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No. Sounds factual to me.

That's right. Folks are "mining" old timbers out of bays and estuaries where logging was big business >100 years ago. Logs that have been buried in muck for 120+ years are in perfect condition. It's also why one has to be very careful when pulling their old boat out of the water for repairs. When they dry out, they might fall apart.

Old growth timber is highly decay resistant if it's kept wet. Green oak is used extensively for breakwaters and other erosion structures on the Great Lakes. I have green oak timbers that we installed >20 years ago still working fine.

Is rural everywhere else meth'd up? The Midwest is ugly out there.

I was wondering the same thing. From the sounds of it, I'd take out everything and reconfigure the equipment. It'd be easier than dinking around with what's there. Some few hundreds of dollars more for nice new equipment and everything gets easy. Cheaper than therapy.

I agree with Denny. There's lots of forces working to keep well installed cabinets in place, not the least of which is friction. Nicely installed cabinets stay there forever, even with nails. I still see old site built cabinets fastened with nails doing fine after 60+ years. I'm not advocating for nails, but there's more to installing cabinets than the fastener. A lot more. Poorly installed cabinets fall down. Excuse me...they depart from the wall. Doesn't matter what the fastener is. The key is focusing on retardation of the departure. Restricting exodus of the cabinet from the bulwark. Taking action to avoid plummeting from the partition. Making sure there's no disengagement from the vertical supporting panel. That sort of thing....

Yeah, that's real dough. Woof.... The DaVinci system leaves things to be desired. The end detail is inelegant. If you know slate, you can glance at the stuff and know it's fake. Like I said, it looks OK from far away, get up close and it's sorta OK but you know it's milk jugs and the details aren't slate roof details.

Ouch. Proves numbers can go all over the map. Depends on what slate, who's doing it, underlayment, and all that other stuff you already know about. It might be that my local guys are simply bumping up the plastic cost to push folks into going real slate. For me, it's an aesthetic issue. I hate impropriety. Plastic fake slate is somewhere close, or possibly right at, the nadir of impropriety. Right down there with the peel and stick stone siding and vinyl window shutters. I'd rather see pole barn roofing instead of plastic slate. At least it's honest.

That's right. By the time you get into preparing everything for the cover, decent slate is only a little more than the plastic stuff.

Now I don't feel so stupid for spending a lot of dough on my 320x240 camera.

I'm generally dismissive of first generation plastic anything, let alone the roof itself. I recall seeing some really gnarled up plastic slate that was about 10 years old and had to be replaced. They make me really nervous.

Sorry, slow to take interest. I didn't know what Lamorite is/was.... Yes, I've seen a few DaVinci slates. Both brand new. Look like slate from the ground, kinda look like slate up close. They look like they'd hold up; it's a decent system. Since they were both brand new, I have no idea about longevity. They're both about 7 years old now, still look OK.

Bolts.

Is there some way to integrate a strobe effect and mirror ball? One never knows when dance fever might strike.

I asked about this some years ago. Hansen and Katen said its ok. Haven't heard different since.

Big hat, no cattle.

So, it kinda about service. Kinda. Thnx.

Yeah, I'd probably ask too. Modern HVAC equipment continues to evolve and provide multiple conundrums in problem solving. I asked the question I asked because I've been seeing brand new installs with the hose not connected and plugged; it just hangs there. I was told it's a secondary drain for service, which made no sense. I was hoping someone would tell me what the second plugged hose is.

It took a while to get my interest, but now that I'm here..... Was/is the hose plugged or open and freely draining?

Here, same as Portland. Didn't become standard until postwar. Single tile at the top was a chimney rebuild upgrade. I still find surprising numbers of unlined chimneys, even after new equipment installs.

Apparently, a long ways.

Yeah. Really. Was it that hard to understand? Are we now having to delineate minutia and write technical spec's for ****ing liner on an internet forum? Exactly how far up my own ass would bill like me to go? Outside wall, absolutely. Interior wall, the good tech's are calling for it. Every time I've bothered to take the time to actually size an old tile liner, it's always "wrong". Most of the stuff I look at has a 90+ year old tile thingie it's shaling off, there's a small pile of thingie-ness in the cleanout....I tell people to put in a liner. Had a lot of Level II's lately. Every one of them said install a new liner. In the old liner. The clay one. The old one. Maybe wrong size. Usually it's cracked. So I thought a new liner would be good. In the old one. The clay one. That needs a new stainless steel one.

Since everything I read about chimneys indicates a liner is a good thing, and in most cases, necessary. Maybe it's not that way with oil. There is zero oil in Chicago. I have no idea. If you're burning wood or natural gas, there should be a liner in that puppy.

Yup. Antennae. What I see is an unlined chimney. Is it for combustion equipment (furnace, water heater), or a fireplace? Regardless, it needs a liner and I'd probably also slap a sheet metal crown on it.

Sounds good to me. Everyone does what's right for them. Folks want to calculate, calculate away. The single factor that we've found matters is the pump. Put in the one you think is best. Everyone has an opinion what best is. I think we do the Zoeller M57's. Max head is about 20', gpm at 5' is around 30+. I've got a couple that we put in 20 years ago in my friends business...still there pumping. Of course a pump that cycles a lot will not last as long. If it's your basic cheap plastic pump, they die quick. Put in an M57 or similar quality, they run forever. I tend to think that folks are overthinking this one. If one wants to overthink, that's their prerogative.