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Thanks Scott. Bruce will be happy to hear from me!

anyone have a good photo of csst properly or improperly bonded to steel gas pipe? google has photos, but nothing suitable. thanks

I live in an area that is cold abt 11 1/2months a year. all direct vents are visible most of the time. the condensation on the wood is a real issue for us. it seems to keep the wood wet with a liquid that is slightly acidic and of course it forms hoary frost for several months of the year on surrounding surfaces.

don't think anything! just normal price increase while we sit on the 2001 prices! thanks Erby!

Am looking for Sun Nuclear 1027 or 1028 again. If you have any you would sell, pm me or respond here. I don't care if they are calibrated or not. the price for the 1027 went up on the new models to $798 plus, so I was thinking there may be some used ones out there.

I first saw them in the 1970's. here in Michigan there was quite a cottage industry pouring them. the environmental consequence was substantial: waste materials, dust, solvents, etc.

This is not a negative reflection on Marc and his hard work, but is this regulation as silly as I think?

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Nolan, I get confused when reading this. What do you think about this issue? Are inspectors really prohibited from reporting it? Was there any science presented at the meeting? etc. Marc, it looks like they wanted it to be a requirement to report it, but that failed. likely someone will post more specifics.

Sounds like he may have a testosterone problem!

Sawdust was common in Michigan houses until circa 1920. I have no particular issue with it. see Jim's comment.

Jim is right about the hourly readings. SN can be set to differ, but most are hourly. the data can be downloaded to their software or just produce a "cash register" style bar graph. Placement is important, as is calibration of that individual device. the goal is not to find radon and really I don't think it is appropriate to test for radon, rather I think you should screen and learn what the average level in a given area is. There is also an accuracy issue. email me the rpt.

Kurt, I think you are right. Jerry, there is case law, however most issues never get to court or become case law. From my experience only one of maybe 200 ever get past discovery. Jim, nice photos and explaination!

I know several inspectors, on a national level, that work as "experts". Actually it is mostly litigation support. I suspect not a single one will list an SOP as an issue or a basis for action. It is all about expectation and management of expectations. Then again there are times when I really worry that the Jim K's and Kurt M's are not in touch with what many thousand inspectors believe. Can't say that I know, but have a strong opinion that it is not one world out there. Anything local, as custom or fact, will trump any SOP at any level. Just my opinion.

well I gotta be a little careful as to location for a few days. The boiler was in a 20' x 30' room that was configured exactly like a Sicilian bread oven with all the arches. for some reason most of those photos didn't look that good and the potential buyer was hesitant for me to do more photos.? the floor on the first photo was caked with abt 3/4" shellac in many areas and the other areas were layered with varnish. we spent abt an hour tracking down various evidence of past fires; small ones by old machinery. Sadly all the machines were gone (stolen). Smoke stacks, chimneys, pits, holes, rot, mushrooms, water, rats, bugs, friable asbestos, lead, urea, mold/mildew, burned beams, missing joists, mud, blood and beer - all the elements of a good inspection!

this job is great. Today it was an old furniture factory along with the ghosts of workers, lumber and noise. The smell of rotting wood and shellac hung like a cloud on the inside of the building. I got to look at the old sawdust boilers, waste wood burner, belts and pulleys, elevators and lots of brickwork. The warehouse had several hundred new damp/wet mattresses and maybe couple hundred wood desks. Click to Enlarge 54.52 KB Click to Enlarge 39.98 KB Click to Enlarge 53.87 KB[/si Click to Enlarge 45.54 KBze=1]

I feel better already.

You have had a fire in the attic? or You had a fire in the attic.

Nolen, that sound pretty good to me.

John, really does not tell me much. I used it to talk a little about communication rather than bedbugs! it was not intended to be science, just a tickler. It brought photos to the fore and got us talking about reading - it did something.

the longer this thread remains alive, the more I am getting to like Marc! Scott and I have worked together several times on this type issue and for the record it is damn difficult!

AR 15?

Marc, insurance companies, not ASHI excluded mold. I am failing to communicate here. I apologize for lumping mold in the same category as the other environmental issues of the past. they are different and science and the home inspection profession helped control the hysteria that went along with them at those "times". I remain anti-mold. if this passes, as written, I may just move there to pursue a career in litigation support.

Rob, I had forgotten about that! I do read at least 30minutes every day. Dedicated reading. Reading for fun more like 3-4hrs per week. Read Read Read.

Marc, You and I have had discussions abt this in the past and I guess I didn't really understand this proposed regulation. Also, would you please explain to me why you persist in bring ASHI into this discussion ala 1976. Some of us have been around nearly since 1976 and until the "other" organization came around I regarded mold objectively. I have lived through uffi, lead, radon, iag, asbestos, formaldhyde, eifs, etc. Mold is, and should be, scary for inspectors. It is my opinion 99.9% of the discussions abt mold I have in a normal day is refuting BS. If you think it is the mold you see that is the only problem, we got some explaining to do!