Gallery
The pictures in this photo gallery illustrate many issues that home inspectors encounter including safety hazards for the building inspector and building occupants, building defects, unusual wear and tear on building components or - just bazaar situations that you don't see every day. Please browse the entire gallery to see the amusing and in some cases - shocking pictures.
- This retaining wall failed. The cause of failure has not been determined but many speculate that soil movement ruptured a fire main line within the imported soil, which washed away the wall.....
- This is a deck/porch hatch opening to access the under floor crawl space....
- The inspector attempted to enter the under floor access to discover the hidden well....
- The inspectors feet landed on the cross-pipe saving him from a thirty foot fall to the bottom of the hidden well
- This is an old coal fired boiler that has been converted to natural gas.... what's wrong? see the next picture....
- This is a picture if some asbestos containing boiler pipe insulation. The fan in the background is blowing asbestos dust fibers everywhere....
- The under-floor crawl space is not an appropriate place to store fire starter logs....
- ABS (black) waste drain pipe cannot be glued to PVC (white) drain pipe.....
- This deck is over 20 feet above a nearly vertical slope below....
- This picture illustrates the height of the deck and the severe slope under it....
- This picture illustrates the flimsy deck post and the deficient attachment to the rock.....
- The Rock should not be used as a
footer for the post considering the extreme height of the deck..... - Poor Mickey Mouse.... Lived in a dangerous house.....
- First, this is not a correct flashing detail. Second, That is transite 'asbestos' roof material.... Beware it can be expensive to remove and dispose of....
- This is a portable satellite dish....
- When the chimney starts to fall apart, the maintenance personnel can just glue it back with FOAM....
- This is asbestos containing transite pipe a Texas building owner illegally disposed of on his farm land....
- Look closely and you'll notice the main electrical service wire has been tapped with a romex wire....
- This retaining wall does is not code compliant nor does it meet any modern engineering standards....
- The retaining wall was failing even prior to completion as evidence by this large crack in the soil at top...
- After failing to obtain an initial compliant design, the contractor performed this questionable repair.....
- This bran new homes ENTIRE attic space had less than one inch of insulation in it..... ALWAYS inspect the attic even if the house is new.....
- This is NOT proper roof flashing..... Although the contractor said it was OK.....
- More great window-roof flashing details.....
- New Roof! Notice the window detail at the lower right.....
- This is what OLD Knob and tube wiring looks like. These wires are all live.....
- This picture illustrates a roof leak where the water is exiting the soffit and freezing into ice.
- This flooded under-floor crawl space is a common scene in all parts of the USA....