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  1. Bill Kibbel
    I believe the NEC requires a "service head" with one exception. The exception is that the SE cable can be formed into a "gooseneck" and the SEC jacket be sealed with weather-resistant thermoplastic tape. The picture in the original post is not a gooseneck. I can scan a diagram I have of one, if you'd like.
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    Lab testing of vermiculite is something HIs should not be recommending. I've posted that fact a number of times here. The method of sampling is severely flawed and lab results using current methods are inaccurate. Since 80% of all vermiculite (before 1990) came from the contaminated Montana mine, It's best to treat it the same as known asbestos containing materials. http://www.oldhouseweb.com/how-to-advic ... stos.shtml
  3. Bill Kibbel
    That's why as professionals, we should look for authoritative sources. Google indexing doesn't have a load-o-crap filter.
  4. Bill Kibbel
    Hmmm, I've never noticed any noise.
  5. Bill Kibbel
    Step 1: Learn the proper name of building materials.
  6. Bill Kibbel
    They look like 1950s Remcon switches. There's no single "relay box" because Remcon had a mini transformer built into every relay. This system usually has a relay located in each box of each separate fixture being controlled.
  7. Bill Kibbel
    That gray connector is heat-shrink wrapper over a COPALUM crimp. Here's the CPSC pub on the crimp connector repair method: http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/pubs/516.pdf Warning- It's pretty old info. Also, I've heard of issues with repair connections made by sparkies not trained in the use of the crimp tool.
  8. Bill Kibbel
    HardiePlank isn't the only fiber-cement smooth lap siding. There's CemPlank, CertainTeed WeatherBoard, NichiProducts and MaxiPlank.
  9. Bill Kibbel
    Signal amplifier. Could be for phone, CATV or audio.
  10. Bill Kibbel
    That seems to make sense, but I've never read that from any manufacturers documentation. I have read several that stated the insulation was installed specifically to "minimize operating sounds".
  11. Bill Kibbel
    Quite common on scroll compressors as they're quite loud. Some others have an insulated compartment for the compressor.
  12. Bill Kibbel
    I read a similar description of failing fiber-cement siding (excluding the HI stuff), but it wasn't a Hardi product. I think the product was called MaxiPlank. I found that it was never distributed in my area, so I didn't pay too much attention to it. It might be a common product in your area. Perhaps the rumor is due to the similar name and type of the product.
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    Hip roof vent

    Bill Kibbel replied to kurt's topic in Roof Forum

    Anyone else always seeing the filter material clogged?
  14. Bill Kibbel
    If you mean that epoxy repairs are not satisfactory, that isn't true. That's not what I mean - you missed my point.
  15. Bill Kibbel
    Repairs done to rotted wood are always quick, temporary patches to hold paint 'till closing. The only properly done, adequate repairs are the ones that you wouldn't even have noticed were repairs.
  16. Bill Kibbel
    Buyers: "So overall, what do you think?" HI: "There's no major structural issues and all of the systems have been recently updated, so it doesn't have hardly any of the usual problems of a house this age." Buyers: "That's great - any other things you can think of that we should be concerned about?" HI: "Wellll....., I'm no expert, but you might want to get a specialist to come by and see if maybe, ummmm, if maybe IT'S A GATEWAY TO HELL!"
  17. Bill Kibbel
    That's the house where the murders took place... and the events experienced by the subsequent owners.
  18. Bill Kibbel
    If you pull up to an inspection and it's this house, be sure to check closely for evidence of green slime having oozed from the walls.
  19. Bill Kibbel
    Just PEX, nothing special.
  20. Bill Kibbel
    I just worn the fat & ugly clients that they might get a glimpse of themselves naked.
  21. Bill Kibbel
    Based on what standard? What do you say when it's 19°.
  22. Bill Kibbel
    That's why they mount 'em on plywood here (well, most of 'em). The ones that are installed directly on the foundation usually look like that.
  23. Bill Kibbel
    It looks like it 'cuz it is Certainteed Grand Manor.
  24. Bill Kibbel
    I recognize the name. I thought they were manufactured primarily for mobile homes. Needs a new thermocouple.
  25. Bill Kibbel
    In PA, the standards are set by the individual county health departments. In my home county, the minimum standard requires a watertight steel casing to a minimum depth of 30' feet and 5' into bedrock or other impervious strata and grouted. This shows shallow wells are no longer acceptable. "Open surface" wells haven't been permitted since probably the first half of the last century, although I still find some occasionally in service. The most recent find was a spring-fed pond supplying all water to an inn & conference center.
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