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Armed with your Report and Pictures, you might suggest that the home owner contact the manufacturer and distributor, to inform them of the scumbag that they are allowing to buy and install their product. The home owners may get some relief (new shingles, labor cost) for helping kick this guy off the approved installers list. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Is that wood brickmold or the vinyl J channel that the siding runs behind? The picture is not clear enough on my computer to tell. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Are there gaps between the treads, risers and stringer on the living side of the stairs that you are concerned about? This picture only shows a missing wedge on the riser. My older sisters gave me the job of re-gluing the wedges when, because of the dried out horse hide glue and squeaky steps, they got caught sneaking out of the the house after dad had went to bed. You might want to suggest that a fire rated covering be installed for safety on the underside. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Wow Ezra, 84.4 eh? That's really something. My highest was 18 on the west side of Cleveland. Are you using Sun Nuclear Ezra? Yes, Sun Nuclear. I had two monitors at this house as a quality check. If I had had just one, I may have retested with another to verify the reading. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Three test in the last week; North Canton at 84.4 pCi/L, Louisville, OH at 30.6 pCi/l and West Akron at 1.6 pCi/l. Of the three, we thought that West Akron was going to be high as there were many standpipes and fans visible in the allotment and it falls within that Avon to Columbus High Radon Corridor that Terence McCann mentioned. North Canton and Louisville usually show low. You just don't know until you test. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

A cover for the cables that were run down the roof to get them to the exterior wall on what looks like a screened-in porch. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

It is a rental. Should have know that it was going to be a bad one when the seller and agents said they were busy and couldn't make it to the inspection. Buyer is from out of town. After the furnace, the only thing I touched was my camera. I keep the Clorox wipes in the truck, but still need a long hot shower to get the bugs off of me and the smell out of my nose.

Here is a furnace of a house that is being lived in. Click to Enlarge 50.93 KB When I got done with the inspection, went home and took off my clothes at the back door, went to the basement and hosed off over the floor drain before I went upstairs and took a long hot shower. I get the itchies when I do one of those. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

The adaptive reuse of a Historic Building is encouraged if it means saving it from the wrecking ball, but the biggest problem with that house may be getting it approved for use as a group home. To get it registered, you want to start with your state State Historic Preservation Officer (probably someone in your State Historic Society). There are people for hire that can run you thru the process, or someone that has a lot of free time on their hands can do it. Any building 50 years or older can be on the Register. If no one or anything famous is attached to this house, then the style may be the reason for entry. Their tearing down old "Vernacular" farm houses so quickly that many of the younger generation know little of how our forefathers lived or what they lived in. Local government may require so many sq ft per person, fire walls, fire escapes, fire sprinklers and a host of other safety items as to render this building only able to house one family. A group in our church just went through this and after much treasure and sweat was not able to open the shelter because of the reasons above. As for "Butt-Ugly", open the front porch up, pull the met/vin siding and rejuvenate the clapboards, proper windows and you have a nice little farm house again. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Could it be a loose or unglued joint in the vent from the sink to the main stack? Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Chad is not telling us what he is really up to, I Google-ed "imbricated riffles" and got this;Method and apparatus for defeating ballistic projectiles. I think he's learning to deflect harsh criticism from agents and come back with his own sharp retort. From his many post, I thought he was already good at that art form. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio P.S., I'm setting here feeling like the ugliest girl in the senior class, just before the Prom, waiting for the phone to ring.

Cardboard boxes with foam, fiberglass, and duct tape, two squirrel cage blowers (one from a 51 Hudson Hornet, the other from the 53 Packard Clipper Sedan that's sitting on blocks in the back yard), a transformer from the kid's Lionel train set to run and adjust the speed of the blowers. He later added a hot plate to deice the condenser because he kept forgetting to turn up the speed to the blowers. That's my guess. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Years ago I inspected a 60's era church building, for a start-up congregation, that was built on a slab with transite ducts. The original church members were dying off (pun intended) and could no longer keep up with the utility bills and building maintenance. With a wood plank over beam roof system in both the chapel (18/12 slope) and meeting rooms (flat), you can imagine how high the gas bill must have been. To make the property more salable the broker/agent recommended installing new furnaces and adding Central Air. His heating contractor made no mention of transite ducts, probably wanted to make a quick sale. I show up and opened up the "can of worms" when I removed the first register cover. The new congregation elders thanked me, and decided to built new, the broker/agent didn't. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Congrats. [:-party] I'm coming up on 40 in July, five with the first one, 35 with the current. I've got the yes, Dear down pat. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

That be one of them there designer bathrooms I'm seeing on HGTV (just watched Mike Holmes install one). They say that black and white adds sophistication. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

That's because if your buy it, the it is smarter than the person that bought it. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

At just over 3 months I have removed 30 lbs., but more importantly my sugar and cholesterol number are now within the normal range. And done without taking drugs to control the sugar and cholesterol. The only low count is my vitamin D. Now that winter is over, maybe I can get out and get some of that free vitamin D. The plan is to remove a total of 50 lbs. by years end and another 50 in 2011. By then the economy, and house sales, should be up and I will be in perfect shape to take on all the added work! Just setting here dreaming. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Anything higher than three stories is a Tower of Babel and God will strike it down. Them there Carpenters should stick to what they know; building bridge forms.[:-slaphap Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

That's what happens when Carpenters build with concrete and steel, they should stick to wood.[] Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

The pictures show what happened at all four basement windows on a 1946 Cape Cod with Masonry walls (Brick exterior/Block interior) Click to Enlarge 78.67 KB Click to Enlarge 70.95 KB Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

According to the chart; you are right. Maybe the ANSI date reads 1998 and your eyes are going bad? [:-magnify Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

I see the cable guy was there. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

Bill's last picture looks like the "Sticks out like a Sore Thumb Repair" method of lintel replacement. This method of repair is most often suggested by the Low Bid/Do It All Construction Company. Guessing no weeps or flashing was installed. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio

The report file name; Katen100323. The picture file name is the same, but in a separate picture file. Easy to find when the client calls with a question. Ezra Malernee Canton, Ohio