In 2021, Lou Rubino inspected one home in Centerport — one job, one written report, and the photographs below come from it. The report describes a colonial, about 88 years old.
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The report, as Lou wrote it up.
2021, a colonial, about 88 years old, a three-family house: 12 items flagged: 4 roof, chimney and attic; 4 rooms; 2 exterior. As recorded: gable roof, architectural and asphalt/fiberglass, seen from: walked roof, framed with 2 x 4 rafters; attic: light in attic and no storage, fiberglass, below and r-19 insulation, gable vents and soffit vents ventilation; wood shingle composite board and hardy board siding, chimney: brick; masonry block foundation, 2x4 in basement front room only floor framing, steel lally columns and supporting walls; hot water off the boiler; 200-amp house and 50-amp garage circuit breakers (Murray), romex wiring, copper supply pipes, public water, window AC; casement, double-hung and thermal/insulated windows, carpet, hardwood t&g and tile floors, wood cabinets, laminate counters. Flagged, in Lou’s words: “Rear roof is different color than front”; “Rear roof is not more than 5 years old”; “Front roof is over 10 years old”; “Front roof has had major repair lower right, possibly from fire department venting hole cut in roof”; “Garage roof is 90 w paper, about 10 years old”; “Fireplace chimney flashing cement is cracked around sides”; “Fireplace chimney needs to be pointed on sides 7' from top up to crown”; “Boiler chimney has cracked and eroded joints”; “Cement cap is cracked on both chimneys”; “Front bathroom skylight dome has spider cracks”; “Both skylight crank handles are missing”; “Rear gable vent has nesting debris inside attic and along side skylight tunnel, possibly from racoons or birds”; “Right side rear gutter is leaking down chimney, causing brick joint erosion”; “Right front leader pipe needs splash block, to direct water away from fire-egress window”; “Left side upper garage leader pipe needs pipe extension down to lower gutter”; “Right front garage roof needs leader and gutter system”; “Rear garage roof needs leader and gutter system”; “Entire driveway needs to be sealed”; “Left front driveway wood retaining wall needs water proofing”; “Large tree stump to right of front entrance, will attract carpenter ants and termites”. Also noted: “May be on left side of house in basement closet blocked by nailed wood door”; “Cesspool cleanout in driveway in front of garage”; “No door bell at front entrance”; “Many two prong and open ground outlets throughout house and garage”; “Main in basement right front corner”; “Sub in garage right front”; “Window units in basement boiler room on table”. On the day: 48°F, clear, windy, damp ground, rain in the three days before; the house faces NE. Not inspected that day: cooling and air handler equipment; floors; insulation under floor system; normal operating controls. Not present in this house: gas/lp firelogs and fireplaces; occupant door from garage to inside home; presence of installed cooling source in each room; vapor retarders; ventilation fans and thermostatic controls.
“Flagged” is HomeGauge’s Repair or Replace mark, not a verdict on the house. See a complete report.
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All three photographs are from Lou's own Centerport inspection reports, chosen because they show a building component and nothing that identifies a property or an owner.
Median year built in zip 11721: 1958 (Suffolk County: 1970). Of 2,497 units, the 1950s built the most, 29%; 8% is from 2000 on. Next come the pre-1940 houses at 20% and the 1960s at 13%. An older house is not a worse house, but its wiring, plumbing and roof were installed under different rules and replaced piecemeal, which is what the inspection looks for. Lou’s reports here: 88 years old. (ACS)
56% utility gas, 38% fuel oil or kerosene; fuel oil 38% against 45% county-wide. NYSDEC logs 96 petroleum spills at private homes in Centerport since 1987, 22 since 2015. Ask about a tank, and for closure papers. A tank can be buried in the yard or sit in the basement, and a removed one should come with paperwork. Buried tanks are outside the standards New York sets for a home inspection, so the seller’s answer matters. (ACS, NYSDEC)
95% detached houses, 4% attached single-family houses; 96% owner-occupied (Suffolk County: 82%). Detached houses dominate, so most inspections here run from the roof to the foundation of one building. Lou’s jobs here included a three-family house. (ACS)
Town of Huntington: 161 basement tests, average 2.17 pCi/L, 20 at 4 or above (12%). Suffolk County: 8% of 576. First-floor tests there: 52, average 1.35. On the share at 4 or above, it ranks 2nd of the county’s 10 towns and cities. The highest basement reading was 22.2 pCi/L. EPA’s action level is 4 pCi/L, and it advises testing every home whatever the area’s results. Radon testing is optional. (NYSDOH)
56 flood-insurance claims from zip 11721 since 1978, most in 2012 (11): 98th of the 189 zips on these pages. A claim count describes the zip, not the house; 2012 was the year of Hurricane Sandy. Flood zones follow the address. Check the address on FEMA’s map. (OpenFEMA)
The Town of Huntington Building & Housing Division. Your attorney usually runs the search. The inspection reports the condition of what is there and flags work that typically needs a permit, such as a finished basement, a dormer or a moved panel, so you know what to ask about.
By median year built, fuel-oil share and owner-occupancy: Centerport (zip 11721) 1958, 38%, 96%; Northport (zip 11768): built 1961, oil 53%, 92% owner-occupied; Huntington (zip 11743): built 1958, oil 42%, 89% owner-occupied; Cold Spring Harbor (zip 11724): built 1961, oil 57%, 95% owner-occupied. (ACS)
The New York State Uniform Code, the Suffolk County Water Authority and private wells, and the Sanitary Code rules on cesspools (no in-kind replacement since 2017) and I/A septic systems: county-wide, written once. They are the same for every town in Suffolk County, so they are set out there with their sources instead of on each page.
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His Centerport file goes back to 2021. Yours would not be the first.
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