[Greenbuilding] Home Improvement and Remodeling: This Old House

[Eric Cadora]

I for one don't feel the pressing need to label each picture  
according to the specific circumstances of each individual photo. I  
think it's fair to say that whoever did the original work or the  
"repairs", as the case may be, is clearly either a moron and/or a  
monumentally crooked contractor. The "implications" are pretty  
clear..... Aren't they?
To laugh at this sum total of these idiocies is not to condone  
stupidity and dishonesty. (I will avoid the impulse to insert an  
analogy to our present administration..... Oops. I think I just did  
it anyway.)  Can't we just have a good laugh every now and then?

Eric Cadora


On Jun 26, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Reuben Deumling wrote:

> Thanks for this link, Stephen.
> An interesting series of photos to peruse. The tone of the editors,  
> or in
> some cases the photographer, surprised me a bit, however.
>
> This series of pictures (and captions) include examples which I  
> would divide
> into several different categories:
>
> [this first one is the one the authors of the website seem to have  
> had in
> mind]
>
> (1) people (non-experts) are hopeless idiots and when they try to fix
> something in their houses look what dangerous and foolish things  
> happen;
>
> (2) people who work on their houses without special knowledge of  
> codes or
> ready access to the standard materials make do, and although the  
> results
> look funny to the specialists, much of the time the end result is  
> perfectly
> serviceable;
>
> (3) contractors hired to (a) build the house in the first place, or  
> (b)
> perform a repair didn't finish the work, or failed to improve the  
> situation,
> or made it worse by their modifications.
> Each of these categories has rather different implications (and  
> there are
> certainly other ways to categorize the photos).  I'm not  
> comfortable with
> the first one applied to all of the photos, though it is certainly  
> apt in
> some cases.
>
> Reuben Deumling
>
> On 6/25/07, Stephen Collette <stephen at yourhealthyhouse.ca> wrote:
>>
>> This is a collection of absolutely brilliant home inspection photos
>> that will make you laugh/cringe.
>>
>> http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/gallery/tohnews/0,26653,,00.html
>>
>> I'm sure we could all submit photos like this.
>>
>> Stephen
>>
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