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(#6) A Homeowner Was Obsessed With Building His Own Expansion
From Redditor /u/DummGhahrr:
A guy bought a house from my company in a pretty nice neighborhood. He wanted to expand his house himself, so, without any permitting he started building the extension himself. He built directly on the concrete slab in his backyard (no foundation system), sided his building without starter strips so they were all crooked, and he also didn’t use any vapor protection. He pulled the wire and whatnot himself, and hadn’t installed his windows last I saw it. The city inspector said that no matter what the guy did, it would never be permitted and he could not proceed any further. It was a wild time.
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(#7) They Kept Blowing Their Fuses
From Redditor /u/worfhill:
Got called because a light kept blowing. Checked and found out the husband had put a single light bulb on a 240 volt circuit.
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(#9) The House That Speaker Wire Built
From Redditor /u/AtfayElleybay:
My dad was an electrical contractor. One guy wired his entire house with speaker wire.
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(#4) They Built Their Own Load-Bearing Wall
From Redditor /u/Rollerroman:
We just recently remodeled a home that was built with 1X3 studs in the exterior load bearing walls. We could push the wall out a few inches if we leaned on it!
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(#14) They Made A Hairball Of Electrical Wire
From Redditor /u/Hagenaar:
A screw-on wire connector (sometimes called marrettes sometimes mars connector) making the most amazing junction. The thing was the size of a shot glass. More than one live feed into it. Conventional wires, older wires, knob and tube wires, extension cord all wound up together. All just loose in the wall cavity. I just ran new wires to everything and cut out as much of this crazy spider as I could reach.
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(#2) A Homeowner Knocked Down A Load-Bearing Wall
From Redditor /u/Noaesh:
Guy knocked down a wall to convert his kitchen/lounge/dining into an open plan concept. Wall was load bearing. [The home owner] Managed to f*ck himself out of $50,000AUD in order to save roughly $4,000 for engineering reports and a contractor.
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