kurt

110 v between se and neutral, 220 between se's. 200 amp disconnect. No schematic. The guy wants to put a small cabinet shop into the place. No big shakes, a couple table saws, spray booth, the usual revolving stationary power tool setup. 3-4 guys working at a time. Seems like it would handle it ok. I've had shops that work fine with less. Thanx for the lesson.

Got a 3 phase panel (yes, with a burnt wire) that's only got a couple slots for 3 phase breakers. The rest of the breaker slots are only grab one or two bus. Pictures of the main, and a couple bus shots. What would this be called? Anything in particular? Overview Click to Enlarge 37.08 KB Close up disconnect Click to Enlarge 51.17 KB 110/240 slots Click to Enlarge 50.04 KB 3 phase slot; see the little tab sticking out from behind the barrier? Click to Enlarge 47.52 KB

"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again....."

Sure looks like flat stock. So, punk iron flat stock. Is this hump we're talking about upwards or downwards? Mike's right about the support. We yank lintels all the time...just take out enough brick to get the lintel out. We pull a lot that are completely gone, nothing left. Brick above is only deformed from lintel jack, not settlement. Cosmetic lintel deterioration must be peculiar to the south. Up here, rust and delam means the lintels are going bad, and the number of stories doesn't effect anything. If one wants to live with cracks and let them go and not replace them, it just means one will live with cracks, has let them go, and has chosen to not replace them. Rust and delam continue regardless of how I feel about it. Southern iron must be different than northern iron.

Snakes aren't a problem. Rats, otoh.......

Or more accurately, those with high functioning frontal lobes, or not.

It's called "lintel jack". Cosmetic, sort of, maybe, if you're a seller, or if it's just a few years you have to look at it. More than a few years, it gets really cosmetic. It gets so cosmetic you have to tear it out and replace the lintels.

From what I'm intuiting from the thread, you've got punk iron angles lacking flashing in a corrosive salt environment. That's a formula for despair. "Repairing" the cracks is a red herring. It will make you feel good and it might even look better for a while. Doesn't do anything to slow down rust. Lintels are glacial. Slow, with thousands of pounds of force, inexorable, w/the exception climate change doesn't slow down rust.

It is just angle iron. That hump in the middle is the horizontal flange warping because the vertical flange is probably rusted badly, delaminated, and it's torquing the horizontal flange.

Probably not. Hardly any do.

Screed. Weep screed. The crappy ones look like drywall j channel. They're on the "back" facing the wall. The j channel stuff is kinda crappy. We use a custom channel from a CNC sheet metal shop that's got a "kick" at the bottom to deflect the water out away from the wall. (For stucco, not AMCV).

It's in a building I bought. It works fine. When I saw it, I was actually kind of impressed. One thing for certain....I'm not changing it. It's the "old building high sink drain exit" thing; can't fix it without opening up the entire wall and rebuilding the DWV system.

Yeah, but does that really matter?

I thought about the trap arm thing. Didn't think about the tee on its back. How bad is bad here? Both seem relatively benign.

So, no one has a good reason why this is wrong? Anyone? Bueller?

That's what I thought. What's wrong with it, though? I couldn't come up with anything specific.

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I think you're right. As I read (past tense) the new regs, I seem to recall this only mattered for >50 gallon capacity tanks. 50 gallon or less, it's still the same old same old. Being inherently lazy about following new dipsquat regulatory issues, did I get that right?

As usual.....too kind? I must be slipping. I know when I wake up every morning, the first thing on my mind is...."We need more home inspection report software vetted by realtors"......

Kinda hard imagining that puppy is going to siphon anything. The vent, otoh, is pretty stupid. Nothing but wrong.

It's also all so sales oriented, I took out your link. If you'd like to advertise your home inspection software here, you're welcome to pay for the privilege.

Yeah. I was waiting for the guy to get knocked on his ass.

"Misleading" is overstating it, buts it's not clear. It's boiler blather. Liability? Probably not. Depends on if there's ever a problem.

Reread the part about adaptable to any SOP.

If the mortars OK, I'd bet a tooth it's shrinkage. Don't make it more complicated than what it is. We're talking single story wood box. Tree farm lumber shrinks an amount most folks can't believe. In that crawlspace, it could even be expanding and contracting annually enough to cause those cracks. Durbond 90, brown bag, not Easy Sand. Mesh tape moves and lets cracks read through. Use Perfa paper tape. It'll be ok.