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  1. Jerry Simon
    IMHO, the re-pointing is barely an issue. The one picture, though, shows quite a bit of brick up-lift from the corroded/expanded lintels. That would be my main worry; what condition are the now-apparently-clad-with-aluminum wrapping lintels??? Have the lintel claddings removed; the lintels might be able to be salvaged. If not, it will take a chunk of change to replace them (or, bolster with new steel below existing). Even if the lintels can be saved by treating them to arrest the corrosion, such would also cost a fair amount of coin.
  2. Jerry Simon
    Lifetime Fitness recently did such work above all their windows. Lots of Lifetimes, lots of windows. . . We live, we learn.
  3. Jerry Simon
    If the brackets are secured to a poured concrete foundation, zero noise.
  4. Jerry Simon
    Opening windows can increase the radon levels; when the wind blows by an open window, it creates a negative pressure in the house which in turn can draw radon gas into the house.
  5. Jerry Simon
    Nice try. . .
  6. Jerry Simon
    Well said.
  7. Jerry Simon
    I can't imagine any customer of mine wanting to know how, let alone actually doing it. That's because 99% of your clients are yuppie-scum.
  8. Jerry Simon
    A first for me. . . http://www.adorama.com/RSP36010W.html?g ... oCtpbw_wcB By the way, the ground-hole wasn't wired.
  9. Jerry Simon
    Is same considered defeated by a clothes washer & dryer than can be moved if need be?
  10. Jerry Simon
    How timely. . . Click to Enlarge 36.15 KB And, you can easily spit your chaw into the sink without standing up . . .
  11. Jerry Simon
    Back right pants pocket; lanyard hanging. The heck with opening a case.
  12. Jerry Simon
    My pump seized once. Blew it off until I tried a few months later; it worked. Shite happens. . .
  13. Jerry Simon
    Steep pitch equals waterfall over gutter guards in moderate-heavy rains; great drainage on low-slope roofs (unless clogged of course).
  14. Jerry Simon
    Gate valve motorized shut-off for sewer main to prevent sewage back-up in heavy rainfall is my best guess (for all you non-Chicago area guys, Chicago and many surrounding suburbs have one sewer system that handles both sanitary water and rain water; this is directly related to why the flow of the Chicago River was reversed back about 1900).
  15. Jerry Simon
    Ah, that makes perfect sense. in your experience, does this normally happen to the verticals as well as the horizontals? I ask because the hot/cold should be more focused to a single area in the horizontals. I actually see it more with riser pipes. With laterals, water can sit in the pipe and temper the water, so the temperature changes aren't as dramatic as they could be with hot water flowing down a riser pipe, then cold flowing down same.
  16. Jerry Simon
    I always thought those were weak spots in the lines that split-open when hot water ran through the lines, then cold water; expansion, contraction = stress cracks. Right or wrong, I know what you mean, and I see it quite often.
  17. Jerry Simon
    When tripped, the GFCI wall receptacle in the kitchen yesterday was found to protect the oven/range circuit, the garbage disposer circuit, and the microwave oven/fan circuit. Why do I find that odd (personality quibbles aside)?
  18. Jerry Simon
    In fact, the lead problem was so bad in Evergreen Park for a while that I understand some of the kids there were so badly affected that they became cartoonists. . .
  19. Jerry Simon
    Pretty much the norm in Chicago; lead supply from house to street wasn't banned until 1987. Lead leaches into the potable water supply in a surprisingly short period of time; you worry a child will wake up in the middle of the night and drink a *first draw*, not run the water for a bit to flush-out the lead. Activated-alumina cartridges work quite well at filtering the lead. Certain communities around here, Evergreen Park for one, added something to the water that actually coated the inside of the municipal lead supply lines and stopped most all of the lead from leaching into the water. Lead will fry the brain. I grew up in Chicago; I know.
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    On this forum or another years ago. . . "Light enough pilot lights, and eventually you'll catch on fire." As I recall, from some Texas inspector who lost much of his face.
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    Marc, save the last sentence, I really love your wording in this paragraph. I may steal much of it, permission granted or not. . .
  22. Jerry Simon
    What's an insurer?
  23. Jerry Simon
    The casement windows in a house I sold were reported as defective. For the life of me, I couldn't find anything but double-hungs about my entire house. (Why can't all inspectors be perfect like we all is?)
  24. Jerry Simon
    Got it. Thanks. Sold.
  25. Jerry Simon
    Deal of the year. One OLIGHT M22 Warrior, brand new, in the box, never used. Also, One OLIGHT M22 Warrior, in the box, used once. And, one OLIGHT M20-X Warrior brand new, in the box, never used. Well over $200 worth of flashlights. Gimme $100 + $10 shipping and they're yours. All accessories included; batteries, holsters, difusers, lanyards, etc. jerry@illinoisbuildinginspection.com
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