I didn't get too good a picture of the overall site. Why? Because the bloomin' tower was too tall to get it all in the shot. What I did capture is in the photo below. This is something I have not seen before -- a radio tower that extends through the roof of a house. It must have been a 25 or 30 foot high tower. Now, I have seen large steel towers beside houses before, but not one that starts at ground level, penetrates the eave and then goes on up. I used to work with towers, in my broadcasting days, but we sure never attached them like this.
The water damage this will do to the roof and sheathing, maybe even the nearby exterior wall, is extensive. You can see from the photo below that there are big holes around the steel that let water penetrate to the area below. I am sure that, during a heavy wind, this tower would sway and open up the best tar job known to man or woman.
Homeowners, this is not a good idea! If you need to support a TV antenna this way, take a tip and get cable instead.
Steven L. Smith
Bellingham WA Home Inspections
Did the homeowner put an addition on and just not feel like moving the tower out of the way and build the house around the tower, or was the tower put in later? Truthfully, what contractor would let a homeowner do this?
Strange.
Steve, they need to tune in to a different station!
Brandon, I really wonder how that was done myself. It is kind of like the ship in the bottle. How did they do that? Most of those towers are in sections so I suppose that section one ends below the eave, drill three holes and add the upper section then rock n roll at high frequencies.
Charlie, you need to take your meds again.
Fresh out Steve, will you send me some of yours again?
Steven, The roof looks completely shot. How did the interior of this house look? Was there a lot of water damage from this structure.?
James,
The roof was missing shingles and brittle. It was shot and then some beyond that. This was only a roof inspection, in fact, so I only saw the roof and the exterior. There were big issues at both.