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  1. Tom Raymond
    Glass is tempered by passing it through a furnace then blasting it with cool air, usually on a bed of rollers. If you dont see a bug, look for the ripples from where the hot glass sagged between the rollers.
  2. Tom Raymond
    We really need a like button.
  3. Tom Raymond
    Heroin is pretty bad here, but pot is by far the biggest problem. Choppers have been flying low all month, several grows have been shut down.
  4. Tom Raymond
    It's been about 2 years since I've looked, but wholesale prices where pretty close. Within $100 a square.
  5. Tom Raymond
    I don't like anything by Tamko. I have only seen DaVincci at IBS, it is gorgeous but real Vermont slate is about the same money.
  6. Tom Raymond
    The stacked headers will be much appreciated by the overhead door installer.
  7. Tom Raymond
    Where do I get the listing? These are 35 years old.
  8. Tom Raymond
    1946 Colonial with a c1980 addition. This is a 3' electric baseboard heater stuffed between a shower and a toilet. This can't be kosher, can it? Click to Enlarge 12.34 KB
  9. Tom Raymond
    My mother has an antique magneto blasting detonator...the wooden box with a tee handle favored by cartoon characters. As teens my brothers and I would take turns holding the terminals while one of us operated the handle. I'm amazed we all survived.
  10. Tom Raymond
    Pay for one full set of good locks, plus a few extra. Have everything master keyed and rotate them. Yale commercial stuff should last 7-10 years, depending on use/abuse and turn over.
  11. Tom Raymond
    The Schlages are bad. So bad that several of the bigger wholesalers dropped them. Schlage cylinders have gotten pretty cheesy in general. I had one explode on a reversible lever when I popped it to switch handing. $100 lock set was scrap before I got installed.
  12. Tom Raymond
    There is very little EIFS here, but every one I have ever been in I can smell the wet framing as soon as I walk through the door.
  13. Tom Raymond
    Why pull a 3 wire feeder? My 10 x 20 shed has a 10 ga 4 wire feed. It's UF in short PVC conduit risers with ells for protection at each end.
  14. Tom Raymond
    He's a motorhead. That has a four barrel carb and equal length runners. A muscle sink if you will.
  15. Tom Raymond
    That's some shitty looking brick. If they can't strike it right how can anything else be right?
  16. Tom Raymond
    It's a boiler stat. They don't have any switches.
  17. Tom Raymond
    I work in some locals where that is still in use. Send it my way.
  18. Tom Raymond
    The EPA doesn't have time for that, they are too busy inventing science for their next decade long development of overreaching regulation and burdensome pointless protocols.
  19. Tom Raymond
    There is a two day CE seminar sponsored by a local inspector cum inspection school/report system company and the local ASHI chapter coming up in October. I have been to two of them and the content has been consistently bad. Still, I think I'm gonna go for the entertainment value. This year there are presentations by Joe Ferry esq and P Nathan Thornberry. It sounds like a hoot.
  20. Tom Raymond
    An uninsulated tank would reach 60 most of the time just sitting at n my basement. No fuel needed. Marc, the second tank experiences greater temp swings. It runs more frequently and for longer periods than the preheated. As a result it also sees more condensation. I've been in my house less than 15 years and have installed 3 water heaters there. The last thing I need to do is hasten the detritus.
  21. Tom Raymond
    I recall another article advising against series installations because the second tank always ran more than the first and wore out sooner.
  22. Tom Raymond
    Series only works in solar thermal installations. Go big or go parallel.
  23. Tom Raymond
    As long as the teenager showers last you will have plenty of hot water.
  24. Tom Raymond
    I never see them glued. Brads maybe, but never glue.
  25. Tom Raymond
    Those are float transitions/terminations.
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