What Your Favorite Home Made Inspection Tool

[John Scaparo]

Whats your favorite home made inspection tool? I would like to share my very simple yet useful tool and hope this tool will help you too. I made a multi functional tool that fits in my tool box. I use it to test sump pumps, probing, general measuring, test smoke alarms and check minimum height for over head cables. It cost less $5; its made from 2 pieces of 1/2" x 26" CPVC. One end has a 90 degree elbow used to safely reach and hook sump pump floats. The other end I hot glued a bolt within the tube to expose its hex head making it easier to push on smoke alarm test buttons. The other piece I hot glued a micro screw drive I use for probing. When I put the two pieces together I have 51" of reach that allows me to measure the minimum clearance for overhead service conductor.

[Russell J. Hensel]

http://www.nachi.org/forum/f11/showe...ourself-61059/

I did this one about 6 months ago....Still use it today.

Thanks for the thread...good info

[Wayne B. Wilson]

I made a camera pole about 4 years ago , Painter pole and tripod mount. for those hard to get places .

[Bob Elliott]

Originally Posted by wwilson3

I made a camera pole about 4 years ago , Painter pole and tripod mount. for those hard to get places .

Same here and use it all the time.
Best way to see roofs you can't climb on.

[Christian F. Mettel]

Originally Posted by belliott

Same here and use it all the time.
Best way to see roofs you can't climb on.

I've made one as well.

[KEVIN WOOD]

Coat hangers. LOL

[William J. Decker]

My standard, Mark 1, brain.

Hope this helps

[John Scaparo]

Wire coat hangers have got me out of a few jams around house a few times. Don't recommend using to test sump pumps or hights of over head conductors. Lol

[Dan Bowers, CMI]

With the slower economy I could not afford to keep putting colored stickers on defects like the realtors in our area like. So I bought a paint ball gun. Now I can hit rottet soffits without a ladder, etc.