Sometimes, as a Seattle home inspector, I come across things that are just too hard on my brain.
Sometimes I worry that the things I find are going to cause irreversible brain damage. Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, so perhaps that is the antidote to when I come across something where someone was clearly either thinking too much–or possibly not thinking at all.
The sum of the parts is not always equal to the sum of the parts. Of course there is always the chance that I am “missing something.”
PS. The pipe that runs up hill comes from another downspout to the right, out of the picture.
By Charles Buell, Real Estate Inspections in Seattle
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Kyle Montgomery says
Not entirely sure what I’m looking at from the picture, appears that they used plumbing pvc to route their downspouts, obviously not to code and should be written up but I don’t see any reason it wouldn’t work.
Charles Buell says
Kyle, don’t you find the upside down Y a little strange?
Bill says
The owner worked for a plumbing supply house that had too much ABS and had a sale!!!!!
Darren says
LOL. I guess if the other end is high enough it just forms a trap and would still be functional. 🙂
Jeff Ries says
I ran into something similar in the past and it was used for a rain recovery system, here it looks like the upside down Y fitting might be for an overflow.