Jim Baird

...looks like the lights are on but nobody is home...

Here they live in the ground but saw one nest where they chewed right through wood lap siding over a doorway. Here I blast them with the long range bombs...usually some scavenger animal will dig the nest up later...hope they don't get sick on it.

haha Surely the wall outlet is not upstream of the oven? Fan. You mean the kind that blows back your bangs?

...guess this is what they mean when they say corporations are people?...

It has a window. Marc I have also seen more than one closet with a window in it!

BR is supposed to have an egress window, opening min. 22" wide 24" high, 5.7 SF, or a door to outside. What you describe sounds to me like a walk in closet.

Sometimes those things are visible defects. They look like crap. You don't have to take it apart to see what is wrong. A finger poke from outside can tell.

What Bill said. RAD (reactive airway disease) is a broad spectrum and symptoms need medical review.

"...move your whole self in, move your whole self out, Move your whole self in and you shake it all about..."

...roof planes look pretty good outside. As I noted I was simply not willing to do the jungle-gym climb through upper nineties temps and 50 yrs of dirt. I was not calling out as problem, but did wonder if any here had seen anything like it. Low pitch ranches' structure can be hard to see especially on outer edges due to lack of headroom. I did recommend buyer to have an access opening made down on that end of the building. Those way-low leaning braces are kind of silly though, don't you think?

See below lightened view. Structure in question is circled, in background. I usually make the effort to traverse attics but this one was just over that line of "nyet" for me. There is a change of ceiling level at the far end over the carport. Click to Enlarge 53.48 KB

I declined to traverse this short attic, maybe about a 4 in 12. Near the other end this truss looking assembly appears to change the ceiling frame direction. 53 yr old yellow pine. Click to Enlarge 45.11 KB

...nobody around here had running water when all that lead was installed. Our county did not get electricity until 1939.

Nolan I worked as an AHJ for several years and did a lot of battle with good ole boy types. Not all of them were well chosen. I did discriminate between owner/builders and custom/spec ones. I saw the speculative and the custom as products being built for the public, and I strove for the public interest. When my position was cut after the crash, the AHJ went right back to sleep. I still think the best aspect of our codes environment is that they are developed "independently" and are not generated by public authority.

Remember, friends, that codes development is just as vulnerable to corporate influence as are all of our lawmaking bodies from local to state. I have sometimes wondered if some products were rushed to market and listing and approval by AHJ's by that kind of influence. I won't name anything here to avoid the stigma/aura of a political post, but I would like to hear what more think about the states' feet dragging on some code changes.

Plan sounds great, but I do wonder about ipe and teak sourcing and their connection with decimation of rain forests. There are sustainable exterior woods, such as "Lyptus", a brand of eucalyptus lumber that is farm produced in the Phillipines. Re cedar siding see pic of a little detail I saw on an island house off the Maine coast. Click to Enlarge 54.53 KB

Friend of mine had the sheet product with vertical B&B look installed. Looks good after ten yrs but the doofuses that installed it had trouble setting their air nailers to keep heads from breaking through, plus they did their practice nailing on the front.

Down here they say, "There's just no accountin' fer taste."

In GA state archiving law says that nothing but CO's have to be kept, and then only for 3 yrs...yet code books have to be kept in perpetuity by the AHJ.

Permits are beside the point of what we do.

Hole in cornice return admits bats, flying squirrels. Flashing.

...Marc and Gary's comments are based on the idea that a piece of wood, on very small scale, is a bundle of tubes, which offer migration paths for moisture.

Thanks, brric..."I see" now. The red went somewhere else.

My suggestions re costs are usually expressed no more closely than by the number of figures, 3,4,5, or multiples thereof and only verbal. My clients are usually smart enough to know my figures are WAGs at best.

I dunno exactly but there's a practice involving metal conduit between meter box and panel: If there are concentric rings left on either the meter box or panel enclosure after installing the conduit, a bonding wire must be run through the conduit from meter box to a grounding/locking bushing on the panel side I guess because the remaining concentric rings are easily damaged and are therefore not a reliable bonding connection. Marc That's basically it, but it only applies to the connection at the service panel. As far as I know, you don't have to worry about it after that. ...so the knockouts, isolated so much by their nearly all around cuts, don't have enough area in common with the box to make a bond. BTW what happened to the red wire feeding the sub? I only see black ones coming in there, with one taped white.