mthomas1

That may well be it.... surface texture looks identical. Can't find any installation instructions on line, through. Is flashing required at horizontal panel junctions?

North Ave. near Talman

It *looks* like fiber cement, but I had a hard time believing that a FC product could deteriorate as fast as the material in the third picture, even with that Cat IV exhaust directed onto it. But I guess if it was cheap-ass *enough*...

Any idea what this might be? My first though was Staccato, but the building is only five years old... Click to Enlarge 54.55 KB Click to Enlarge 45.67 KB Click to Enlarge 64.73 KB

http://www.nachi.org/homesafe.htm

Thanks again for all your efforts!

Hopefully, at lot of this will soon be moot: http://qz.com/139150/how-congress-is-ai ... nt-trolls/ and, it looks like this is one thing Congress may be able to quit bickering and fast-track http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valle ... s-timeline as it appears that the more abusive sorts of Patent Trolls the only people in the known physical universe who have *no* friends in congress. IMO, it's highly unlikely Homesafe would attempt to sue inspectors for our actual practices under the conditions imposed by this legislation.

Thanks. There is also this, which I adapted from a scan from the ASMM: Click to Enlarge 44.32?KB However, none of these directly addres tile copings.

Assuming that there is no flashing under the tile to extend up the wall and counter flash, does anyone have a link to an effective flashing design for the junction of parapet wall coping tiles with adjacent vertical masonry such as these two chimneys? - Thanks Click to Enlarge 39.76?KB Click to Enlarge 26.02?KB

Depending on how those are installed, some jurisdictions may require a backflow preventer on the supply ahead of the return side of the loop.

You can also send them here: Kick out flashing FAQ

Yeah, I'm having trouble with my Fenix. To be precise, I dropped it in about 14 inches of blown-in fiberglass insulation somewhere in the 30 feet between the attic access and the far corner of the attic where I had gone truss-hoping to look at a plumbing vent. Didn't even realize it 'till I got back down the ladder, and when I went back up to look... could... not... find... flashlight - it had vanished without a trace. Moral of the story, I guess, is just leave it on the whole time I'm in the attic, even on the medium-low setting (which is where I leave of most the time in attics) I could probably have spotted it once he attic light was off. Gotta' say, though, I loved that light, enough anyway to have ordered another overnight shipping.

Once or twice a year I catches a kitchen or bathroom cabinet they failed to even cut the opening in the toe-kick - shows up nicely on IR.

For a while there, I was buying bits and pieces at demo sales on the North Shore (scored some nice material, too). A lot of expensive homes... most badly obsolescent. There were one or two housebreakers, though.

The other side of all this is: Working on 1880s houses where you open the walls and half the studs are fished together from various pieces of scrap, the floor joists on the first floor are perpendicular to the second and ALL the load at the center of the house is on that one cracked joist you just found in the basement, etc. .... and realizing that the idiots who screwed it up are long dead and beyond the reach of you wrath, and likely this second laughing at you as they swill warm beer on their lunch-break in the Carpenters' Circle of hell.