This 1890’s build did not feature an open floor plan when initially constructed I bet. This is the kitchen/dining room area ceiling with the upper level floor joists exposed and wrapped in metal. The sag is not an optical illusion, lol.
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It looks like they removed the ears from the outlet so they could nail the box in the wall, they could have used metal box holders for old work.
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Ok, who caulks shut a forced air handler filter holder on a weather exposed roof ?
The client’s handyperson said they checked the roof for leaks, but could not figure out how water was staining the ceiling two floors down.
I can figure that out :-). I lifted this up, but did not remove any screws or caulk. Sure does not look very stormtight to me.
Better get some more caulk.
Evidence that some homeowners and tenants don’t "test weekly" their smoke detectors:
Installed 8/23/2019, and never twisted onto the bracket hard enough to activate the detector. It was a purely decorative ceiling object until I came around.
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Another day, another WTF. Love the glob of caulk holding the tank top down:
(This was a tenant occupied property, the tenant objected to the inspection as an intrusion. “Back in Tennessee I never had to deal with the owner coming in all the time to inspect and repair stuff”, he said in a heavy drawl. And “Oh yeah, that’s been leaking and making a noise for a while”).
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Disgusting low life maintenance.
It looks like third world plumbing as I see in many countries.
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Well, that home was built before indoor plumbing was done, at least in the San Francisco area.
Back when pooping indoors was unthinkable. Eeeww. Ick.
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From what I hear, it is still a problem in some areas. Is this still a thing?
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Funny you should mention that.
First off, the problem exists, it’s pretty localized for the most part.
See click fix/311 is more widely used than Snapcrap.
The occasional resident wakes up to crap on their porches and property as well, human crap.
I sit on a local board that’s working on the bigger problem: RV’s from out of state that drive here, park here, and move in, dumping their crap into the gutters. Private message me if you’re interested in details, rather than scoring partisan political points in an open forum.
The underlying bigger issue of the crap on the streets is is the high number of desperately addicted and mentally ill persons warehoused on the streets, along with sane but highly asocial persons. They congregate here in part because of lax laws, but more significantly because of the year round outdoor camping comfort. They literally can be too wigged out to know where to crap, and not die.
Change your climate to 50-75F rear round, and see what you collect in terms of the unhoused…
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You tell me what “partisan political points” I just scored. You keep getting triggered, you might want to get that looked at.
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What made you open it up? And was power on at the time?
That seems like an awfully long drive and waste of fuel to just empty the poop tanks. Not buying it.
The human waste on the streets of San Francisco has been in the news for years. It’s been the nations armpit for a long time and we’ll documented.
If anything ever happens to those two monkeys in the white house your armpit queen (Pelosi) will be President. Now just imagine that for a moment. 
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Yes, power was on. I always open up an outlet or two if the home was built pre-60s. To look for cloth wiring, bootleg grounds, etc.
They left about 3" of wire exposed on that worst one, and it is 1/4" from touching the ground wire
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Well, I am not an electrician but it appears they cut the sheathing back too far.
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It’s amazing, some might say “shocking” when absolutely wrong work lasts for decades…
Good find.
I try to pull even modern outlets: frankly I find more problems on newer construction. Maybe because most of the bad ones from the 60’s burned down long ago 
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