Mike Rescues Home from Faulty Construction and Code Violations | Holmes on Homes 610

Get chills when single mom Jane shows Mike her porch, which collapsed in the winter cold, exposing shoddy workmanship in her newly built house. Watch the team address that, and the fickle plumbing and HVAC, and bring her home up to better than code.
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[@lisaowens5070]

Is there anything Mike and crew can't do?! My hat's off to them again! I learn a lot from watching!

[@coltsjason]

My family has had a union hvac plumbing electrical shop for 5 generations Martin is as good of a plumber as ive seen

[@karlbrundage7472]

Craig Lowe was such an amazing professional who was so knowledgeable about his art. He is missed..................

[@mxb_se]

She was lovely. Mike on point.

[@wolfhound4010]

What a beautiful client you had.

[@Gatekeeper-p6g]

I do agree with Mike Holmes saying do it Right the First Time!

[@ravenseft]

RIP Robert Graves

[@davidalexander4043]

mike you always do a good job 😀

[@helookalikaman79]

R.I.P. Craig Lowe 1972-2014

[@rory-red]

this video original aired 17 years ago

[@lisanowakow3688]

We have an area in a secondary bedroom where the water comes into the house on an uninsulated outside wall and moves from there into the rest of the house. During bad winters a lamp pointed at the base saves us. The rooms on the front of the house are cold North East facing. I hear the people that built our neighborhood houses put the insulation and plastic vapor barrier in for the inspections and when the inspector left they pulled it out for the next house inspection next door. Someone used white medical tape as drywall tape in our garage (shaking my head at that one).

[@GuyChapman]

Fun fact: 15mm (1/2") copper fits inside 20mm (5/8") uPVC round conduit fits inside of 20mm (3/4") galvanized steel conduit. No clonking, no risk of accidentally putting a screw in the copper. Rob Graves' truck? Awesome. RIP, Rob.

[@anthonyslazas6413]

Didn't design, didn't build house. He going to fix it.😊😊

[@rayvoorhies7180]

The builder shouldn't have run the pipes outside. There is a make-do fix when spending thousands for plumbing isn't an option. Heating tape strips are used on farms. My grandmother's pipes were exposed in the crawlspace. They froze. I spent a day wrapping them in heating tape. Plugged them into a timer that turned them on in the evening and off the next morning. They are unplugged in the summer. $200 fix for parts and my grandmothers pipes never froze again. Our family sold the house 15 years later. We left instructions for the new owner. (This was a rural home and no code requirements) Heating tape protects pipes in barns, water tubs for cattle, in the garage. It works great on exposed pipes.

[@davidalexander4043]

in Canada your electric is different from the USA i think we work the same code

[@willoverkill8461]

22:31 Beautiful old truck but exactly why I can't own one, would never fit!

[@davidalexander4043]

in the us we use plastic boxes

[@sachadee.6104]

Europe too. Makes more sense to me.

[@davidalexander4043]

do you have a different code nec

[@tracykeenan4449]

Seen this when are you going to put some new ones up

[@debbiesessin4360]

Dear Mike, live in a vibrant collage town and would like to rent out my basement rooms. worried about the noise and entryway issue. Would love it if you could help!

[@davidalexander4043]

why do drywall screws pop out

[@rcbohno]

Dont they use PEX in Canada?

[@SamMcWhannel]

Not back then, this house was probably built in the late 90s or early 2000s. This aired probably 15 years ago.

[@sachadee.6104]

absolutely. Since 14 years ago (2010 we bought and fixed our place), nothing but; I would say

[@leestebbins5051]

When the bedrooms are on the second floor the laundry staff appreciates the laundry on the second floor.

[@davidalexander4043]

i have bath room that over hang the porch i think in Washington state we do not get that cold shit work re installed with bat next time foam all the way

[@paddleswake8372]

Should have ran pex. No joints to fail and more reliable with cold exposure.

[@metaxaanabeer]

These shows are years old, decades in some cases. Probable that this show was filmed before Pex was available. Holmes and his crew actually are pretty good at adopting new tech, new methods.

[@RonRichards-v5f]

Properly soldered copper lasts 100 years. Holmes used Pex in later shows.

[@jjjacer]

@@RonRichards-v5f also they use pex when it becomes a full replumb, this was more of a repair so usually they stick with what the original pipes were.

[@seanthiar]

17 years ago there was no pex.....

[@mikenicholson2548]

The dryer vent is way to long. That would be out of code in the us.

[@TheWhale45]

You can Fix Most of these problems BY REquiring an Insured supervisor who is liable for things not being done correctly. There wasn't a thing there that wasn't visible to someone walking by before it was closed in. Why are they closing in walls before They are inspected.

[@ravenseft]

Interesting now how spray foam insulation is discouraged and banks refuse to give mortgages.

[@jays106]

i suspect because there are too many fly by night guys that do it and do not do it proper and do not use the proper type of foam

[@rory-red]

people don't use spay foam anymore there alot better insulation's

[@seanthiar]

If it's done wrong it can cause the problems you try to avoid like mold and mildew and another problem is that once installed it is a pain in the butt to remove for repairs and it is not eco friendly. By now exist eco friendly and better insulation materials. You can use multi-foil insulation and for blow in cellulose cost only half of spray foam and has the same R value.

[@markd17]

13:36.

[@66meikou]

All I can san sey is that what The Tubex used to say, she''s one in million girl

[@RandomPerson-sb5mw]

What if the Breaker fails? I have seen it happen. @25:00

[@jamesa8814]

Exactly what I was thinking, really bad idea.

[@RonRichards-v5f]

@@jamesa8814 It's disconnected and twisted together and capped on both ends and the breaker removed. Zero risk of anything bad happening.

[@seanthiar]

I don't how the fuses are done in Canada, but here in Germany you have fuses in the breaker panel and main fuses after the electric meter to secure the breaker panel. If a fuse in the breaker panel fails, the main fuse will cut the power. But he said he disconnected the cable in the breaker panel too and I guess he shortened them too. Seeing a shortened cable would need a stupid person to reconnect it to a breaker.

[@princenaz23]

I was wondering about this also. So just disconnecting the lines was not enough protection, he rigged them to trip the breaker if someone were to reconnect them and turn the breaker back on. I guess that when you're an electrician a better safe than sorry mentality is what keeps you alive

[@lisakane6708]

Does kate Campbell still work for Mike's company?

[@lynhanna917]

Love how he hates laundry on second floor. Obviously he's not the one hauling baskets of laundry up and down stairs and there is nothing more depressing than doing laundry in an unfinished utility room in the basement.

[@seanthiar]

I believe a soaked living room because your washing machine leaked in the 2nd floor is more depressing - and more expensive. And it's only dry laundry you have to haul and you have to stay there only for a few minutes. I lived in a house where the dryer was on the 2nd floor and the washing machine in the basement. Carrying the heavy wet laundry upstairs to dry it is a bigger problem than only move it a step to the side.

[@sachadee.6104]

I came to say something about his nagging about 2nd floor laundry rooms. Where should I put my washer +dryer then ? Living on 2nd floor ? Hmmmm. My sister has a full house but def no room other than on 2nd floor (as do so, so many homes in the Netherlands).

[@seanthiar]

@@sachadee.6104 You should explain that most homes in the Netherlands have no basement either..... It's about when you have the option. I live in a second floor apartment and have no other option, too. The basement has no place for the apartments to put the washer and dryer there and I have to keep them in my bathroom on top of each other. But to save me a bit from the risk I have a water sensor on the floor under the washer and it can shut off the water if there is a leak. But if there were an option to put washer and dryer in the basement I would put them there just to be 100% sure there is no damage when the washer leaks

[@davidwilliams4845]

I've seen him put it on an upper floor when the homeowner insisted. Then he made very sure to make the floor watertight and have a functioning floor drain.

[@frankgonzalez1879]

why not Pax ??

[@JohnSmith-nh2xl]

It was not available back then. This was aired 17-years ago.

[@catherinevaccaro8356]

wishing

[@lexannaamnell6593]

What is their issue with washing machines on the second floor? You have better odds of a shower faucet leaking behind a wall than you do a washer failing. Dragging clothes down flights of stairs just to bring them back up is ridiculous

[@eugeneharrelson3933]

If you’re not going to pull the wire out why don’t you cut back so short I can’t be used

[@RonRichards-v5f]

That's even worse. what if somebody finds it and hooks it up. They did it exactly perfect.

[@Shuttletrain]

Stop trying to put the washer and dryer in the basement. It doesn’t need to be in the basement. Put it where it is accessible. If you have to put a drain pan in you put a drain pan in you know better pay attention

[@EddaFredericks]

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