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"All over " is a tad overstated. There's only a few dozen in all of Illinois and not one in Chicago. I'll continue with stabilizer......sigh....

More like $12,000-15,000 retail. Permits alone run around $2800. Curb cut, street close, plumbing, sidewalk, etc., etc., all require a permit. If you're in the biz and can call in favors and work with a small union shop cutting you a break, you might get it in for $10,000. The cheapest service I've ever done was 8 grand a few years back. That's why it's mostly getting enforced in the 'hoods that can afford it. The CCBD and DCAP are a new profit center and revenue stream for our lively city. Start developing report language for water service upgrades and explanations of the possibilities. It's the new wrinkle.

Where do you get ethanol free gas?

So, just shy of 3k by the time you add up all the stuff one usually forgets. Not bad. I've been pushing a few customers in remote areas to put together this sort of "survival system". It makes very good sense, and 3k is cheap insurance.

Mr. HUD has it right, sort of. Be aware that the City of Chicago has a sucker punch code out REQUIRING a minimum 1 1/4" supply to all houses, regardless of age. If not 1 1/4", then you're supposed to install a pressure pump. They're also enforcing minimum sizing of 1 1/2" and sometimes even 2" on some of the mega Lincoln Park manses. It's a bizarre sliding scale of number of fixtures to size of service; if it's not up to snuff, the boys want to see a new larger water service. Yeah, I know. It's gotta go back to Local 130 some way or another in a make work drive. It's only enforced randomly, and not all inspectors enforce it, but me and Hier have it on direct word from the main desk that this is the new reality. It led to my first blatant donation to a plumbing inspector last Spring on a Lincoln Park shakedown. 2K to make it all go away.

Yeah. Nice rig. What'd it run you, complete?

What's commercial code require in Atlanta? In Chicago, a hotel would have to be iron. Also, if it's been 3 years since leaks and/or problems, then I'd say it's about due. I'd probably tell them it's a bunch of old iron pipe, there've been problems, there will be more problems. After that, I wouldn't know unless I've seen it and had the chance to dig deeper.

Yeah, I liked when I heard it a very long time ago. It's honest. Some fellow who came before and whose name I've forgotten had it right. Agreed on the deep end. We got a lot of deep ended-ness amongst the brethren. It gets tedious.

I don't know, yes, and yes. Folks want ideas for repair, so I try to give them an idea. For the most part, it stays like it is and no one cares.

I still get some fair number of clients that don't know what to expect or what to do with the information once received. A constant I've observed.....no one gives a shit about the long list of safety items that is now (more or less) required by our various State and professional society SOP's. If all the trades were wonderful and as skilled as a few tradesfolk imagine themselves to be, then every last one of us would be out of a job. Personally, I walk in wondering what I'm going to find and walk out wondering what I missed....

Probably. A well designed V-shaped deflector would probably work. Still extra stupid, but it would be better than the beer can technology they're currently employing. Hockstein's planter isn't a bad idea either. [:-eyebrow As much as I hate gutters and they're attendant foolishness and maintenance concerns, one pretty much has to have them in the City. I read in the Trib the "average" Chicago house collects somewhere around 127,000 gallons of water every year; not sure if that's the exact number, but it was somewhere well north of 100,000 gallons per year. That's a lot of water to be dumping next to an old stone foundation. Better to collect it and send it somewhere other than the basement.

Too numerous? I don't think so. Late 40's into late 50's/early 60's galvanized pipe was crap. It's clogged up old crappy pipe.

Simon's got it. Moronic Chicago stuff. I've seen dozens of silly stuff like this, flowing into windows, walls, vent shafts, or whatever. The average Chicago property survey is chock full of transgressions, overhangs, all manner of building parts hanging over other properties, and general idiocy that all gets buried under the banner and approval of Chicago Title. Most people put a deflector in under a course of shingles and shunt it over to one side or the other.

I see a fair amount of that kind of truck in the city; lotta industrial commerce and intracity transport going on all the time and the city beats the crap out of a truck like nothing else. They seem to hold up OK. If it's got a tow package and oil cooler, it can be a decent tow job. They're great for everything else. I agree on the pickup truck conundrum. Big impractical poor handling lousy mileage American icons.

Brand new.

Yeah, perfect. Thnx.

The pic's for a metal sleeve. There's a mod bit sleeve; we get them at Lakeshore Supply. It goes on just like a lead boot.

I literally never see this stuff, until today. Bunch of pics showing stuff that can't be right. I couldn't find a link at the LP site, so any opinions welcome. Window sills all back pitch to the house. Click to Enlarge 49.79 KB Siding smashed down onto flashing and sidewalk. Click to Enlarge 44.42 KB I could go on with a dozen different conditions like these; contact with sidewalks, no flashing, lots of caulk, sills don't drain, and the sorts of stuff Hardibacker can't handle so I don't think this stuff will. Anyone got a link for LP installation spec's.?

Sleeved boot and a clamp around the top, or fold the membrane down into the vent like a lead boot. I've got the technical drawing around here somewhere, but it's actually relatively simple. Imagine a lead boot, then make it out of membrane and install it essentially the same way.

Yeah, I only use the funnel jobs. Also, flange extensions if flange is below tile.

There's always mold under tiles someplace, similar to mold always being under vinyl wallpaper or flooring. Not necessarily a lot, sometimes only a few spots, buts it's always somewhere.

Second that idea on the soundtrack. Sheesh. I've also made old decks and other slimy crap go brand new with bleach.

Makes no difference. Why would it?

Due to People's Gas restrictions about venting into any gangway <10', just about everyone is now running them up through the roof. There's nothing wrong with vertical installations according to the guys I work with. I looked it up a few years ago, and found nothing that says vertical is a problem.

I've done the same thing as Jim with finish screws. Not supposed to, but it works.