The joys of being a bldg. inspector. Too funny!
 

OK- I might get over the outlet in the shower. But I will not accept the toilet paper holder IN the shower.
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When the power company told its crew to run electricity to this house, I'm sure they didn't mean to just stick all the wires through a hole in the roof!
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Pretty safe isn't it? I mean the hot lead is at least a quarter inch from a metal oil pipe and it is almost 48 inches off the ground so children won't touch it...
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Yes- go ahead and connect the dryer vent to the water heater flue.
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What in the world?
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The county inspector had JUST signed off on it. Said it was "all he could do since it was a remodel".
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If you can't bend metal conduit, just use a few extra junction boxes!
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You know you're a redneck HVAC tech when you use a chew can for a junction box.
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When you do not have an outlet box, use a Nike box…Just do it!
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Main load, acetone, grits, and tool storage panel.
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Building inspector 2
 

"Screw that support beam - just cut it. That is the framer's problem."
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Instead of flashing the penetrations, install buckets with pipes under the drips.
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Shower and ceiling fan in master bath...."
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Hmm…where does the wire go and how much glue did he use to stick that thing there?
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Oh, I think I found the cord to the ceiling fan mounted on the ceiling of a bathroom on the other side of this wall. Maybe?

The ad listed the house with a "whole house attic fan". Professionally installed, no doubt.
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If you can vent ONE bathroom exhaust then you can certainly vent THREE!
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"I paid an electrician to do it"
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"Yeah- it said to use 4- 1/2" bolts. I think these nails out of my nail gun will do."
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"Flashing!? We don't need no stinking flashing!"
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"Look- I had 18" of pipe and this bag of pipe couplings."
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And finally
 

Supply air, meet return air.
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Scary stuff! So blatantly stupid and dangerous, it looks staged, but probably not.

I see crazy stuff like that every day, I'll bet every pic is real.

Didn't happen to see one of these fire alarms did ya!

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I can believe every photo. A friend of mine flips houses for a living. He just bought a house from a bank. As he started the demolition for the remodel he found one wall with a bunch of cabinets hanging on it. The entire wall was held up with just the sheetrock. There was not a single stud in the wall.

I love the ceiling fan in the bathroom...........where did they get those chandeliers?????

we did the "multiple junction box" thing helping a friend wire his shed. redneck engineering at it's finest.

Wacky stuff... where'd you find it, Darisc?

My favorite is the Nike shoebox for what looks like a small return... I guess it makes it okay because he used all that clear silicone.

Copenhagen Jbox is my favorite, old skool snuff, not that girly longcut stuff.

Email from a buddy. Pain in the ass to post all the pics and captions but funny as hell, no? :D

Funny, yes... and scary when it's the jerry-rigged electrical stuff.

Also... that first pic in your second set has me baffled with those older-looking beams and waferboard used together.

Does anyone know what year waferboard was first manufactured?

LOL

Good stuff!

WTF were you doing in my house?

Yes.

Looks like an engineered joist, that was improperly repaired with a scab 2x4, then the repair was cut out also.

I see you found Long Beach, CA.

I had a man insist that I install 2 aluminum single hung windows upside down in his bathroom. He wouldn't have it any other way, so I disconnected the balance mechanisms and did it.

I had another person ask me to install a window on the 2nd floor just about the height and next to a bunk bed. I didn't so that one.

This one was posted on a home renovations forum, by a licensed electrician who was called in to sort a couple issues out at a cottage.

Apparently, this does not meet code:
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This EXACT situation happened at my next door neighbor's house. He took out some light cans over the breakfast table and was going to put in another fixture. Something caught his eye and he shined a light up into the ceiling. When he called me over it looked just like the photo. The house is about 14 years old, but the builder came out and fixed it since it was such a dangerous situation. My neighbor said they had rarely used their bath tub, but this expained the sagging that cause the marble panels to pull away from the wall at their tops in the master bathroom.

Great pics thanks!
I love the descriptions you've added too, very good.
Ha!

Felt I had to share. :D The descriptions came with the pics in the email from my friend.

ran into a junction box like that once while remodeling a bar. 18 12/2 wires in a 4" box. we cut it loose, named it the Octopus and hung it on the wall with all the wires and wirenuts still there. it was still hanging there long after the bar reopened

Just to show that we (us Americans) are not the only ones perfecting the art of jerry-rigging/redneck engineering!

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I've been hired to fix a problem with someone's driveway. The house plans called for the garage to be at a certain elevation, level with the main floor of the house. For some unknown reason, the builder decided to put the garage slab 2.5 feet lower. He then sloped the driveway, which goes down to the garage, so that it's steepest at the garage door. It's a 35% slope.

The lady bought the house, then when she moved in, she realized she couldn't get her car into the garage. You need a jacked-up Jeep to get in the garage, and four wheel drive to get up the driveway. Oh, and the house cost 2.8 million bucks.

I can't top those, but when I moved into my house it had two very nice ceiling fans.

The previous owner had installed the fans and was creative in that process.

He cut one end off of a couple of extension cords, drilled a couple of holes in the ceiling in the corner of the rooms, and fed the cut ends up into the attic (running behind the curtains on the wall so they would not be visible).
Then he connected the wires to the fans with electrical tape. No boxes, no wire nuts, just tape.
The other end that he didn't cut off, he simply plugged into the wall outlets that were controlled by the light switch on the wall.
PERFECT!

I wonder if he was a licensed electrician?

I haven't laughed this much for quite a while. I renovate my own rentals so I can imagine what was going on in the heads of the people who did this. Oh Jeez I'm still giggling - more coffee.

Of course not! The shower head must be a Watersaver nowadays, and they've obviously forgotten to install a toilet-paper roll holder in the shower as well (see first picture of thread). :D

Everything else seems OK.

Was the builder at least smart enough to have a good drain in front of the garage so it doesn't flood the garage? How are you going to fix it?

DARISC,
These are great pix btw. Thanks for taking the time to upload your friend's e-mail.

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What in the world?
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I think they are using this for heat. That is a circulation pump isn't it.

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Hmm…where does the wire go and how much glue did he use to stick that thing there?
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That's called a pull switch.

Here's one. Just cut the web out of that column when it gets in the valve's way...

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I found that in anhotel in Europe
 

That's what I found on our last trip to Europe, our Hotel room only had two outlets and one of them was covered up, by heating pipes

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NEVER, EVER underestimate the damage that can be done by cheap idiots with power tools. Ever.

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One thing I've learned in years of being around buildings and construction sites.

He did put in a trench drain. The driveway can be regraded to 20% max with 2% for the last 16 feet to the garage. Over 100 feet of driveway needs to be regraded.

Every photo is an "Oh my God"!

Good stuff. Having done remodeling, including some repair work on mobile homes, I absolutely believe it all.

Sometimes it is the contractor!
 

How about these winners!

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Hmmmm I wonder how ya get to that bottom one

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Talk about a boring subject

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Invisible door

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Owners must own a Hummer to live here

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Duck!

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That is one way to do it.

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I think I hear a train.

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Ouch my head!

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Whew, I made it to the top!

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I must be drunk!

And my two favs
 

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ATM for the NBA only!


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This HAS to be done by a woman! A man would never do it that way.

So here's a way to make Gregrrr's work seem pretty good.