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Yeah. Any teenagers in the house pretty much cans a 30 gallon heater. You want to ramp up capacity a bit. If you're into water saver showerheads and being meticulous about water consumption, you could make it work, but you probably won't like it.

That's when an author uses additional words, like trip and fall, or burning, or health, or life safety. Indicating a location finishes the process. I guess if folks choose to not understand common words almost exclusively associated with describing risks, that is there prerogative.

Because I'm a nerd, and because I have an endless fascination with words and their meaning, I had to dig into this and plow through my dictionaries, the internet, Wiki, etc. Hazard is not imprecise. It is quite precise. The term is used extensively throughout all manner of studies involving risk and risk assessment. Not just extensively, it is the word used almost exclusively. I also learned that the idea of a "potential" hazard is actually called a dormant hazard. It is a standard description in assessing risk.

In advanced societies, folks develop words to describe things like conditions that could cause someone to trip or fall and be injured. These same advanced societies have books of words that describe things. They're called dictionaries. If one looks in a dictionary, one will see that the single word "hazard" very accurately describes that condition that some folks choose to describe in entire sentences that provide no more clarity than the single simple word. I suppose there is the advantage of sounding like one is conversing with a 9 year old. To each their own....

If not hazard, then what? HI's are big on false equivalence. How is a media darling using the term *crisis* exactly like an HI describing a hazard? If it's no different, it must be the same. How is it the same?

Yeah, I don't like that stuff; I like the foaming epoxy. My experience with PF is all failures are applicator error. If it's oozing, someone messed up.

I know, but I'm seeing them on glued treads. Mix and match, I guess.

Are you sure this isn't foaming epoxy? Is the ooze sticky, wet, or is it soft?

A fusible plug has the same general function as a fusible link; it melts at a predetermined temperature. Never seen nor heard of such a thing on a water heater. Easy fix though....get a new water heater, it's 30 years old, it's time.

That's been my interpretation. Any discharge of anything over, into, or onto a public way isn't allowed. This includes roof drainage.....can't discharge garage roof gutters into the alley.....which is done on nearly every house in Chicago.

I'm not seeing floating; that's insane. I'm seeing glue down. Still a bad idea.

Yes. And, 80's house may have blown in cellulose, that older stuff that was really heavy. It could be facilitating the sag.

I've been seeing this a fair amount the last couple years; DIY'ers putting down laminate flooring without a clue. I've been calling it a trip hazard.

What's the area smell like?

I thought mutules were those little square blocks on the underside of the ledge/cornice.

Yes, can't tell from the photo, probably not, no, maybe, yes. But it doesn't look it.

Yes. Even if you foam the interior, you need to provide a drainage plane membrane between the foam and the foundation, and the drainage mat would need to discharge/drain into a drain tile and sump. After that, you'd want to also install a vapor retarder for the floor, which means a new concrete floor system. Put it all together, and it seems like it might be more than you want to bite off at this stage. Or not. Depends on where you're trying to go.

Of course it's mold. It's an old damp musty smelling basement. Whether or not it's a problem is open to various interpretations.

Piggyback post..... What's the right name for this limestone cornice feature? It's got an inlaid gutter in it, and it's all ****ed up. I figure I should call it my the right name if I'm going to can it. It's sort of like an entablature, because there are columns, sort of. But, it's not a conventional entablature. Name that piece.... Click to Enlarge 45.17 KB Click to Enlarge 52.16 KB

I think the term comes out of old masonry structures. The limestone trim piece running along grade is called a water table. Or, has it always been an interchangeable name/feature?

Cool. Having the realtor be the perp on any device activation fiasco is the sweetest. My DR light explosion/house fire experience showed how having them turn stuff on is a layer of security.

We like pictures. Put up a pic.

That is correct, but it's balanced out against how many folks are crazy enough to do something about it. When you get into doing HI's at some volume that will support a lifestyle, and one maintains that volume for 20 or more years, one runs into a few crazy people. There's the poor guy with the dog thing in Boston, I had the thing with the screwed up breaker/meter socket, I know a few folks that have had similar issues with stupid crap that wasn't "their fault" by any reasonable standard but as the process played out, the crap was laid at their feet. Since reasonable standards are rarely a component of the legal process, it can get silly. Thankfully, most folks aren't nuts. Only a few.

It wasn't so much trying to hide as it was a way to make it look like uniform joints. Tuckpointing was originally used on non uniform sized brick as a means to camouflage the somewhat uneven joints. Then the design became a style, and then the term got bastardized into all sorts of meanings. Or something like that. I've read and heard a lot of variations on that general line of thought.

Looks like a nice light. At $300 per, I'm going to have to admire it from afar. Thanks for sharing, though.