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  1. Jim Baird
    ...love the glazed tile fish. I guess that is supposed to be koi.
  2. Jim Baird
    ...a brick house near here is two storey and, under direction of the eccentric owner, all the outside joints were left like that, to a surprisingly repulsive effect. Around here people call it "the castle"...don't think I have pics left, but I inspected a 3 storey tower stuck on the side that leaked for that owner. Click to Enlarge 58.29 KB
  3. Jim Baird
    ...they were looking for the "honk and wave" kind...
  4. Jim Baird
    So who you gonna call?
  5. Jim Baird
    Down here the franchise, corporate type inspectors love to talk about bugabears that media have latched onto. "We specialize in radon and mold. Ask about our inspection packages..."
  6. Jim Baird
    I share John's disoriented feeling re the sunlight. Never seen anything close to this. If this house is on the coast and went through Charleston's record rains of last year, I might guess there is no WRB and that the wall might have suffered some wind driven moisture intrusion. As an AHJ some yrs back I busted a hurry-up spec builder putting up cement fiber siding without wrb about halfway through the job. The siding came down and he started over again.
  7. Jim Baird
    ...you could say that the separation is not needed for the screened porch interface because the porch is not habitable space. The pool makes the whole third bay a top heavy structure to my eye. Makes me wonder if this was really designed or was built at the direction of an eccentric owner. A painter I knew once built a deck out of untreated spf lumber at the owner's direction just because the wood was left over from the house build. Painter protested loudly but went ahead because he was being paid.
  8. Jim Baird
    ...looks like a dropped screwdriver handle hit it.
  9. Jim Baird
    The way out, Steve, offers you The Light, and has a high motivational energy, unlike the trip in, that is more like a rabbit hole. I know a fellow who fell into a hand-dug well walking by himself on a poco ROW, looking up at a meteor shower. A batch, nobody knew he was missing, so he had to climb out by himself, which only took him 24 hrs to climb out of a 28 ft hole.
  10. Jim Baird
    I think I set my record minimum crawlspace access penetration through this ad hoc access apparently made by a tradesman before me. Click to Enlarge 98.07 KB
  11. Jim Baird
    ...a lot of people like their beer and wine at room temp anyway...
  12. Jim Baird
    Thanks for the replies. The chimney column was wide enough to contain two flues, but its terminal was so high I could not see the top, which also had a pretty good wrapping type of weather hood. I think the current occupants likely resumed the fireplace use long after a former occupant sealed it off in order to put the furnace in and vent it that way.
  13. Jim Baird
    B vent connector enters chimney column with fireplace flue. From 06 IRC, G2427.10.13 (503.10.13) Fireplaces. A vent connector shall not be connected to a chimney flue serving a fireplace unless the fireplace flue opening is permanently sealed. This vent connector enters bottom of massive chimney column. I can't tell whether there are two flues or a B vent contained inside the column. At fireplace opening the effluent exit is audible when furnace operates. Does this code section prohibit this arrangement? Click to Enlarge 51.09 KB
  14. Jim Baird
    Hey, speak for yourself. We still occasionally use car decking subfloors here. ...and by car deck I'm sure you mean railcar deck...some of which I have seen around here, but then a friend had a '57 Jaguar that had an oak floor.
  15. Jim Baird
    That grouting obviously applied after beam placement makes you wonder just what there is for bearing in there.
  16. Jim Baird
    ...are there no anchors set into the top of that wall?
  17. Jim Baird
    ...obviously underway on a "cost-plus" basis.
  18. Jim Baird
    They kept all the Christmas stuff up there anyway, so they snowed it in place before bringing it down. That is the overspray, but it hardened over time.
  19. Jim Baird
    ...saw this site built truss work in a dwelling nearly sixty years old. Same 3/8" decking used for gussets decks the roof on 24" centers, not sagging much as you might expect. Click to Enlarge 47.52 KB
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    Tub wall access. From an in-law's house. Click to Enlarge 58.56 KB
  21. Jim Baird
    Looks like a sloppy handyman's work. What are the yellow wirenuts for?
  22. Jim Baird
    "...Sometimes nuthin' is a pretty cool hand to have..."---Lucas Jackson
  23. Jim Baird
    ...soon we will be able to program our GFCI alarms with audio clips to our liking with our phones... Rob, if we are not home then our GFCI alarm devices will just call us with any important news, right?
  24. Jim Baird
    ...here modulars are state monitored and inspected, with a little stamp stuck on inside of electric panel cover...your state should be able to offer some reason.
  25. Jim Baird
    The size of the house explains the overkill on capacity. How many bathrooms? How many jet tubs. I have seen a few commodious jet tubs in homes served by single 40 or 50 gallon water heaters.
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