Home Repair Nightmares

[whirlcool]

Here is a Powerpoint presentation that a freind sent me that contains the results of some "do it yourself" home repairs.
Which is YOUR favorite repair?
I like the water heater the best....

Toggles, I am sure you have seen this kinda stuff and worse!

http://www.wingsandwheels.org/repairs.html

 

[danemodsandy]

This Is Why

Nobody touches my house but ME. While these are obviously DIY repairs gone horribly wrong, I've been charged good money for work that was nearly as bad.

I truly don't understand most peoples' approach to repair. When something that was designed and built by professionals has a problem, the average Joe is very unlikely to "improve" on it with duct tape and home-made parts. Why just going to the parts store and getting the exact replacement part never occurs to many people is beyond me. Same goes for repairs to code- most people think of code as some unnecessary governmental interference in their absolute freedom. It never occurs to them that codes are there to keep houses standing up, unburnt, unflooded, and sanitary. Codes can be weird as hell and hard to meet in some instances, true. But their basic purpose is to keep people safe in spite of themselves, and the average guy has no business whatsoever "inventing" his way around them.

 

[goprog]

The only slides I could see were the bathroom outlet and
the supply and return air ducts. Whenever I went to other
slides, it just showed the air duct picture over and over.
Of course I'm not using an MS system and it's
self-standardized applications.

Someday when I fire up an MS system I may remember to try
looking at it again.

 

[exploder3211]

Lol the water heater on its side is good, but really your house will be supported by yards of duct tape

 

[whirlcool]

Whoops, sorry about that

For those of you who don't have Powerpoint, Microsoft offers a free downloadable PowerPoint Viewer. It supports all OS's going back to Win 98. You can get it at this link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...27-43ab-4f24-90b7-a94784af71a4&DisplayLang=en

 

[scott55405]

That's fantastic!