Home Inspection Nightmares XXVII
Shocking electrical work, dangerous decking, and more questionable building practices found by the home inspectors in The ASHI Reporter

  • Greening a roof, cats in the belfry, and a mouse in a sump pum
  • Icicles in the basement, bats in the drain, and vines up the chimney
  • Greening a roof, cats in the belfry, and a mouse in a sump pum
  • Blocked breaker boxes, trapped animals, and a new take on the "home theater."
  • Blocked breaker boxes, trapped animals, and a new take on the "home theater"
  • Leaning house parts, trapped animals, and lots of bad electricity
  • Milk-crates under the water heater and a shower head by the electrical panel?
  • Fifteen more crazy discoveries featuring shower sparks and the classic potato cap
  • Snakes, mice, spark plugs and tennis balls–all in the strangest places
  • Bird’s nests and baffling plumbing fixes, plus 14 more odd discoveries
  • Plastic bags, Coke bottles, staples, nails, and crutches in all the wrong places
  • A shocking shower, the stupidest traps ever, and downspouts run amok
  • House-eating plants, world's most useless gutters, and the most dangerous balcony ever
  • Bats in the belfry, a plague of toads, and 14 more appalling discoveries
  • An injured awning, something fishy in the attic, and 13 more electrifying finds
  • Mushrooms growing on a bath ceiling, lunch pail as junction box, and 13 more frightening finds
  • Roof rats, doors to nowhere, and 14 more disasters uncovered by home inspectors
  • A sawhorse doubling as a bathroom vanity, a drain pipe plugged with a cork, and 15 other appalling screw-ups
  • Cat in the urinal, bees in the plumbing, and DIY foul-ups all over the place
  • Electrical tape, garden hose couplings, and squatter birds' nests run amok
  • The world’s most dangerous fireplace, the world's most dangerous balcony stairs, and 15 more spine-tingling terrors
  • A plywood septic tank, a plunger used as a shower diverter, and 17 more grotesqueries
  • Upsidedown siding, corn growing from gutters, electrical cable wired through the chimney, and more screw-ups
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