Originally Posted by
David Banks
I do not remember the post exactly but it is an awl hole. Not a shotgun blast.
Still, though, you would be creating a hole in the surface of the structure, not something HIs should go around doing.
I used the screw driver to illustrate 'what the difference would feel like', not 'as something to go around doing'.
Sure, when we probe for rotted (decayed) wood, our probe goes into it, but it *was already* rotted (decayed), meaning that we (the HI) did not damage it. Poking holes in the EIFS of a house will only make an already bad situation worse.
I can just see the complaint come in: "My EIFS inspector told me my house walls were rotted out, and that it looks like some HI went around poking holes in the EIFS with a screw driver or an awl. The damage inside the walls *WOULD NOT BE AS BAD* if not for those holes."
Can you spell 'l-i-a-b-i-l-i-t-y', followed by 'b-i-g t-i-m-e'.
