Tom Raymond

No online CE in NY either. That's problematic, since there aren't any schools in my area. I'll be driving 75 miles one way to see Dr. Joe next week, and I drove nearly that far for a mediocre program in October. For my last renewal I had to drive 185 miles one way to squeeze in 12 hours at the last minute. If CE is going to be that much of a hardship, DOS is going to have to make some exceptions for programs like Hanley Woods or Certainteed CE. I won't hold my breath though, the official position of the Bureau of Education is that DOS training isn't good enough to qualify for CEUs.

Well, you really have an infestation when you attract predators. Fun times indeed.

The 'Basic' is $595 and the 'Enhanced' $995. The missing $5 must be a rounding error converting from metric. Holmes is a boob, but that's why he's on TV and the rest of us aren't. Bad math or not, having the Holmes' marketing machine telling the public that a basic minimum standard inspection should cost almost $600 is a good thing in my book.

So the GCs are all connected, and they are isolated from the enclosure. That's good. But there are two EGCs on the right bus that aren't supposed to be there. An accessory ground bus needs to be installed in the sub and the EGCs moved there. Get one big enough for the EGCs for all the circuits in that enclosure. That's my understanding.

I thought I had better try it after I posted that. I searched Florida and it worked fine. Then I searched NY because I couldn't remember if I signed up or not.

The handful of circuits that do have all terminations in that panel are wrong. There are GCs and EGCs on the right bus that should be isolated, and without a better picture I can't tell if the GC on the left bus is connected to anything at all-I don't see a bonding screw, and there is no ground. That's enough to call a sparky on alone. Let him figure out what to do with the rest.

No one here is going to be able to decipher your description and come up with any meaningful advice. Start by sending us some pictures. Then while your waiting for replies, click the home tab on the top of this page and use the Inspector Search on the top left corner of the page to find and hire a local inspector.

It needs more than adequate support, it leaks like a sieve.

It's more of a left/right thing. Start at the City, and move through the suburbs and xurbs until you leave the money and influence. Now your upstate, unless your in Albany.

Who would be fool enough to tackle that? Makes my head hurt just thinking about it.

Around here slabs like that are placed on 10" to 14" of #2 stone in a 16" to 18" deep excavation, then after the perimeter block stem walls are placed and the unit(s) set, the edges of the slab are buried. The net result is that the whole assembly floats on its own pond. The slabs are always wet. Placing poly on the top would draw water through the slab as if it were a sponge. There's enough loss at the plenum to turn the entire crawl into the crusty innards of an Aprilaire humidifier, it just hasn't run long enough yet.

A match and a gallon or two of gas should do the trick. I see enough in those three pics to tell them to run like hell if they were my clients. Really. If they are worried about how to pay for a short block extension on that chimney, how the hell do they expect to heat that place with the second floor open to the attic?

It's a tank and coil. Aside from filling up with crap or springing a leak, what could possibly go wrong with it?

That's a mess. They're missing proper flashing, they're ganged incorrectly, and the roof pitch is too shallow (you're right about the older units requiring a steeper slope). The flatter slope at the top allows water volume to build and the gang concentrates that volume at the lower units. I'd wager the uppers leak too, the lowers just leak worse. Those skylights had four brackets at the quarter points on the sides and could be adapted to that curved surface. The current version has an integral aluminum flange on all four sides that must sit on a flat roof deck so a direct replacement won't work. You could have a roofer 'wing it' again with curb mount units, but I would contact Velux commercial and have a proper gang designed for that application. It won't be much more expensive than messing with standard units, and far less when you consider the cost of constant bandaids.

Funny Jim, I was gonna bust him on the floor and drain pipe too. I can't say much though, the new panel I put in my house in '99 still doesn't have a cover on it.

That's pretty likely, what kind of tree is that behind the house? Either that, or you really need to lay off the acid[]

I'll have to make popcorn for the when you post the other 273.

The article missed the meat of the issue-how do they taste? I prefer a good pun to alliteration any day.

Why so fascinated with the attic? I'm sure there were much more interesting things to take pictures of.

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Oh, I'm in big trouble then. At least she likes to help around the house. Laundry day is more entertaining than the TV. Click to Enlarge 43 KB

5/8 type x has been the norm here since the 80's, some municipalities require it on both sides of separation walls. If it's paneled, how do you know it isn't breached?

The material is 'composite' decking. The issues in the pic are about as relevant as they would be if it were wood. John is right, there are lots of recalls and class actions. It would be a good idea to identify the decking for your client so he can determine if it is one of 'those' materials. I'd google it for them.

You know your looking at cheese when the manufacturer can't afford to run the straps around the window. And, if the installers didn't remove the packaging, what else did they forget to do?