kurt

Who is it? No credentials, no picture of you, no Fabry CV. You're telling me more about the NY State Thruway, horse racing, and restaurants than you do about yourself. Get a pic of you in front of a class, in your cool building. Mentally put people into the space. Also, sales pitch your building....tell folks how cool it is to be in it, let alone taking classes in it. Passive voice is not appropriate; talk to your students..... as in.... "The curriculum is designed to be interactive and participatory. an immersive approach to ensure all questions are answered. I want you to be engaged and actively participate so that all of your questions are answered." Or something like that.

Maybe. I'll talk to our tech about it again. I need to think about this.

No mini splits in this place. I think it's gonna be continuous blower and better programming.

Nah, no big fan. I already floated that one. Continuous blower is the best so far, maybe augment it with better programming on the stat.

We tried running it on continuous blower. It helped a bit, but it's still freezing down there.

I got a customer I consult with on a regular basis who has a conundrum. He's got this big open floor plan house with an open central stairwell going up 2 stories from basement to 2nd fl. When he runs the AC, the basement turns into an icebox because the spill down from the upper floors. He wants the basement to be similar temps as the rest of the house. How can he warm up the basement, or otherwise even out the temps between floors? We've already tried improved returns, altering air flow patterns, balancing registers, and putting the Tstat in the basement (which "worked" except the upper floor was then too warm). What to do?

It's pretty much the standard line from sales @ Fewer. It's a good line. Some of their guys can set up a nice steam system; they got some good pipefitters.

Fewer is a large local boiler supply, installation,and maintenance operation in Chicago. Pretty good company.

This. http://chicagohouseweb.com/what-is-sill-pan-flashing/

Yes, more than a few.

Too much to cover in an email. Hose tests are not useful; they work a few times, but don't most of the time. There's a sort of home owner's logic that makes it seem plausible, but it's not a test; it's you spraying the hose. After that, if you want to find leaks for sure, you have to open walls. Suspect problems. Everything you're describing says problems.

Brick isn't, and cannot be, watertight. In addition to lousy penetration details, I'm supposing the flashing is either absent or installed wrongful, with the outcome being mold on the baseboard (and probably other areas you can't see). Sounds like you got a leaker.

I've left a few pairs of old work boots in walls. Named and dated.

Lock, as in no one can edit or make changes. I forget to lock them most of the time. In Finder, select the file, hit "Command I", the info window comes up, there's a selection for locking it.

That's funny. I usually lock the PDF.

PT wood eats up hardware. I suppose it does the same to steel lintels.

Two coats corrosion resistant primer, two coats corrosion resistant paint, then flashing membrane as a capillary/isolation break. No one does the paint. The membrane will work reasonably well by itself if it's detailed with end dams and back dams.

It should be. It's almost unbelievable.

Run the video of the Mythbusters blowing up a water heater lacking a TPRV. It's dramatic. When you're all done, you should put a new TPRV on a railroad track and see what it looks like after a train runs over it.

I don't have experience beyond seeing ISN's report format. It's lousy. The support services part is nice if you aren't particularly computer savvy, or if you're running a basic HI service operation.

I'm interested in the support part. What's the gig?

Yes, both those things. Mold farm, and foundation saturation. Can't be good.

Stepped footing? Is it somewhere near the transition from main basement to crawlspace? Basically, what Reinmiller is asking/pointing out. Looks like the void everyone leaves where the crawl steps (up or down) to the main foundation footing.

In Chicago, it's a frame inside a rough masonry opening that a door or window is installed in. Since masonry wall openings are usually AFU'ed, it's a way to square up the opening before mounting the door/window, and it provides the fastening member for the door/window. That's what we call them anyway.

It looks like a nicely designed tool. I'm still plugging along on my old SM...it's getting close to 30 years now....still works. But, the new one looks nice. It's still got the radiometric (noninvasive) feature, right?