Curl Your Hair

by Edited by ASHI Staff August 1, 2011

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This is one shower that includes a way to keep warm and curl your hair at the same time! The shower stall heater was in a house with no ground, no GFCI and on a 20-AMP circuit.

Marcus Richter
Hands-On Home Inspection
Tucson, Ariz.

Green machine
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I know there’s a compressor in there somewhere, but I can’t find it.

Matthew Steger
WIN Home Inspection
Elizabethtown, Pa.

Probably a sweet dog
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I was told that no one would be home, but when I opened the door to this bedroom … how many ways can you say pit bull? I took the picture and quietly closed the door, disclaiming this room in my report.

Rick Adkins
Adkins’ Home Inspections
Green Forest, Ark.

Interesting leak technique
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Chimney leaking? Put a hose on it.

Nate Stitzlein
Crow Home Inspection
Baltimore, Ohio

Hot tub from Hell
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This hot tub is installed on a very unstable deck. The deck is not properly secured to the structure and has no handrail. The far side of the deck overhangs about a 15-foot drop.

Wally Shank
Mid Penn Home Inspections
Carlisle, Pa.

It puts the lean in lean-to
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I’m thinking there may be an issue here.

David Grudzinski
Advantage Home Inspections
Cranston, R.I.

You may see saw, but do not use saw
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Its okay to run your duct work through the main support girder as long as you have a good saw. Silly.

Chuck Arnone
Precision Consultants
Sussex, N.J.

I’ll take your arm
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The first step is a big one.

David Grudzinski
Advantage Home Inspections, Cranston, R.I.

Medusa’s junction box
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I found this junction box in an attic. This is the difference between an electrician and a master electrician.

Mario Lucciola
All Spec Building Inspections
St. Catharinas, ON

Dangerous mind
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I found this at a recent inspection.

Kurt Salomon
Advocate Inspections
Midvale, Utah

Roof goof
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Yes, that is a roof caulked up to a window. The second photo is the view from inside the house.

David Grudzinski
Advantage Home Inspections
Cranston, R.I.


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