Tom Raymond

You ask them if they've ever short gunned a beer...

Slightly north of the median home price in my market.

Some day I would like to do a house that has appliances worth inspecting.

Don't give up your old version of Windows. 10 is an SOB to work with photos in. 7 would remember all of my formatting, I am lucky if 10 remembers what file I have been grabbing pics from. Actually, the only thing Windows 10 is good at is saving. It auto saves every time I stop typing for more than a few seconds, and, you can save as a PDF or a hundred other document types from a single drop down menu. Documents are half the size of PDFs made with cute or PDFcreator.

The day job had one with a 16' x 80" high by 90" wide cargo box. It spent most of its life parked and simply rotted out, 15 year old truck with 48k on it. The box went on a newer chassis just before we parted ways. Crawl under it and look for rot, at 5600 miles a year that one has spent a lot of time parked. If you like your kidneys where they are do not ever, EVER, drive with it empty. A modest pothole was jarring, the big stuff we had this spring would put you through the roof. The box truck rode nice with about 5000 pounds in it. Around 7000 pounds and you had to turn the wheel 45 degrees before you changed directions and make constant 20 degree or so course correction adjustments (in each direction!) at highway speeds. A new steering linkage only improved that by a few degrees. Any more than about 10 miles in an empty truck was physically painful to endure, in either chassis. The 4 banger is under powered, turbo or not. The auto tranny has odd shift points, I usually shifted ours manually to make it go in traffic. When I opted to let it shift on its own I would frequently have to pump the throttle to discourage it hanging just at the top of a gear. On the plus side, you will be able to two point, if not u turn, what would be tough to 3 point turn in you current ride. That was hugely important for us delivering stuff to rural houses. I could often pull in and turn around where the installers would have to back in their GMC cab and chassis cube vans, sometimes up to a quarter mile off the road.

This is what the aftermath looks like. Dirty filter. Frozen coil. Primary drain was a pump, it failed. No secondary drain. Click to Enlarge 46.72 KB Who puts a pump on an overhead unit? Knucklehead.

Maybe they just blast that awful soundtrack until the mold runs away. I second the bleach. When I worked at the log home mill we would routinely bleach old stock to make it look less old. 1:1 household bleach and water. PPE was a scrub brush on a long handle and a spot in the yard far away from the shop doors. That is way stronger than Clorox though. Probably concentrated liquid pool chlorine; $6 for two gallons at Walmart. Nasty stuff. I open my pool with that two gallon kit. 15,000 gallons from green and slimy to sparkling clear in less than 30 minutes.

Ah, now I see it.

Those look horizontal to me, or are you referring to the elbow?

Yes I did. "Expect it to leak any minute" was in the report.

...an American Standard commode? Click to Enlarge 26.03 KB That's 80 feet from the hatch, but hey, when you gotta go you gotta go.

Insurance inspectors are useless. Allstate threatened to cancel my homeowners for missing siding (the required gap between wood clapboards and a low slope roof) and a deteriorated wood bulkhead door over my basement stairs that my 3 year old knows is too scary to stand on. I told my agent that if they canceled my homeowners that I would be pulling all my business from their office and advising all of my family members insured through them to do the same. Problem solved.

Why do people make these? The big box stores sell prefabricated extension tubes in the same aisle as the tanks, and for about half the cost of that fitting.

Sounds like you got about as good an outcome as there is. Save your bills and track your usage so you have ground to stand on when it happens again. I say "when" because I have had similar issues with my town's water department, on three separate occasions, without that positive a result and I hold a position on a town board. Local government at its finest.

If the space has to be dehumidified for months at a time it's a pretty hostile environment. I'd say condensation too. I did a house that had the service mounted above the well chlorinator. There was a lot of black copper in that panel.

My Werner MT15 is very similarly sized to the 785 open and closed, but it's lighter and cheaper. I think I'll be sticking with a folder. At 6'2" and a deuce and a quarter there are no light duty ladders for me.

The damper looks likea pain to operate.

There is a resort community not far from me where flying squirrels are a major problem. They're like cockroaches for rich folk.

And I thought it was green to indicate that each sheet cost more...

It's less than 9 sf but the bottom sash is too close to the floor and should be tempered. If this is still your single wide it won't be. If there is not a bug you can look for ripples in the glass to tell if it's tempered.

Wait a minute, to heat a house with wood the code requires you to cut a hole in the wall? Put an HRV on the opposite side of the house. You'll get distribution and combustion air out of the deal.

Denny, it's a single wide. 3 TVs and a couple of chain smokers should keep that plenty warm in your climate.

She should buy a CO detector for each register... and really good life insurance.

The ACQ preservative is basic and the exhaust is acidic. They will neutralize one another and nothing bad will ever happen.

A colored smoke bomb would clearly demonstrate how wrong it is.