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

[DARISC]

OK- I might get over the outlet in the shower. But I will not accept the toilet paper holder IN the shower.


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!


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...
Please, be careful out there!

Yes- go ahead and connect the dryer vent to the water heater flue.


What in the world?


The county inspector had JUST signed off on it. Said it was "all he could do since it was a remodel".


If you can't bend metal conduit, just use a few extra junction boxes!


You know you're a redneck HVAC tech when you use a chew can for a junction box.


When you do not have an outlet box, use a Nike box…Just do it!


Main load, acetone, grits, and tool storage panel.

[DARISC]

"Screw that support beam - just cut it. That is the framer's problem."


Instead of flashing the penetrations, install buckets with pipes under the drips.


Shower and ceiling fan in master bath...."


Hmm…where does the wire go and how much glue did he use to stick that thing there?


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.


If you can vent ONE bathroom exhaust then you can certainly vent THREE!


"I paid an electrician to do it"


"Yeah- it said to use 4- 1/2" bolts. I think these nails out of my nail gun will do."


"Flashing!? We don't need no stinking flashing!"


"Look- I had 18" of pipe and this bag of pipe couplings."

[DARISC]

Supply air, meet return air.

[TerryH]

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

[gr8fl4porsche]

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

[cgarr]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[gt350mike]

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

[varmint]

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

[Heel n Toe]

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.

[Schrup]

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

[DARISC]

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

[Heel n Toe]

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?

[slakjaw]

LOL

Good stuff!

[HardDrive]

WTF were you doing in my house?

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by DARISC

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

Yes.

[dad911]

Originally Posted by Heel n Toe

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?

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

[Zeke]

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.

[notfarnow]

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:

[LeeH]

Originally Posted by DARISC

"Screw that support beam - just cut it. That is the framer's problem."

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.