Home Inspection Nightmares!

[xJoey Dubsx]

Wow, at a lost for words..

http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/photos/0,,20303224_20667673,00.html

 

[xJoey Dubsx]

 

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[Graymills - Craig]

Hey, I thought the homemade urinal was a good idea!

 

[cowboy73]

Wow. Those are pretty bad. A breaker box in the tub? Is that a shower curtain? Really.

 

[PaulR]

That breaker box has to be a photochop no?????

 

[dirttracker18]

That breaker box has to be a photochop no?????

no it is not. I actually say that episode where they pointed it out. Can you believe how stupid some people are. It's bad enough to do things against minimum code, but that is just endangering everyone that enters that room.

 

[hh76]

I've done some work down in Mexico, you wouldn't believe some of the "solutions".

On one we were trying to find the origin of the power for the pump used to fill the gravity feed tank on the roof. Bare thhn or similar run across the flat roof, then into flexible pvc conduit down the exterior wall into the sand where the bare wires were buried about a foot down. Kind of figured it ran to the power shed, but none of the wire matched what was on the roof. After pulling it out of the sand it turns out this circuit was spiced together from random lengths, twice in the sand with wire nuts, and once in the pipe with just tape.

 

[bobbyb]

I sold my house 3 years ago and the buyers had it inspected. I was there the day the inspector showed up, but I didn't follow him around I just let him do his job. Well he made it out to the garage where I was at and talked a bit and he mentioned my old gas pump in front of the gargage. I jokingly said "yea its only 99 cents a gal." Its not a antique gas pump just one from the 60's that I cleaned up and painted. That evening the realtor for the buyers called and was asking me about the tank in the back yard.I was like what tank? She said the tank for the gas pump. The inspector thought I was actually using the pump and had a tank buried in the back yard and was going to call the EPA. I got it straight with the realtor and everybody was happy. I sold the house and kept my pump.

 

[cooliorz]

I like the slick garage door opener.

 

[rickycobra]

I'm surprised that they would even put a breaker in the Bathroom, let alone in the shower.

 

[Tman]

You come across all sorts of things remodeling like I have done off and on for most of my life. That shower was prob part of a closet or some other room when Joe DIY decided a 2nd bath was in order!

 

[PAToyota]

People complain about building codes and inspections and all the hassle. These are perfect examples of why they end up being required. One would think that people would use common sense...

 

[Gary S]

I like the pipe wrench supporting the floor joist. You buy the house, you get free tools.

 

[54FordPanel]

This gets bonus points 'cause it's a jockstrap.

 

[Kev442]

Pictures one and two were basically in my first house, circa 1984. I got that house cheeeeeap!