3 READS the Pipe Stub Gives You Before the Inspector Arrives (Retired Inspector Explains)

That stubby concrete pipe rising out of the ground near the foundation is not a cleanout and not decoration - it is where the roof water used to go, and it still has the answers. In this walkthrough, a retired inspector shows how to date the stub by its material and glaze and how to tell a corrected drainage problem from an abandoned one. You will learn where roof water was actually sent, why counting the downspouts is the first real check, what a capped stub proves and what it can hide, which half of the system lives inside the basement wall, and the honest limits of what a walkaround can prove. In this video: 1.The pipe stub is the top of the original rainwater leader 2.Material tells you the era: concrete, clay or glazed terracotta 3.Three honest destinations a buried leader can serve 4.Read the stub before you read anything else 5.Follow the connection, not just the pipe 6.What a capped stub proves - and what it can hide 7.The half of the system inside the basement 8.What the surface walkaround cannot tell you 9.The honest read: pipe equals question, not panic Which clue has a house you looked at been quietly carrying in plain sight?