kurt
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Kelly designed it and "engineered" it. It's something we'd been talking about for years...sheet metal brackets and plywood instead of gutting the house. The engineer just ran the numbers through his license so we had something to stand on. You know I was just ****ing with you about the visions, don'tcha? It was an honest question. This is, after all, Chicago, where anything can happen and it does.
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Thanx. You're welcome to check out a job. We think the neighbor a couple doors down is going to go for it. If you want to see it, let me know. Kelly designed everything. When our engineer looked it over, he determined we'd over built by several gauges on the sheet metal. The huge majority of architects and engineers all insisted we had to replace the truss. God Bless the engineers, but I wonder what part of their education extracted all creative problem solving ability. We have to restrain ourselves from reminding them they're the folks that designed this stuff in the first place. The vent stuff is 100% Kelly.
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No, we make stuff that we see in drug induced visions.
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Shrink Wrap Tent Click to Enlarge 60.45 KB Cozy inside Click to Enlarge 50.02 KB Truss ends rotten, bracketing to wall Click to Enlarge 45.77 KB Click to Enlarge 51.81 KB Some were so bad, we gusseted it back with plywood. Click to Enlarge 42.21 KB Vented coping close up. Click to Enlarge 48.31 KB Can't hardly tell it's there. Full perimeter ventilation, works like a charm. Click to Enlarge 56.86 KB
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We got a lot of restrictive weird fire code stuff in Chicago. Could be fire code related. We've done some jobs where we have to put on 3 layers of 5/8's on exterior walls to meet code.
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Is it Denshield? Maybe Densglass Firegard?
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I'm always impressed by a grasp of the fundamentals.
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That's pretty good.
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Tomorrows headline..... "British Columbia Home Inspector Disappears In a Flash of Light....No One Knows Why"
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Particle or a wave. I thought it was supposed to be both.
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That's fine. I never liked light tubes anyway. God created electricity for us to evolve to LED lighting. It says so in the Bible.
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I want to see this conundrum expressed in a mathematical equation.
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It'd be easier, cheaper, and more light to put up a track with LED heads.
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That's true. Thank you, HGTV.
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True enough. Interestingly, I hardly ever see stuff this stupid. Chicago is big on hydronic heating; most people get it. It's not common to see stuff that idiotic around here.
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I was confused too. It's a bunch of different parts that someone cobbled into a down flow furnace with the AC coil on top. I was so goofy, I didn't know what I was looking at, and it's now clear that confusion was an appropriate response. They're going to put in a new furnace. Problem solved.
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That's pretty funny. Unclear on the concept...... One doesn't remove 300 lbs. of cast iron thermal mass and 50x the radiant surface area and replace it with 2 lbs. of fin tube.
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B&H is great, but I've gotten better deals at Amazon. What's wrong with Amazon?
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Would a misting humidifier cause a smoke alarm to activate? Seems like it would, right?
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I'm disappointed in this crew. With a topic title like that, we should be able to come up with some really disgusting jokes.
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Astroglide works pretty good.....
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The blower is "on top"; the doors are set up wrong. Air flow is absolutely downward. I checked it several times because I couldn't believe it. I see plenty of counterflow furnaces; this is an upflow furnace they converted to counterflow. I don't know why. Combustion on the bottom, blower in the middle, AC plenum on top of it all. It's the return air that gets conditioned. As far as pushing heat and cold air, it does that. It's just setup ass backwards. They took a standard furnace and converted it to counterflow. It's wrong, it works, I'm not even sure how to describe it intelligently.
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Standard furnace, combustion on bottom, heat exchanger up next, AC coil plenum, etc. But they set it up so it's counterflow....air flow is top to bottom, so in effect, it's the return air being conditioned. Also, the cabinet doors are backwards. I reinstalled then with the vented portion at the bottom to supply the combustion. I've never seen, heard, or imagined anyone ever doing this. Besides from the complete stupidity, what else can go wrong? It's so wrong I'm not even sure what that means or how to describe it..... Anyone ever seen this? Click to Enlarge 48.11 KB
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Here....this is the view from the top. Nasty. Click to Enlarge 67.8 KB
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Yes, they are.