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The owner of the duplex couldnt figure out why she wasnt getting much airflow to the main floor on her side of duplex. I explained to her that between all the 6" supply lines cut into the itty bitty plenum on top of her furnace,all the air leaks and the fact more than half of them were over 20" long it was no suprise she was getting no airflow and all the heat was radiating through the single wall pipe making basement nice and warm before anything ever reached the main floor! [:-yuck] Not to mention the 2 extra 90s and 15' of extra pipe running to her main floor bath. Once I get the majority of the electrical and plumbing violations dealt with I told her Ill tear out all the 6" and run a trunk line across the basement then do some 6" take offs from there to straighten the situation out for her. [] Click to Enlarge 19.08 KB

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Click to Enlarge 21.5?KBthis was under tub other side of duplex,notice the way the abs/pvc and purple primer just flow together. [:-weepn] Its things like this that keep bringing me out of retirement to fix the screw ups of these clueless bumbling butchers. [:-yuck]

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Click to Enlarge 19.02 KBthe white part is lower part of tub dangling below joists with a bunch of boards holding it up,sorry about lousy picture I took it with my phone! [:-bigeyes

Aparently this guy wanted a recessed tub really bad,what better way to achieve the look than a chainsaw to the floor joists and a bunch of 2x4s propped underneath to hold it? [:-bigmout oopsies wrong pick! [:-paperba

This was actually in a duplex,2 seperate electrical services both equally hacked up. [:-yuck] The idiot used cpvc plumbing pipe for conduit to pull wire into a bunch of places in basement,open junction boxes with romex snakes hanging every place. When I was looking at one of the furnaces I found one of those electrical how to books laying there,if he would have atleast looked at the pictures he could have done better work! [:-tong2]

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Ive been doing wiring/plumbing/hvac on and off for 30 plus years but some of the trash i saw today was definately top 10 stuff! [:-taped] Click to Enlarge 28.98 KB

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Went hitting the stores this morning as promised,I did find a 25a 2p sq-d homeline breaker at lowes. They didnt carry them for any other brands though,had no luck at ace hardware/true-value.Havent been to menards or home depot yet today,but the day is still young. You guys were right about them though,this is my way of admitting I was wrong on that one! [][][][][]

Ok im on board but lets all play by the same rules. [][][][][]

I don't know about a requirement, but I've inspected a whole lotta houses from that time period and none had 6'2" ceilings. If the ceiling height is original, it's a anomaly. Are you sure that someone didn't drop the ceilings in the '70s? That was very commonly done to save on heating costs. that would be my buess also

most of those motors dont have bearings,just a bushing

how about just replacing the motor,many appliance parts places sell them for under $20.00

No you need to lighten up ,i went through the same bunch of crap from you guys on the A coil post when i talked about using oversize coils with you guys rattling on about i didnt know what i was talking about,then i posted the manufacturers suggestions for over size coils proving it was legitimate. As i was basically told years of field experiance meant nothing if it wasnt designed by an engineer or in a code book . So now im just asking where it says in the code that K-copper cannot never be used in a steam boiler system,and no the experiance from old guys whove been in the field for 100 years doesnt count as you guys have already said.[^]

Copper risers for the Peerless steam boiler my basement. 23 years old and no leakage whatsover. And yup, it's piped with a bullheaded tee... Any chance there was an outdoor reset for that system? Could you post a picture of your boiler install?[]

So is there anything in a mechanical code book that says you can never use K-copper under any circumstances in any steam boiler? I mean since most of you guys(not all of you)seem to like to get your answers directly from a book. [:-monkeyd

Ive got an old 93hp kewanee in one of my buildings in omaha,no copper on that one but its also the size of my old chevy cube van and heats 27 apartments and 6 commercial bays. There are many updated steam boilers around omaha,and many of them have k copper plumbed into them theyve been running for years without issues. Many of the hot water boilers I still work on around omaha still run steel piping,some of them have been repiped in copper it depends on when they were installed.

Did you notice the copper guys posted the standards from the engineering books?You guys seem to like to have it both ways around here. When it fits what you want its because the national electric code says and thats the only answer,it doesnt matter what problems the guys in the field have with it because they obviously were installing it wrong. But when the code says it can be done and they show you the standards to back it up it doesnt matter,because the guys in the fitters union dont like to do it that way. So exactly how many of you guys have a 3rd grade engineers license,or any kind of a back ground or actual hands on experiance other than pointing at a boiler in house? []

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q= ... a8u3tLAz1Q

http://www.copper.org/applications/plum ... stems.html

ive never seen the 25a breakers on the shelf,ill check tomorrow if i see them i will post it here []