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December 8, 2006 12:03 AM

Broken: Home "improvement" projects

Here are two links to broken home "improvement" projects:
(Thanks to boingboing.net for the pointer)

From http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/gallery/0,25895,1548031-1,00.html: "Wasn’t there a screen saver like this? This is a picture of some amateur plumbing work for the drain system of a home."

And from http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/gallery/0,25895,1548031,00.html

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This bathroom outlet is not a GFCI. Thank providence, this homeowner had the presence of mind to leave all of the tags on, advising of potential shock hazard, should one carelessly remove the tags.

From http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tohnews/gallery/0,25895,1220600,00.html

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So a bathroom outlet, not even GFCI, with all that crap plugged into it, wow... they're just asking for a fire or an nasty electric shock induced death

Posted by: Entropic Decay at December 8, 2006 08:45 AM

It could be staged.

Posted by: st33med at December 8, 2006 03:19 PM

a very good slide show i got some good laughs thx! ps we are doing house work so it fits the current conversation around here lol

Posted by: n1nj4 at December 9, 2006 12:52 AM

This reminds me of a certain movie called "A Christmas Story".

Their outlet looked like this.

Posted by: Dylan at December 10, 2006 08:32 PM

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