The Most Dangerous DIY Home Repair I've Seen

Bless their heart, because I love adore this client. For whatever reason, the outlet in their bathroom was a non-GFCI outlet (it didn't have the little test and reset button), it was not screwed into the wall, it had no plate to cover it, and on top of that- it didn't work. So everything imaginable that could go wrong with this outlet, was going wrong. My sweet little client didn't even know that it was supposed to be screwed into the wall so they sprayed spray foam into the outlet to make it stick in the wall. That did not work. It only made sure that the outlet was never in the wall, even just to sit there. When I came in, I was very thankful that the outlet did not work. It gets very hot in outlets - that's why they go into thick metal boxes in the wall, and that spray foam could've caught on fire so fast. If it did, it didn't have a GFCI (kind of like auto shut off) so it wouldn't just end there. Thankfully we don't know what would've or could've happened because I showed up and took care of it.