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/ tapeHere'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!

For more cockamamie home inspection photos, you can visit my B4 U Close Home Inspections Cockamamie Photo Album.

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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NOV
08
2009
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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.

8:15am • #31
197,853 Points 5 Featured Posts

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!!!

8:37am • #32
452,806 Points 81 Featured Posts Called Shot Master

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

9:44am • #33
209,504 Points

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.

11:33am • #35
327,667 Points 7 Featured Posts

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

1:22pm • #36
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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. 

2:01pm • #37
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Don't you have to love it. Looks like one of my listings..........
2:51pm • #40
140,691 Points
Thank goodness my husband didn't see this. He's always telling me that duct tape can fix anything.............
3:14pm • #41
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'That is too funny.  My brother is a home inspector and he loves when he finds "repairs" such as this.

6:05pm • #42
NOV
09
2009
5 Featured Posts

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

6:54pm • #43
NOV
10
2009
204,385 Points 2 Featured Posts

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.


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5:42am • #45
NOV
11
2009
467,712 Points 40 Featured Posts Localism Sponsor Attended Rain Camp Called Shot Master

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.

7:25am • #46
NOV
13
2009
204,385 Points 2 Featured Posts

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

 

6:17pm • #47
DEC
10
2009
462,662 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

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

10:02am • #48
DEC
14
2009
  Erby 
    I am amazed at some of the photos that  are found by Home Inspectors
1:51pm • #49
MAR
26
2010
462,662 Points 2 Featured Posts Outside Blog

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

11:54am • #50
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19
2010
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Anybody else notice the Plumber from Charleston spamming their posts with his links. I've deleted two of them just from this blog.
10:37am • #51

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