kurt
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Are they supposed to have a hearth extension? Saw a couple today with carpet right up to the fireplace. They're everywhere in Chicago.....they look like the pieces of crap in some 60's finished basement.
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That's funny. It's canon amongst HI's that greenboard is garbage and doesn't last a week. HI's are a sanctimonious bunch. Early on in the game, I used to see it all the time in 60's houses w/4x4 white tile, and honestly, the stuff held up pretty good for a couple decades if the installer didn't do dumbshit stuff like butt the board down on the tub. I'd never use it, but then again, I'd never use durock now that we have Kerdi. I'm not surprised that your greenboard job held up.
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Where the guy installing cheap tile didn't tape or otherwise secure the cheap substrate seam (probably greenboard).... I'd do nothing until I did it all, meaning live with it until I stripped it to the studs.
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I misread the original...they're tiles, not cheap plastic. Tired.... Cheap tile with micro fissures. They won't crack all the way, they'll just keep getting shittier looking.
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We've advanced beyond that one around here. Most of the time I see a wick...or two..., a piece of flashing, etc. So, I bring up the concrete stoop thing sometimes.
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A side thought outside the butt ugly one.... Does anyone note the lack of drainage plane outlet when concrete stoops are slammed up against a brick veneer?
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Yes, that.
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Well yes, and thank you also, but it was just a WAG in the first place, I thought I might suggest it could be a heat pump in the second place, but thought I'd make a simple guess that had nothing to do with the unlikely possibility that any of it was related to a "leaking" condenser in the third place. The OP clearly doesn't know what they're looking at, so pointing out a likely, and probably the most likely, possibility.....seemed reasonable. Apparently not. "Making a WAG because we have no good descriptions yet."...... (I can explain what that sentence means if anyone is unclear on it......)
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Yes, thank you, the OP said it was an AC unit.
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At least there's no mold.
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Someone told me I was supposed to report on safety concerns. If someone else says it's not a safety concern, i'm fine with that too.
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Uneven risers, no handrail, no landing. That brick riser is a....riser. What's to wonder? No one's going to change it, I wouldn't beat it to death, and I'd put it in the report because we're supposed to.
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I'd point it out, describe the trip and fall hazard, cite the code, deliver the report, and go find a refreshing beverage.
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No, not just you. That jibes with my 30 years of keeping track. Election years are always a hiccup. Then everything goes back to "normal".
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The real estate industry has always shown nothing but contempt for this thing we do. They offer lip service to the idea we're part of the equation only because customers demand it. Real estate has always been a smoke and mirrors operation. Sales success isn't predicated on providing value or useful information; it's about pretty narratives. Real estate sales may be the only sales model where product knowledge negatively effects the ability to sell.
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Close enough to every other year to call it about the same. Condo reserve studies and construction consulting is up. The repair thing looks like it could explode....tens of thousands of completely ****ed up buildings are everywhere. Read the stats on investment in Chicago. We get in the news for shootings, but we lead in just about every important stat for big biz investment. I read the other day that 20% of the entire domestic product for America comes from 4 cities; NY, LA, Houston, and Chicago. If the world doesn't blow itself up, biz will be fine. I don't pay any attention to monthly numbers.
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Fernco isn't neoprene. It's flexible PVC. It's pretty neat stuff. Pipe manufacturers not approving it sounds more like corporate legal limiting class action exposure than any inadequacy of the material. Pretty much standard strategy in materials manufacturing.
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Object illustrations on why I try to avoid talking to realtors.
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Standard practice in City of Chicago jurisdictions. So, what do you propose we use for Cat IV vents?
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Calm down.....it's called a joke.
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Thanks, hadn't seen them in so long I had to make sure.
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Crawlspace. Not termites, we don't have dry wood 'mites. Not ants.
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Whatever they are, it's active..... Click to Enlarge 52.66 KB Click to Enlarge 39.25 KB Click to Enlarge 49.76 KB Click to Enlarge 39.72 KB
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There shouldn't be any water from your outside condensing unit. "Defrost" usually happens in on the evaporator coil, but even that's not right as there shouldn't be any ice on the coil to "defrost" unless you have other serious issues. Making a WAG because we have no good descriptions yet....but I'm guessing drainage around the house is lousy. The crawlspace is probably wet. It could be, and probably is, something very simple. Wet dirt is squishy in most places. You got wet dirt.
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Why do you want a fiberglass roof?