Most of these are from construction projects from other countries, but a few were gathered from home inspectors here in the United States (i.e. plastic water bottle stopper in pipe, tree growing through rooftop). There's plenty more over at Dark Roasted Blend's Unbelievable Blunders in Architecture and Construction series and This Old House's Home Inspection Nightmares to marvel at.
The last image in the slideshow is an argument of why NOT to hire a professional.
Have any particular home improvement nightmare stories or photos of your own. Send them to us!
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Comments (38)
Those are truly frightening!
hilarity.
Where can I get that electrician?
i needed this. thanks gregory!
we worked on a remodel of a large apartment building that has 67 subpanels off the main electrical box. there was conduit going everywhere, often doubling back into the box it came out of. the electricians were rightfully terrified. they were using one of those pen size current detectors to try and figure out what was hot until they realized that the detector would just trip without touching anything - they could stand near the panels and it would go off.
jeez louise!
haha. thanks for the laugh. those are great.
Wow - makes my handiwork look professional!
This post is hilarious!
Delikatissen
Are these for real!?! Too funny!
The door notched to fit over the toilet seat cracked me up! Ridiculous!
The notched door was funny, but the one that me us laugh the hardest was the sloped ?!?!? driveway.
The tree-shed picture reminded me of Odysseus's bed, which was intentionally built around the trunk of an olive tree. -geek-
Hehe electrical services.
I am truly embarrassed for these!! Sheeesh
these remind me of my current (soon to be EX) apartment!
My first apartment had a notched bathroom door that went over the toilet seat.
Dark Roasted Blend is SO much fun XD
I had a great laugh, thanks!
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My apartment has a door that hits the toilet seat; a notch would have clearly been too much work.
That sloped driveway was amazing -- even if it sloped to the road it would be too steep. Who didn't see that much, much earlier? Why did the concrete guys even try? How many people screwed up on just the one job??
The toilet seat hits close to home, though. We just built a new house based on the floorplan of the one next door, but considerably modified. There is a ground floor lavatory. In the model home, it had a pedestal sink. We wanted a cabinet for storing necessities. The builders didn't think about it when they ordered the door, and they ordered the wider one like the model has. It clears the cabinet by less than an inch! The problem wasn't apparant until everything was installed, long after the framing for the door was done. (Stand to the side in front of the toilet when closing it!)
oh wow... hahaha
Wow- now what my hubby does -it doesn't look so bad after all. Never looked at it as "things could be worse". Ha
hahahaha XD
Thank you Greg from ATLA. Well done
The balcony photo!
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hahaha, I loved this post!!! I want more!
man, these could all be from the philadelphia region.. I've never seen so many unskilled carpenters/tradespeople in one area...
I needed this! LOL!
This is incredible!! Love that ski-slope driveway and doorless balcony!! LOL!
The sad thing is, my aunt and uncle have a driveway that is a practical replica of that one! Slightly curved at the top, but their cars are still sitting at a ridiculous angle. In fact one time their some, who was around 5-7 at the time got in the car and messed around with the break, and the car flew down the driveway, and into the neighbors yard across the road. Had there not been a huge tree, he would have gone right through into their house! I might add that the neighbors have the same sort of driveway, except you have to go down to it, instead of up. That whole neighborhood is insanely pitched.
great post the only thing scarier than coming home and finding the contractor fooling around with your wife is that they also had a photographer there shooting them. Porn.
comom sence is the latest endangered specie.
spell much?
Hahhaha nicee :D
Made me hyperventilate!
That was a great amount of DIY home building failure I am seeing here. I hope you don't ask them for help when you build your own house, because it will be a great disaster when you let them participate on your do it yourself home building project.
Epic fail!