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Odd how things can be so different with so little distance between. Sure, I find HP installed wrong all the time; but even when it's installed wrong it seems to hold paint better than anything else does in our damp Seattle climate. Here it's rare to find paint failing on HP; even after 20 years. http://www.hardieinstallation.com/hardi ... ding.shtml Go to the JH site above to down load their Hz10 instructions. Also follow their link to their best practices guide and print off the one for zone Hz10.

There was an article I read in the paper this week. The FAA's citation against the fellow was thrown out because they cited him for violating a rule that wasn't a rule because they hadn't issued any regulations yet. That doesn't mean that their authority is in question. You cannot use these for commercial purposes until the FAA has posted their rules and that could be months from now. Until then, I think the best thing you can do is not to press your luck. Sure, you can say, "Hey, there are no rules yet, so screw you," but if they seize your drone and shove it into their evidence room it could take years to get it out even if you prevail in a few weeks. Wait until the rules are established; then go play. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Lots of concrete homes in Korea. They seem to work. Probably because they are really well ventilated. I know a home inspector that lives here in Kenmore that lives in a ICF house. Very quiet and comfortable inside. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike P.S. Amish Mafia is on tonight on the discovery channel. I keep expecting these so-called Mafioso to go see "der Gott Vater" at which point Bill Kibbel would be revealed and they'd all be kissing his ring.

I've still got most of those in my tool boxes. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Wut Jim sed. Wun Teem Wun Fyt!!!

I'd replace it. It's fifteen years old? Most only last about ten to fifteen years. Thank your stars it's lasted this long. Now dump it and get a new one. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

I'd completely forgotten about this thread. Fell since my last post above. May 2011. Broke some ribs, punctured a lung, fractured a bunch of vertebrae, spend a few unpleasant months wearing an upper body cast that, with my little Buddha belly, made me look like a Ninja turtle. Now I move, and sort of resemble, a three-toed tree sloth on Red Bull. Got my evil eye on you nimrods. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

He doesn't hang out here since he bet me $2000 that I couldn't produce proof about how a lawsuit was settled. When I produced the proof he disappeared in a puff of smoke. Never saw the $2K - big surprise. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Needs a whole lot more than bodywork. Got a spare NOS interior lying around anywhere? Getting one perfectly replicated is going to cost nearly $10K. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

I just think of something I would have written about such a topic, type those few words into the search box that pops up when I click on the windows start program and it pulls up a long list of reports where I've used those words. Click on one of the reports, scroll to the section in question - in this case electrical - find the comment, copy it, close the report and then paste that comment into the report I'm working on and tweak it a little to fit that report. Don't need to categorize a thing; just be consistent about words and phrases I use in my reports. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Nah, It's carpenter ant debris. Look at the fibers - tiny thin fibers pulled away individually by ants and then discarded away from their nest. They like to keep their galleries clean. Once found enough of that to fill a wheelbarrow. Ants had hollowed out the rough framing sill below a south-facing window and turned it into a n incubator for their egg sacs. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

That's because there isn't any grounding bar, there is a grounded bus, sometimes referred to as a "neutral" bus. This being a sub-panel, there should have been both a grounded bus and an equipment-grounding bus but the equipment-grounding bus has been omitted and they configured this like a service disconnect panelboard by bonding the grounded buses to the enclosure. The bond strap is there. It's gray steel and it's dead center on the grounded bus. Look closely at the second photo and you will see it connected. Then look more closely at the third photo because it's gray steel and it's blending in with the panel. You can barely make out the end of that bond strap where it connects to that large bond hole at the center of the top grounded bus and then it's either out of focus or simply blends so well that it's almost invisible where it's connected to the enclosure but it is there.

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Thanks!! Right now the sensor is just sitting on a shelf by the door to the crawl. Prior to encapsulation there was no mold in this area, so I assume my crawl has several micro-climates. I'm moving the sensor to the area that had black mold under the insulation and on the joists and see how the readings change. Well, You've got me gnashing my teeth at the term "black mold." You don't have "black mold" you have common mold that's ubiquitous in the environment - and probably a few hundred varieties of it. All you are doing by controlling the humidity is getting to the point where there isn't sufficient moisture to allow the mold that is there, which has always been there and will always be there no matter what you do, to reproduce faster than it dies off. Once you are there, you'll assume there isn't any mold and you'd be wrong 'cuz it will always be there regardless of what you do. It on your clothes, it's in your nose, it's stuck to your eyes, it's in your lungs and stomach and your internal organs. Hell, it's on the food in your fridge and you probably pissed out a few billion spores this morning when you woke up. If you've got a kid or new grandchild that kid is slathered in the stuff and is breathing it this very second. Stop fretting about stuff that you can't control that doesn't need fretting about. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Alien green slime then?

I think you might want to dial back the humidifier. At 40% you might end up with interior humidity traveling to the crawl. I think you want to be somewhere near 50/50 with just a tad toward the dry side in an older crawl. Personal opinion based on not a whit of science. Just seems to work for me in my locale. If I were practicing in S.C. or Texas or California, I'd probably revise my opinion after I'd been living there long enough to figure out what I think is working. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi Marc, Yeah, I know it looks like a painting but I assure you that it is in fact a photo; and that's what's got me so intrigued. OT - OF!!! M.

I see it too, Jim. It goes all the way to the bottom of the panel and the end rests on the bottom of the enclosure and has overspray on it. Looks like this guy didn't realize there should have been a ground bus secured to the enclosure on the left side, the EGC's should have been connected to that ground bus, along with that #4, and the bonding strap should never have been used to bond the enclosure to the bus on the right side. What do you think - they used the metal conduit enclosing the service lateral for the service ground maybe?

One part muriatic acid 20 parts water. Scrub down the residue, let the acid work a while and then neutralize with TSP followed by water. Wear lots of protective clothing and eye/skin protection.

If it's a new tight house, maybe 55% or less. If it's an older, draftier house, look for less than 50%.

OK, Thanks, not sure that's what I'm looking at. I'm trying to figure out what special effects were used on this photo. Both photos are of the same car. The first photo is obviously taken using normal exposure, etc., the second has had something done to it. I thought it was pretty interesting the way it make it look like it was hand drawn/painted. Click to Enlarge 62.07 KB Click to Enlarge 94.93 KB ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

If you tested the jets it's probably contamination from the jet jacket. They haven't been using it and every time the tub is drained gorf-laden water remains in the jacket. One of the reasons whirlpool tubs are one of the primary spreaders of staph and mersa. OT - OF!!!

Bill or Mike Lamb, What is the technique used to get those photos jumping off the page like that one in the OP? What is the technique used that makes a digital picture look almost like a painting or color sketch? OT - OF!!!

BOSTON, March 5 -- The Massachusetts Office for Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation issued the following news release: The Board of Registration of Home Inspectors ("the Board") today announced enforcement actions against the following individuals: John R. Bovill, Chelmsford: The Board entered into a consent agreement with Bovill, resolving allegations that he included language in his Inspection Agreement that could be interpreted to limit his liability with respect to third party lawsuits. To read more, click here.

No way to see the back - maybe up at the gable end wall in the attic? If you can see a marking, this might help: AHA01 International Falls, MN Boise Cascade AHA02 Broken Bow, OK Weyerhaeuser AHA03 Diboll, TX Temple AHA04 Roaring River, NC Abitibi/ABTCO, LP AHA05 Forest Grove, OR Forestex AHA06 Laurel, MS Masonite, IP AHA07 Catawba, SC Champion, GP Bowwater, US Plywood AHA08 Ukiah, CA Masonite, IP AHA09 Not used for siding Not used for siding AHA010 Klamath Falls, OR Weyerhaeuser AHA011 Sturgeon Falls, ONT MacMillan, Weyerhaeuser AHA012 Towanda, PA Masonite, IP AHA013 Not used Not used AHA014-19 Not used for siding Not used for siding AHA20 Klamath Falls, OR Collins