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Mike, I am curios where did you get the 6 in. requirement to grade? Ramon

This manual is very good for installation details: http://www.eima.com/pdfs/EIMA%20CGuide% ... VA_Web.pdf http://www.eima.com/technicaltools/insp ... uidelines/ Item Description: Termination Above Finished Grade Function: A gap should be maintained between EIFS and the finished grade. The gap must be wide enough to allow access for visual inspection and treatment of the foundation for pest control. Guidelines: Where access to the foundation is not required for visual inspection or treatment for pest control, the EIFS can remain in place.

So you cannot install it in Louisiana let alone your bath or kitchen. Right? That is one heck of a disclaimer.

Applying elastomeric coating creates a wall system that relies primarily on its surface-seal (i.e., the elastomeric coating) instead of its original concealed water resistive barrier (i.e., building paper and flashings under the cement plaster). To work, the surface-seal must block water at its surface, thereby preventing moisture from reaching the underlying, defective WRB and flashing elements. The primary advantage of a surface-seal for this project is lower initial cost and minimal disruption of residents. The disadvantages include: • Requirement for frequent inspection and maintenance to minimize water intrusion. Ultimately, the life-cycle costs of elastomeric coating could approach or exceed the costs of returning the systems to their original design intent. • The walls must be recoated every 7 to 10 years. • Inability to collect and drain water that breaches the surface seal. The existing, underlying WRB and flashings would collect and drain most, but not all water that breaches the surface seals. • Water that breaches the surface seal will dry more slowly since the coating will retard outward drying. • Trapped moisture can cause the coating to blister and delaminate. • Trapped moisture that is not collected and drained by the existing WRB and flashings can lead to microbial growth in the wall cavity. • Silicones have the highest perm rating (i.e., allow more rapid outward drying) of available elastomeric coatings, but have a glossier finish and attract airborne dirt and pollution leading to streaking of the building surface.

Sort of... It is not that Mac's are invulnerable to attacks; they have vulnerabilities like any other computer system. Like I said in my earlier post the new record for hacking a computer was set on a Mac. I do not know if Macs running more and more software increases their vulnerabilities. What I do know is people that write malicious code no longer want to just mess up your computer because they can, in fact they want your computer to run smoothly so you will not notice the data loggers and key loggers. The thieves that try to steal your information are not stupid. They have a choice, do they write code for Mac's (15% of the computer market), or do they write code Windows based systems that account for 85% of the market? The answer to that question is why Mac’s don’t have as many problems with hackers. I think Apple computers are great but the fact that the company chose in 1986 to be proprietary and make every dollar off the computers they manufactured limited their growth. Microsoft preferred to make a little money off every computer in the world. Who do you praise the player that fumbles the ball and runs to the end zone or the player that picks up the fumble and runs to the end zone? I say to you that this same situation has come again in the form of telephones. Apple produced a very powerful iphone but the same company decisions to be limited to AT&T has limited their sales. The shortcomings of the iphone are the caused by the things that protect the iphone from using other networks, and force you to pay a royalty to Apple for the apps you buy through the istore. Google introduced the Android phone that works on several networks and everyone can use it. Google has had very good success in a market Apple could have dominated. I wish my company used something as powerful as these two phones but I am stuck with a Blackberry that is slightly better than a campfire and a blanket. Ramon

Every year there is a "Hacker" convention. Last year the record of hacking a computer was set at 3 minutes . The target was a mac.

Fluid applied traffic coat or dex o tex work but need maintenance.

I doubt that I can do the quote justice.. but here it goes. It was about 5 PM in June, in Las Vegas, 100 degrees. I was working with Kelly Knievel. Someone had left the radio that Kelly had provided them in the house they just came out of. Kelly asked for the radio and the guy asked Kelly if he would mind going into the house and getting the radio. Kelly hesitated for a second and asked: Ya know what my dad (Evil) would say to that? The guy said no and kind of shrugged. Kelly takes the cigar out of his mouth and yells out at him “IS THERE A G@D D@MN PIANO TIED TO YOUR @SSâ€

Was there a manufacturing mark on it? If it was from China who knows about their QC. If I was going to guess I would say it was free Iron from the manufacturing process. It could also be excess chlorides causing the corrosion.

I read a comment by Mike the other day and he basically stated that why defer to a judgment of others. You clearly have faith in HAAG (so do I) and they are already on the record stating that micro cracks are "myth". So for them to go out and do a survey they would walk the roof and pick out the cracked tiles. The down side to this for the owner of the home is HAAG will certainly break down the classes of broken tiles and sort out the number of "hail damaged tiles". What if the owner spends “a boat load of moneyâ€

To reply to this I have reviewed hail damage data from FM Global, and a third party engineering firm (HAAG Engineering). Both sources state that micro fractures are a myth. Ice ball impact testing has a good amount of history going back to 1952. I spoke with an associate and between him and me we have probably been on 10K tile roofs. We agree that tiles are either broken or they are not. You could spend a small fortune on Petrographic examination of the tiles themselves and come up with nothing that would be useful to your roof condition. Damaged tiles are easy to fix. I doubt that you have hail related damage to the battens or underlayment. Broken tiles are mainly due to the different types of hail strikes (glancing or direct). The damage is also more prone on one face due to the exposure of the tiles in the storm. My suggestion to you from an insurance aspect is to not close out the claim in the first year, do the repairs recommended by the insurance company now and let it go through a winter. The adjuster and the underwriter will not like this but you have the right to protect your interests. My opinion on this issue is this does not warrant a total replacement and it is unlikely that you will get it especially if the roof is more than 10 years old.

1 quart ziplock baggie?

That is what happens when it is 6:15 on a friday and I rush to turn off the computer. Marc you are still correct, hats off to you sir.

In my best Monty Python accent... No it isn't. http://www51.wolframalpha.com/input/?i= ... Fahrenheit You were Right now you are wrong.

Marc is correct on this. And just in case anyone is concerned it is also 350.15 K (kelvins). Just in the off chance that anyone at all wanted to know... LOL

Bain, Here is an installation guide for a similar system. it is available on their website at: http://www.metalmanroofing.com/installation-guide.pdf it has a good valley detail that will help you understand the assembly. If I was going to take a guess what is going on I suspect they left out the closure strip and are trying to compensate with the reverse lap black gunk shown in your photos. R Download Attachment: installation-guide.pdf 425.02 KB

You would have mentioned spray foam insulation in the attic, so... Then the only thing I can think of is if someone read an article about venting that suggested that soffit vents on the south exposure will allow hot air into the vents. So they put all the vents on "cooler sides" of the building. If you draw in cooler air then you have greater cooling ability. But that is supposition on my part wondering what someone did. So your fall back is the 1/150 venting rule. Does it have enough on the other side’s or not? Mention that it is out of normal standard building practices. Let the builder explain what he did.

The only thing I can think of is if the south facing rake was (lets say) 2x 12 with drywall attached to the underneath side, the bays may not be ventilated. Were the bedroom ceilings vaulted?

Are you sure that is not Photoshop? LOL

First off P2709.2 the 3 in. is referring to the lining material. This is your waterproofing layer that can be either a vinyl liner, hot mop or a glass fiber reinforced fluid applied membrane. It just has to turn up the wall 3 in. above the threashold. P2709.1 I do not have an understanding of what they are saying. In 2005 I had to put a number of wet rooms into some condos in Venice, CA. Extremely modern live work lofts. At the end of the day there was only 1/2 in. raised threshold at the door. How we accomplished this is we removed the 2 in. lightweight concrete topping and creating the slope needed for water to flow to the drain with mortar. The area around the bi-level drain body was locally depressed to give good flow to the weeps and then filled with filter fabric and thinset for the stone tiles. How we got this passed was to do a volume calculation which is (or used to be) an exception. I cannot remember a code citation for this but it is how FHA and ADA get by.

That is why I was there. And it is not EIFS, but similar system.

Is the window in question the smaller window under the eave? If so I see that the plaster is ground to the bottom side of the soffit. I would check to see if the soffit sheet metal is slightly canted toward the head of the smaller window. I believe your issue could be the confined rake diverter flashing (or lack of) above the larger window it could allow water in to the eave where it travels in the soffit and is deposited behind the Plaster WRB. the water travels behind the WRB, behind the nailing fin and flashings and then manifests at the head of the window. Similar condition in the photo below. Click to Enlarge 34.29 KB Click to Enlarge 55.05 KB

I followed a link from Mark on another topic and noticed this link. http://sketchup.engineeringtoolbox.com/ It might help you out.

OK I will take a swag at it. The judgement can be filed with the county. This will be recorded for 7 years (I believe) the filing can be renewed after the seven years with an additional fee paid to the county. I believe this can be continued in perpituity. If the "person" moves out of the county an abstract of judgement can be filed wherever he goes. The net result of this is: if the person ever gets some assets they can be attached. This process is driven by the person holding the judgement. The homeowner can sell the judgment to a collection company and they will then pursue recovery of assets from the person. If the person gets a job working for another company the judgment can be used to garnish wages from that job. I see no reason the inspector can not continue doing inspections for his own company or set up another company to do buisiness as. Bankruptcy can remove the judgement from the persons credit report. If the judgment has been filed then additional measures must be taken for the adstract or lien to be included in the bankruptcy. In which case the Bankruptcy stays on the credit report for either 7 or 11 years (I am uncertain). It has been my experience that getting a judgment against someone woth no assets or knows how to shelter them is useless.

I am quoting from the 2007 CBC which is a modified version of the 2006 IBC. Per table 2304.7(3) f. is modified by the 1/1/2009 suppliment 2305.1.5 2.4 "Wood structural panel sheathing in diaphragms shall have unsupported edges blocked." ... with that being said I believe my original comments are still correct. Per the owners quote: "half my house has a cathedral ceiling and the other has attic space." So by his statement how do you know that the roof was not constructed as a diaphragm, and why would you expect edge blocking visible in the picture? So if 12.11.2.2.3 does not apply why did you assert it while we were dicussing chords? My comments above.