The homeowners faces when they walked in to the gutted house was heart-breaking. Like their best friend just betrayed them. I was afraid they lost their love for the house.
This old house was originally solidly built, but received such structural abuse by incompetent contractors that it would have caved in within a few years. $300,000 in 2010 could have probably paid for demo and building new, but obviously the repair and renovation was more interesting for TV. Even with a good inspector buying an old house is really risky, but the deceiving scoundrel who wrote the report for this house really avoided all the obvious foundational and structural issues. May God bless this young family who were really saved from losing their home with the help of Holmes and crew.
The fact that they have to gut the whole house because of all the issues and all the people that helped build it back up. True craftsman in there respected fields. Thank You Mike for Making it RIGHT. 😊
When I went home shopping, I narrowed it down to three choices then I did a thorough personal home inspection using a guide. Based on that I removed one from my list. With a guide, I found things I never normally would have even thought to look at. I then requested a professional home inspection for my main choice. Every home buyer should do this IMO.
Some stuff on this house the home inspector 100% should’ve caught absolutely a lot of this crap in here without opening up walls you would never have known but once they opened it up, whoever did do the work should be held criminally liable for doing it. That’s how bad it is.
Never rely on a survey done by the existing owner. The surveyor was working for them. Get your own done. Yes, it costs money, but the surveyor is your employee and will find things that the other one ignored.
They had a home inspector - but he worked for the home owner. They needed to get their own independent inspection. As soon as I heard sagging floors I would have walked away. We bought a house from 1987 - and it’s had a few problems but at least nothing crazy. Mostly small things like it needed new windows. Things that didn’t cost hundreds of thousands of $$$. I hope these homeowners sued the original homeowner and home inspector to pay for some of their repairs.
I can't believe contractors would have the audacity to do a sloppy home inspection, and then act like, oh no big deal, we'll it was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,because the inept inspector refused to give honest answers, what a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,thank goodness Mike's crew came in and corrected the problem
I know a woman who had the same thing happened to her, she bought a house and there was a sack because it support was tucking out. She ended up getting around $30,000 from the previous homeowner, after suing. This happens in Toronto
How can you, as a builder and home inspector, have a clear conscience by defrauding people like this and then sleep peacefully knowing that people are going to live in the house, I hope that they will one day be held accountable for the deception. Unbelievable that this is still happening in 2024 despite the many strict building regulations. What trouble these people would have been in if they had not been in this program and had had to pay all the costs themselves. There will come a day when the renovator of this house and the home inspector will have to answer to God himself
Mike, the solution to most of the issues you uncover discuss ( with relevant local city depts)) setting up a comphrensive training programme targeted at Inspectors, developers and anyone that needs to knis this information. The course can be done in-house, utilising all thd teams currently use. Alternatively uou csn partner with a local college/ university to provide the ACCREDITED programme.
This house was very close to being condemned. The buckled foundation wall must have upset the engineer and building inspector. That was substantial block and concrete benching . I hope the homeowners are still in the house raising their children.
I have been in construction for many years and can testify on how many houses I've seen like this. Unfortunately the work is very expensive and nobody wants to pay for it. I do the best as I can but of course there's a limit I can do. I wish I had Mike's budget
When these sellers and realtors fail to disclose the agents should have their licenses censured and if repeat offenders (pulled)… and the sellers should be on the hook to compensate the buyer for the repairs.
Positive, professional, uplifting and what better way to relax than to watch mature, responsible, hardworking people bring some joy into others' lives. Thank you all. What a fine group of people.
The remodeler maybe, but I think he said it was done in 1989, which was 20 years before this episode was filmed. The biggest target might be the home seller, depending on disclosure laws in their jurisdiction.
Well l like to thank mike and all the crew,for teaching me alot about everything,l was losing interest in doing home repair work as well as being handyman,but after watching Holmes on homes for sometime,have rein force my passion in what l do and now I'm loving to it more than ever,because of mike an his young crew and now im learning how to become an home inspector,but l will be more better at it,than those uneducated home inspector,once again thank you Holmes on homes.😂
If I found out the hubby isn't working on suing the contractor, I'd be totally gobsmacked. He clearly had a fire in his belly. You could see it in his eyes. "You mess with my wife and baby? I will take you down!"
Totally awesome job and you should all be so proud of the work you do, just a shame the corrupt building inspectors and builders aren't put in jail for the very dodgy work they do, once again congratulations on a job well done
I would tear the house down and cheaper to build a new home. So sorry for these young couple.just imagine $300000 dollars to fix. I hope homes are giving them a break
Wow... just wow... There are no words. I do have one question though, for those that understand. What is the difference between truing up something as opposed to making something level? If they gutted the house, why wouldn't they be able to level everything up? No criticisms here, just trying to understand what they are having to do.
Trued up means flat, no dips or valleys. Level means the golf ball doesn’t roll if you just set it on the surface. Wood permanently bends over time, depending on the amount of bending you cannot unbend the beams enough for a level floor without breaking them. In some cases you may not be able to true up the floor.
The home inspector should’ve caught I would say 30% may be a little bit more the electrical the bad air conditioning/HVAC, but whoever did work on this house should be charged criminally for what they’ve done. There’s no other way to put it. I’m sorry there’s no other way to put it.
We owned a home in Hawaii that the former homeowners removed a load-bearing wall and the ceiling began to crack, prompting those homeowners to apply a thick texture to the ceiling. $$$ later we jacked up the ceiling, installed an Ohi’a supporting post, re-drywalled the ceiling, tied the attic joists, and made it right.
The way that husband's face goes from normal, to a little disturbed, to absolutely shell shocked and about 10 seconds from running and screaming tells the real story.
USA there are states as laws to protect new owners from hidden problems that weren’t revealed before the house sold. Leading the new owners reliable for all the cost repairs of the hidden dangers.
Hearing there is a structure issue should automatically tell you to rethink buying. The selling company or person should even offer a plan and a price on that plan to fix those issues but instead they hid things just to get rid of the house. Also a perfect example of why people should be held accountable when they are supposedly licensed to do these jobs. Especially if they are inspectors.
This is something that should end with the inspector losing their license and the seller getting sued and possibly going to jail. I'm wondering at what point would this house been just demoed and rebuilt?
Most inspectors are recommended by the sales person... They are paid to look the other way or come up with technical excuses. Never use these inspectors.... get your own...5 townships over.
Never use the realtor's inspector they are corrupted too many times. Always check the Better business Bureau and choose an insoe tor outside your area of the house. Suing them is not what your future needs to be. Always check the water quality too.
Do you send your reports to the govt dept that failed in the first place , because some bugger needs fired or jailed for incompetence.great shows followed Mike Holmes from the beginning.
People like open concept, but that is a job for professionals not, for diy projects. You can’t get rid of load bearing walls, without reinforcing, the weight bearing wall.
37:30 dude, are you ok? I feel really bad for the lady, she is in very sensitive situation and it is feels like they were really ripped off. terrible inspector work
One asbestos fiber can remain airborne for over 24 hours, compared to a human hair, and a fiberglass strand, you could probably fit 10 asbestos fibers into a human hair. There’s no amount that is safe, just one fiber getting inside your lungs could lead to asbestosis. We have to take classes on all different types of hazardous materials every year.
Common practice in some countries back in the day. Canada followed Britain's lead in having houses with close-by neighbors without resorting to building side-by-side rowhouses as common as they were in Colliery communities in Scotland and in Ireland. In the USA in the 1920s -1940s there were similarly situated homes with larger side yards, extending 10-15' on either side to allow for a fenced side yard (pickets) or see through chain link. Families could have gardens and patios that way. They did not plan many neighborhoods with homes as closely done as shown here i as was the custom in Canada during this same 20th century time frame. The eastern seaboard communities in Pennsylvania, NJ, MD and New York (for example) did follow the row house and Colliery-style in some cities. Allowing however for large porches in front and garages in the back. in post-Civil war and pre-Civil war built residential neighborhoods. Hope this helps. These places were for low-income workers predominantly.
It seems to me much better to buy an old house in original condition and then get an engineer in to help design your own renovations, than to go for a "completely updated to modern standards" house where you have no idea what was done to the structural elements. (If you want a modern house, go buy one and leave the old, well built houses for people that want them all original.)
My husband used to say, you can put an awful lot of lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. When we house hunted for our home, we must have looked at close to 4 dozen houses before we found one that we both could agree that was not only under our budget, but actually fairly easy to renovate. The bones were good. The cosmetics the previous owners did was average at best. 😊
Almost everyone of these videos shows the problem never let the the seller or anyone conencted hire or offer a inspecter get a independent one that isn’t gunna get profit from passing it
Everything looked awsome …..except the hand rail?? Are you serious stick weld ? No wrap on the exposed rails ? I would be embarrassed to have welds like that
The 300K was before the bowed wall, the asbestos the the plaster and the reNo porch discovery. Probably would have been cheaper to demolish, but they were too far into it by then. Be great to have a follow up on the family and a final tally accounting for all the donated time, labor, and materials.
All this extra work, and they want to charge upwards of 400,000 for houses. How about you make it right structurally. Whoever the hell inspected this house originally needs to be taken to court and stripped of his license
Definitely.The estate agents too for having inspectors who do not know the job of inspecting.Peoples lives are at stake,glad no children are involved as in some0 cases.
Some of those contractors should be called CONTRICKSTERS! Sad that they cut corners and steal peoples money and run to the next job! Why hasn’t all levels of government provided a system where as inspectors/ engineers do more inspections of a build/ Reno on a continuous rotation 🧐
Never, never, never trust a home inspection arranged by the seller. You don't know what connections they have or how much has been paid under the table for a good report. // Love the banter about the closets, but I do wonder what American women have that requires taking over their husband's closet as well. My stuff would fit in half of one of those closets.
"We're NOT gutting this place!"
Yeah, we're gutting this place...
That's not a can of worms, it's a damn Box of Angry Rattlesnakes.
Those poor people, they looked shell-shocked. This had to be the biggest renovation Mike and his crew tackled. You guys are the best.
I can't remember which episode, but he bull doozed a house
The homeowners faces when they walked in to the gutted house was heart-breaking. Like their best friend just betrayed them. I was afraid they lost their love for the house.
@@SHKEKEKE That was when he knocked that house down and built a brand new house that looked like a 6000 year home.
Famous last words "I'm not gutting this house!"!
"I'm having my mail forwarded here"
This old house was originally solidly built, but received such structural abuse by incompetent contractors that it would have caved in within a few years. $300,000 in 2010 could have probably paid for demo and building new, but obviously the repair and renovation was more interesting for TV. Even with a good inspector buying an old house is really risky, but the deceiving scoundrel who wrote the report for this house really avoided all the obvious foundational and structural issues. May God bless this young family who were really saved from losing their home with the help of Holmes and crew.
The fact that they have to gut the whole house because of all the issues and all the people that helped build it back up. True craftsman in there respected fields. Thank You Mike for Making it RIGHT. 😊
When I went home shopping, I narrowed it down to three choices then I did a thorough personal home inspection using a guide. Based on that I removed one from my list. With a guide, I found things I never normally would have even thought to look at. I then requested a professional home inspection for my main choice. Every home buyer should do this IMO.
Mike wrote a home inspection guide.
Where did you get your home inspection checklist?
Some stuff on this house the home inspector 100% should’ve caught absolutely a lot of this crap in here without opening up walls you would never have known but once they opened it up, whoever did do the work should be held criminally liable for doing it. That’s how bad it is.
Never rely on a survey done by the existing owner. The surveyor was working for them.
Get your own done. Yes, it costs money, but the surveyor is your employee and will find things that the other one ignored.
They had a home inspector - but he worked for the home owner. They needed to get their own independent inspection. As soon as I heard sagging floors I would have walked away. We bought a house from 1987 - and it’s had a few problems but at least nothing crazy. Mostly small things like it needed new windows. Things that didn’t cost hundreds of thousands of $$$. I hope these homeowners sued the original homeowner and home inspector to pay for some of their repairs.
I can't believe contractors would have the audacity to do a sloppy home inspection, and then act like, oh no big deal, we'll it was!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,because the inept inspector refused to give honest answers, what a shame!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!,thank goodness Mike's crew came in and corrected the problem
I know a woman who had the same thing happened to her, she bought a house and there was a sack because it support was tucking out. She ended up getting around $30,000 from the previous homeowner, after suing. This happens in Toronto
How can you, as a builder and home inspector, have a clear conscience by defrauding people like this
and then sleep peacefully knowing that people are going to live in the house,
I hope that they will one day be held accountable for the deception.
Unbelievable that this is still happening in 2024 despite the many strict building regulations.
What trouble these people would have been in if they had not been in this program and had had to pay all the costs themselves.
There will come a day when the renovator of this house and the home inspector will have to answer to God himself
Sociopaths/psychopaths that are also greedy assholes.
Not 2024 (2010) - these are old episodes - but still agree with you. These dodgy inspectors should be held accountable and able to be sued.
Mike, the solution to most of the issues you uncover discuss ( with relevant local city depts)) setting up a comphrensive training programme targeted at Inspectors, developers and anyone that needs to knis this information. The course can be done in-house, utilising all thd teams currently use. Alternatively uou csn partner with a local college/ university to provide the ACCREDITED programme.
This house was very close to being condemned. The buckled foundation wall must have upset the engineer and building inspector. That was substantial block and concrete benching . I hope the homeowners are still in the house raising their children.
I have been in construction for many years and can testify on how many houses I've seen like this. Unfortunately the work is very expensive and nobody wants to pay for it. I do the best as I can but of course there's a limit I can do. I wish I had Mike's budget
When these sellers and realtors fail to disclose the agents should have their licenses censured and if repeat offenders (pulled)… and the sellers should be on the hook to compensate the buyer for the repairs.
Why can’t you use slate tiles for outdoor flooring when slate has been used as a roofing shingle for centuries? 1:03:22
Positive, professional, uplifting and what better way to relax than to watch mature, responsible, hardworking people bring some joy into others' lives. Thank you all. What a fine group of people.
Sounds like a lawsuit. Inspector and whoever did the remodel.
The remodeler maybe, but I think he said it was done in 1989, which was 20 years before this episode was filmed. The biggest target might be the home seller, depending on disclosure laws in their jurisdiction.
If the seller is providing a home inspection I would assume that the report is all lies.
Agreed. Those 'inspectors' were very likely paid off to ignore many of the issues so they can sell the home fast.
Well l like to thank mike and all the crew,for teaching me alot about everything,l was losing interest in doing home repair work as well as being handyman,but after watching Holmes on homes for sometime,have rein force my passion in what l do and now I'm loving to it more than ever,because of mike an his young crew and now im learning how to become an home inspector,but l will be more better at it,than those uneducated home inspector,once again thank you Holmes on homes.😂
Amazing, I think I missed the original airing of this one but this may be my favorite of all time!
If I found out the hubby isn't working on suing the contractor, I'd be totally gobsmacked. He clearly had a fire in his belly. You could see it in his eyes. "You mess with my wife and baby? I will take you down!"
Totally awesome job and you should all be so proud of the work you do, just a shame the corrupt building inspectors and builders aren't put in jail for the very dodgy work they do, once again congratulations on a job well done
I would tear the house down and cheaper to build a new home. So sorry for these young couple.just imagine $300000 dollars to fix. I hope homes are giving them a break
Who initially inspected this house omg. I feel so bad for these guys it would have been cheaper to build brand new
It is so sad to see all this happening to these people. It is good that you guys know what you’re doing..
Wow... just wow... There are no words.
I do have one question though, for those that understand. What is the difference between truing up something as opposed to making something level? If they gutted the house, why wouldn't they be able to level everything up? No criticisms here, just trying to understand what they are having to do.
Trued up means flat, no dips or valleys. Level means the golf ball doesn’t roll if you just set it on the surface.
Wood permanently bends over time, depending on the amount of bending you cannot unbend the beams enough for a level floor without breaking them. In some cases you may not be able to true up the floor.
@@Knirin okay, that makes sense. Thanks so much for the explanation!
The home inspector should’ve caught I would say 30% may be a little bit more the electrical the bad air conditioning/HVAC, but whoever did work on this house should be charged criminally for what they’ve done. There’s no other way to put it. I’m sorry there’s no other way to put it.
12:51 “Don’t go crazy and open everything up - YET!”
That ‘yet’ is doing more heavy lifting than the entire structure of that house when he said it. 😂
Mike: "we arent gutting this house"
Damon "No, we are," - list 300000 things
We owned a home in Hawaii that the former homeowners removed a load-bearing wall and the ceiling began to crack, prompting those homeowners to apply a thick texture to the ceiling. $$$ later we jacked up the ceiling, installed an Ohi’a supporting post, re-drywalled the ceiling, tied the attic joists, and made it right.
wow Shim shiminy shim shiminy shim shim shuree .... Glad they could fix this crazily previously renovated place.
The way that husband's face goes from normal, to a little disturbed, to absolutely shell shocked and about 10 seconds from running and screaming tells the real story.
That one was a doozy !!!
if there was a remodel in 1989 how could there be asbestos there
The folks doing the remodel closed their eyes and whistled when they got to that point.
At 19:47 do you see the exterior door didn’t have enough room for the casing
Can you sue the contractor and the inspector in Canada?
One word : AWESOME!!
USA there are states as laws to protect new owners from hidden problems that weren’t revealed before the house sold. Leading the new owners reliable for all the cost repairs of the hidden dangers.
Hearing there is a structure issue should automatically tell you to rethink buying. The selling company or person should even offer a plan and a price on that plan to fix those issues but instead they hid things just to get rid of the house. Also a perfect example of why people should be held accountable when they are supposedly licensed to do these jobs. Especially if they are inspectors.
What a major revamp. that steel handrail out side is cricked though how can the fabricators miss that. Over all Great work to the entire crew.
I'd take the other inspector to court so fast omg.
This is something that should end with the inspector losing their license and the seller getting sued and possibly going to jail. I'm wondering at what point would this house been just demoed and rebuilt?
Most inspectors are recommended by the sales person... They are paid to look the other way or come up with technical excuses. Never use these inspectors.... get your own...5 townships over.
Never use the realtor's inspector they are corrupted too many times. Always check the Better business Bureau and choose an insoe tor outside your area of the house. Suing them is not what your future needs to be. Always check the water quality too.
Why is a tub spout in the basement walk-in shower?
Genuinely curious
Do you send your reports to the govt dept that failed in the first place , because some bugger needs fired or jailed for incompetence.great shows followed Mike Holmes from the beginning.
If seller arrange for home inspection beware get your own inspection
Oh beautiful well done my God bless you and bless your family and keep you healthy and strong to help people in need and I love you❤❤❤❤❤❤
This was the craziest episod!!!
It is painful watching how People tape the boxes together, it makes it weaker! Packing the container was atrocious as well!
Dear Lord, I pray for your blessings upon this home may they be happy there.
I had a house with crooked floors, I would roll my computer hair across the room.
People like open concept, but that is a job for professionals not, for diy projects. You can’t get rid of load bearing walls, without reinforcing, the weight bearing wall.
37:30 dude, are you ok? I feel really bad for the lady, she is in very sensitive situation and it is feels like they were really ripped off. terrible inspector work
One asbestos fiber can remain airborne for over 24 hours, compared to a human hair, and a fiberglass strand, you could probably fit 10 asbestos fibers into a human hair. There’s no amount that is safe, just one fiber getting inside your lungs could lead to asbestosis. We have to take classes on all different types of hazardous materials every year.
Who pays for this?
WHY ? WHY / WHY ? did they , the Buidling Contractors buid houses so damn close like that ???
Common practice in some countries back in the day. Canada followed Britain's lead in having houses with close-by neighbors without resorting to building side-by-side rowhouses as common as they were in Colliery communities in Scotland and in Ireland. In the USA in the 1920s -1940s there were similarly situated homes with larger side yards, extending 10-15' on either side to allow for a fenced side yard (pickets) or see through chain link. Families could have gardens and patios that way. They did not plan many neighborhoods with homes as closely done as shown here i as was the custom in Canada during this same 20th century time frame. The eastern seaboard communities in Pennsylvania, NJ, MD and New York (for example) did follow the row house and Colliery-style in some cities. Allowing however for large porches in front and garages in the back. in post-Civil war and pre-Civil war built residential neighborhoods. Hope this helps. These places were for low-income workers predominantly.
I agree -- you could not pay me to live in a stick-built home so close to my neighbor. Even with brick cladding as these likely were designed with.
Window boxes where real popular in the 80's
It seems to me much better to buy an old house in original condition and then get an engineer in to help design your own renovations, than to go for a "completely updated to modern standards" house where you have no idea what was done to the structural elements. (If you want a modern house, go buy one and leave the old, well built houses for people that want them all original.)
When is the fix TOO much? This is more like building a house from scratch.
the 1989 permit who did that is the inspector still working
Anther lipstick and mascara house😢😢
Who paid the cost of this renovation, homeowners or Holmes’ TV show?
Feel so sorry for the owners because of cowboy builders
As they went along it seems like it would have been better to knock down the house and start over.
People think that if you paint a pig to look like a cow, it becomes a cow when in realiiy, it's still a pig.
My husband used to say, you can put an awful lot of lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. When we house hunted for our home, we must have looked at close to 4 dozen houses before we found one that we both could agree that was not only under our budget, but actually fairly easy to renovate. The bones were good. The cosmetics the previous owners did was average at best. 😊
At least a shipwreck will become part of the natural fauna giving marine species some new habitat.
I love this transformation but I swear the homeowner could do voice overs for owen wilson
I wonder how much they wound up spending on this home.
Almost everyone of these videos shows the problem never let the the seller or anyone conencted hire or offer a inspecter get a independent one that isn’t gunna get profit from passing it
Everything looked awsome …..except the hand rail?? Are you serious stick weld ? No wrap on the exposed rails ?
I would be embarrassed to have welds like that
What year is this, 2007-2009?? They should post the year this episode aired.
Guess I'm watching reruns on TH-cam.
Duh
There are worse ways to spend an afternoon.
@@SandraNelson063 You're right, I'm amazed what they find and put right. So living in europe I never saw these. Great crew, fun to watch.
"There was something magic about the first floor". Yeah, black magic.
I was laughing but the would.
They should have patched it back up, put it on the market and hired the same inspector.
Who pays for this, I know Holmes donates some.
The TV network/production company
And home owners pay what they can
I pay for it
The 300K was before the bowed wall, the asbestos the the plaster and the reNo porch discovery. Probably would have been cheaper to demolish, but they were too far into it by then. Be great to have a follow up on the family and a final tally accounting for all the donated time, labor, and materials.
All this extra work, and they want to charge upwards of 400,000 for houses. How about you make it right structurally. Whoever the hell inspected this house originally needs to be taken to court and stripped of his license
Definitely.The estate agents too for having inspectors who do not know the job of inspecting.Peoples lives are at stake,glad no children are involved as in some0 cases.
did they have to pat the $300k or did the show cover it?
pregnent wall inside to house 😑😑😱😱
I’m wondering if the owners can sue anyone or use insurance?
I admit it i have a crush on sherry . its admiration not a pervert thing .
Some of those contractors should be called CONTRICKSTERS! Sad that they cut corners and steal peoples money and run to the next job! Why hasn’t all levels of government provided a system where as inspectors/ engineers do more inspections of a build/ Reno on a continuous rotation 🧐
no one is accountable the house is a lemon the state did a poor job they don't care
Would have been smarter to demo the whole thing.
its a problem yes, but listening to the over the top dramatizing gets to me after awhile. To much TV speak for me.
It probably would have been easier to just demolish the house and start fresh.
Almost like the Lien on Me episode.
You should have removed the tub spout it looks horrible
Should have just demolished the house and started with new. Probably been cheaper😂
Open concept Is causing this problem, and a diy person, who could not handle the job.
I wonder who is gonna pay for all this ?
Never, never, never trust a home inspection arranged by the seller. You don't know what connections they have or how much has been paid under the table for a good report. // Love the banter about the closets, but I do wonder what American women have that requires taking over their husband's closet as well. My stuff would fit in half of one of those closets.
I think
Rudan Brothers on YT
Who pays for this
shouldn't they have demolition to earth and start over been cheaper and better?
buy some books, study, study, study .and build it yourself, and build it twice as strong . always over build it . I'm a big fan of strong .
Lame putting a bump-out on 2d floor like they did, closing it all off with ugly paneled painted crap.
this wife is ashamed of her incompetent husband
😅😅😅😅