Chad Fabry

lord, someone hand me a bucket and a shovel. Hello Betty, interestingly I'm fond enough of your name to have named one of my cats after you. Well, truth is, I name my cats like hurricanes starting w/ "A" names first..I'm currently at Delores, but Betty's still doing well.

I have no desire to add septic inspection to my repertoire of services. I'm sure that at some point I'll feel compelled to add it and I'd better start getting informed now . How many of you include septic and what methods do you use to inspect?

Maybe the tester ramps up the current faster than the old model and if it were to dwell at 6 mA for another 50mS the gfci would click. I'm healthy, I know I could take an 8mA whack for a 5th of a second. Let's face it, that's all I'm concerned with.

Sea lion... there's an image. Cheeto orange beard w/ a remote control on the flipper. As far as Dreamweaver goes...when NASA calls to ask me my opinion on the heat tile condition for the next shuttle launch I'll be ready to make my own website. There are some things I just don't want to know how to do. Actually, I do know how to make a website. Send an Email to Mike Brown @ Devwave and promise to follow up w/ a credit card number. I know when I'm out of my league and I almost always know who's best for the job when I am.

I'm geographically impaired and my world consists of a 30 mile radius around my business. My therapist told me to get out more ...so here I am.

I think it's a nice site. I like the liberal use of negative space and feel that it lends an air of class to the site. No matter what George says, the art of the skyline is nice and sophisticated and will attract quality clients. I like it better than a photo because photo's include the ugly along with the beauty. I'll take artist's interpretation over reality most of the time. Reality is overrated. Ask Rorer (inventors of Quaalude's). Anyway, I second the font thing and the email thing, but that said, I wish it was my site.

I'll post some pics late spring when I have the last of the siding on and it's all one color. I'll also try and have the scaffolding down, the Lull parked out back and the pile of innards that I tossed out the window these past few months cleaned up...so far the snow has been doind a nice job of hiding the debris.

It doesn't matter if I vote or not. My wife has consistantly cancelled every vote I've ever cast. Her only criteria for a candidate is that it not be who I vote for. On election day I always try to divert her attention and make her forget to vote. So far to no avail. I voted for Perot. Twice.

My new website will touch on the fact that I have a deep appreciation for historic homes and keeping them architecturally correct. I don't think you have to be a purist to maintain the essence of the home. It can be done using modern materials and techniques. My own home has urethane dentils and crown moldings,and fiber cement siding to no ill effect. For most people money is a stumbling block that sometimes cannot be overcome in a restoration. There are a few rules that can't be broken: don't wrap the trim in aluminum, don't install vinyl siding, leave the corbels alone, and if possible restore the existing windows. Someone needs to explain to the owners of these homes that they are high maintenance and that they have to step up to the challenge and get their hands dirty. My own father has a beautiful huge (7,000 sq feet) Victorian that he went to the trouble and expense of siding with cedar, and installed cedar shingles on the steeple (over 70 feet tall)but then he wrapped his trim, enclosed the porches and installed vinyl windows. The result is from a hundred yards the house looks old, but loses that effect as you approach it. To his credit, the place would have fallen to ruin without his intervention. Inspecting old homes is going to be a focus of mine and I eventually would like to be known as the local authority on the subject. I think there's money in them there old ones.

Well, it's obvious that something used to go in that hole from the remnants of adhesive or putty or whatever. Maybe there was a condensate line or something there..seems high on the stack, though.

Someone go up to the attic and run that carburetor thingy....

The picture of your nova is grainy, but it looks nice...a 70? Congratulations on the 81 on the NACHI test,I mean it. It at the very least shows that you have an aptitude for houses. Get a 99 or a 100 on that test each time and you'll probably squeak by on the NHIE. I've heard the Carson Dunlop course is excellent and it costs around 3000 dollars. I bought most of the course modules on Ebay for 600. Spending 3000 for an education, another 3000 for equipment and software 3500 for insurance, 2000 for website and cards and brochures, and maybe another 1000 to incorporate and set up shop..it doesn't add up to a lot of money to be in business. You have to make the commitment to find out if it's worth it. There's the rub. Disclaimer: I've done three inspections total and may not be the best person to offer any advice.

Hah! Johnny come lately... You have no idea how difficult it is for me to not respond to that moniker.

Hi Konrad, I think I remember that if you want a photo account or a file account you have to ask for it. Something about bandwidth or voodoo. It was one of those.

My hard drive on my computer(s) goes almost entirely unused. I have a ton of information on CD ROM that I never installed so that I could conserve space. Here's my thought. I could download my CD Rom's to hard drive and then I wouldn't need them any more. I'm not talking programs, I'm talking about information that I paid for and no longer need. It's not against the law for me to give away this kind of data as a gift. So for Jimmy's birthday I'd give him my JLC CD Rom's from last year. He then could memorize the nearly 2 gigs of data contained in them. Then he could give them away to George and George, I'm sure, would give them to Kurt after he was done with them. I call it the "fruitcake" theory. I bet between all of us there's a lot of data that's legally owned that could be re-gifted time and again.

http://www.jlconline.com/cgi-bin/jlconl ... w/8803focu I think that link'll work...it's about caulk. If you can't get in, email me, I may be able to help.

Willie, I'm rewiring an old house as I go and it's very difficult to address these issues because you don't know what junction boxes supply which rooms. Last week I cut out some old bx that I thought ran only an outlet and now my wife's starting to get cranky about using a flashlight in the bath room. There is no easy answer, but the best one is to hire an electrician to do it.

I get the Gila's hooked on chewing tobacco...

My house is 160 years old and the wood is so dry that I bring out fire extinguishers when my wife lights candles for dinner. You could set the damn thing ablaze with a heated argument. You're right, by the time the fire gets through the roof, you're either out or dead. That's my opinion anyway and I'm stickin to it.

He must have edited the post and that leaves the date of edit with the original post.

I like the idea. This thing is heating the entire mass of the chimney and with todays controls like anticipators, I bet it'd be a very efficient unit. I'd like to look down the chimney and view the exhaust path, but my guess is it's an indirect path guiding the hot exhaust into a lot of contact with the masonry. There's probably a liner and an outer shell to blow the house air through and the energy stored in all that mass would radiate into the home after the burn is complete. It probably works like a heatilator fireplace. I'm guessing at all this so I reserve the right to be referred to as "full of shite".

I sided my home w/ Hardi plank. It looks very nice, and installs well. I like that it's paintable too, because my wife's tastes are fickle and change about every three years.

All the sockets appear to have a very nice green patina. The sockets all appear to be deformed to where they would no longer be tight. That could have happened from the heat. It sure is crispy.

There isn't supposed to be water in the conduit? I didn't know that. Seriously, I've never seen a water tight service pipe and never seen anyone go to any extremes to make them water tight. The service at one of my rentals has the top open on the pipe going up the pole in front of the house and I've seen this stuff installed in ditches full of water. I'll call an electrician friend today.

If the flue is less than 10cm it has to be a pellet stove. I'd refer to the installation manual for the heater. 10cm is barely over 2 1/2 inches and dampening on a lot of these is a factor of controlling combustion air.