Jerry Simon
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I wouldn't say a thing about it. I also wouldn't report on the missing central vacuum, the missing whole house fan, the missing wine cooler, the missing warming tray, the missing trash compactor, the missing ice machine, the missing built-in countertop mixmaster, the missing combination microwave oven/exhaust fan, the missing built-in ironing board, the missing toaster oven, the missing refrigerator, etc. I figure most of my clients with functional eyes would have already noticed the absence of any such. Perhaps if they were visually-challenged...
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Dropping from ASHI?
Jerry Simon replied to fyrmnk's topic in Professional Home Inspection Associations
I get enough biz from ASHI that I'm going to stay; in fact I already re-upped. I think Mit will stay, too, on the hopes that someday ASHI will do a 180 and get its act together. That's my hope. Still gonna keep the pin under wraps, though, 'till then. -
I just got my 15-year pin from ASHI. Gonna hide it.
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'Course, when the article tells you to run a humidifier in the basement to help dry it up...
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In more ways than you can count...
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Yes. The range's grounding wire should land on a grounding terminal bar. Was there one or was there just that feeder grounding lug? - Jim Katen, Oregon Just the feeder & lug; no ground bus. And if they were savy enough to install the feeder, then why...? That's what threw me for a loop.
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This is a sub-panel. The bottom four wires on the right side are for a 240-volt oven feed (the two wires off the 40-amp, 240-breaker, and the white and green wires on the neutral bus). Do the green ground and the white neutral wires pose a problem being connected to the neutral bus? I know in a sub they're supposed to be isolated, but it was just weird to see, especially since you can see the separate ground wire from the main panel attached to the back of the sub-panelboard's cabinet/enclosure to the right of these branch circuit wires. Thanks for any insight. Click to Enlarge 40.23 KB
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You can borrow my copy anytime.
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Bondo is the only thing I ever found to work on pressboard siding. Did/patched siding on one house I owned, and lasted 'till I moved about five years later.
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Couple months of 10-12 a week is now back to the 3 or 4 a week. Where'd I leave that paint brush?
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Yeah, kinda like mentioning the little girl in the attic who tells you to leave, now, while you still can.
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I got a client complaining that his daughter sleeps in the basement, and she wakes up with blood coming out of her eyes every morning. The nutcase thinks he has a mold problem. I saw the blue and yellow-green fuzzy stuff on the bedroom walls, but I told him it was just effervescence from the masonary wall behind the drywall. And, the stuff in these pictures, in the basement bath, appears to be old wallpaper glue. What a kook. Click to Enlarge 44.3 KB Click to Enlarge 43.99 KB
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Brown, but not as pronounced. Much browner outside.
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That sounds good, Tom. I actually mistaked the water heater flues for furnace flues 'cause of their size ('till I went in the house). I'll bet you're right.
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I agree, heat. This is a water heater flue, not a furnace flue. The adjacent water heater flue is fine & dandy, so weird. House is only five years old, so this happened quick. Water heaters are piped in parallel, so they run equally. I dunno, Lucy. Need some 'splainin'
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It's the color of a brown egg. Why would this happen. Click to Enlarge 59.53 KB
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The magic of 55 is my story, and now that I'm on my way, I'll bore ya with it. I'll be 55 in August, born in 1955. I was 55 pounds overweight (220, with 165 being my ideal weight). Started my diet March 1st, and allowing for seven misc days of eating normal (Easter, Anniversay, etc.), it will be 5.5 months 'till my birthday, that being the last day of my diet. I will diet until I'm at 155 pounds, 'cause I'll probably put ten back on when I go back to normal eating. The magic of 55. I've already lost 25 lbs. See ya in August.
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In the garage attic, I saw these metal nailer-strips (?) attached to the bottoms of the trusses, and the garage ceiling drywall was screwed into the strips. Normally, the drywall would be nailed/screwed to the bottoms of the trusses. In fact, in the house attic, the drywall was nailed to the bottoms of the trusses. Why so in the just garage? Some sort of fire-separation thingy??? Click to Enlarge 35.16 KB
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Right on...4820 N. Paulina
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Don't know where it is, yet. Query from a realtor friend, prior to hopeful contract writing/inspection. One of his specific questions, though, was if the system would get *enough* hot water. I opined that in such an application, the problems one hears about using tankless for domestic hot water supply probably would be nill in such an application. Seems like it would work quite well. But what the heck do I know.
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Probably been discussed here before, but since we see so little of it in these parts, pardon me if I missed it. Vintage apartment building converted to condos, and builder heated each unit with in-floor radiant hot water heat, using a tankless water heater. Pros? Cons? Thanks much for any insight.
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A little girl, about eleven or twelve, clutching a doll without a head, lives in the attic and does this to amuse herself. Really.
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I ain't got a definitive answer, but you get my vote for the most interesting query in years.
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Looks like a fungus or some sort of growth. Looks like more white streaky spots are left of the well-defined one. And, you can see other biological growth either side of the chimney, but not below it, as I believe the ions in the metal chimney flashing wash down and kill the growth, or some such heeby-jeeby.
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That the same thing as a Hartford loop?