Homeowner Type Repairs

Nice pictures. Send them into the ASHI Reporter. Always brightens my day when I know I'm not looking at the worst case scenarios. Since you mentioned electrical problems. Did you hear about the recall on a handyman electrical book? Faulty Instructions Prompt Recall of Electrical Wiring How-to-Books by The Taunton Press; Shock Hazard to Consumers WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Product: Wiring a House, 3rd Edition and Wiring Complete, Expert Advice from Start to Finish Instructional Books Units: About 64,000 Publisher: The Taunton Press, of Newtown, Conn. Hazard: The books contain several errors in the technical diagrams that could lead consumers to incorrectly install or repair electrical wiring, posing an electrical shock hazard to consumers.

Vince,

Sometimes we just have to walk away shaking our heads. You have to wonder just what they were thinking. What was the logic behind the work they were doing?

Here's one of mine.

I was showing a house the other day and we looked in the crawl and they had a log holding up the brace.  Couldn't get a picture.

Hi Vince, love the pictures another great post. Here are few I found at a house the other day take a look.

That "poor homeowner" always gets blamed, I guess thats why the DIY network has so much opportunity for improvement.

I think all we home inspectors should get together and publish a coffee table book of our best pictures.