Strange and creepy things that inspectors find when inspecting homes in the USA

Home inspectors go where homeowners don't particularly want them to go - they can reach all corners of the house, both inside and outside. All the things you don't want to think about happen in these dark and creepy spaces. Or do you still want to know?

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Fox News suggests inviting home inspectors, who have been working in this business for many years, that they saw the strangest and worst in the houses they visited.

Living and dead zoo

“Some of the nastiest things we find are animals—dead in attics or basements, which are always disgusting, or alive, which are always scary,” says Ruben Saltzman, president of Structure Tech Home Inspections in Minneapolis. “In Minnesota we usually find raccoons and squirrels, but in the southern part of the country it’s much worse.”

There were found frogs drowned under water heaters, boiled in the ovens of mice, frozen porcupines in the basement, and dead fish on the roof. Zaltsman is surprised: did some bird throw this fish from above or did something stranger happen?

“We also found wasp nests the size of basketballs inside the attic and in the basement on a ceiling joist, and the homeowners had no idea they had wasps,” Salzman adds.

Bruce Barker, founder and president of Dream Home Consultants in Carey, North Carolina, has collected about 6000 photos that capture horrors such as grilled lizards and mice inside electric panels, snakes in the basements, and even a black widow spider.

“We found termite tubes hanging from the ceiling. Termites need soil to travel and live, so they build tubes out of mud,” he explains. “It looked like there were whole stalactites hanging there.”

In addition, inspectors regularly find masses of birdseed, a nasty and toxic material.

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Mysterious design decisions

“One of the craziest things I've ever seen was a boat trailer being used as a base for a house,” Saltzman recalls.

“In the basement I saw a tire filled with concrete. I had to stare at it for a while to understand what I was looking at,” he says. “And I realized that this entire addition was built on a trailer.”

Sometimes projects are half completed or fragile, like a deck of cards held on a shaky foundation.

Hazardous Plumbing Solutions

Zaltsman often discovers that homeowners tried to fix a plumbing leak with any improvised material. Contrary to popular belief, duct tape doesn't really fix leaking pipes, wall tiles for showers or gutters, he says.

“People will use caulk, radiator hoses, clamps, vise grips—just the craziest things—to keep water from coming out of places where it shouldn't be,” he says.

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An occasion for alarm

Perhaps the most troubling things home inspectors face are about the electrical systems and outlets in the house, Barker says.

“I've seen people who don't put wire connections in boxes and just leave them hanging out. If I had a dollar for each of them, I wouldn't have to crawl through inspection sites anymore,” he says, noting that this poses a serious fire hazard.

And one more “what were they thinking?” thing: in one of the houses, a row of Christmas lights was strung directly above the pool. When the fountain function is activated, swimmers below may suffer serious injury from electric shock.

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