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Electricians & Rednecks should NOT do plumbing repairs!

Sometimes, when this ole Lexington Kentucky Home Inspector is conducting a home inspection, I see things that just leave me speechless for quite awhile.

Lexington Kentucky Home Inspectors plumbing w/ tape Here's one of those speechless Kentucky Home Inspector moments from yesterday.

For sure, electricians (electrical tape) and rednecks (duct tape) have no clue on how to hold plumbing pipes in place as designed.

When you get an electrician and a redneck on the same plumbing job, often in the same body, this is the kind of repair that results!

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Yeah, I know it was a homeowner fix, not an electrician.

One of those Git Er Dun Good Nuff moments.

It's so much easier on me when I find the Git Er Dun Right stuff

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Posted by Erby Crofutt, the Central Kentucky Home Inspector, Lexington KY HI-2041 on 11/07/2009 02:30 PM

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49 Comments on Electricians & Rednecks should NOT do plumbing repairs!

NOV

2009

Now that is too funny. I do hope this was a joke!

That's another good find, Erby.

Did you get any resistance from the agents? "If it's not leaking it's not a problem!"

Erby...

Even I know that although you can fix anything with duct tape except not like this. Is there an air conditioner in there somewhere? :)

TLW...ROAR!

I bet that link you have is FULL of interesting and FUNNY photos!!!

I am gonna visit it.....

=-)

Sadly, Tom, it isn't a joke. It's what was under the kitchen sink at yeseterday afternoons inspection. The person living there had "never thought about it like that".

Bruce: Simple to find. Just bend over and look!. I doubt anybody will kick about taking off the tape and making the pipe not leak. It's just too obvious and too easy!

TLW: Maybe so, but not for very long!

Alex: It is! I particularly lke the "Don't Mlt Your Siding" But the rednecks (yeah, I can say it cause I are one!) did it anyway after assuring me it was "fur enough" away from the garage!

Erby, this is great---if you post it to the Sparky's Plumbing group it will get featured:)

WHY DANG! For a feature, I'll sure put it there!

One of these days, I'll have to look around and see all the different groups again. Been a long time since I've done that.

Erby, I too thought this had to be a joke until I read further that no, it is not! This is CRAZY!!!!!! Good thing these people hired you to be their inspector!

I think duct tape is a wonderful thing - but this is just hilarious! You ought to send it to the guy who wrote "1000 Uses for Duct Tape" (I think thats what is was called)

Thats awsome, you see all types in this business and everybody thinks they are right.

Erby - I am constantly amazed at some of the photos that my inspector friends share here on AR. Nice title, by the way!

that appears to be an I-D-10-T error.

Ah Marney, even a Blind Inspector could have found this.

Lani: Duct tape is a wonderful thing, temporarily!

James, I'm not sure ANYBODY would think this is right.

Jason: Thank you for stopping by and the compliment. I appreciate it.

Yes, Alan, it's the dreaded Eye - Dee - Ten - Tee error though that's kind of a funny way of saying IDIOT!

Carla: Good link to funny stuff BUT would you please change the link to "Open In A New Window" so it doesn't take people off the blog but opens a new window instead!

Erby...

Are you sure it wasn't this Guy's house? :)

TLW...ROAR!

How utterly stupid some rednecks are.. I'm still one and proud of it.

You KNOW that you're a redneck if you think anything ever said by Jeff Foxworthy was even the slightest bit funny. Seriously!

Duct tape and baling wire can fix anything.

It is amazing what some people will trying to get away with and end up costing much more damage.

Nice picture. I showed a home yesterday that had the sliding glass doors duct taped together so the snow and wind couldn't get through. It has a large gap in between the doors. Oy.

At first I thought this was a joke until I read the comments....they say duct tape will fix anything but this is too much....

I love it - and this is why I don't do staging, arrange flowers or do home inspection. Just let me sell houses!

That's really something Erby. I'm still laughing! I'll check out your link.

Erby, I enjoyed the photos on your site. Clearly the most inovative (and my favorite) was the pipe diaper.

Erby:

I love the creativity of duct tape and electrical tape. Thank you for such a hoot of a post. It made my day.

Hi Erby -- What a hoot! Looks like something I would do!

NOV

2009

Hi Erby -- I didn't know how to do that, so I just deleted the comment. Sorry.

For Carla and others who don't know how to set links to open in a new window, HERE IS A QUICK TUTORIAL. Carla: Thanks for pointing out the need.

http://activerain.com/blogsview/1326158/are-you-stealing-my-traffic-open-link-in-new-window-

Or with Anchor Text:

How to Open Links in New Windows

Back later for the other comments.

Too funny. So, what would a mechanic add to this??

I did a listing presentation a couple of weeks ago where the owner had used duct tape to seal up the pocket doors, they were off the track and didn't work. He said there was a breeze, so he taped them up. I didn't look under the sink. I didn't list it either.

Living in Texas, even I know that everything cannot be fixed with duct tape however I find it appalling..NO Shocking that you would paint all rednecks with the same brush! After all I hear that your part of the world has a few Arise all people of WalMart! :-)

Erby:

All of your photos are very enlightening. It is amazing how so many people think duct tape and drip pans are a cure for everything.

OMG!!! That is hilarious! But I can say in my years working in a rural market...I have seen stuff like this and worse! Thanks for sharing and making me laugh this morning! Fabulous!!!

Erby - But if the guy is a red neck and electrician, then he'd probably know how to make the repair : )

You can fix anythin' with duck tape you hear?., ...

Dude Duct Tape ROCKS! I'm originally from the South so I too have sen just about everything under the sun with duct tape on it. Soesn't surprise me a bit that they would use it for plumbing too.

Great post Erby. Come on, I thought you could fix anything with duct tape!

Erby,

I went into a home one time and we actually negotiated a deal but when we asked them to replace the water heater the listing agent asked why. I asked her if she had seen it and she said no. So I then explained that the top half of this hot water heater was totally encased in duct tape. Then if you push on the tape you can feel the rust give way underneath the duct tape.

Testing, tesitng . . .

The Red Green Show - No Duct Tape

Is that right??

Don't you have to love it. Looks like one of my listings..........

Thank goodness my husband didn't see this. He's always telling me that duct tape can fix anything.............

'That is too funny. My brother is a home inspector and he loves when he finds "repairs" such as this.

NOV

2009

We have seen this soooo many times. The worst is when we saw duct tape on a crack in the foundation.

NOV

2009

Erby, MacGyver would be cringing at that photo...wouldn't he? :)

Leilani

Dennis: I don't have a clue. Come up with a mechanical addtion!

Tracie: Duct Tape fixes anything, temporarily!

Russel: Wrong! See above. Hey, at least it was a red brush, same one I use on my neck!

Claudette: Glad you enjoyed the photos. It gets people to hang around my website a little longer.

Jeani: We had a good laugh. I'm glad y'all here did too! But I note: You find it in the city too! It's not just the rural areas that fix stuff this way.

John: He did know how. He did it. See the photo above!

Fernando: Yup!

Steven: If you have a quality product like Duct Tape, why the heck do you want to use electrical tape too! Kind of an insult to duct tape, ya know!

Gary: You can. Thanks for stopping by.

Larry: See above. Duct tape fixes ANYTHING!

Carla: You got it RIGHT! Congrats and thanks for coming back and re adding the link. It's a good one.

Diane: I do. Funny though, it was in a fourteen year old cedar sided home in a nice neghborhood. Rest of the house was pretty neat.

Stephanie: It does. You're husband is right, temporarily.

Damon: We do get to see some neat (as in funny, hilarious, uproaring laughter) stuff!

Jerry: Duct tape can fix anything, even a foundation!

Leilani: Nope: He'd be giving them a gold star for their efforts.

NOV

2009

Ha HAAA! The omments here have been as funny as the post! I agree that we are (proudly) painted with the same brush and I know I can trust an inspector who uses the term "cockamamie"! Thanks again.

NOV

2009

Hey Russell, it's a hilarious topic, ya know. Cockamamie just seemed appropirate for the album title because of what it contains.

DEC

2009

Now that was hilarious. I've used duct tape for many fixes but not to this extreme.

DEC

2009

Erby

I am amazed at some of the photos that are found by Home Inspectors

MAR

2010

I just had to come back and get another laugh at this pic.

AUG

2010

Anybody else notice the Plumber from Charleston spamming their posts with his links. I've deleted two of them just from this blog.

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