Erby

Sounds like an expansion tank doing it's job.

Damn, John. I screeeewwedd up AGAIN!! Now I know why I've never heard form those two agents again. But the buyers have sent me some business and that's what I'm after.

Les, my short responses get typed here but if'n I'm a gonna do a longer one, I do it in word processing and copy and paste it here. Lost to many of those long ones due to some freak of the internet.

Nope. I tell em it's a waste of time. Find the water source and eliminate it. Remove / repair any damaged materials. Get on with life. I also point them the the CDC and EPA stuff on mold.

Found two so far this year using the leak detector on the meter. Big dollar repair. I don't think I'd be too concerned about the lack of support over that short of distance. Instead I'd be looking for where the water was coming from.

Download Trials from several of them. Call them and talk to them about their programs and support. Is there an online support system and a user forum where other users can help you and provide advice and guidance, (kinda like TIJ does for us here). Try em out. Write a report or two. Make some changes to see how easy it is. After I did that, I chose www.HomeGauge.com It's a skeleton and you get to chose where and how the bones are arranged and add all the muscles and nerves you want in the order and how you want them. BUT, it does the programing stuff for you. I could have spent a lot of time writing my own in Word or some other, but I want to be an inspector not a computer programmer.

"The guy at Lowes showed me how."

I've seen some of those here in condos with the heat pump located in the laundry room with a tight door. Though there was always a return grill in the laundry room wall behind the unit (hidden behind the front door) Are you sure there isn't a grill in the wall of the laundry room somewhere? -

Saw one last week. Accessible inside the house in the closet floor. Guess they didn't like to enter crawl spaces to shut water off. You ever notice on more modern house that if the shut off is in the right front corner of the crawl, the entrance is like at the left rear ( or vice versa).

Hadn't noticed when looking at this type of breaker before but it seems to indicate that you can only use one AL wire even though you can use two copper wires.

I use links to my blog and other sources in the report. Have for quite awhile now. Erby - The Central Kentucky Home Inspector's Blog Some people use them. Others cruise right by them. Mine is to put it out there. Theirs is to decide. What's that saying about leading a horse to water?

It'll likely last as long as that caulking does! Gotta wonder.

Nobody ever drained the off tank or back pressure through the pipe out to the house? Not a clear enough picture of the piping to determine parallel or series piping.

Can't be any worse than the sheep guy! Kurt, I'm disappointed. I wanted to see the pictures of the booted scooter girls and instead I get scorpions on a stick.

And the problem with that is?

Several old posts coming back from the dead of years ago!

Geeze, this post is 3 years old. Talk about digging up the dead. Haven't seen Jodi around here for awhile. Anyone know if she's still in business?

Can't but on, but it can but out!

Get the window name and specs. They're new. The specs should be readily available. That'll answer your question.

And this one was already 17 years old so you know they've been doing it "equal opportunity" for a long long time.

Dang, you mean running cable like this is NOT OK. Click to Enlarge 56.16 KB Click to Enlarge 43.19 KB Where's that sarcasm emoticon when you need it!

Geeze, John. That's an easy one. To keep the crud from getting down against the window. Of course, that doesn't stop the water!

A reference for Truss Handling, Installing Restraining & Bracing from the Truss Plate Institute and the Structural Building Components Association: Handling, Installing, Restraining & Bracing of Metal Plate Connected Wood Trusses

Can anyone explain New York City??

Several styles similar to that can let water bleed back into the hot line, though they shouldn't be doing it when the valve is OFF. Sounds like you need to cut the line feeding back to the water heater and put a valve on it also. -