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  1. That can only be determined by examining the By Laws of your association. Most of the HOA's that I work with, that would be a common element, i.e., an association issue. Your association may have different regulations.
  2. Got a new VPN, checked out the vid...... pretty cool. Hot Rats changed my life. I still got the vinyl.
  3. Tried, can't get YouTube here...my VPN is down. On another tack, there is a brand new Chongqing Hot Pot in the 'hood, I'm gonna crack the code on the spice.
  4. Yes. Everywhere. Most every sign has Chinese characters, then Pinyin spelling, then English. They can all (nearly all anyway) read it, but hearing it and speaking it is rough.
  5. This is in a brand new tower block mega-development by our place. Those Chinese seem to find the core of the idea..... Click to Enlarge 44.6 KB Click to Enlarge 45.32 KB
  6. I finally found one last year. I kept smelling something burning, looked and looked, finally found this weird little mechanical space behind a closet, found the plastic duct snaking through there, felt it, kinda warm, then when I lifted it slightly, it kinda melted/fell apart, and all the smoldering that had been going on inside burst into flame. Then it was me frantically stamping out a bunch of little lint brush fires. The client just stood there with their mouth in a little "O" shape..... I got to look smart that day.
  7. Yeah. In 2002, they switched to the first numeral, i.e., first digit 2 means 2002, 3 means 2003, etc. Download Attachment: Furnace Age Chart.pdf 103.56 KB
  8. kurt

    Still junk?

    Gawd....how'd you get a Quatro furnace out there? They made those pieces of crap on the South side of Chicago in an old garage. Maybe the lousiest furnace ever made.
  9. How come no sleeved conduit to accommodate movement/settlement?
  10. Definitely wild. What I've witnessed is high winds running over a roof create lift as an airplane wing does. They start to lift, then "bounce flap" up and down, and then it's WHAM. Wind force increases exponentially with velocity. The break point is around 50mph, or so it feels; it's really hard to stand in a 50mph wind. At 65mph, the curve goes steep. 70mph, you're getting blown off your feet, you can't stand up. Put that on 5000sf of anything and it's a lot of force.
  11. Awesome. I was up on my roof last night moon watching....it was pretty amazing when it broke out of the clouds.
  12. No it's a Millennial Hipster thing. This site, if anything, is about correct terminology. I still think there should be break dancing.
  13. Interesting question. I don't know. Never seen it, and as you know, we look at a few thousand flat roof truss annually. I don't think it would.
  14. I don't know where you get that idea. It's not ridiculous, but it hovers right at being ridiculous. B&H is an Amazon vendor, among many others. Amazon isn't Alibaba or Taobao. I am sure there is some vendor someplace on Amazon that is dipshit, but I and our other business buy mountains of stuff out of Amazon. Mountains. It's flawless. It's an absolutely awesome operation. Not taking anything away from B&H; they're excellent. But, Amazon's prices and service are just as good, sometimes better, especially if you're Prime.
  15. Aluminum siding is a rain screen, meaning the siding itself doesn't keep water out; some large amount of water drives in/on/around the siding joints and laps and gets under the siding. The underlying water resistive barrier (WRB) is what keeps the water out of the house. Most people would recognize a WRB as Tyvek, yours might be fanfold foam, maybe Celotex, maybe even another layer of siding (depending on how old the house is). Point being, pressure washing isn't going to "loosen the joints" to allow water in. Water is/was already getting in and draining out the bottom. The issue is something else (that I don't know....yet).
  16. The Watt's thing uses the cold water as the "return", but it's only a return until hot water reaches the fixture. Then it shuts down so the cold water side stays cold. So, yeah, Jim and I are talking different things. I misread his post. The Watt's thing works. Nolan's works, I've talked to a few other folks around the country that use it and tell me it works, so I'm going with it working.
  17. Right. The fancy valve that's installed at the fixture is temp sensitive; once the water gets to the set point (usually around 98F), it closes so the cold water supply doesn't get hot. At least, that's what the marketing and sales reps told me.
  18. never heard that one before. How'd that work?
  19. Good to know.
  20. The on demand thing can go either way; some folks love them and others hate them. I was sort edging into the hate end of it....more like exasperated because of how long it took to get hot water to fixtures that were 20-30' from the WH. You might want one of these....because of this.....or maybe not. Especially interesting is this (cut and pasted from Green Building Advisor) ......."even as the flow rates of faucets and showerheads has dropped, plumbing codes are increasingly mandating larger-diameter piping, so the wait times for hot water have increased, a fact that's exacerbated by the larger houses we're building. In addition to the long wait for hot water, all of the cooled-off water sitting in the pipe goes down the drain. Nationally, there?s a huge amount of water wasted in this way." The Watts system takes up the slack of standby loss, which may or may not be a consideration for you. Depends on your personal water use ethic. There's also something called the "cold water sandwich"....when you're in the kitchen turning the water on and off constantly, it "confuses" the sensors and you can hit a spot where you don't get hot water until the system resets. I hated my on demand heater. I changed back to conventional. I never found it to have an appreciable effect on my water bill. I'd also consider one of the newer high btu output jobs...they're 25 gallon tanks but very quick recovery. I was an early adopter though. Maybe the on demand types have gotten better. 10 years ago, they were just a pain in the ass.
  21. OK, I thought you were talking about a Generac stationary system. Those portable jobs are awesome; personally, I think you're set on the generator part. Conventional tank vs. on demand...... How far from the fixtures is the water heater going to be and do you have a return loop for the hot water?
  22. I'm with Trent. Why wouldn't you just upgrade the whole shebangabang? Seems silly to salvage a few parts and then dink around with them. I look at a lot of generators. They work great. The #1 cause of malfunction is folks don't change the battery every few years, like on a car. It's an internal combustion engine with a starter....it needs a good battery.
  23. I pay a couple grand a year with a couple grand deductible.
  24. ......note to self.....try to use term "fecal binding agents" in a report...... I'm trying to figure out how my one post got lost, then reappeared. That's how I ended up with two posts that are similar.
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