Brad Manor

I used an LD20 and a TK11 on inspections today. I leave the white diffuser cone on the LD20 for lighting up furnaces and electrical panels without bliding myself with the reflection. TK11 does everything else. -B

Rather than plunking down the entire cost of buying a software package, some companies offer a pay-per-use program. You pay for each report generated. -B

He sounded normal to me every time we spoke. -B

I absolutely do not need one of those. No way, no how! -Brad .... OK, I'm probably gonna buy one[:-paperba

It's from Carson Dunlop's Illustrated Home. -B

I see snow in attics quite a bit around here. The wind will "nudge" it into the vent. Click to Enlarge 49.66 KB -Brad

I was just killing time looking at flashlights online when I saw it. Got the light, 4 Eneloop batteries, charger, bunch of filters/diffusers, and the headmount for a hundred bucks. Couldn't leave it behind. -Brad

At full power the battery life is around 2 hours. At the minimum setting it'll go more than 70 hours on two AAs. I bought mine from fenixtactical.com as part of a sale: http://www.fenixtactical.com/special-deals.html. -B

This thread has gone from discussion to discourse to disagreement to dis-freakin'-aster. Let's talk about houses. -B

I'm crazy about my Fenix TK11 (had never heard of Fenix until Kurt wrote a post about the TK11 about a year ago). It's small, crazy bright and has terrific battery life. As far as I'm concerned it's just about perfect. Well.... I happened upon a pretty good deal on the Fenix LD20 last weekend so I picked one up as a back up light. This thing rocks! It's about half as big around as the TK11 (but a bit longer) and weighs about half as much. The battery life is about the same as the TK11 (currently my LD20 has 2 rechargeable AAs at 2000mAh and the TK11 is using one rechargeable Li-Ion 18650 at 2200mAh. Click to Enlarge 104.26 KB Click to Enlarge 28.41 KB Click to Enlarge 11.95 KB The spot on the left is the LD20, the right is the TK11. Both are at full strength from about 5' away. The LD20 is 180 lumens, the TK11 is 240 lumens. -Brad ... maybe a TK30 next...

I was a Geography major in the 90s. Several of my courses dealt with climate change throughout history - we discussed sunspots and Milankovitch Cycles quite a bit, but the jury was still out on the "modern conveniences and western lifestyle are killing the planet" theory. We should have stopped there and done a bit (lot) more research. -Brad

I bought a Minneapolis unit about 6 months ago for the very reasons Randy mentioned. I have since taken an "Advanced Blower Door Training" course. It too focused on the Minneapolis unit. -B

Ontario Building Code says that the heating facility shall be capable of maintaining an indoor air temperature of not less than: -22 degrees Celsius (72F) in all living spaces, -22C in unfinished basements and, -15C (59F) in heated crawlspaces. As for the whale oil: what we do in the igloo is our business[] -Brad

Happy Birthday, Chad - all the best!!! With 50 candles on the cake the boiler won't have to work as hard. -B

Yep - we're on the same page. For flashing to be effective for any amount of time, the counter flashing should (must) be let into the masonry. Unfortunately, in my area, it never happens. In the past couple years I have looked at hundred of newly built homes, and every one of them has it's counterflashing caulked in place. It's terrible. -Brad

Our building code says the counter flashing must be let in to the masonry. I have never seen a new home in this area with embedded counter flashing. -Brad

Those things are becoming pretty common around here. I mostly see the Black and Decker, Kill-A-Watt, the The Energy Detective units. The "make your house more energy efficient" movement has really taken root around here - the Gov't will rebate homeowners up to $10,000 towards efficiency upgrades. -Brad

The Chinese use infrared thermometers to check schoolchildren for H1N1 before they tramp into school. The red dots are focused on the kids' foreheads and if the readings are too high, the kids are sent home. Infrared can work for what we do, but you have to place the thermometer right next to a register. I wonder how much airspace is between Chinese officials' thermometers and the foreheads of the schoolkids? This is how I take my daughter's temp when she won't let me put a thermometer under her tongue: Click to Enlarge 27.04 KB During the SARS outbreak a few years ago, they used the same thing at Toronto Airport to scan incoming passengers. -Brad

At least three times a week a client will mention him during an inspection. You have no idea how much I love having him as the benchmark by which I am measure by clients. -B

I was at a home show a couple years ago and a salesman was showing me a toilet that could dispose of 14 golf balls in a single flush. I told him if I was ever sh!tting out golf balls, getting rid of 'em 14 at a time would be the least of my concerns. -Brad

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I remember the last time we had one of these little weight-loss adventures (2 yrs ago), I started the thing weighing in at 227. I got down below 200 in about 2 weeks (by means of a couple weeks in the ICU). My weight since has slowly creeped up to 260lbs, now I'm down around 250. Funny how my target weight is what my starting weight was 2 yrs ago! -B

Count me in: Height: 6'4" Weight: 250lbs Waist: 42" -B

OAHI is a good org. - it is essentially ASHI's little brother. For me it just didn't make sense. I joined hoping to have access to resources that would make me a better inspector, that didn't happen. The org. was going through some restructuring and addressing some membership issues at the time; the only benefit to being a member was to be able to say I was a member. Your area may be different than here. If you have a solid community of active members, there will certainly be a benefit to spending time with them. Of course, I'm sure you've noticed that here at TIJ you have access to a very diverse and very deep pool of knowledge - for free.[] As far as Chad's quiz goes: I'd pick "C" -B