Jim Baird
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Nice. If you have trouble there, try here. [:-weepn]
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I'm guessing somebody had the wrong stuff to fix the hole with anyway, stepped thru it himself before covering, and, the bossman gone to the store or sleeping down in the pickup, just covered it and hoped not to get blamed later. In a real short crawlspace I found a whole lot of water pipes repaired with short pieces of gardenhose and hose clamps...handyman was the only one who knew.
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Also, if, like my friend, you put the little bottle of tape head cleaner on the same waterbed console/headboard as your eyedrops, don't reach up for one of them in the middle of the night if your eyes need relief, you might get them mixed up.
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So what's the prob with duct tape, Erby?
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Ditto Tom. I'm used to seeing 100K in much smaller dwellings.
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Thanks for sharing. It is slow here too. Knowing I'd helped dumb buyers and peed off agents would have provided me some relief, tho.
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Often the crawl door is at the opposite corner of the service entrance to the crawlspace.
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I have never seen that either Terrence, but have seen many of those brick sills with no slope at all, so the direction of the units can't be blamed.
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One of these cookie-cutter design, build-on-your-lot companies in this area uses them on every model. House has to be tight, tho, as I have heard that on retro-fits or rehabs of older dwellings the power vent sucks conditioned air out of the living space.
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Real life imitates art.
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Remember Atticus Finch did some legal work for Mr. Tom Euell in exchange for a sack of hickory nuts.
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Where is you guys' confidence in SupaGlue? Did not you see them early commercials with the football player glued by his helmet to the crossbar?
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Maybe the cover came from a different panel?
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I had some holes appear in SYP flooring, bought as #1 Common. My termite guy came all the way over to see and said not to worry, powder post beetle takes 2-10 yrs to emerge, and once you see the hole, they are gone. I guess my flooring was not kiln dried. A friend built a cabin from sawmill beams log cabin style, and the same pest guy said it was the worst infestation he'd ever seen, but they did not treat it. That was almost twenty years ago, and the house is still sound.
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I live in a little cotton town by the railroad track. Some houses adjacent to the line have wings added that have their own exterior door but no interior connection. It was called a railroad room, and was available for rent to railroad workers.
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I like it, but Martha Stewart would not.
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MGB, they were just going to patrol your attic and gobble up any flying squirrels and/or bats that might have gotten in. A potter I know says his studio gets a regular ratsnake patrol, as he sees them passing thru now and then thru the open ceiling/rafter structure.
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I can't cite it, but have read somewhere that sans serif is easier to read but that serifs make a reader less tired. Something nice and paradoxical like that. I like the arial 11, as it is I who squint and strain while composing, and I email the reports. BTW I quit emailing in Word as I used to because email messes up the formatting alot, now I convert to PDF, which really nails it down.
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I crawled under a porch of a 100+yr old farmhouse where two women and about five big dogs lived. The porch flooring was gapped for ventilation I guess, but the perimeter was latticed tight. Anyway the dog hair had been gently falling for several years and did not accrete onto the sides of the framing, but due to my belly crawl did waft up to fill the air and gag me.
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My guess is the designer maight have made them to contain some kind of lighting with a translucent panel of some kind in front? I found a brick-clad chimbley column like these that was stuck onto the outside wall of a dwelling addition, inside was a faux-stone hearth-like thing, but the woodstove planned for it was never installed. Seemed domestic discord truncated the project and left the house unoccupied.
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Seems like I remember gapping directions stamped on sheets of OSB. One common bulge source I've seen is from carpenters bracing a gable end of a trussed roof where studs are turned flatways.
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"...What is the distinction of mechanical draft versus direct vent?..." Most common sense diff is outie vs innie, like belly buttons.
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Before he fetches the molding he needs to apply the lopping shears.
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That chimbley column looks mighty short. Beside the point, but I wonder if any where in the report the word "ugly" popped up?
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too funny for words... "...my bro-in-law was a plumber's helper."
