I love love love the way you Mike, go above and beyond helping unfortunate people sometimes I get a lump in my throat to see how you care about other unfortunate people, bless you and your team.
OMG! This is horrible. I know my northern cabin area, they police have found people making meth which not only destroys the building, but the surrounding water sources, etc. You and your team are angels Mike.
Some of these videos has some really great information about Bureaucracy pitfalls such as having the power in your name and what could happen to you if the person renting your house makes changes and you do not know about them.
I was hoping to see the Landlady's reaction to the huge save when she found out that huge electric bill wasn't heading in her direction but it was never mentioned on this eppie
The ventilation is to remove the heat from the grow lamps, which were probably taken away as evidence. The plants like the moisture, but the lamps make so much heat it has to be dealt with at an industrial level. It's enough heat to melt the snow off the roof during the winter, even with the insulation. You can tell a grow house with an infrared camera; it will be hotter than the other houses in a neighborhood. That's why the furnace can be disconnected. Or so I've heard.
You are partially correct. The ventilation is to remove heat and humidity. It helps regulate it. And no, the plants do not like moisture moisture invites disease in the plants. That's why you have to keep your humidity at a perfect level. Same with your temperature. When you grow. The air gets filtered through carbon filters and vented outside
Hey, Mike I watch your videos every day. It is great that Michael and Sherry work with you. You guys do a good job that gets done right. I have a ranch house that needs a lot of updates. I live in Huntington, IN.
In most cases, with no extreme risk like renting out a place, you'd be better off to deposit your insurance premiums and keep it yourself. But they made laws that says you HAVE to have their insurance so they can make money, and not have to pay your claims.
@@RD9_Designsthere wouldn't be any smell coming out of this house. When they vent that air outside. They use carbon filters to scrub the smell. That's how you regulate temperature and humidity in the grow area without the excessive smell leaving the area in the air
This is one of my favorite episodes. It is interesting the extent to which to house was modified by the growers. Actually, this looks to have been a fairly legitimate operation. Despite the extensive improvised modifications, it appears they understood what needed to be done. This wasn’t their first time, and they had some legitimate tradesmen helping them. Take away the mold clean-up (a specialty, highly regulated and thus expensive contractor), this job was primarily one of cleaning. Some painting, some patching, and disconnection the “improvements.” That’s nowhere near as bad as the jobs where incompetent remodels compromised the structure and concealed some truly dangerous code violations. I guarantee most landlords would not have done even 10% of what Mike did. The bathrooms would certainly not have been repaired.
And even if it is allowed per your lease, you can make a strong case for harrasment if you show up unannounced or often enogh that it starts to impat the renters life,
Even if your tennant is a complete karen, they have to let you inspect with 24 hours written notice. And yes, if I were the landlord, the property would get inspected, likely about once per month. You never know what tennants will break and not bother to report.
This is why it is smart to put in the lease you can inspect the home twice a year or once a season for "maintenance reasons". But you are really there to make sure the tenants are not wrecking the place.
I will advise landlords to do their first periodic inspection after 3 months then 6 monthly. In the U.K. all utility bills and taxes are on the tenants name.
When this has been done to a house, you're lucky if a complete gut and renovation can fix it. Lesson learned: When you are a land-lord, check up on your tennants. Conduct regular inspections.
That's impressive that they cored the concrete in the basement blow the electrical panel so they can tap into the underground line before it goes into the meter socket without disturbing the soil outside and without messing with the meter and cutting the tag
Also the reason they leave the covers off of their subpanels and poke out every single knockout regardless of if a wire is going into it is to get air circulating across the bus bars. The sub panels that these grow ops put in end up being dangerously overloaded so they try to get as much cross ventilation across the breakers as possible
Why is there a tub fill spigot in a Shower that Isn't a tub? I've seen this only in the shows out of Canada and haven't ever seen this fixture within the US
Mike is the rescue man for fixing up your house call apartment I don't know why people does bad things to good people I just don't get no understanding they thinking that she is the one that did all this but it's the other people lady they need the money to go to jail and and put a fine on them I would have had a lawsuit with those people that did this to you good luck miss lady and God bless❤❤❤😊😊😊
Destructive tenants to a beautiful Holmes rebuild. Nicely done! Only one flaw, Mike used white caulk around a brown kitchen counter top! He should have used a beige or matching brown caulk!
That's why they drilled through the basement wall below the main panel so they could tap it before the meter, it's an underground feed so there's a direct buried wire that comes from the transformer to the meter that they were tapping into
That way the regular house stuff that was already there for the stuff like the kitchen and general lighting would run off the existing wiring and would be showing up on the power bill and then the grow lights and all the heavy draw stuff for the grow was off the pre-meter taps and that sub panel. That way it's harder to detect because to the utility company it just looks like a normal meter reading
That's interesting that they cut the hole in the wall behind the dryer to get to the garage that must mean that the garage didn't have a door directly into the house I guess.
Don't let the hydro company kid you: utilities are profitable. Criminals stealing electricity just means hydro is not making as MUCH profit as they want.
Should have done an annual or even semiannual inspection. Would have caught it sooner. Heck, mentioning there would be periodic inspections might have discouraged from renting to begin with.
@ronbennett7885 I say an unannounced inspection... it's her property, and she needs to know if it's a drug house, if there's dog sh-t everywhere, if they're hoarders, or if her house is being destroyed.
Some random guy decided to smash my front windows on a house I was renting I had renters insurance but when I called they sorry your not covered Holly hell what am I paying for ?
I don’t think it’s a good idea to put plastic on the walls for a vapor barrier because it will cause more mold because it traps moisture in the drywall and the insulation
Actually, done right, it prevents moisture. The wall cavity and especially the outer sheathing will be much colder than inside materials. Vapour from the house holds moisture. Warm air holds lots, but cold air cannot. When that warm vapour meets that cold stuff..... condensation. A vapour barrier is just that, a barrier that vapour cannot cross. The warm and moist inside air cannot get past it, so no condensation.
If Asbestos is that bad I would like to hear the death toll in the 60's was with the workforce putting it in and did the disease levels for like Cancer go up and Lung problems go up? Mike I love your compassion its so over the moon which is rare in this world today.
@@beckiwildeman600 the 60s were still heavy on smoking being cool so it's trickier to say, though the lung cancer rate did go down after they stopped using it in everything needlessly
I'm just looking at this and they just really messed this woman also oh man I can't get no understanding I mean they drilling holes and wires and left things behind and some mode it's not a whole lot but it's enough to fix it up
The Foundation usually pays for most to all of the repairs along with the donated time and materials from the supporting contractors. How much the homeowners contribute depends on their ability to do so.
There would also be a whole lot of regulatory/dealing with the city for permits, there might also be tax issue, and the homeowner probably wants to get this property back in good condition to either sell it or rent it out again.
When this series started people said of the theme... This is a blatant rip off of Start the Commotion by The Wiseguys. Now, the Mike Holmes theme has endured far longer than the other song ever did,
instead of going thru all this trouble, I would have just had them remove the asbestos and then brought in the bulldozers and just leveled the place and sold the property the get some of my money back
nothing new since february, hardly unusual for this type of lawsuit they can take up to years while the finger pointing gets sorted out repairs were already underway though
I like how Mike is pissing and moaning and pretending he doesn’t know about gro ops.😂😂Half his crew is walking around with smirks on their face…..they know.And Mike is like eff this oh boy look at this what the hell is going on here.But really he’s like yaaaaaa baby I can make a million here 😂😂😂It came to pass that it was so lucrative to grow the stuff that they just stopped stealing hydro and started paying the bill.Hydro doesn’t care as long as they get paid.it’s huge money.Or it used to be a big part of the local economy that’s why the feds took over the game.
@@surferdude4487Yes they definitely have stopped. Because there's very little market now for their product. The fact that every single person is allowed to grow enough for themselves now. Plus it's available. I'm literally every street corner and online legally. There's no money in these grow-ups anymore. You need to educate yourself kid
The house looks amazing but why do you always go for cheap Moen box store crap for fixtures? Your Canadian and don't use Canadian Plumbing Fixtures. I get so ticked off when I see professionals using such cheap fixtures. Really when your in this deep what's another $200 for decent fixtures. Moen Chateau bathroom and Integra kitchen pffft
@@delyn13 Your wheel of complaints landed on a strange one this time around. Any electrical spark is contained within the metal electrical box. Besides which, the vapor barrier is required by code, so I think in this case I'll trust that the licensed electrician knows a lot more about electrical safety than the guy desperate to find things to complain about.
Mike is a hell of a guy and he’s got a hell of a crew
I love love love the way you Mike, go above and beyond helping unfortunate people sometimes I get a lump in my throat to see how you care about other unfortunate people, bless you and your team.
OMG! This is horrible. I know my northern cabin area, they police have found people making meth which not only destroys the building, but the surrounding water sources, etc. You and your team are angels Mike.
Some of these videos has some really great information about Bureaucracy pitfalls such as having the power in your name and what could happen to you if the person renting your house makes changes and you do not know about them.
I was hoping to see the Landlady's reaction to the huge save when she found out that huge electric bill wasn't heading in her direction but it was never mentioned on this eppie
Good Man Mike! God bless You
The ventilation is to remove the heat from the grow lamps, which were probably taken away as evidence. The plants like the moisture, but the lamps make so much heat it has to be dealt with at an industrial level. It's enough heat to melt the snow off the roof during the winter, even with the insulation. You can tell a grow house with an infrared camera; it will be hotter than the other houses in a neighborhood. That's why the furnace can be disconnected. Or so I've heard.
You are partially correct. The ventilation is to remove heat and humidity. It helps regulate it. And no, the plants do not like moisture moisture invites disease in the plants. That's why you have to keep your humidity at a perfect level. Same with your temperature. When you grow. The air gets filtered through carbon filters and vented outside
Hey, Mike I watch your videos every day. It is great that Michael and Sherry work with you. You guys do a good job that gets done right. I have a ranch house that needs a lot of updates. I live in Huntington, IN.
Who was the insurance company? They need to be held accountable too and knowing would help consumers make informed decisions.
Its the same all over the world.
In most cases, with no extreme risk like renting out a place, you'd be better off to deposit your insurance premiums and keep it yourself. But they made laws that says you HAVE to have their insurance so they can make money, and not have to pay your claims.
God bless you and your crew Mike
LOL the sound during the mold and asbestos removal all i heard was baby shark do dooo do dodo 26:30
Dry ice blasting!? New one for me. Looks like it works great.
She should be lucky as some cities like ours if a house is busted as a drug house they are considered civil forfeiture and are leveled.
Not true they need a court order and you can fight it and get it dismissed.it’s crappy because you have to pay a lawyer(they love it)😂
This is in Canada
Good thing the Electic Service was not in the landladies name!
R.I.P. Craig Lowe
So glad you areliving there.
when doing work like this I always kept the owner in mind
I am glad we are allowed to carry and remove.
Not venting for smell its to remove the moisture from the house .
it wasn't doing a very good job at venting the moisture though
But it was probably only vented to the attic.
@@RD9_Designsthere wouldn't be any smell coming out of this house. When they vent that air outside. They use carbon filters to scrub the smell. That's how you regulate temperature and humidity in the grow area without the excessive smell leaving the area in the air
@jasonmorehouse3756 Ok, fine.
This is one of my favorite episodes.
It is interesting the extent to which to house was modified by the growers. Actually, this looks to have been a fairly legitimate operation. Despite the extensive improvised modifications, it appears they understood what needed to be done. This wasn’t their first time, and they had some legitimate tradesmen helping them.
Take away the mold clean-up (a specialty, highly regulated and thus expensive contractor), this job was primarily one of cleaning. Some painting, some patching, and disconnection the “improvements.” That’s nowhere near as bad as the jobs where incompetent remodels compromised the structure and concealed some truly dangerous code violations.
I guarantee most landlords would not have done even 10% of what Mike did. The bathrooms would certainly not have been repaired.
I mean what the tenants did was unforgivable, but HOW did nobody catch this sooner? Not one periodic check up?
If it's not in your lease, you can't just show up. They likely were friendly with neighbors and paid on time
And even if it is allowed per your lease, you can make a strong case for harrasment if you show up unannounced or often enogh that it starts to impat the renters life,
Even if your tennant is a complete karen, they have to let you inspect with 24 hours written notice. And yes, if I were the landlord, the property would get inspected, likely about once per month. You never know what tennants will break and not bother to report.
This is why it is smart to put in the lease you can inspect the home twice a year or once a season for "maintenance reasons". But you are really there to make sure the tenants are not wrecking the place.
@@surferdude4487once per month is still pretty close to harassment.
I will advise landlords to do their first periodic inspection after 3 months then 6 monthly. In the U.K. all utility bills and taxes are on the tenants name.
Always do a regular check up
I could listen to that Simon Brown dude (27:11) narrate the phone book all day.
When this has been done to a house, you're lucky if a complete gut and renovation can fix it.
Lesson learned: When you are a land-lord, check up on your tennants. Conduct regular inspections.
That's impressive that they cored the concrete in the basement blow the electrical panel so they can tap into the underground line before it goes into the meter socket without disturbing the soil outside and without messing with the meter and cutting the tag
Also the reason they leave the covers off of their subpanels and poke out every single knockout regardless of if a wire is going into it is to get air circulating across the bus bars. The sub panels that these grow ops put in end up being dangerously overloaded so they try to get as much cross ventilation across the breakers as possible
She is going to live in the new home, and perhaps rent out the place she is living in now.
Smart Woman
How can Hydro say that they have no way of detecting power usage? They have substation and line metering, but no one is paying attention.
Major work wow.
Good job Mike
Why is there a tub fill spigot in a Shower that Isn't a tub? I've seen this only in the shows out of Canada and haven't ever seen this fixture within the US
I wondered the same.
Mike is the rescue man for fixing up your house call apartment I don't know why people does bad things to good people I just don't get no understanding they thinking that she is the one that did all this but it's the other people lady they need the money to go to jail and and put a fine on them I would have had a lawsuit with those people that did this to you good luck miss lady and God bless❤❤❤😊😊😊
Destructive tenants to a beautiful Holmes rebuild. Nicely done!
Only one flaw, Mike used white caulk around a brown kitchen counter top! He should have used a beige or matching brown caulk!
Perhaps the white caulk was all he had. Otherwise, good find.
@@TheDash456 Unfortunately I've seen him use it in past make overs!
in the us we have different meters digitals one it reads remotely power company know how much power you use unless its before the meter
That's why they drilled through the basement wall below the main panel so they could tap it before the meter, it's an underground feed so there's a direct buried wire that comes from the transformer to the meter that they were tapping into
That way the regular house stuff that was already there for the stuff like the kitchen and general lighting would run off the existing wiring and would be showing up on the power bill and then the grow lights and all the heavy draw stuff for the grow was off the pre-meter taps and that sub panel. That way it's harder to detect because to the utility company it just looks like a normal meter reading
That's interesting that they cut the hole in the wall behind the dryer to get to the garage that must mean that the garage didn't have a door directly into the house I guess.
People put in your lease a six month continuous inspection of the property give a two week notice and do the inspection
Don't let the hydro company kid you: utilities are profitable. Criminals stealing electricity just means hydro is not making as MUCH profit as they want.
Should have done an annual or even semiannual inspection. Would have caught it sooner. Heck, mentioning there would be periodic inspections might have discouraged from renting to begin with.
@ronbennett7885 I say an unannounced inspection... it's her property, and she needs to know if it's a drug house, if there's dog sh-t everywhere, if they're hoarders, or if her house is being destroyed.
It ain't free but it's done right !
insurance companies need to be held liable for cheating ppl into these.. the government should enforce good faith practices.. this is absurd..
How come electric commission didn’t notice the amount of electric used. Red flags 😮 this should have been investigated.
Some random guy decided to smash my front windows on a house I was renting I had renters insurance but when I called they sorry your not covered Holly hell what am I paying for ?
Wow.
that’s dangerous no meter
I don’t think it’s a good idea to put plastic on the walls for a vapor barrier because it will cause more mold because it traps moisture in the drywall and the insulation
Actually, done right, it prevents moisture.
The wall cavity and especially the outer sheathing will be much colder than inside materials.
Vapour from the house holds moisture. Warm air holds lots, but cold air cannot. When that warm vapour meets that cold stuff..... condensation.
A vapour barrier is just that, a barrier that vapour cannot cross. The warm and moist inside air cannot get past it, so no condensation.
If Asbestos is that bad I would like to hear the death toll in the 60's was with the workforce putting it in and did the disease levels for like Cancer go up and Lung problems go up? Mike I love your compassion its so over the moon which is rare in this world today.
@@beckiwildeman600 the 60s were still heavy on smoking being cool so it's trickier to say, though the lung cancer rate did go down after they stopped using it in everything needlessly
Also it kills slowly. You likely wouldn’t experience adverse effects for several years, maybe decades.
when it was new it did not make dust , it is the removing of old stuff that makes the dust
The smell of weed would be a dead give away
There would probably be zero smell. Everything's kept sealed and all your outgoing air is filtered through carbon filters. Zero smell leaves the house
@jasonmorehouse3756 wrong it always smells
line voltage off poll
I'm just looking at this and they just really messed this woman also oh man I can't get no understanding I mean they drilling holes and wires and left things behind and some mode it's not a whole lot but it's enough to fix it up
Oh, it was a whole lot! A whole lot of damage!
Does anyone know if the home owners pay anything for these fixes? Or fully covered by Holmes?
The Foundation usually pays for most to all of the repairs along with the donated time and materials from the supporting contractors. How much the homeowners contribute depends on their ability to do so.
Would it have been cheaper to just bulldoze it down and start over?
exactly
probably not cause they'd have to patch up the foundation with bulldozing
There would also be a whole lot of regulatory/dealing with the city for permits, there might also be tax issue, and the homeowner probably wants to get this property back in good condition to either sell it or rent it out again.
That’s kinda what I was thinking!
the Asbestos and mold has to be removed before the demo can start
we did that at a shoping center when an old house had to get torn down
mold is a problem
Insurance is the biggest fraud around
If that was my house I would demo it and sell the open lot
When this series started people said of the theme... This is a blatant rip off of Start the Commotion by The Wiseguys. Now, the Mike Holmes theme has endured far longer than the other song ever did,
I wonder why the nieghbor has parked their car crossways in front of their garage door?
Asbestos abatement is such theatrics.
what’s up Mike
Now I hope she just moved into the house. There's no way that I would let anyone else live in the house.
She already is living in another house.
She's moving in selling her other house, a gess.or dose the rent go up.
instead of going thru all this trouble, I would have just had them remove the asbestos and then brought in the bulldozers and just leveled the place and sold the property the get some of my money back
The lady should move into that house. Mold free, new electrical, new bathrooms. It will be cheaper to heat than her other house.
Comment above says she did move back in & rented out her other property - hope she has better luck with the new tenants!
and vent it
She shouldnt have been renting that place out to begin with. So much mold, venting, amd asbestos issues and she just didnt care to check any of it.
could use some cleaning
Ricky!?!!
two hots and a neutral
The neighborhood smelled of weed a very distinguishing oder.
I swear I've seen these episodes already on this channel... are they being reposted?
A version of this episode as part of a two-fer was previously posted yes.
maybe Damon with a retro job
How’s the Holmes neighborhood working out.
nothing new since february, hardly unusual for this type of lawsuit they can take up to years while the finger pointing gets sorted out
repairs were already underway though
risky stuff
Insurance is 4000% a scam. Bet you don't need it. Then you use it, and if they pay 8t is double or nothing, you will not use it again.
R.I.P. Robert Graves
I BET THEY WERE CONSUMING MARIJUANA
I like how Mike is pissing and moaning and pretending he doesn’t know about gro ops.😂😂Half his crew is walking around with smirks on their face…..they know.And Mike is like eff this oh boy look at this what the hell is going on here.But really he’s like yaaaaaa baby I can make a million here 😂😂😂It came to pass that it was so lucrative to grow the stuff that they just stopped stealing hydro and started paying the bill.Hydro doesn’t care as long as they get paid.it’s huge money.Or it used to be a big part of the local economy that’s why the feds took over the game.
I could listen to the dryice guy explain anything
Tare it off
It would have been cheaper to condemn the house and start fresh!
No it definitely wouldn't be, but you also don't need to go to the extremes that they do in this video.
Thank God pot has been legalized.
Do you think, for one minute, that the scum-bags that do this to peoples homes, have stopped doing it because pot is "legal"?
@@surferdude4487 I guess it's like the moonshine business
@@surferdude4487Yes they definitely have stopped. Because there's very little market now for their product. The fact that every single person is allowed to grow enough for themselves now. Plus it's available. I'm literally every street corner and online legally. There's no money in these grow-ups anymore. You need to educate yourself kid
😂😅🤣
Looks like the house was a piece of shit to begin with.
The house looks amazing but why do you always go for cheap Moen box store crap for fixtures? Your Canadian and don't use Canadian Plumbing Fixtures. I get so ticked off when I see professionals using such cheap fixtures. Really when your in this deep what's another $200 for decent fixtures. Moen Chateau bathroom and Integra kitchen pffft
Typical govt leaves you high and dry and takes
You have to look after and inspect your rental property…… not the governments fault….they need to protect future owners of this property
@ did you even watch the video
OMG FRANK U DONT PUT PLASTIC ON ELECTRICAL ITS A FIRE HAZZARD IN UR OWN WORDS “USE UR HEAD “
This is ridiculous so your saying that most wiring is dangerous because the insulation material used most often is guess what plastic.
@ u dont put vapor barrier or ANY PLASTIC MATERIAL around electrical what if theres a electrical spark ITS A FIRE HAZZARD PERIOD
You're probably one of those Holmes is referring too. Jack-Leg Electrician. Shut up!
He didn't place the vapor barrier inside the box Stupid!🤣
@@delyn13 Your wheel of complaints landed on a strange one this time around. Any electrical spark is contained within the metal electrical box. Besides which, the vapor barrier is required by code, so I think in this case I'll trust that the licensed electrician knows a lot more about electrical safety than the guy desperate to find things to complain about.