In 2022, Lou Rubino inspected one home in Stewart Manor — one job, one written report, and the photographs below come from it. The report describes an expanded cape, about 80 years old.
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The report, as Lou wrote it up.
2022, an expanded cape, about 80 years old: 21 items flagged: 5 exterior; 5 garage; 4 kitchen. As recorded: gable roof, architectural, rubber membrane and asphalt/fiberglass, seen from: walked roof; attic: light in attic, no storage and attic hatch in knee-walls, gable vents, soffit vents and passive ventilation; rock and mortar, brick and clapboard full brick, stone and aluminum siding, chimney: brick; poured concrete foundation, 3"x 8" and 4"x 8" steel i beam floor framing, steel lally columns, crawlspace: no access; hot water off the boiler; 100-amp fuses and circuit breakers (General Electric and General Switch), BX wiring, copper supply pipes, public water, window AC; casement, double-hung and single pane windows, carpet, vinyl and wood floors, wood cabinets, laminate counters. Flagged, in Lou’s words: “Right front leader pipe needs splash block or pipe extension”; “Left rear leader pipe splash block needs to be repositioned”; “Both front dormers need leader and gutter systems”; “Attic knee-wall access door in bathroom hits floor unable to open”; “Brick work cracked at right side front window lintel iron”; “Left side gable aluminum siding is damaged and white paint staining brick work”; “Right side gable near peak siding missing”; “Front door fame water damaged at bottom”; “Rear sliding door screen off track and laying on wood deck”; “Window sill right side upper bedroom, as seen on garage roof is water damaged”; “Old right rear entrance steps to nowhere need to be removed”; “Front stoop open joints on brick risers”; “Front stoop limestone treads cracked and chipped”; “Front raised brick paver patio, bricks cracked and loose at rollock course left front corner”; “Front raised brick paver patio has dropped in elevation,causing a ridge around perimeter where water can penetrate”; “Front raised patio railings loose both side”; “Rear wooden decking, ramp, hand rails and steps have severe weather damage”; “Safety Item: Trip hazard at brick pavers between concrete driveway strips”; “Hole in concrete driveway toward rear”; “Soil at rear corner with extension needs to be graded away from foundation”. Also noted: “Sprinkler piping not berried right front”; “Hard wood floor on first floor has noted in bedrooms”; “Hard wood floors on second floor as noted in closet”; “Whole house trap in basement 1/2 bath floor”; “Wood dry rotted covering whole house trap”; “Main breaker panel in basement right rear corner”; “Sub- fuse panel in basement next to main panel”; “Heat pipes in basement above boiler and toward rear of basement missing insulation”; “Safety Item: Asbestos like insulation on heat pipes in boiler room”; “Radiators in 1st & 2nd floor baths and Den did not get hot”; “No cover as noted on top of chimney only rain cap”; “When damper was opened there was updraft”. On the day: partly cloudy, damp ground, rain in the three days before; the house faces east. Not inspected that day: ceilings; insulation in attic; roof structure and attic; visible electric wiring in attic. Not present in this house: food waste disposer; gas/lp firelogs and fireplaces; insulation under floor system; microwave cooking equipment; occupant door from garage to inside home; pantry/closet doors; presence of installed cooling source in each room; sump pump; 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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The photograph is from Lou's own Stewart Manor inspection report, chosen because it shows a building component and nothing that identifies a property or an owner.
Median year built in zip 11530: 1950 (Nassau County: 1955). Of 10,178 units, 36% predates 1940; 5% is from 2000 on. Next come the 1950s at 34% and the 1940s at 12%. 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: 80 years old. (ACS)
78% utility gas, 14% fuel oil or kerosene; fuel oil 14% against 28% county-wide. NYSDEC logs 12 petroleum spills at private homes in Stewart Manor since 1989, 2 since 2015. A gas conversion can leave a tank behind. An abandoned tank is most likely in a house that was converted from oil. Buried tanks are outside the standards New York sets for a home inspection, so the seller’s answer matters. (ACS, NYSDEC)
79% detached houses, 7% buildings of 50 or more units, 5% buildings of 20 to 49 units; 89% owner-occupied (Nassau County: 82%). Detached houses dominate, so most inspections here run from the roof to the foundation of one building. (ACS)
Town of Hempstead: 401 basement tests, average 1.22 pCi/L, 11 at 4 or above (3%). Nassau County: 6% of 837. First-floor tests there: 124, average 0.62. On the share at 4 or above, it ranks 4th of the county’s 5 towns and cities. The highest basement reading was 8.3 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)
24 flood-insurance claims from zip 11530 since 1978, most in 1978 (5): 140th of the 189 zips on these pages. A claim count describes the zip, not the house. Flood zones follow the address. Check the address on FEMA’s map. (OpenFEMA)
The Village of Stewart Manor Building Department. 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: Stewart Manor (zip 11530) 1950, 14%, 89%; Mineola (zip 11501): built 1954, oil 21%, 66% owner-occupied; Carle Place (zip 11514): built 1954, oil 19%, 76% owner-occupied; Williston Park (zip 11596): built 1942, oil 13%, 83% owner-occupied. (ACS)
The New York State Uniform Code, groundwater from 46 public water systems, the county sewer-connection rule and the Article XI heating-oil tank closure program: county-wide, written once. They are the same for every town in Nassau 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: Garden City · Garden City South · Mineola · Carle Place · Williston Park · West Hempstead · all 250 towns.
His Stewart Manor file goes back to 2022. Yours would not be the first.
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