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Camelot One
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And this is why you should watch your contractors carefully!

This picture was sent by an inspector. I'm not exactly sure how you could screw up like this, but the picture proves it happens. Watch your contractors carefully!



Hint: Look at the window locks. The entire house was like this.

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That's awesome. I did not look at the spoiler. Did you also find many empty beer cans?

ArthurS
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LOL, I guess it would come in handy if you forgot the keys to the house!!!
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said by Camelot One:

Look at the window locks. The entire house was like this.

That is the way it is done in certain eastern block countries, so the government has easy access to a home. Any D.O.A.'s found in the dumpster?

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Hysterical.

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But it is so much easier that way; one person can do it.

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That's so the boogie man can get into the kids' bedrooms.
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That is new code for the Feds to help with no-warrant searches. Nothing more, move along, you didn't see anything

That has to be a first. I did see a strange picture with the storm door on the inside one time...

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Yup, I saw that before even reading the spoiler and said to my WTF?

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I've done home inspections for 23 years, and seen everything; wait until you go to leave your house and lock your sliders, and find the locks on the outside; --it happens
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Wow, that's a pretty big thing to screw up. How does one install a window backwards and not notice?

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Probably installed by some undocumented workers who had never seen a window lock before, nor actually installed a window either!

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Actually you are all a bunch of idiots.

There is nothing wrong there, those are installed to the new "Child-Resistant Standards" to prevent young-uns from opening the locked window and falling out of it......

Sheesh..........


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Wow. I hope the contractors got penalized for this screwup.

Funny. I didn't even notice it until I read the spoilers. I thought it was
the outside trash.

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I've done home inspections for 23 years, and seen everything;

One of my favorite stories I heard was they hooked up the hot water supply to the toilet.
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There's actually people that do that on purpose ......

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In some areas (Tropical, mostly) Cold water causes excessive condensation/sweating on the toilet tank...
The proper fix for it is to use a Hot/Cold mixing valve, or 'Temperator' to supply Warm (not fully Hot) water to the tank.

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Do you have any idea how hard it is to get into a room at the 2nd or 3rd floor if the windows are locked from the inside??? Not only you have to sneak through a small opening, you have to struggle to slide the window open while trying to keep your balance on the ladder.
Been there, done that a couple of times after leaving my keys inside

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said by gerick:

One of my favorite stories I heard was they hooked up the hot water supply to the toilet.


I have a house that was previously owned by some Filipinos and the toilet was supplied by the hot water.

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The good news here, if there is any, is that it appears when the picture was taken the siding was not applied. That will make it a whole lot cleaner to correct this "feature".
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Several years ago I showed up at a newly built home and the owners were not looking too happy when I arrived.

It seemed they used their huge dining room as the main place to pile a whole bunch of boxes, the piano etc from the moving truck before disbursing to correct rooms.
It was all a big wet mess with a damaged ceiling.

Apparently the plumbers failed to glue together the drain from the massive bath tub in master bathroom - that was directly above the dining room.
First bath in new house, must have been nice until the end.
Blew the ceiling out and a 100 or so gallons of water dumped on their stuff and new wood floors.....

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There was an issue with one of the other houses in my neighborhood last year. Brand new construction, and the night before the soon-to-be owners did their final pre-closing walkthrough, thieves went in and stole all of the appliances, toilets, granite counter tops, etc. And they couldn't be bothered to shut the water off first, so water flooded out of every line all night.
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One of my favorite stories I heard was they hooked up the hot water supply to the toilet.

Maybe they wanted a bidet....

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Makes me wonder what else is hidden behind the walls??????

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Probably installed by some undocumented workers who had never seen a window lock before, nor actually installed a window either!

What you makes you think that?
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said by Camelot One:

And this is why you should watch your contractors carefully!

NO, this is why you should hire competent contractors and not bottom priced bottom feeders.

I'd venture to bet anyone who this happens to is getting what they paid for.

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said by gerick:

said by Starrhall :

I've done home inspections for 23 years, and seen everything;

One of my favorite stories I heard was they hooked up the hot water supply to the toilet.

That happened to me. The builder's plumber tied the hot and cold in the master bathroom both to the hot supply line.

The steamy flushes were funny, but the super-hot showers weren't. It was my first house of my own, so it didn't occur to me to just reduce the temperature on the hot water tank until the builder fixed it.

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With pipes embedded in a concrete slab, hot toilets are common. You don't always know where the pipes run.

Neighbor had that happen. FOund at closing, so they fixed it. It was fine until the next winter when the 1 pipe the had to add to fix it ran in the attic froze. They did fix it for her.

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That's why they left the ladder laying there.
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said by Camelot One:

There was an issue with one of the other houses in my neighborhood last year. Brand new construction, and the night before the soon-to-be owners did their final pre-closing walkthrough, thieves went in and stole all of the appliances, toilets, granite counter tops, etc. And they couldn't be bothered to shut the water off first, so water flooded out of every line all night.

Builder's loss.