Reuben Saltzman

Top 20 Home Inspection Photos from 2024

Happy New Year! I’m delighted to share our Top 20 Home Inspection Photos. I’ve been compiling our top photos of the year since 2011, meticulously pouring over all of the crowd-favorites from our Facebook and Instagram pages. Enjoy!

Attic time-out chair – child behavior problems plummeted after moving the time-out chair to the attic.

Chair in attic

Window sill/ash tray – “The homeowner misunderstood the doctor who suggested a cancer screening.” Shout out to Bill Cunningham for this winning caption.

Cigarette Butts in window frame

Why is there a cute little house here?

Cute sewer access panel 2

Because it’s the sewer access panel. Awesome!

Cute sewer access panel 1

Painted Dishwasher Just because you can paint it doesn’t mean you should. The entire control panel was painted over, so we could not operate the dishwasher… but not from lack of effort.

Dishwasher painted over

Leaking disposer Also, note the unprotected NM cable, and the lack of a trap on the disposer drain.

Disposer leaks a little

Fireball – they didn’t leave any for us.

Fireball stash in wall

Another stash – if you want to hide your stash better, don’t leave the bottles exposed ;-).

Teenagers alcohol above duct

Creative welding – the steel post got in the way of the overhead door, so someone cut the post and welded these beams to the side.

Garage door post

Hot flush strikes again – who doesn’t like a warm toilet seat? Also, note the bidet control on the side of the toilet. Warm water reduces the pucker effect, we’ve been told.

Hot Flush

Missing handrail

Janky stairway

It still leaks

Lots of caulk at bathtub drain

Mean neighbor sign they hate kids, dogs, people, noise, and untidy yards.

Mean neighbor sign

Moldy furnace filter 

Moldy Furnace Filter

Scary dangerous: You have exposed conductors with no overcurrent protection. Also, was someone trying to bypass the meter to get free electricity? Wrong side, rookies.

Not free electricity

Separated PVC building drain sewer inspections are for ALL houses, not just old houses.

PVC Sewer line problem

Business in the front, party in the rear

Roof Mullet2

Short chimney it must have been cold outside.

Short chimney cold day

Peanut butter cap “Should I cap the old opening?”

“You’re damn skippy.”

Skippy Peanut butter cap on vent

Teddy bear heads in jars it could be worse.

Teddy bear heads in jars

Please use both lanes until the zipper merge shout out to Bryan Standley for this winning caption.

Two handrails

Under-toilet lighting is all the rage but seriously, we’re showing that the toilet wasn’t caulked at the floor.

Under-toilet lighting

Most garages are lucky to have one urinal

Urinal in garage

Water heater vent truffles don’t those black things look like old-timey neck truffles? They’re supposed to act like heat sinks to radiate some heat from the vent back into the living space. They’re not effective; if they were, we’d recommend removing them. The water heater vent needs to stay hot to get the exhaust gases to vent properly and to minimize condensation inside the vent.

Water heater vent radiators neck ruffles

Best alternative use of a wire nut

Wire nut on faucet

If you’re counting, sorry (not sorry), I went over 20. There were 24. I couldn’t help myself. Also, please enjoy these collections from past years:

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