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Best way i know to learn about electrical stuff is an apprentiship,yeah I know my spelling sucks also! [:-slaphap

we're required to have an access/inspection point on b-vented chimneys when we do an install or local utility co will tag the job when they inspect the install.Ive never seen a furnace piped/vented that way before

Service entrance cable generally is inside a piece of emt or rigid pipe after it reaches weatherhead to the meter socket.It is then normally piped from meter socket to panel,ive seen service wire spliced inside service panel before main plenty of times. [:-bigeyes

above.what kind of cornball install was that? [:-bigeyes

is it knob/tube wiring?

yeah definately half ass work ,would not pass a city inspector around here [:-yuck]

is that the total sf of all floors? thats definately oversized if that is the case i would say. Have you been keeping furnace filter changed,did the check the coil to make sure it wasnt clogged?Those are just a couple of the things that could cause an airflow/overheating issue.

I don't like it either but the disconnect isn't required to be outside. If one must crawl, slither or go spelunking to get to the disconnect then "accessible" could be challenged. do you consider that to be readily accessable? how about protected from physical damage? []

well if its a main disconect for the house it would normally be mounted outside of house next to the meter,mounting it in the crawl space does no good if something happens and you need to kill the power right now. And mounting it on the bottem of the sub floor gives it no protection from some dim wit driving a nail through the floor into the back of it,so i would say its not physically protected in its current location [:-bigeyes

why would anybody put a combustion air vent that close to an exhuast for a 90plus furnace and where is the intake for the furnace at? and why we're at it why does he have that hood over the flue for the furnace? got any better pictures? [:-yuck]

is it electrically controlled then im guessing? and if thats the case wouldnt it already be grounded through the electrical system?

All inspectors in omaha ne on the mechanical side anyway electrical/hvac and plumbing have to hold a minimum of a journeymans license in the trade they are inspecting.One of my employees who also holds an electricalcontractors license was the chief electrical inspector in bellevue ne for close to 10 years. If people would quit fueling this fire on both sides id leave it alone also!

Do any of you guys read what ive posted or do you guys all follow the dog in front of you where ever it goes? Do you not not words like how do you guys handle this situation? Does it say any place in my post that this is the only way to do it ?Or how about the part where i say this is how i handle it and the city inspectors around here approve of it?I dont recall anyplace where ive said its my way or the highway,but I do seem to notice pretty much everybody posting on here that my way is wrong without giving many other options other than the crimp tool which i will appreciate and will investigate further! The whole reason behind this post was to see how you guys handle aluminum wiring and related wiringdevices on an inspection.

How is the thermostat for the heater operated? I would think there would be some sort of stat to control the gas valve for the heater which would normally include a 24v circuit from transformer and 120v to feed it. Or is this system differant from a house boiler?

You guys keep talking about my attitude meanwhile ive pointedout several posts where you guys have been calling contractors a bunch of idiots long before i ever arrived on the scene! Maybe you need to read some of the things other people post on here before jumping on my post! The biggest differance i see here is I have some real world experiance here that im trying to share ,which I have no doubt many of you also have spent time in the trades and have experiance as well while others just spend lots of time reading books and taking correspondence courses. And by the way i have plenty of insurance to cover what me and my employees do,and as of yet ive never had to file a claim since 1996. As long as your talking about my half ass ways of doing things ,what is your experiance in wiring houses and buildings? [^]

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any commercial bay and between any multifamily residential living area ive had the pleasure to set electrical boxes on

picture wont post! [:-weepn] had a nice shot of piece of 4" pvc that started breaking down inside and gluing lint inside of self

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are they having any issues with the houses being too tight causing people to get sick?

here ya go since im the unknown contractor of unknown skills http://hyetechutilities.com

http://hyetechutilities.com there ya go,your unknown contractor in business since 1996

ok then explain to me what advantage the factory gains by making the A coil bigger between the 10seer and 13 seer ? im all ears ! ive got my happy face on here so enlighten me! [:-slaphap http://hyetechutilities.com

Well, this is a home inspectors' site and the "patrons" are home inspectors, aren't they? Now, if I went and hung out on an HVAC forum and started dissing the patrons there, I'd probably be doing exactly what, oh, I dunno, YOU are doing, wouldn't I? I know the thread you are referring to, can you tell me the specific post where a home inspector called himself or home inspectors Gods, or is that a little bit of theatrical embellishment made by you because you felt slighted by the tone that thread took? I'll bet you I can go to any HVAC forum on the planet right now and find one or two posts where the HVAC guys are bitching about those damned home inspectors. Maybe I'd even find you participating in one or two of those discussions, and laying into those (sneer) so-called home inspectors. No? You're still spending most of your time not bringing anything to the table here. We've got other trades that hang here regularly who are very helpful and want to help make our profession be better. They don't spend a lot of time trying to find fault here and they, like us, know there's a lot of room for improvement in their own profession, so they've adopted a thick hide when here and very graciously take it and return it by helping here and earning the respect of the brethren. Do you think you're big enough of a man to do that, or is it more important for you to find fault here. I'm beginning to think that you might have recently been traumatized by something a home inspector wrote and hanging out here and sniping at inspectors is your way of getting payback. Is that why you are really here? ONE TEAM - ONE FIGHT!!! Mike im trying very hard to be helpfull here! maybe if you read some of the previous postings the members have made about contractors being a bunch of dumbasses instead of just ignoring them we might get someplace! im just trying to give some sugestions here is all,and no im not worried about some home inspector bully out here in the real world .the only inspectors that i need to worry about throughout my day are employed by the city and state of where ever im working at the time.the reason i came on here was to try and learn somethings that might help me or my customers in the future.instead all i seem to find is you guys cant handle anybody asking questions or having some actual real world experiance that you guys cant find in a book! its a 2 way street guys

there we go with my spelling again,i can go get a bottle out of my service van but you know what im talking about. anyway oxidation is the problem with the aluminum wire ,look inside your fancy purple wire nuts youre talking about and this is what you will find in there to prevent electrolisys(spell check) between the copper and aluminum wire.