In 2020, Lou Rubino inspected one home in Remsenburg — one job, one written report, and the photographs below come from it. The report describes a cape, about 29 years old.
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The report, as Lou wrote it up.
2020, a cape, about 29 years old: 6 items flagged: 3 exterior; 2 roof, chimney and attic; 1 pool. As recorded: gable roof, 3-tab fiberglass, architectural and asphalt/fiberglass, seen from: walked, framed with 2 x 6 rafters; attic: storage and light in attic, fiberglass insulation, gable vents, ridge vents and soffit vents ventilation; wood shingle look and clapboard vinyl and fiberglass siding, chimney: brick; poured concrete foundation, 2 x 10 and 2"x12"x3 main wood beam floor framing, steel lally columns; 50 gallon (2-3 people) electric water heater (basement and utility room); 200-amp circuit breakers (Siemens), romex wiring, copper supply pipes, public water, heat pump forced air; double-hung, thermal/insulated and awning windows, hardwood t&g, carpet and tile floors, laminate cabinets, granite counters. Flagged, in Lou’s words: “Chimney needs to be pointed about 3 feet down from top”; “Right rear leader pipe lower section is missing”; “Shed roof does not have leader and gutter system”; “For every 25 feet of gutter a down spout is required”; “Rear gutter has standing water”; “Holes in hardy-board right front under window”; “Front stoop, right front railing is loose”; “Right side railing has cracked lower stone tread”; “Right side railing middle post is loose”; “Left side railing middle post is loose and stone tread is broken”; “Right rear brick cheek wall is pulling away from stoop and stone bed joint is open”; “Lower stone tread rear joint is cracked”; “Top platform cement joints in stone eroded and flagging is loose”; “Rear wooden pool deck needs water proofing”; “Large evergreen tree overhanging shed roof”; “Left side rear skimmer is cracked and cover does not fit”. Also noted: “Debris and bicycles left behind shed”; “Wall cabinets are hung with cabinet hanging screws”; “Right side upper bedroom, old water damage to ceiling at corner over windows”; “Right side upper bedroom, sheetrock cracked at seam over window”; “Left rear sitting room, outlet to right if sliding door has open ground”; “Extreme Safety Item: Jacuzzi power outlet is not GFCI protected”; “Shower floor tile does not pitch water toward drain”; “Only partially visible in attic knee walls”; “Fire egress window right rear”; “Fuel oil file pipe and vent located right front of house”; “Main fuel oil shut off valve under tank”; “Safety Item: Left side lower 220 breaker is double lugged, suppling current to two heating element appliances electric stove and clothes dryer”; “Aluminum wirings at breaker”; “Main breaker panel in left side bedroom closet”; “Burner for boiler is not equiped with a fuel shut off solenoid”; “Fuel shut off solenoid will save money and run cleaner”; “Left side upper bedroom baseboard sheet-metal needs seam kit”; “Copper fuel line near pool electrical post”; “Safety Item: Pool skimmers should be bonded”; “Pool pump is not grounded”. On the day: 49°F, parly cloudy, damp ground, rain in the three days before; the house faces west. Not inspected that day: ceilings; electric lights secure; floors; pool liner condition; surface walls and floor of pool; whole house trap. Not present in this house: do steps or ladders exist on both sides of the pool; does pool have any rescue equipment; gas meter; gas/lp firelogs and fireplaces; insulation under floor system; is the pool depth marked on outside area of pool; pool heaters; presence of installed cooling source in each room; range hood; trash compactor; 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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Both photographs are from Lou's own Remsenburg inspection reports, chosen because they show a building component and nothing that identifies a property or an owner.
Median year built in zip 11960: 1983 (Suffolk County: 1970). Of 1,118 units, the 1990s built the most, 25%; 17% is from 2000 on. Next come the 1970s at 19% and the pre-1940 houses at 14%. 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: 29 years old. (ACS)
69% fuel oil or kerosene, 13% electricity; fuel oil 69% against 45% county-wide. NYSDEC logs 36 petroleum spills at private homes in Remsenburg since 1985, 12 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)
98% detached houses; 100% owner-occupied (Suffolk County: 82%). Detached houses dominate, so most inspections here run from the roof to the foundation of one building. (ACS)
Town of Southampton: 24 basement tests, average 0.99 pCi/L, 0 at 4 or above (0%). Suffolk County: 8% of 576. First-floor tests there: 14, average 0.42. On the share at 4 or above, it ranks 10th of the county’s 10 towns and cities. The highest basement reading was 2.8 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)
255 flood-insurance claims from zip 11960 since 1978, most in 2012 (91): 49th 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 Southampton Building & Zoning 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: Remsenburg (zip 11960) 1983, 69%, 100%; Speonk (zip 11972): built 1977, oil 100%, 61% owner-occupied; East Moriches (zip 11940): built 1979, oil 56%, 68% owner-occupied; Westhampton Beach (zip 11978): built 1981, oil 55%, 85% 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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Lou covers Long Island, the five boroughs and Westchester from his base in Wantagh, and the archive behind these pages shows where that work has actually concentrated.
Nearby towns Lou has inspected: Speonk · East Moriches · Westhampton Beach · Manorville · East Quogue · Riverhead · all 250 towns.
His Remsenburg file goes back to 2020. Yours would not be the first.
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