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  1. Tom Raymond
    I had a FLIR B40 at the day job. It was $5k when we got it, and it was a demo. Now you can get into 120 pixels for around $1800. They still use the same shitty batteries though, and you only get one. If you are going to learn as you go then anything that fits your hand well in the $2-2500 range will be more than enough camera for HI work. There are probably a few in the $16-1800 range that are good enough. Try a few out before you buy, comfort and ease of use are at least as important as anything else mentioned.
  2. Tom Raymond
    That mess is every bit as scary as the snake. Maybe more.
  3. Tom Raymond
    Not here. The guy that wired the first switch likely only knows slightly more than our OP.
  4. Tom Raymond
    John, I surely hope that the homeowner appreciates your efforts to conceal their identity. Choosing "Smith" as their pseudonym was pretty smooth. A repair that would easily last that time frame could be had by making two short posts. All the parts would come in a single package and likely be faster to install and less expensive than epoxy. Replacing both posts would be less than a days work, including fresh paint. No offense to the real Mr. Smith.
  5. Tom Raymond
    It's the luck of the draw. Some guys are awesome, others complete tools. The bigger the bureaucracy the bigger the tool.
  6. Tom Raymond
    Poverty rots.
  7. Tom Raymond
    For underlayment I put Grace Select IWS and Rhino synthetic felt on my place. I could walk on the Rhino on an 8/12 pitch.
  8. Tom Raymond
    There is a neighborhood of modest ranch homes about 20 miles from here that are all concrete except the roof framing. Simple postwar homes that one would never know were different, until they went in the basement and saw all the concrete overhead.
  9. Tom Raymond
    My brother has one of those in his house that looks about like Lamb's. I advised him not to use it, but, while he was working on his slate floor he sliced a couple fire brick on the tile saw and tiled the back panel with them. You have to get pretty close to tell. He is shopping for a replacement insert, but he will be limping along with the current unit until the right deal falls in his lap or he finishes evicting 1971 from the rest of the house.
  10. Tom Raymond
    Trade a young junkie for an old fat one? Toronto wants our football team...the Bills and the Bieber for Ford sounds fair. Watch what you say aboot the motherland, eh? I'm first generation American, my old man was born in Montreal.
  11. Tom Raymond
    Let's make a deal, we'll go metric if you take your Bieber back.
  12. Tom Raymond
    In the first pic the subfloor looks way newer than the floor joists.
  13. Tom Raymond
    How long does it take to search for the right comment? Longer than it takes to write one?
  14. Tom Raymond
    One more argument in favor of my old gold Honeywells.
  15. Tom Raymond
    The single most valuable "approved" CEUs I have attended are put on by a historic preservationist. They consist of a 20 minute power point describing the history of the neighborhood in question and a description of the architectural styles we will be viewing, followed by a walking tour of said neighborhood and a tour of at least one property (conveniently listed by one of the associated REs). Unfortunately there are only enough of them to meet half my req's each cycle. The only value I get from any other CEUs are in the mileage deductions.
  16. Tom Raymond
    If you install a ground source heat pump before December 31, 2016 the federal government will give you a 30% tax credit. The systems qualify under the geothermal portion of the renewable energy credits. Now you know where the RE got it from.
  17. Tom Raymond
    Ground source or open source, that type of heat pump arrangement is called geothermal no?
  18. Tom Raymond
    It looks like efflorescence.
  19. Tom Raymond
    Same installer? Click to Enlarge 68.76 KB
  20. Tom Raymond
    The Packard needs a bit more body work before you can paint it up like that.
  21. Tom Raymond
    The nicest transfer arrangement I have ever come across had all of the circuits that were backed up by the generator in a subpanel. Interlocked breakers selected the power source. Every other transfer switch I have seen had so many pigtails in the service panel that was virtually impossible to reinstall the deadfront.
  22. Tom Raymond
    Once upon a time we had a stamp for stuff like this. Charlie Foxtrot.
  23. Tom Raymond
    To provide adequate supply. Mom's house has three wells. The smallest driven casing was abandoned long before we moved there. The 10" casing for the house is 125' deep and I recall several summers that it ran dry. The 12" casing for the barn is closer to 200' deep. There was a bypass rig in the basement to connect the house to the barn well in dry seasons. The galvanized pipe between them rusted away when I was a teenager. As the farm land around the homestead was developed the house well became less reliable and the water quality dropped. They switched solely to the barn well a few years ago.
  24. Tom Raymond
    Consider the alternative. The hand dug well in my yard is less than 20 feet from the original septic system. It consisted of two 4' cubes, the first was dry laid stone and the second timbers that resembled railroad ties. Fill em up and let em perk. That system was installed in mid 1890's, 60 or 70 years before the municipal water supply was conceived.
  25. Tom Raymond
    I'd like to know who made them. I have never seen 20 year old 3 tabs look that good. I ran out of good weather to finish the roof on my place. The best of the 18 year old IKO 3 tabs still on it have rain breaks over an inch wide. The worst have around 40% granule loss and crunch like potato chips when you walk on them.
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