This is our annual top 20 home inspection photos compilation. All of these images were featured on our facebook page over the last year. Enjoy!
Top 20 home inspection photos from 2016
From painting the wall around the couch to using hockey pucks as sewer cleanout plugs, our home inspector found another great crop of do-it-yourself innovations.
By hominspector
January 17, 2017 at 10:51AM
Hop on in, the water's warm
Clogged dryer terminal, one-year-old home - Roofs are a terrible place for clothes dryer terminals, but it's downright dangerous when there's a screen cover installed at the terminal. Screens should never be installed at dryer terminals. If you notice that your clothes dryer gets your clothes really hot but doesn't dry them well, check out the terminal at the exterior. This would explain it.
We're missing a window - A basement window was covered over when the basement was finished, but the opening was never insulated. An infrared scan of the wall made this easy to see.
Fido had beef with the p-trap
Dirtiest filter ever
Pantyhose dryer duct - we've seen plenty of pantyhose used as a lint filter at the washing machine discharge, but never as a substitute for a clothes dryer exhaust duct.
Another use for hockey pucks
Interior gutter
Mow your roof
Paint around the couch
Plumbing vent + patio = bad combination
Smashed downspout
Temporary electric service (we hope)
Neutral eating tree (Nom nom nom...)
Three bath fans, one plumbing vent terminal
Waste not, want not (tomato can repurposed)
Undermined foundation
This home flipper puts the "lazy" in Lazy Susan - That's the water line for the new refrigerator passing through the Lazy Susan.
Major chimney repairs needed
How to prevent your cat from loitering (and possibly from using the litter box at all)
Bad day for Sally the Squirrel
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hominspector
Several home watch businesses joined together in the Minnesota Home Watch Collaborative to stay vigilant across the whole state.
