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  1. Neal Lewis
    More like the beating your chest appoach, I would say.
  2. Neal Lewis
    This is one of my favorites from the 3D boilerplate comments: Satisfactory - The power panel, as a container for safely covering electrical circuitry and components, is functioning as intended, minimizing the risk of electrical shock. Huh??
  3. Neal Lewis
    I read the A/C comment three times about the temperature differential, and I'm still not certain what it says. Too much information. Don't change between IS and WAS. Stick with one or the other.
  4. Neal Lewis
    Roy, the contract should be sent to the buyer within 24 hours of booking the inspection. I bring a copy for them to sign, or sometimes they email back a signed copy.
  5. Neal Lewis
    A couple of things. I wouldn't include the price of the inspection in the report if you're sending it to attorneys and realtors. You'll get feedback like: wow, you charge a lot compared to the other guys... What do you mean by recommending obtaining a termite certificate. Do you mean a WDI Report? NPMA33?
  6. Neal Lewis
    This band detail is some type ball and board that I've never seen. Interesting turn of the century place. Click to Enlarge 30.58 KB
  7. Neal Lewis
    Nope
  8. Neal Lewis
    Actually contributes to an overall good looking house. Click to Enlarge 62.25 KB
  9. Neal Lewis
    This unique detail from a 1930's house is a bunch of roofing slates stacked with about 1/4" of mortar in between. Click to Enlarge 66.01 KB Click to Enlarge 64.05 KB
  10. Neal Lewis
    Thanks Bill. There was an unused expansion tank in the attic. It was definitely a gravity system retrofitted with a circulator pump. I didn't run the system for too long. It was a hot day and a 300,000 btu boiler. I would've had to run it for an hour to heat up the radiators.
  11. Neal Lewis
    This hydronic heating system has been converted from gravity to circulated with a pump. This seems to be the original piping at the radiators. There is no pipe at the other end of the radiator. There must be some type of internal flow control for the water to circulate through the radiator. Anybody seen this before? Click to Enlarge 37.21 KB
  12. Neal Lewis
    Depending which Tier you're located in.
  13. Neal Lewis
    John, yes they can be spliced. See Wayne's first post.
  14. Neal Lewis
    That's the Watts Intelliflow. I had to remove mine when I found out it didn't work with washers with digital/push button controls. That was ten years ago, though.
  15. Neal Lewis
    Assuming you mean the second floor over living area. I was required to install one, with an indirect drain line, when i moved my laundry room to the second floor. I don't know a code citation.
  16. Neal Lewis
    The breaker most likely is rated for that, and will be marked SWD.
  17. Neal Lewis
    Years ago I ran into the same situation. I was told that because a 120 volt service was upgraded, that the final approval and hookup of the other leg had yet to be completed by the electric utility.
  18. Neal Lewis
    Try Mandell Lead Inspectors 973 890 8800 I've seen some other lead paint guys cruise through a house in a half hour. These inspectors seem to take the time to explain stuff to the buyer.
  19. Neal Lewis
    I had a similar problem with a brand new electric service. The power company came out and installed a recording volt meter. It was determined that the poletop capacitors needed to be replaced. These were located a quarter mile away!
  20. Neal Lewis
    I have no idea why the ground conductor was pulled out of the cable and run into the panel box like this. Download Attachment: DSC02169.JPG 163.68 KB
  21. Neal Lewis
    For a lot of garbage, or a lot of missiles... Click to Enlarge 72.94 KB
  22. Neal Lewis
    Here's a picture of aluminum grounds in a cloth wrapped wiring from the the fifties, think. The hot/neutral conductors are copper, but the grounds are aluminum. Besides the grounds spliced by a big wire nut, any issue with this wiring? I don't have a pic of the silver colored cloth covered cable. Click to Enlarge 50.85 KB
  23. Neal Lewis
    You did that for your wife? Hope she appreciates it...
  24. Neal Lewis
    BTW, the Fenix TK45 flashlights are used extensively in the new movie Prometheus. They worked flawlessly in the pitch dark tunnels. The actors weren't so lucky, with slimy creatures bursting out of their stomachs and such...
  25. Neal Lewis
    Click to Enlarge 41.51 KB The photo shows a massive hole rusted in a metal connector. Gotta be a big issue up the flue somewhere to do that after only 10 years. The general comment was why didn't this set off the CO alarm big time. Easy, I said. Bernoulli's principle. Of course no one believed me, but when I fired up the boiler, that hole was sucking in enough air to extinguish a match flame...
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