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Subsequent invasive investigation reveals past leak and epoxy repair......panel had indeed been wet.

It really is. Nasty job.

It's indicating there's a lot of water penetrating this particular wall. The white stains are showing dissolved "mineral salts" in the masonry. If it's soft and powdery, that's odd. Usually those stains are "hard" and not powdery. On one hand, it's indicating the wall is working correctly. OTOH, it's a surprising amount of staining for a new building. I'm not seeing any flashing in the locations I should be seeing it, so I'd be putting this in the major concern category. You may have to open the wall to know what's going on.

What about this? The whole mess was turning into white powder. Click to Enlarge 48.49 KB

Definitely terrazzo.

That's what I thought initially, but a 10'x12' room on the 1st fl. shouldn't be too hard to cool. I'd put the discharge as far into the room (preferably on the furthest outside wall) as possible. An open door may provide enough return. I'm not sure what the problem is with caulk or insulation; it's hard to visualize the situation. Can you put up a picture?

I agree. If it's the client requesting the meet, it happens.

Same thing in China. Stone or tile on rafters and purlins.

Yeah, pretty much. Pay me, or GFY. I'd put together a short letter to my customer explaining how their electrician may have completely different opinions or interpretations than my own, and if they are serious, the electrician can put their opinions in a signed letter documenting the what and why of their disagreement.

I used to find leaks so often I had several boilerplate comments to describe them. Not so often anymore.

It's a good idea to check the vent pipes all the way to the exterior. I find them with failed joints fairly often.

When you check out the fittings on these things, it's remarkable how often you find problems. That said, I don't see nearly the number of problems Katen describes. I'd open the case and look on the inside.

I saw that the other day. Another friend sent it to me because we both have the same opinion of Yelp. I'm not listed on Yelp, I have no presence whatsoever near as I can tell, and that suits me fine.

Very interesting. I've got some scary Yelp stories, both mine and individuals I've known in business for 20+ years. Scary.

Thanks for that. I've come around to this general idea, but wasn't sure if it was me or something else.

I kinda like those giant volume truss framed attics w/all the webs and bracing; it's like crawling around in a jungle gym.

Little or no trampling. Sometimes, but as little as possible. I don't care how small or miserable a space is, but I don't belly crawl in insulation.

Agreed. So, until the ASHI "School" gets it's head out of it's ass, which is highly unlikely, we get to waste more time.

I've traced it to Here. It seems to be a construct of the mold is gold crowd. I especially like the short "mold controversy" paragraph at the right of the page. They say they do "scientific" research, with quotes on the word scientific. Those quotes aren't mine. The "National Indoor Mold Society" is putting a full court press; they came up a few times. Someone named Letitia Peters popped up repeatedly if I kept digging. She also has a show, "Mold Community Prayer Service".

You got me looking. It's all over online news media, but nowhere on the EPA site. Very strange.

Both legs look like copper to me. Am I not seeing it correctly? Copper SEC into aluminum lugs. In that case, would paste make any difference?

Nice. I like it.

I think so too. I may start using "soulless" as a category in my report system.

Not looking for balance or fairness. I'm looking for what people think. Apparently, folks think words that are simple, precise, and about as standard within an industry as any word can possibly be, are now determined by a small number of practitioners to be imprecise and confusing and equivalent to boneheaded TV talking headspeak. Like I said, everyone gets to do whatever they want. I'm just surprised by what folks want on this one.

Erby, hazard isn't a big word and I wasn't implying complicated verbiage is preferable. You know that. Marc, I have no idea what you're talking about. If you read the sentence, you will find I recommend using a minimal number of small words that are used almost universally to describe the condition we're talking about. I mean, are folks really flummoxed by the word *hazard*? Is it a complicated word? Is it hard to understand? Is it really the same as a media talking head talking about crises? When used in conjunction with "trip and fall" relative to a location, is this a confused and imprecise pile of verbiage? I expect this sort of stuff from Eric; he manages to come up with all sorts of personalized cosmologies related to this thing we do, but I thought this place was the bedrock or rational thought. I'm most surprised that Katen, bedrock soul of concise language usage, is going out on a limb. Are we now using "There's a bump on the nosing of the tread that is dangerous; it could cause someone to trip, fall, and injure themselves" as the model of concise language? We aren't supposed to use the language that is universally associated with these sorts of risks? I hope not. I expect some sense out of you guys, and you're not making any.