kurt

I'd go to the mfg. of the joist. Click to Enlarge 60.8 KB

What make and model?

I think you're right.

Knees, not so much....centered more in the crotch region.....

I think my high wire aerial career is near the end. I used to do this stuff and never feel a flutter, just sure balance and calm. This one....I'm pretty sure my fingerprints are embedded in the iron. High adventure in the inner city.

What does one do when they get to a big ticket condo job, and they find out the realtor didn't answer the questions correctly and a bunch of stuff they have to look at is on the roof? This one climbs the ladder. High adventure with no one watching. It made my day.

Bingo. Climb up the inside, once slightly past the bend, monkey around top side, reverse on the way down. I ain't fallling.....ruins the whole day. 3 points of contact at all times. Two hands, one foot....two feet, one hand...never move more than one contact point at a time. Slow, steady, grip it like you mean it. And, 11 stories, not 8. I was feeling kinda plucky after checking out that roof. Next door was kinda cool too..... Click to Enlarge 41.31 KB

Yes, I did. Click to Enlarge 55.37 KB

Yes, visual cues for this stuff is what I need. I've not previously given this a shred of thought.

I got no idea, just guesses. Obviously, the manometer is showing pressure that's way too high, but I don't know why. Are these sorts of defects generally acknowledged in the usual installation guidelines, or does it take a technician trained to specialize in 2 psi gas installations to find them?

Kinda looks like a Zinsco box, doesn't it?

Oh yeah.... Oh wait, the month has just begun. I'll give it to you anyway. What's an uhm? Google would t tell me.

Some combination of crap caused by a failed pan liner. Maybe moving along a substrate seam. Regardless, it looks like you got a septic tank in there under the tile.

Brandon wins for most intensely scrutinized observation of the month. What's an uhm?

My municipality has a utility installation guideline, not a "code", that indicates access should be provided to equipment. I'd imagine that's kinda universal.

The explanation is in the first sentence. It's a 70's DIY cabin. Some hippie was smoking some Humboldt bud and making a mess of things. My bet is somewhere around Katen's.....someone mashed the foundation, or the forms blew out, or......pass the bong.....I gotta think about this a second......

I'd certainly be pointing it out in a report, but it probably doesn't mean all that much regarding performance. Probably a mfg defect. I see it a fair amount in that age group. What do other folks call these shingles? Dimensional, architectural, laminated.....(?)...

Haven't been in there for a while. Went in today and found all black pages. What'd I do wrong? Did something change? Sent a note to the fellows at CC, but figured I'd ask here too.

I'm mildly interested in this because I have an ill defined theory about people's relationship to their house causing, at times, some form of craziness usually spelled with an "-otic" at the end. So, yeah, a psychiatrist might be useful. Folks often transfer dis-ease with life to the box they're living in.....the house as foil to an otherwise decent existence. My advice? Get the **** out of the house. Travel. Go to China; it's so weird one can't help but feel alive and engaged. Go anywhere. Hanging around looking for causation in an inanimate enclosure goes nowhere. If you stay in the box, you'll drive yourself nuts. Get out. Now. Pick flowers, breath fresh air. You live in San Francisco for chrissakes, the juiciest city on Earth. Get out into it. There. Problem solved. Next.....

Shows what I know..... I'm thinking conventional plumbing practice with copper pipe. That's what you get living in a city where the local plumbers union effectively kept PEX completely out of the equation. Completely. I don't think in PEX language yet. Folks here don't even know what it is. Maybe there's already a manifold and home runs, in which case, what I said is wrong. If it's plumbed conventionally, with primary laterals and risers to fixtures, you want/need the larger pipe. If it's home runs to a manifold, you don't necessarily need the larger pipe. Which is yours? Manifold and home runs or conventional laterals and risers?

Absent any obvious or apparent issues, I wouldn't worry about it.

Everything is 1/2"? That's too small. You need at least 3/4" laterals to distribute through the house, and the last fixture in any run can then be reduced to 1/2". If it's all 1/2", you're going to have substantially reduced flow.

What diameter PEX?

It sounds like you have symptoms where a highly competent medical professional is the best person to talk to. We're just a bunch of home inspectors. It might be something in your house, or it could be any of a thousand or more physical ailments. Beware anyone shooting from the hip about mold or anything else. Ok....how old is your house?

It's epidemic here, only here they do it with bluestone, slate, pavers, or tiles.