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  1. Jim Baird
    ...the distance he refers to I've known only as the undefined spec for distance w/o overcurrent protection of SEC. In our area you cannot get a number from the utility. Unless it is "back to back" from meter to main panel there generally is a breaker in the meter box or right next to it for the whole thing.
  2. Jim Baird
    Phillip. In our state counties used to put blanket age restrictions on permitting manufactured homes. State law struck those down in 2010 as arbitrary. Since then localities rely on inspection to make units permittable. Local inspectors can't cross jurisdiction lines, so private guys, like me, have been doing those that cross boundaries. My inspection uses the locality's checkoff, and mainly verifies that a unit can make it down the road and be put back in service. I have never seen arc fault in a manufactured home. Thanks for your link, Marc.
  3. Jim Baird
    ...some kind of hocus pocus energy generator that treats all the butler pantry contents with beneficial vibes. It's cool.
  4. Jim Baird

    Sad news

    Jim Baird replied to gtblum's topic in Open Topics

    Thanks for your post Bill. I know I would have liked him.
  5. Jim Baird
    "...The post should have read that the guest bath was only accessible through the guest closet from the bedroom..." Shame on the builder for stupid design.
  6. Jim Baird
    If the only path to the BA is thru the BR, I would call it a "master suite". I bet you money you are looking at an "Air B&B" setup.
  7. Jim Baird
    It allows use of both outlets by clumsy offsets on DC transformer plug-ins.
  8. Jim Baird
    ...makes for a termite highway.
  9. Jim Baird
    Bottle traps do work, but they aren't the best looking things in the world. Among my garden plants is a salvia (Salvia microphylla), named one I have is called Hot Lips. See in foreground on right of path. Gets to 3' by 4' or so. Blooms all spring, summer, and into fall till frost. Carpenter bees love the blooms so much that I can stand beside the plant with a pair of work gloves and just mash them with my fingers or clap them between palms to shock them to ground where I stomp 'em. Get done in ten minutes what the bottle trap takes weeks to do. Click to Enlarge 98.12 KB
  10. Jim Baird
    I like #3, BTW never saw cannabis wallpaper before. #2 is like the blues line, "...gonna lay my head on some lonesome railroad line, and let that 2:19 train pacify my mind..."
  11. Jim Baird
    Marc I passed many like that as an AHJ. The toilet "closet" is not a different room, and some would say the fan is best placed there.
  12. Jim Baird
    ...digital is incidental to photography. It mainly just frees the user from film limitations. User still has to master composition, exposure, sensitivity, depth of field, f-stops, and shutter speed. I like most of these. Today's phones have pretty good cameras on them for point and shoot.
  13. Jim Baird
    Thanks for the replies. Mark, I would pass along your offer but was thinking of bidding 5K myself. Those here don't appear to think stucco would help, that good cap with good drip function is what is needed. I have seen lots of stuccoed chimney columns on older houses.
  14. Jim Baird
    This 40 yr old chimney has leaked from time to time lately into the fireplace. A roofer pointed out to owner that he had brick problems there, and recommended a mason. Mason looked, called for two men, two weeks, estimated cost to cut out and replace 60 bad brick, $16,500. Looks like original mason used a mixed bag of reclaimed brick, and the softies are disintegrating. Could this column be lathed and stuccoed over with a new cap? Click to Enlarge 111.35 KB Click to Enlarge 116.37 KB Click to Enlarge 128.67 KB
  15. Jim Baird
    ...I hold my nose and keep using HP tho I do not like what they charge for ink.
  16. Jim Baird
    In our county the only muni inspector left on staff cannot even read the newspaper, so there is a lot that escapes him. Another good reason why every buyer should hire a competent inspector new construction or not.
  17. Jim Baird
    ...I once inspected a group home under construction where the plumber had installed a "master trap" with two cleanouts before and after trap. It is related to commercial rqmnt for grease traps and separation of soil drain from kitchen drain. Technically I think it was not necessary in what is called a "six-pack" (six or fewer in group home setting where manager is POA for old folks w/o family or insurance). In the current setting it was overkill.
  18. Jim Baird
    "...Mold needs moisture to propagate..." Moldmania needs propaganda to proliferate.
  19. Jim Baird
    ...there are 2 kinds of basements. Those that leak and those that will leak.
  20. Jim Baird
    ...around here that is very common. Framing got going real fast, only backfill is outside. 8" block can take up to 4 courses w/o balanced fill on inside.
  21. Jim Baird
    I visited a home in Mexico that had those brick domes in more than one room for a ceiling. I assumed they propped things temporarily to get it done but I don't know.
  22. Jim Baird
    New Yorker has every body stirred up in the PNW. This week's letters are all about the story and the debate it sparked. I thought I was sick of mold until the discussions about earthquakes started. Thank you very much New Yorker Magazine.
  23. Jim Baird
    Tympanum is also the name of the eardrum, no?
  24. Jim Baird
    I have gotten more selective about spaces I am willing to enter, but have been in some really short ones too. Rob, my wife and I suit up in Tyvek when we work our bees. It makes a great bee suit, lightweight and they don't sting thru it.
  25. Jim Baird
    Mold questions aside, I'd like to know which astute finance guy loaned money on this place. Realtors would call it property, but most people would call it solid waste.
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