Jim Baird

...now, thanks to Jim, I think I see that point of attachment was removed from prior wall cladding then stuck back onto new lap wood stuff...at the cost of the drip loop it used to include...

poco usually has no inspectors...if muni doesn't either it's the wild west.

...mix of galvy and black is funny too. I shy away from valve exergism out of exigency.

...if it is "decorative" it doesn't have to meet. Could be lots of slack cut by inspect of original, or no inspect at all. Within 60 vertical inches of tub drain should be tempered.

...fastening directions are printed on the box usually...good sign that the contractor just plain cannot read.

...surely the product listing includes the location...

...looks a lot like my single flue with its terra cotta liner, except mine has a metal cap to keep birds and critters from nesting therein. It serves my big old Grandma Bear Fisher wood stove.

...all of us have a dingbat somewhere within. I have to say, with all respect due, that some of the sloppiest work I have ever inspected has been in the HVAC field...no offense, just sayin'.

...looks pretty short up there, and I think I see a break of slope into more than one direction? Low slope all the way, ergo the fatness of frame members? mjr states description well.

...back during the big eifs scandal days, I read somewhere a survey by one of its manufacturers that they had never seen it installed properly on residential work...that was their path out of those deep woods.

Thanks Marc, I have friends who own tracts where abandoned quarries lie. They are usually full of water and make great swimming holes. In my youth I used to join groups who "sneaked" into abandoned pits to swim. (Getting in was usually a matter of wiggling thru a barbed wire fence). See below my last "paving" project with Elberton crushed stone (#7), spring of '11. Click to Enlarge 95.86 KB

To quote Kurt Vonnegut, "Everyone is right from his own point of view." Basic rule of advertising too is that everyone can claim to be the best or the biggest. "...It may not be going into historic buildings; it might be all the other uses, and nowadays, a lot of countertops..." Around here its gravestones. Tiny little churches with sprawling stone gardens beside them.

...never saw terrazzo in a house. Marc's pic does not have the metal seams either. I would call it fauxrazzo. ps I live near the "granite capital of the world", and around here I have seen a whole lot of granite countertops that look like that...just that the material is likely way too slippery for floor use. Terrazzo, however, is pretty darn slippery too. It is obviously very durable in public buildings where lots of foot traffic and lots of scrubbing occurs.

...stack 'em if you got 'em... ...my visit to this little town on Italy's Ligurian coast found all the rooftops had regular placement of rocks on rooftop edges. Not sure what for. Click to Enlarge 78.8 KB

Attic space over 30" tall has to be accessible. There is the path to equipment rule. Lacking that, I have to say I always high step as needed to make my way in an attic...it's my job.

Pillar to Post is one of those franchise ops where you buy the business, the training, and the support all at once. I wonder if the parent company will defend this guy in court? Around here most lenders require a termite letter from a licensed pest controller.

haha. Notice, Mike, that the excerpt does not say that any study shows x deaths from y. It only says "it is estimated" without attribution. It reminds me of GW Bush's famous quote about the phantom WMD's in Iraq way back when. His quote was something like "...x found evidence of weapons of mass destruction program related activities..." So that a metal filing cabinet, for instance, could be pegged as evidence of any number of kinds of programs and their related activities.

for flexibility...is it listed?

I have never seen such as this. How high is it? Are these treads nosed?

It looks new and it lacks slope or flashing. I just call it a band...

...don't make 'em like they used to...

Failing LP is very easy to spot. Swelling of the material past the nailheads is the most obvious. If you see this, hit it with your fist and watch it crumble and fall. OTOH if you keep it well painted it can last for a long time.

I wondered when the spelling monitor would catch this one. Now here is one from a state where education has been getting the small change lately. Click to Enlarge 11.31 KB

During an expansion here years ago I had a tree contractor take out 17 trees to make room for an addition. Asked about stump removal in another area he priced them at 10 per, at my guess of 25. I walked around with a paint marker and hit them all, but kept losing count when I tallied. A husband/wife team showed up on a Sat AM early in a brand new Jeep with a brand new trailer holding a brand new chipper with a full curved plexi-chip guard. It was 95 degrees that day and they worked for most of the day, leaving a wealth of mulch piles. After I got done cleaning up the next day, I counted 31 stumps, but the contractor never knew it. I know the couple was just glad to survive the job. I doubt they had a very close count either.

haha I have dug up many a stump using the Katen method, but I was too embarrassed to own up to my low-tek style. Toughest one I ever dug up was a black cherry one that was about 24 inches in diameter. The hole looked like a wartime foxhole time I got done. My estimate of the OP stump says it would take a 3 ft diameter hole about 42 inches deep...not to be done in one weekend. You need a good mattock, a good straight spade, an axe and a good splitter (down here we call them "go-devils" ((mine is a 6 lb er)) (((anything heavier works you too hard)))) BTW no tractor, no truck, just good old fashioned leverage provided by the stump's length.