Tom Raymond

I'll try the resizer Bill suggested. Thanks.

New site looks great. Gonna take a bit to get used to the new buttons. One thing that didn't get fixed is the image size limit. I have thousands of pictures on my phone. Hundreds of them are decent, dozens of them worth sharing here. Alas, I can't share them because they are too big and my phone doesn't have a resizer app. Anybody got a good app that won't bombard me with ads or steal my data? Samsung Galaxy S6.

A human hand is faster and the result is far prettier...for now.

Get the tool. They're cheap. Lots cheaper than breaking a piece of siding that hasn't been made in a decade.

One of mine only made it 9 months.

Recently I tuned an old wood jack plane. I mean it's as good as it was in 1860. After a few test passes, I had it perfect and the transparent layers just a few cells thick seemed motorized as they emerged from the throat. The stroke was effortless. Perfect ribbons of walnut fell to the floor. The sound was clean and indescribable. The tool felt happy. When the bricklayer's skill is unnecessary, when no work is done with hand tools and the finesse lies within keys tapped by a programmer, it won't be a better world. I laid up 1 3/4" mahogany countertops today and lamented that I had forgotten my Stanley jointer. I was relieved when my Maples 80 tooth saw blade left me ready to glue planks, but it wasn't as satisfying as the slick of a good plane.

That was awesome.

2006. It was in siding manufacturer instructions prior though.

Someone forgot to order the hip and ridge. It's ugly. It will delaminate. Then it will be uglier. Except for a bunch of HIs arguing about them, that's the worst thing that will happen.

Lead protocols are all about hygiene. The EPA could have spent 10 years and $2 million on HEPA filters for every new vacuum and there would be less than 1/4 of the issues we have today with a 40 year billion dollar plan that defers liability to the last guy who touches it.

Last I heard was 14-16,000. They've come down a bit, when my son had lead poisoning in 03 they were over 20k.

They are gaining popularity here in formerly snowy WNY. I don't like them. The equipment cost is too high and we still need another heat source. To adequately cover my small house I would need two multi zone condensors and five indoor units. That's 7 grand in parts not counting linesets and controls. I'd need to keep my boiler for at least 3 months out of the year, and my electric bill would skyrocket. My neighbor has a Mitsubishi single zone for cooling. A tech is there at least 3 times a year and he still puts a window units in on the second floor of his cape.

You need a minimum depth of 6" to get that kind of vapor performance out of open. That said, I filled 2x8 rafters with open on an addition at my house. 4 winters and no issues.

Or one could just buy a house that doesn't have obvious structural defects.

Fake news strikes again.

That's a really inaccurate way to measure water temperature. It is, but used this way will tend to read low.

If it's done neatly, AND the flashing color matches either the roof or the siding it's barely even noticeable.

That will all be brought to modern standards when that rotten contaminated equipment is replaced. That would be my call anyway.

In my experience, the only realtors I've marketed that resulted in work are people I knew before they were realtors. I've had lots of marketing people tell me they got my name from realtors who have never referred me. They hand out your cards like candy to all the unsolicited sales peeps that walk in their door.

I have pictures of a working class neighborhood where almost every house on the block has damage or will have. Big solar cross hairs everywhere.

Flex seal. Time to reorder, he's out of white and black.

Unless there is something other than a pull down stairs he won't get 4x8 sheets of any kind of wall cover up there. Install rock wool. No paper. Dense enough to mitigate most of the air wash issues.

No thanks Marcia. You can check for yourself #128521;

My dryer started on fire, but not as most would imagine. The drum bushing went bad an lint was blowing around the drum into the cabinet, collected on the drum bearing ( a steel ball joint in a HDPE socket with high temperature grease) until there was enough fuel and friction to ignite.

It's possible. Pressure washing is a horrible thing to do to a house.