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It might be a combination of the two. I've been in at least two rain forest basements in the last couple of years that were so wet and humid from ground water, that the whole cold water plumbing supply system, the joists, and the bottom of the floor were dripping water.

Yup. Pretty amazing you're required to have at least 40 hrs of class training to be considered "competent" by OSHA to build scaffold, but uncle meanswell and cousin thirtypack can do pretty much whatever they feel like when it comes to one of these wooden scaffolds. It reminds me of the time I sent a laborer to get parts for a pole and knuckle scaffold we were sent to tear down. I had to make it safe to be on before I'd step out on it to take it apart.

Half or three quarter?

Negative, interior wall If you have room, use the 2x6s and put some nice clean built in shelves, at random levels, in the stud bays without the pipe. Problem solved, you'll have something that looks like you planned it, and is better use of the space that would have been lost for the sake of a vent.

My fingerprint cards showed up today along with a folded envelope to return them in. Do Not Bend is printed on the folded envelope. The comments from you experienced guys, the latest weather system moving into that area, and the idea winter is close, are really making me think hard about it. On the other hand, what an adventure! Tom, the dog was covered before I sent you that link.[] There's a redhead and a herd of cats living here now. I might need to escape this for a while. Do they really need that much stuff in the bathroom?

You make me feel better knowing there's still good neighbors out there looking out for someone other than themselves. Anyone else seen the ads on Craig's List for gasoline? One guy only wants 15 bucks a gallon. Nice, huh?

Is a furnace required to be on a dedicated circuit? It's own breaker? If so, does anyone know as of when?

I'd agree with that as long as it's their product. He might want to check for one of the boxes and confirm who's it is and the line. Might as well be bullet proof if he's going to challenge them. It's dark out. Go check it out, Concerned.

Ambulance chaser!

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The only things ever made to last thirty years are already thirty years old. I don't tell people to replace them. I tell them the age, and to budget for a new one.

Joe, You can take those logos out in a click and ad your own in the same amount of time. Mine is set up similar to Erby's style and automatically drops a small GTB logo before any comment on a defect. I did it to draw attention to the comment and to make the report easier to follow. I hope the IE guys take this the right way! I had a very frustrating time with the trial. I played with it for more than a week and just couldn't make it work before I finally gave up on it. Probably something I was missing. Erby, that's a great looking website.

HG also does an outstanding job with support, has it's own forum for users to help each other, can be brought to a new computer in a minute, with all of your boiler and templates, and allows you to use video in the report. It also has great online tutorials to get you started. And, if you need some amusment during down time, the spell check is absolutely hilarious. My one and only complaint.

I steer very clear of any appliance made by them. Their control boards are junk and they don't seem to care. The range boards have been known to put an oven in a cleaning mode and run for hours by themselves. Mine hasn't done that yet, but it has performed a number of other fancy tricks. My K/aide dishwasher turned into an expensive dish rack after a year or so because the board was junk. Some of them are also known fire starters. I lost my trust in them a long time ago. Do a little googling on this subject. You'll find plenty more to read about.

Maybe this will help. I've got gable vents on the upper section, too. I also have cup vents in the soffits between the rafters and there are vents on the exterior walls at either end of the house for the space behind the knee walls. No problems This section has cup vents at the soffit and a ridge vent at the top. It works here. No ice damming, ever. I'd try that, and don't get excited if installing baffles is more of a headache than it's worth. It's a small area and should be fine without them. I'm personally not sold on the importance of needing them in the first place.

Are we talking about a full cape, a half cape, or a three quarter cape, like my house?

Jimi Heselden the current owner of the Segway company died, not Dean Kamen who was the inventor. I do get most of my news from Jimmy Kimmel.

The VCT guys would have a fit if we couldn't wait for them to catch up. They hated cutting around science lab islands and other stuff. It was more about the extra work than them being worried about our cabinets. It didn't happen often. Floor guys usually had the green light before us, but not before the painters and ceiling guys, on commercial jobs. We never wrecked anybody's floors. Slammers didn't last long. They would quickly be invited back to the mud where they came from. Nobody cares if you scratch a concrete form. We knew better than to trash floors and be back charged for repair.

Hell no! I saw no evidence of a roof leak at the time of my inspection, means what it says. Appears to be functional means the same to you? What kind of functions does a roof cover perform? It pretty much lays there. I guess I feel, the best way to avoid having to worry about depending on catch phrases to save my ass in a court of law, is to make sure my message was crystal clear, the first time around. A follow up call or an email for the purpose of clarity, doesn't hurt, either. BTW. The elders of this tribe are sitting back, watching. They will be jumping in to kick some ass. Maybe, mine.

Ok. Let's run with that, but first you need to explain what you mean by backstabbers and normal circumstances. Do they appear to be backstabbers, or are they? What's normal? What appears to be? How do you arrive at that conclusion? To me, the word "appears", tells me you don't know. I paid you to tell me. Why can't you find out? Things either work, or they don't. That's what I write. Kind of hard to pick that apart unless you're just flat out wrong about your call.

Click to Enlarge 14.54?KB Hold on one minute. Until you can take that same piece of siding, lay it against something like a sheet of OSB or anything else it would normally be fastened to in a real world application, and produce the same result, you've got nothing. You could do the same thing to a sheet of plywood or a 2x4, with a nailer. Really? So, are you saying that even though you believe this product is junk, you'll do anything for a buck?

I agree 100%, except every time I've seen the phrase in someone's report it's "appears to be functioning as intended." Combined with other statements in those reports, it seems the purpose of the phrase is to not commit to anything. It seems to me they're trying to avoid upsetting "the deal" while also attempting to deflect any responsibility. The single most important thing I've ever learned from this forum, has been about report writing and avoiding that kind of inspector speak nonsense. There was a time when it seemed like the lesson took place every day. About time this came back around. If I don't use those terms while I'm talking to someone, why would I write that way? Would you go through your whole inspection saying the words "appears serviceable" to your client, every time you opened a window or checked an outlet?

Appears Serviceable, means what? It looks like you can service it? It looks like it might work? How does the old lady interpret that? We all know what that's supposed to mean, but what about the people paying us?

I was hired this week by a couple who were told at a credit union first time buyers class, to NOT take a referral for a home inspector from their agent, and why they shouldn't. About time the banks took an interest in their own investments rather than trusting the fox with the chickens. I'm jumping all over this. Hopefully, I'll be doing a presentation at the next one. It's real hard to prove tortious interference in a court of law. Not as hard to side step it if you look for a hole.