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Hi Color or no, it does appear to be a fiber-cement product. If so, blind nailing is required and panel movement is pretty much the norm. BC has to be 6-inches above soil but can be down to within two inches of porches, steps, patios or other hardscaping. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hmm, Detachable monitor. Now we're talking. Now what it needs is a cigarette cam accessory that can be attached to a headband so that an inspecting boy can wear it in crawlspaces and attics and be able to record what was there and also allow the clients a view of what he's seeing. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

What was it selling for? OT - OF!!! M.

Just "guessing" that there is either a great big hole in the multi-walled vent that runs up through the chimney chase or a couple of sections disconnected from one another the last time someone swept it or tried to remove a stubborn bonnet. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Sorry! I'll try to do better next time. [:-ashamed OT - OF!!! M.

Hi All, I should have posted this earlier but had completely forgotten all about it. In a little over an hour from now, Ellen Rohr will be having a live on-line discussion with a young lady who is a self-made millionaire. For those of you with websites, this could be a valuable discussion to eavesdrop on. Here's the text of Ellen's reminder below. Join me and listen online Tuesday, November 9th from 3 to 4 p.m. Central Time (4 to 5 p.m Eastern, 2 to 3 p.m. Mountain, 1 to 2 p.m. Pacific) as I talk with website guru, Erica Douglass. We will be talking about How to Increase Traffic to Your Website. Erica started a web hosting company in 2001 and sold her online business in 2007 at age 26 for $1,100,000.00. Although her business didn’t require her to understand the intricacies of search engines, she learned them anyway. Back then,it was mostly about just getting listed in a search engine. After Erica sold her business, she started another one…natch! www.whooshtraffic.com This one is all about a relatively effortless approach to getting more traffic to your site. And, Erica has a rockin’ good blog, devoted to helping you become more successful. Love it! We'll Discuss... Erica’s amazing story of success at such a young age. Three Basic Factors That Make People Successful. 5 ways to increase traffic to your website. What are Google Keywords? And what the heck is an Algorithm. More importantly…what do you DO with them? Debunking the big internet myths. Erica is not the hardest working girl in the Marketing business. That should tell you something. The #1 thing you should be doing to increase traffic to your website. Join in on this Radio Show as we share SIMPLE, street-smart, get-real ways to make your best business dreams come true. This show taps into the POWER of your Biz Plan...Helps you USE your plan to get more focused and to MAKE MORE MONEY. Here's to love, peace, $$...and freedom, Ellen Rohr Bare Bones Biz, Inc. www.barebonesbiz.com 3120 S. Know It All Lane Rogersville, MO 65742 417.753.1111 phone 417.753.3685 fax contact@barebonesbiz.com ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

No, When it's properly installed there aren't any issues; even in our wet climate here. The concern is that finding it properly installed is a problem. Siders throw this stuff on and recreate all of the same mistakes that they make with regular wood siding. Where regular wood siding is more forgiving of those errors and it doesn't always create an issue, with this product those errors can turn into serious issues. What's amazing to my mind is the number of contractors out there that still don't know the basics of siding installation who are putting everything on wrong. One expects that, with the internet and with the ease of finding information about how to properly install stuff, today we'd have siders doing a better job. We don't, they just seem to get dumber and dumber. Don't blame a product that performs well when properly installed but is failing because it's been installed by a moron. Blame the moron. I do; all the time. I often start that comment with, "The person(s) that installed this siding should be nominated for the Darwin award,"..... ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Actually, I don't think it is. Those are type Q breakers. They are convertible breakers. I'll explain below. The single-pole breakers that you see in the photo that don't have the screws on the opposite end are Type R and are labeled "Preselected phasing provided by plug-in polarity clips". Inside the panel behind the breakers there is a label that says, "NOTE: Be sure load is balanced. Use phase selector shown." Then there is a diagram of a breaker laying on it's side with the two bus slots left of center. The left slot is labeled "Phase A" and the right slot is labeled "Phase B." The diagram shows the reversable bus clip below the breaker with an arrow pointed toward the breaker. Now, see the 50-amp two-pole Type Q directly above the one that Terry is talking about? See how the terminals are on the right side and there is what looks like a flat plastic shelf on the opposite end of the breaker? Well, the flat plastic shelf is a breakaway tab that covers additional terminals on the other side. When you snap it off, it reveals a terminal that's the same size as the one on the right. It allows you to bring the wires in from the other side of the breakers. One takes the screws out of the right (default) side, moves them over to the terminals on the opposite end of the breaker, and one is in business. So, I don't think that's a feed through at all, I believe that once that tab is broken off, if one connects a wire to the terminal on the other end the breaker is protecting the wires connected to both ends of it. I think this is the same for 30 amp breakers paired together as 2-poles. Zinsco made certain breakers this way so that they could be used in different panel configurations. As for the pdf diagram files that I posted earlier, these correspond to the patent numbers on the side of the Type Q breaker. Though none is exactly like the breaker in Terry's photo, these are all various Zinsco breaker patents that have been used in the Type Q breaker; so they are, in a sense, the same. The only breaker I am missing from this breaker tray is the 2-pole sub-main breaker that connects the upper and lower buses. I fished this tray out of a trash can. Apparently someone needed that sub-main breaker and scarfed it up. When my new camera arrives, I'll see if I can get some good macro shots of this. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

I have the guts out of a Zinsco panel here. I popped one out of the box and I've been looking up the patent numbers on them. Maybe this can help. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2802080.pdf http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2502537.pdf http://www.freepatentsonline.com/2530548.pdf ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Really? That's not what he says in his bio on Inman News' site. Here it is word for word: Barry Stone began his career in 1969 overseeing and partaking in the building and design aspects of residential construction projects. In 1978, having received his general contractor's license, Barry ventured into his own construction and remodeling business. During this time, his exposure to indiscriminate violations and loose interpretations of the Uniform Building Code by tradespersons and contractors heightened his awareness of the vulnerability of consumers in these areas. For Barry, these unacceptable practices cried out for public exposure and remedy. In 1987, having been certified as a building inspector by the International Conference of Building Officials, (the authors of the Uniform Building Code) Barry left the construction field and established Action Home Inspection Service, the first business of its kind on California's Central Coast. During the past fourteen years, Barry has inspected close to 7,000 homes, hotels, shopping centers and other commercial buildings, establishing a firm reputation as the pre-eminent property inspector and an expert in the field of building construction. His expertise has led to numerous spots on the NBC television affiliate KSBY TV reporting on environmental conditions and how they effect the integrity of the home as well as radio interviews. His knowledge of nationally recognized building codes is vast and covers all areas of construction, including electrical, plumbing, heating, roofing, fire safety, gas, propane, asbestos, radon and much more. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

*censored* I have censored my own comments because they were childish and vulgar. My new comments are below. This fellow seems to be a fine gentleman and a credit to the profession. - Jim Katen, Oregon Crap, I was out of the house and missed all of the fun.....again! ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi, Maybe it was supposed to house one of those mechanical vent mechanisms like one sees in greenhouses that automatically opens up a whole row of panels at the same time and they ran out of money and never installed it. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi Kurt, Is this it? Click Here or this Click Here I'm pretty sure this is it. Click Here ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi Bill, It's just a shot in the dark; but try http://www.asbestoscatalogs.com/ ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi All, For anyone that's interested, I did an update of the TIJ Furnace/Boiler chart today and posted the edited chart to TIJ's library. I've included all of the handwritten notes that I've been accumulating for the past couple of years. You can get it here: https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... oto&id=138 ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi All, I was on the phone today with Williams Comfort Products trying to nail down their serial number methodology. I didn't have much luck for anything earlier than about 2000. The lady that I spoke to was very resistant to any effort to get her to tell me what years various models of Williams furnaces were manufactured or were termed obsolete. She did tell me that after "about 2000" the serial number code with the letter at the beginning was abandoned and they went to a new method wherein the first four digits of the serial number are the week and the year. As far as older models, all she would do was send me a chart that contains the model numbers of all of their "obsolete" furnaces - furnaces that they no longer supply parts for. At least with that chart, if one of you runs across a Williams furnace older than 2000 you can check the number to see if it's obsolete and can then inform your client that should the thing ever break down finding parts for it will not be easy, if not impossible. I've uploaded it to the library. Here's the link: https://www.inspectorsjournal.com/forum ... oto&id=136 ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi Bill, Well, they didn't ban asbestos until about 1978 and then the ban was lifted somewhere around 1982 so it could certainly have asbestos in it if it's in a 1975 structure. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

DEAR JAMES: Getting started in the home inspection business is a slow task that requires patient, persistent marketing to real estate agents. These words begin home inspection answer man Barry Stone's response to a reader's question about how her son, an experienced carpenter who recently transitioned to the home inspection business, can get his floundering home inspection business up and running. It's been more than half a century since home inspections became part of the home buying scene. Do you agree with Barry that after a half a century this is still the best way to get started in this business? Read the rest of Barry's response here.

Hi Nolan, Yeah, I've known about the best practices guide for about a year and have been including it with reports where I have criticisms of HP installations. Our area is HZ10. I think the file size is way too big to upload into our library though. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hey Randy, Email me the name of the vet so I know to stay away from that site. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Nothing personal; it's just the friggin' hat. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Even that wouldn't work. I've had F-Secure for almost 5 years. Installed it on three computers with just one license purchase. Not expensive at all. The one my wife uses had an issue recently with the software hogging the memory until I reset it to auto-scan only in the middle of the night. I haven't been inconvenience by any virus or malware in that 5 years. Marc Yeah, that's kind of my experience too; so far, at least. I used to pay McAfee for their program (think I'm still paying, come to think of it.) and it did nothing but bog my box down and cause it to hiccup during boot up. I never had good luck with Norton at all - it seemed to get into a resource dual with the anti-virus and anti-spam stuff that Microsoft has in the programs by default. The CD guy came in and either removed or deactivated all of those others and now she's running on one program only and purring like a kitten. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Haven't a clue. Well, maybe I do; there were several unopened envelopes with an IRS return address lying on the stoop near the entrance. Maybe he was selling all that crap in order to feed the family and really couldn't have cared less about the place and just got locked out before he'd had a chance to pack up. Maybe he'd been bagged by the IRS for tax fraud or something and was sitting in stir? Don't know; just thought it was pretty sad. Stuff like that's being repeated all around the country, I guess. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi, I signed up with Cyber Defender at the end of August and love their service. I can call them 24/7 for anything I need help with. They have a tech log on remotely and then I can either sit there and watch him or her work or I can leave and come back later to find everything all cleaned up and running beautifully. The first time a tech logged on, my old computer was so dinked up that he worked on it for nearly five hours without a break before he got it all cleaned up. I stoked up on caffeine and sat here all night watching the whole thing. It was mesmerizing the speed with which these guys can move through a box, go to settings for stuff and then adjust and tweak stuff in seconds that would have taken me days to figure out. After I signed up with them and had been using their anti-spyware and anti-virus programs for a few weeks, my wife and a buddy bought me this new box. I called those guys up on the toll-free line, told them I wanted it protected and optimized and then I logged one of their techs onto it and let him work his magic. Every morning I come down to a display showing me that the scan done that night was free of viruses and a list of the stuff that the anti-spyware software has identified. I can then pick and choose from the list and quarantine what I don't want. I don't bother picking and choosing, I just quarantine all of it. The box runs fine without any of that crap. I did have a problem with my MagicJack phone caused by the software though. If for some reason I shut down the box, the MagicJack won't start until I shut off the Cyber Defender program. Once the MagicJack is booted up, I have to remember to turn Cyber Defender back on or my computer's fly will be left open and I'll be vulnerable. The other thing is that sometimes the Cyber Defender techs can't work on it right away. If the tech they assign is in the middle of a project on someone else's computer, you have to wait for him or her to get around to you and there's been a couple of times when it was several hours before they got started. It's nice though. I get an unlimited amount of help with anything computer related during the term of the service and I've been abusing the crap out of them by having them do stuff that I could do myself. I figure if I'm paying for it I might as well take advantage of every second of it. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike

Hi Scott, It's nice that they did that; a few years ago I looked at a home in a small town not far from here that had been foreclosed on. When the Sherrif served the papers, the agent working for the bank has a moving company crew standing by. They very efficiently emptied the house right onto the front lawn. I was hired by the bank's realtor to determine the extent of damage to the home. The homeowner had removed every appliance, the kitchen counters and cabinets, the plumbing fixtures, the toilets, sinks and fiberglass tub and showers, every piece of plumbing that he was able to get to in the walls and crawlspace, the garage door opener and the water heater and furnace. He made an effort to remove the gas fireplace from the wall of the living room but the builder had apparently placed it into the chase and then framed up around the thing and he couldn't get it out without cutting away wall framing. The bank's agent wasn't as nice as the sherrif in your instance. He was pissed about the condition of the house and left all of that guy's stuff out on the front lawn in the rain. There was a big cardboard sign hung on the headboard of a bed that said something like, "Notice to absent homeowner, You have 24hours to remove these items from this property. Got Junk? has already been contracted to remove all debris from these grounds. If this property hasn't been removed from these grounds by 1:00 pm (date), Got Junk? will begin hauling it to the landfill." It was sad, there were kids clothes and toys, photo albums, pictures in frames, and all of the furniture and other stuff that you'd expect a family to own sitting out there in the rain. There wasn't any deputy guarding it. Every once in a while a car would stop, someone would get out, walk up and read the sign on the bed, walk around the pile looking at the stuff that was there and then stand there awkwardly wondering whether they should grab what they wanted or leave. They'd see me with my pen in hand and my clipboard, think better of it, go back to the car and drive off. I could tell that those who'd stopped had every intention of coming back to load up their car just as soon as I'd left the property. ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike