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  1. Tom Raymond
    That would be because it gets cold in Jersey. When the gutter freezes the water will flood in through that vent, no need for an ice dam.
  2. Tom Raymond
    The problem lies with the person reading the gauge, not with the gauge itself.
  3. Tom Raymond
    Plans? Here they would be on file with the County Health dept.
  4. Tom Raymond
    Look at the first pic. The FC stands for Fiber Classic, the series designation. The 30 is the model designation for the slab. Some portion of the remaining numbers indicate the level of prep the slab received at the factory before being shipped off to the assembler, while the rest are factory tracking numbers for production date and lot numbers for the foam and glass was used to make it. One of the advantages of a decade of building material sales is having access to factory tours. The disadvantage is the terabytes of useless information stuck in my head.
  5. Tom Raymond
    If the second tank is empty and Boston is anywhere near as wet as WNY this time of year, that tank will float up out of the ground and create a break in the system. Once placed, the tanks should never be more than 1/2 empty. I have no idea what a reduction chamber is, but in my neck of the woods 1500 gallons is a 3 bedroom rig. Perhaps you have multiple tanks that are in parallel rather than in line with a shared leaching field.
  6. Tom Raymond
    It is a Therma Tru Fiberclassic fiberglass door. The top and bottom rails are composite similar to the original Trex decking, while the stiles are gluelams under solid oak. The core is foamed in place polyurethane. The skims are a proprietary fiberglass molded at around 200 degrees and under several hundred tons of pressure, IIRC, it's been years since I toured the factory.
  7. Tom Raymond
    I wish they still made those. When I rewired 10 or 11 years ago I bought bulk packs of Leviton switches and receptacles, then my son was born and the wife ran around stuffing those plastic covers in all the receptacles. Now stuff doesn't stay plugged in and I need to replace my 'new' receptacles.
  8. Tom Raymond
    That is beautiful Phillip, absolutely beautiful!
  9. Tom Raymond
    I've only ever seen that layout in a camper, and it was enough to make me look elsewhere. I think the decor is worse though.
  10. Tom Raymond
    Your notched 4x4 posts can't meet the code requirement when through bolted to a wood deck frame, a couple of tapcons into concrete aren't going to work. You need a post system designed to be fastened to concrete. Check out step 4 in the Certainteed rail instructions here:http://www.certainteed.com/resources/oxfordinstallation.pdf then contact support at Rail Simple and see if they have something similar. What you plan to do is going to seriously injure someone.
  11. Tom Raymond
    Neal, when I swipe this pic would you prefer the credit be given to you or your biz?
  12. Tom Raymond
    Gee, it must be nice to have to worry about re-inspections. In my market I'm having trouble booking the first inspection.
  13. Tom Raymond
    That woman needs medical attention, she has a serious case of lead poisoning.
  14. Tom Raymond
    They shouldn't have skimped. It would look loads better if it were all bird's eye or all curly.
  15. Tom Raymond
    Why did they weave the first valley course and cut the rest? Could this have been someones first roof?
  16. Tom Raymond
    You guys still have architects designing houses? Around here their all home designers, meaning someone that likes to draw pictures of houses on their computers. The so called plans that become houses are certified by an engineer, usually a civil engineer that knows nothing about houses. I've seen stamped plans that were drawn in two different scales on the same drawing, plans missing elevations, and the funniest (saddest?) a girder that was specified to be three different sizes-12", 14" and 9" LVLs as the loads changed. How exactly does one switch from a 14" beam to a 9" beam over a single column?
  17. Tom Raymond
    I just drove by a place like the one in the OP. The utility came by and put an insulated cover on the lateral, nice fix-I wish I had my camera with me.
  18. Tom Raymond
    Charlie, I think you should buy it and post it here. If we all think it's a valuable resource, we could all hit your paypal account with a few pennies each to cover your cost[]
  19. Tom Raymond
    I can tell you from experience that the foundation likely doesn't have footings. I know a contractor that dug out one side of a 1907 house to prep for an addition. There was a light rain over night, and when he arrived the next morning the foundation wall had broken off at the corners and was tipping out from under the house. When the cribbing went in to hold the place up and the outside was dug out, the remaining walls rolled out from under it like a house of cards.
  20. Tom Raymond
    A very anal roofer wanted to hide the odd course. If it's well adhered I wouldn't worry about it.
  21. Tom Raymond
    You could run the stack outside here, though it would have to go through the overhang...but I would just install an AAV.
  22. Tom Raymond
    Well, I hope I didn't waste my money but I just placed an ad in a community directory sort of piece that will be in four RE offices for the next two years. They were distributed on Monday. Wish me luck.
  23. Tom Raymond
    He's got ADD, I wouldn't ride with him unless he was distracted []
  24. Tom Raymond
    John, I'd have told her that weave looked worse than hers. If you want to show her your junk, that's up to you.
  25. Tom Raymond
    Convective currents don't function on that small a scale, if they did insulated glass packs wouldn't work. In reality the airspace can be as large as 3/4" before there is enough volume to jump start convective currents. There needs to be enough space for the air to move and enough surface area to create an effective heat exchanger, there's neither in those little bubbles.
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