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When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go

By Eric Fish
August 23, 2012

(We’ll be running occasional snippets of entries we’ve received for R&R’s “I’ve Never Seen That Before…” contest, which runs through Sept. 30. In addition to reading on, check out a sample we posted Aug. 9 and be sure to submit yours before it’s too late.)

We’ve asked for bizarre. And we got bizarre.

This entry comes to us from Restoration24 in Apex, N.C. They were called into a home to check for vent cleanliness and what seemed to be inadequate air flow to the bathroom. But items found in the bathroom air duct are where things really got interesting:

“Apparently during the construction process 17 years ago someone needed (on 5 different occasions)… well you can figure it out.”

We’ll leave the items found up to your imagination, but let’s just say that while air flow was inadequate into the bathroom, the homeowner is probably fortunate that what little air flow there was didn’t reek!

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Eric joined Restoration & Remediation in January 2012 and oversees all the editorial content that goes into every issue. He can be reached at fishe@bnpmedia.com

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