph was taken during a building inspection in Mentone. It shows excessive water ponding in the sub floor area. This is considered a major defect as further deterioration of the building or its elements could occur. Sometimes it may be something minor causing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[3,12,21],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3182,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions\/3182"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mrinspector.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}