There is a bit of a lull right now at work, between Excel & PowerPoint firedrills. So I started poking around a bit on the internets and found a fantastic series at
This Old House.
It's called "
Home Inspection Nightmares" and it goes a little something like this:

It's currently a 10 part series of all of the crazy things that home inspectors have found while on the job. It could likely be retitled: Stupid Human Home-owning Tricks.
Anyhow, take a gander. Be sure to read the captions and the comments. Some of this stuff is just incredibly uneblievable. People actually live like this.
Confessions:- We currently have duct tape sealing part of our hall bath tub surround. But it is nowhere near this bad.

- We lacked flashing on part of our roof (unbeknownst to us) for quite a while. But again, it was not even close to this.

- My grandmother's house did look similar to this for 50 years or so:

1 comment:
that 3rd house looks like one i have sold!! ha - ok regarding the outlet nightmare - i love that though they obviously have no available outlets they have to get that cow night light in.
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