Who wouldn't want an special toilet staircase?
Just hope you're not in this house during an emergency.
Oh, no. That's not a safety hazard at all.
You've heard of the "Bridge to Nowhere" in Alaska. These are the matching stairs.
Well, that's one low-cost way of collecting rainwater.
The inspector notes the homeowner got tired of visitors adjusting his chandelier.
That's a great spot for trash.
Someone didn't think this through properly.
Water heaters are like wine, right? They get better with age?
Mouse droppings plus exposed wires. Come on, give the home inspector something a little harder to spot.
An inventive owner used a dog bowl to plug up an old exhaust pipe hole.
"If it doesn't fit, we'll just saw around it." A golden rule of shoddy construction.
A his-and-hers toilet seat?
The owners plugged this bird hole with a tennis ball.
A rare opportunity to repurpose a Cool Whip container.
When you're telling yourself that more caulking will fix it, something went seriously wrong.
We're guessing this is not the recommended installation process.
Sure, you want to be able to exit the house. But more importantly, you need a place to put stuff.
It's a little scary, but we have to salute the MacGyver-level ingenuity at work here.
20 scary home inspection photos that prove some just can't DIY
3/22/2013Do you think of home inspectors as the guys who just show up and tell you not to buy your dream house because it has a lake in the basement and bugs in the wall? Wrong. These funny pictures from the ASHI Reporter — snapped by put-upon home inspectors across the country — suggest that these guys are heroes in blue jeans and hard hats, here to save us from our worst DIY impulses. If you're thinking about building a staircase leading to a lone toilet, repurposing a Cool Whip canister as an integral part of your home wiring system or patching a hole in your siding with a tennis ball, then listen up. Don't try this at home. Please.
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