John Ghent

Hey Chico! Where did che hide the hancuffs?

It is an old sewer line. The nut and bolt on the inside is a plug. Tighten the nut the plug expands.

It sucks gasses that are low to the floor, pumps them to the heating system for recycling.

The photo looks like it is adjacent to a party wall in a condo unit and it may have been installed as part of the fire retardation concept. Most of the condo party walls are fire rated rock and this just reduces the burn area next to the wall. Just a guess.

You can buy a "spike" type well point and use that water for your garden and lawn. Good recycling.

Connecticut - 3 years liability, 6 years contract.

How hot does a hot water heater heat hot water?

Was your original question based on a mock inspection or a real inspection?

You can operate your dual core either with parallels (program of choice) or with bootcamp, (free from apple). But with bootcamp you have to restart to use it. There are some open source programs out there that run as if they were word, and these programs are free. NeoOffice is one I use. All the goodies in Word for Mac but available in a free download.

If you have a newer mac you can run windows and osx on the same screen. There is a mac program out there, he exhibited at the California Inspection world, but I do not have his name. Filemaker works like a breeze on a mac.

It is as thick as the amount the guy sprays on. Variable but usually 3" to 5" in the applications I saw. Looks great though.

They replace some of the aggregate in the concrete with vermiculite -that's the main difference. Anyway, this outfit did a presentation at our local chapter and I've been all over their web site and I just wanted to know if anyone ever saw it in person. The reason I ask is because you just have to be suspicious of a product that megahypes up a pseudo-problem just before advertising itself as the cure. This stuff is essentially a spray-in crawl space floor. They are currently capitalizing on it's mold-reducing powers, but also promote it as a radon barrier, moisture barrier, rat and bug barrier, and rubble-wall-stabilizer. It's kind of a Gromicko-esque marketing foray, but that's why I don't pay attention to the marketing department, I want to hear from folks who have crawled over it. I have crawled on it and I had to add a paragraph in my report about how I could not be held responsible for damage to it while in the crawl space. It serves a limited purpose - it makes the crawl look great. When you crawl on it you crack it most of the time, it shrinks some of the time, it causes the soil to dry out and shrink, which causes collapse. It does not keep out a water problem, but hides it until the water overtakes the "crete". I am less impressed with this than I am with the Plastic barrier type crawl space seals.