Toilet in a kitchen? The best of the worst home inspection photos of 2014

What were they thinking? Home inspector and Your Voices blogger Reuben Saltzman gathers the most confusing, dangerous and just plain odd home inspection photos of 2014.

By hominspector

January 8, 2015 — 12:11am

We share our favorite home inspection photos on our Facebook page and our Google+ Page with a feature we started back in 2009, called the Photo of the Day. Sometimes we make a game out of the photos, asking what's wrong in the photo. Other times, the defects are quite obvious. I've pored over all of our photos from the past year, and I've put together the Top 20 home inspection photos from the past year. Enjoy!

Don't tuck your raincoat into your rain pants

Upside-Down Snorkel - that metal thing in the middle of the photo is always installed with the opening facing down. How does water not get in there? Snorkel is an unofficial term, but we like it.

Tree in Attic, Holding Stuff Up

Toilet in Kitchen - yes, it's functional. Yes, it blocks access to the drawers and the sink base. No, we didn't "test" it.

Stacked Box

C-clamp pipe repair - we're not crazy about saddle valves to start with.

Re-purposed radon fan

Not a Loop Vent - island vents are used at island sinks, and they're perfectly legal. Because the vent makes a loop to the underside of the countertop, sometimes people call them loop vents. Someone must have heard that term and then took a stab at it, but this doesn't come close. The Family Handyman web site has an excellent cutaway photo showing how an island vent is supposed to be installed: Island Vent Photo

Missing drain, smart water

;-o

Hot Flush

"And... that's how you like to support your deck?"

All hail the electric panel

Nobody's gonna see it behind the fridge

Safety First

If one filter is good, four is... gooder?

Smells like cooked mice.

"...Folgers in your duct"

Bowed Deck

Pinhole Leak - this has been leaking for a long, long, long time.