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  1. Jim Baird
    Rex Roberts was an eccentric, but a likable one. His gospel of simplicity was close to austerity. He did not like any finish on any wood that you could keep dry.
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    From the book I used as a guide when I built my home in 1988. I found it posted here: http://soilandhealth.org/wp-content/upl ... YEHtoc.htm "...Stain, another cosmetic treatment, is not as versatile as paint. It can change brilliance in only one direction; darker. You can change your mind and scrape paint off if you want to work hard enough. Stain is there to stay. Depending on how you feel about it, this can be a virtue or a fault. Once you have painted something, repainting is just around the corner, but you don't have to keep re-staining..."
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    Yes, Marc, Kurt straightened me right out on my terms. So if light can be quantified by breaking it into a number of particles or a number of wave segments, how many get bounced by reflective surfaces to the end of the tube. How many get lost along the way, and if they are divided by a fork in their road, do their numbers stay the same or do they get halved at the fork?
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    In our state there is a number floor (six, I think) past which somebody has to be licensed as a water service operator who does periodic sampling and report. Happens most with rental tycoons.
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    1X divided by 2 = 1/2X Way too simple. First we have to answer the question of whether light is a particle or a beam.
  6. Jim Baird
    If this light relies on reflection then it is like a moon. If your sky had two moons in it instead of one, would not there be more light delivery?
  7. Jim Baird
    ...maybe, but it might not be visible to the naked eye.
  8. Jim Baird
    Exactly. In media studies that's called "narcotizing dysfunction", where enough repetition blends noises into a sub-hearing background. Sort of like the way occupants get used to a bad set of stairs.
  9. Jim Baird
    A vendor I have used more than once is called Beach Camera, I think. Good prices and fast delivery.
  10. Jim Baird
    ...it's like Original Sin. If you are an induction one, you are cursed to whine.
  11. Jim Baird
    Love the sense of humor, Steve. The length of concrete spill pictured actually turns UP and out from the edge of the building. I think the buyer wants it remedied. Could be a deal killer or qualify for a compensatory discount. If it were my house and I had built it, I would be ashamed.
  12. Jim Baird
    I rely on pockets deep enough to not spill contents, and carabiner to hold camera pouch. Maybe some extra-pocket cargo pants.
  13. Jim Baird
    ...a class in technical writing might help, but better writing does not clear up murky thought.
  14. Jim Baird
    Backfill is not an option if the 6 in clearance from grade to siding is met. On other sides of the building backfill was added that reduced that clearance to about 4 in., but the concrete "shelf" remains. All the builder had to do was make his form a little taller/deeper. It is the worst looking slab pour I have ever seen as far as those edges go.
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    I was careful to suggest cutting away the sloppy. Because this subdivision was built at the edge of the big building collapse I was told many houses stood empty for most of a year. The cavity at the drain exit might even be an abandoned armadillo hole. They have been moving into our area for a number of years.
  16. Jim Baird
    Entire perimeter of house/garage showed concrete spillage from original pour, apparently having exuded under edge forms. It not only negates positive slope at its beginning, it looks unsightly. Where the building sewer exits there is a deep cavity under the edge that looks due to simple fill settlement. I think the only way to assess the length and depth of the cavity is to expose it by digging, but is it feasible to try breaking off the overspill all around? Click to Enlarge 55.37 KB
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    The common box turtle, which wears its house, is said to live for as long as 138 yrs.
  18. Jim Baird
    It's a full open eastern exposure. Other side is shaded by adjacent house for part of the day. I too think it is temp diff between area over framing and area over substrate, which is likely half inch isocyanurate and likely foil covered where structural sheathing is not applied. Also is likely the only coat of paint it ever had.
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    House about 10 yrs old. This color diff pattern appears to show us stud locations, as the dark vertical lines coincide with face nails, but I don't know why. Guesses? Click to Enlarge 54.64 KB
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    No mentions of the R-values he got with that outer jacket, nor of how he met any kind of codes. There is likely lots more exposed NM than he showed us. The publisher of a line of books I like called Wooden Books lives in an 800 year old house in Wales, so what is so new about this design?
  21. Jim Baird
    If the page you pasted is from your code it is clearly a violation as well as butt ugly. Our state amends every code it adopts, and it grants lots of exceptions like those posted. The two riser thing is usually about garage/house entries. I think this "flight" is dangerous. Wonder if you noted what looks like a complete lack of slope on those brick sill rowlocks under the windows. In my county the building crash caused, in time, a cleanout of the local AHJ inspection staff that left one guy, the most senior, who has trouble reading a newspaper. I don't think he knows how to look anything up in a code book.
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    Up here in the piney woods they call "couillon", "bubba". Often you see him with a goatee and a ball cap. I think I see now from the views we have that the flat board is incidental to the joists. Main function of the flat piece is to cap the pier. The cap should be masonry, but here it is commonly done with a treated board. Incidentally I don't know when I have seen joists with more depth than the band joists they meet. In fact, that pier row looks unnecessary anyway. I have almost never seen an overbuilt deck. Usually they are underdone and bouncy.
  23. Jim Baird
    ...all I can think of is Bubba's way to prevent rotation where joists meet end to end. Do not see any support role for that flat board.
  24. Jim Baird
    For some time now, say since the Eisenhower days, the President's office has been just a janitor's closet in the halls of Corporate Power.
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    What's This?

    Jim Baird replied to kurt's topic in HVAC Forum

    I have seen well casings as small as 2".
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