Rob Amaral

That's.. right.. he did not escape.. he 'disapparated'..

Isn't that the famous "Dubrovnik" latch designed by Ygeny Dubrovnik (after he left the Comintern Window Plant in Ubetyuras?)

Add a storm-door and bingo.... melting window-frames and decor..

A young woman-professor moving in to her new apt in Brighton-Allston area just was killed in one of those old scissor door elevators while loading her stuff in... The cab just inadvertently 'dropped'... she was part--way in... Not good... there are tons of these in Boston.. They do have the cool 'electric motor' smell though.. ..

Still have my Dad's Yankee driver... 1957? Came in handy when removing the back panels of Sunn 2000A bass cabinets.. I use the Skil IXO palm-driver these past 15? years or so.. it's pretty tough.. I have manual driver in the pouch with various bits I can use on the Skil...

Just looked at a house here (2002) with EIFS and no such sealant at edges.. a beautiful mess at all those intersections... there were shrinkage gaps, buckling... nice.. and (Drum roll) the builder had "built it for himself'.. We did all the due diligence advisories.. (EIFS invasive inspection, etc etc)..

Maybe a 17' LG? (Take it apart??) I've been using LG 13 and 21 for the entire career.. beautiful.. I don't trust those collapsible camping-cup ladders..

Looks like a 56 Chevy to me....

we bump into them a lot in Boston area.. garages.. odd add-on subpanels, etc..

One of the first jobs I used the FLIR C3 was a 1946 Cape with multiple additions... through the fifties and sixties.. The LA said.. "you're gonna love this one... it's all electric heat.. some is in the floor and some in the ceiling and I have no idea which is which.. " The C3 solved it easily and made a huge impression on those present...

Well... chimney (AKA 'vent') terminations should be 3' above where they leave the roof and 2' above anything within 10' of the roof... the problem here is the water heater vent is simply too short..even if it was by itself.. . it's also probably an over-sized chimney now that the furnace was removed from it... It's apparently an 'orphaned' water heater and that can make the water heater draft poorer and exacerbate the blah blah blah blah blah.. and lead to corrosion.. If the WH is older, I'd say replace WH with direct-vent and remove the old metal chimney...it's rusting pretty good .. Does that make sense? (Especially the blah blah blah)? As for the water heater exhaust getting entrained into the furnace intake there.. I doubt it but I guess it's possible..

Been using small IR (C3) for this.. wonderful... but next time, ask Ms/Mrs Buyer or Ms/Mrs agent to take their shoes off and feel for it.. ... they often notice it : )

Yes I have...it's pretty bad.. these people have apparently been in the LA area too long.... What a lot of people don't realize is that there are variations of the accent all thru Eastern MA... Where I live (18 mi SW of BOS) we have a lot of ex-Bostonians from neighborhoods of South Boston, Dorchester, Hyde Park, Readville... that infiltrated our accent which was more hayseed dairy-farm around 1900 or so... The old New Englanders are long-gone.. their great grand kids are still around (we have some Puritan descendants still walking around this town). I do my best as part of my home inspection routines to teach newcomers to MA how to properly pronounce things.. Plummah Heatah Watah Watah Metah Soowah Soo-wah ejectah Cirkit Braykah Etceterah..

Ditto

no photo..

As we say in the Boston erreah: "Thats nomull lumbah sir'..

That does not look like Hardie Mike...

Ditto:)

and there... in a nutshell is the beauty of this website/forum... Sharing knowledge.. Thanks!

And now... lots more weight!!

Natural-gas-fired stand-alone 'Steam Boiler/Radiator" For a detached garage for house built in 1841 in Boston area. It never ends guys... never ends.. And the usual other stuff here (the 'history' of electrical installation work, steam work, in-cellar cistern-turned-coal bin, etc, etc, etc). The name plate on this heater was so corroded I could not read it.. enjoy!

Hmm... 1942? Military base housing perhaps?? (I don't find buildings built in 1942 around Boston... though a few near the coast may have been)... I'd suggest they make sure the cementitious composite was tested for asbestos-content just to be sure... Exactly where was this property?

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I can't share the photos unfortunately.. it's a sensitive situation. It had one of the most beautifully-trimmed/carved summer-beams I've ever seen... just perfect (in the front-right 'living' room). Gunstock corner posts exposed... I've done a bunch of these thru the years.. this one was the easiest but it too was complex in regards to the multiple two-pipe-steam heat systems, numbers of panels and such. It had a ton of excellent heart-wood for window casings/sills and such... The main fireplace was huge and I was able to 'walk into it' to inspect it.. that big..

Had a fun job the other day... built in 1645... Pit-sawn timbers..... You could see where the 'team' were taking breaks and such....