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I just spoke with a friend that does a lot of stamped concrete about using water-based concrete sealer to seal the grout. Any pros or cons? Again, thanks for any replies.

After retiring from home inspecting at the end of last year I have been sprucing up our home. My current project is restoring the grout color. When we built it in 1994 we used salmon colored grout for the Saltillo tile. It looked great for the first week. Since then I have resealed the grout numerous times. I am starting to believe that there is no sealer that will last and keep the grout from getting dirty looking. Anybody have a sure fire sealer to recommend? Thanks for any tips.

According to Peerless the unit was made in 1967.

Thanks for the correction and I was leaning to the left, something that I occasionally do.

How old is a Peerless Furnace MM2 21554 with no model number. Thanks, Ed Click to Enlarge 49.04 KB

John, I raised elk for many years. Now I am down to a few old cows and no stinkin' bulls. An elk bull in the rut puts any dairy bull (Holstein, Ayrshire etc.) to shame as far temperment and destructiveness.

Thank you, Marc. Ed

The furnace connected to this flue has about 60% of the combustion air that it requires. Would this cause the white stains on the shingles due to improper combustion? The stains are similar to ones typically found under swamp coolers that leak or have an improperly adjusted float. Click to Enlarge 45.68 KB

The siding in question is on an early 1980s home with Thermax or similar brand sheathing with no spacing between the siding and the sheathing. The siding appears to have shrunk more than usual. Has anybody seen this condition elsewhere? Click to Enlarge 29.81 KB

Is this an improper installation of electric baseboard? The wall is 15 to 20 degrees out of plumb. It is on the inside of a mansard Click to Enlarge 30.57 KBexterior wall. The home is thirty years old with no apparent problem. Thanks for any response.

This is AOL news this morning: http://www.aolnews.com/killer-in-the-at ... n/19731468

Any chance that the soils there are expansive and a spread footing would be detrimental to the foundation?

Today doing a pre-listing inspection I found this evidence of a snake invasion/infestation. Snake skins and numerous small burrows in the insulation, no snakes visible. The attic is not properly ventilated. Would proper ventilation stop this being good snake habitat? Do you introduce a predator? ( I don't know why she swallowed the fly) Remove and replace with another kind of insulation? This home constructed of concrete walls six feet tall on the back side and ends with the eaves about thirty inches from the ground. Click to Enlarge 50.91 KB Click to Enlarge 51.59 KB

Thanks, Jim But it doesn't say horizontal or vertical. It says, "Where horizontal ducts are used . . ." Since the scenario you described uses horizontal ducts, that's the part you follow. - Jim Katen, Oregon

My concern was that it says horizontal or vertical, not in combination. I may be reading to much into it, possibly caused by having two sons and a daughter-in-law that are lawyers. They even find meaning in the spaces beween the words. According to the language in that code section, it should be 1/2000. However, I really can't imagine why it would matter. - Jim Katen, Oregon