
This is one way to vent your dryer. This vent ran from the utility room off the kitchen, across the stove top, to an open window stuffed with
towels to keep drafts out.
Mike Powers
Fairfield, Conn.
Can of worms

If you can’t make out the material of the white painted truss clip, look at the truss right behind it and you will see the top and bottom of a tin can. Most of the metal gussets for the trusses of this concrete tile roof with a heat pump installed in the attic were various parts of tin cans. Also, notice the direction of the plywood roof deck.
Neil Brogren
A’N’B Home Inspections
Gold Canyon, Ariz.
Gross-out of the month

Michael Dostillio
JFM Inspections, Inc.
Sewell, N.J.
What a trip

This bathroom outlet is not a GFCI. Thank providence, this homeowner had the presence of mind to leave all of the tags on, advising of potential shock hazard, should one carelessly remove the tags.
Charles A. Gabriels
InspectionsRus
San Gabriel Valley, Calif.
Loopy

Jamison Brown
AmeriSpec Home Inspection Services
Poquoson, Va.
They’re creepy and they’re kooky...

This is a photo of a propane tank covered with vines. Does anyone remember Cousin Itt from the Addams Family?
Nancy Janosz
Pro-Team Property Inspections
Wesley Chapel, Fla.
Bad news

This is an improperly piped Temperature and Pressure Release Valve on an improperly wired water heater. How long before you discover a drip in this TPR Valve—before or after the electrocution?
Chris D. Hilton
Home/Building Inspections
Winston-Salem, N.C.
Howdy

“Is one of you the real estate agent?”No, not all of Idaho is like this.
Dan Chapleski
True North Inspection Services
Coeur d’Alene, ID