Comments on: This home inspector’s love affair with flashlights

By: Reuben Saltzman

Reuben Saltzman — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 02:06:22 +0000

Thanks. I’ve started letting my clients use my backup flashlight – I feel bad when they’re tagging along trying to use the LED light on their phone

By: Scott Warga

Scott Warga — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:57:20 +0000

A good flashlight it a treasured tool. I use a streamlight HD LED and love it but I also carry a cheap Coleman I bought at Walmart for $25 on my home inspections as a back up. It has 200 Lumens and uses 3 AAA batteries.

Works great.

Nice job on your blog

By: Reuben Saltzman

Reuben Saltzman — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:49:20 +0000

Just a little ding on the tailpiece of the TK11. No big deal

By: Louisville Home Inspector

Louisville Home Inspector — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 20:41:36 +0000

The TK35 is my tool of choice as well. Great article.
The fall from 2 stories high must have left a mark? What happened?

By: Reuben Saltzman

Reuben Saltzman — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:30:40 +0000

BigguyZ – the TK35 definitely has a good dollar-to-lumens ratio.
Milind – the TK21 has a rating of 449 lumens. This could only end in tears.

By: Milind

Milind — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 23:52:45 +0000

I’ll bring the epic TK21 for a showdown.

By: BigguyZ

BigguyZ — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:36:21 +0000

I was at Home Depot yesterday, and I walked past the flashlights. Since I read this post yesterday, I checked them out to compare. The 200 lumen ones were very bright- and $50 at that. So I can’t imagine how bright 820 lumens is! but for the output, that seems like a decent deal for $110 comparably….

By: Reuben Saltzman

Reuben Saltzman — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:21:26 +0000

Oh man, you got me Reuben.

This house had hail damage which the previous owners chose not to fix. I had heard that hail damage could be a show stopper on an FHA appraisal, and I didn’t want to be stuck without a house, so I hired a company to replace the damaged pieces of siding just before the appraisal… before I even owned the house. It was very short notice, so I told ‘em to use whatever they could find – just get the job done. That they did, and there was no problem with the appraisal.

Some day I’m going to replace all the siding in that section, but I haven’t got around to it yet. I’m sure it bugs my neighbors a lot more than it bugs me

By: Reuben (not the inspector)

Reuben (not the inspector) — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:18:07 +0000

Sounds like a good flashlight!

But I gotta ask… what’s up with the siding on your garage? Looks like you had to replace a few panels and couldn’t find an exact color match.