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I knew that it had reduced to a day by day wait for the inevitable; thanks for letting us know. Blaine was righteous.

So true. Not much to recommend it except it's so darn easy.

I know a lot of wax proponents. Works like you said, I like it, and then one day it's strip the wax time. I did it once. Never again. My operating mode is, it's a floor. I conserve energy for things that are not floors.

I've never used sealer. Ever. Always just went right in with the poly or whatever finish I was applying. I've got tens of thousands of square feet of flooring to attest to it working just fine.

Yes, the diagram looks like it's for barrier. Which might not mean anything for lots of reasons. When I was interested and involved in figuring out EIFS details, I was surprised (at the time) that no one doing the work had any sense or understanding of anything we all talk about. It's a wasteland of ignorance. Subsequent investigations often revealed conditions that were the exact opposite of everything the installers and repair people told me. These things, combined with my increasing distaste for informing people they have the construction equivalent of Stage 4 cancer, made me retreat from EIFS analysis. Good luck. Luck plays a big part in figuring out Chicago EIFS debacles.

There's not much to wrong other than the cartridge/stem. They usually get crudded up even when used. If there are any stray bits of crap in the system, they'll jam it up.

Try pullin' the stems, if'n you've got the time 'er inclination. Pret'n near right that you've got some's stuff'n in the valves.

Sinister, I don't know. But, most of these porches are full of water, some worse than others.

I've gotten directly conflicting reports from CCBD. Some of it falls under Fire adept. Reg's, some under accessibility for inspection, but no blanket requirement I've found. Chicago isn't on IRC, so if you're looking for some legal basis, you'll have to dig through DCAP, Fire, and maybe Div. 15 in the CCBC.

I read somewhere that the 6 degrees that supposedly separates us is actually abou 5.25 degrees.

Thailand...Asia....it's all the same.... Thought this was pretty good. Snapped yesterday from Chendu, Sichuan paper.....rough translation from in house counsel..... "he's popular because he is a media star and knows how to talk to his people, and his supporters are upset with American political situation and he understands this and knows how to talk to these people"...... Or something vaguely similar. My paraphrasing of 'Mei's translation may not be completely accurate, but overall, it seems like actual reportage. Oooops....I may have violated TIJ's anti politics rule..... Click to Enlarge 301.87?KB

In Chicago, those Thai beetles that look like lady bugs will pack that hardware gap in winter. I've also seen the gap filled with spider nests and/or egg sacks.

Sweet. There's probably more steel in that thing than a lot new cars.

..........I've pressed the like button......Greg Me too. The Timmy Brothers Water Maker video is pretty good too.

Blue Star is the new classic imho. I fiddled with some old Chambers for a while, retro'd a Roper, toyed with a couple other behemoths, etc., but if one likes to cook, some of the new models rule. Dacor makes a 30" that's solid, no bells or whistles, just pure function, a high btu output burner and a convection oven. There's nostalgia and then there's cooking. It's a choice.

Put up a pic, please. Some of those old Roper's are awesome.

I think it's one of the nicest, most robust assemblies ever built for the purpose. Same here. Until there's a credible study indicating something bad, what's the problem?

Trying to 2nd guess a HI is impossible. If someone dissed my half dozen Bulldogs, I'd have to respectfully disagree.

Take out the sheets, fix the water leak that caused the mold growth, put up a new ceiling. I greatly doubt the yellow lagging has any asbestos, but one never knows for sure. FTR, asbestos can be just about anywhere. It was used in thousands of products for over a century.

Fiberglass matted down by rodents and full of mouse turds, fiberglass, fiberglass, mold, drywall crack from....something, mold. What'd your inspector say about the crack and the mold?

Decks are kind of like electrical work. Don't think too much. Just do it the way the book says and condemn anything that's not done that way. The risk isn't now; it's 20 years from now. That's why we're seeing all those decks from the 80's and 90's collapsing nowadays.

Bruce is extrapolating to things I'm not talking about. Who said anything about State licensing boards or state mandated reporting? How is identifying form and structure conflated with standardization/simplification/stupid-ification? And why is simplifying report structure from the Byzantine software formats used by nearly everyone a bad thing? HI's seem incapable of grasping concepts and ideas the rest of the world adopted decades/centuries ago.

So, you're saying iron pipe is immune to direct lightning strikes? You really think it's magic and nothing bad happens?

You're making the mistake of conflating form and structure with cookie cutter dumbing down.

It shouldn't be wood period.