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www.iccsafe.org The I Quest version of the handbook has incredible search capabilities.

My bad then. In my alleged mind (a seemingly dangerous place to be) it has always carried with it the connotation of having a conscious knowledge of what one is doing and the effect of the performance of said action with intent and no allowance for accidental ramifications of said action. In this case synonymous with purposefully disseminating misinformation to my (mis)understanding. Sorry my for misunderstanding. Thanks Kurt. I'm glad we had this little talk [:-dunce]

Perpetrate suggests an intentional misrepresentation IMO Gerry. I'm sure there was no malicious intention. I have a lot of respect for the organization.

In the past, I too suscribed to that theory Ron. It is urban legend. I had an opportunity to ask Douglas Hansen last week. Residentially, no height requirement. In comercially hazardous locations they must be higher, unless the area is sufficiently ventilated.

Douglas Hansen adresses this complicated issue very well in Electrical Inspection of Existing Dwellings, a book that all inspectors should have IMHO.

If you are working in Word, try putting the pictures in text boxes or tables.

One word, union. I was doing work in the New York City area in the late 80's and they still required cast iron drain lines with poured lead joints. Nothing like quintupling the labor cost.

Shit, Kurt -that comparison aint fair. In 1950's Chicago they were pouring basement floors over an 18 inch layer of compacted teamsters. LMAO! ROFL![:-bonc01][:-bonc01]

You are lucky you weren't on it when it gave out I suppose. I don't trust any telescoping ladder.

Another trick that works for me when I am too far away to utilize the flash is to frame the pic in such a way as I edge the sky out of it and let the camera adjust to the lower light condition at the soffit with only the soffit in the pic. Later I can brighten it up without the huge contrast to deal with.

You are more generous with your time than I am Kevin. I'll pursue things with contractors and the AHJ for clients but I charge for my time. For what its worth you may want to consider dealing with issues like this directly with the clients if possible. I know it always isn't, depending on the agent in the loop, but all agents are not equally motivated to service their clients best interests and an undocumented verbal exchange with an agent may or may not get passed on to the client adequately. I'm sure you CYA in the report but undocumented follow up with information passed to the client through a third party becomes indefensible as "here say" in the event the proverbial doo hits the fan and the client and their attorney come back on you in a couple of years. Often the more we try to do for our clients, the more liability we incur. I don't advocate less service but CYA. Years ago, in an another life as a home builder I sustained a bankruptcy due to a conversation with a Realtor which was never documented. Having no written proof of our conversation I had no grounds for the lawsuit which should have followed the unethical performance of my listing agent. Not a criticism, just friendly advice.

LOL. Spell checker even strikes at the publisher's level too.

Sorry Donald. I completely ignored the first paragraph of your post when I re-read it and posted.

Frankly it wouldn't matter to me who interpreted it how. My report would flag it a a major safety concern, forget the further evaluation crap and defer it for correction. If buyers called me to inform me they were having these kind of problems I would definitely inform them to keep looking until they found someone who knew what he was talking about sprinkling my conversation with liberal use of terms like fools, idiots and incompetents.

But I'm sure you knew this already Donald. 2003 IRC 310.1 Emergency escape and rescue required. Basements with habitable space and every sleeping room shall have at least one openable emergency escape and rescue opening. Where basements contain one or more sleeping rooms, emergency egress and rescue openings shall be required in each sleeping room, but shall not be required in adjoining areas of the basement. Where emergency escape and rescue openings are provided they shall have a sill height of not more than 44 inches (1118 mm) above the floor. Where a door opening having a threshold below the adjacent ground elevation serves as an emergency escape and rescue opening and is provided with a bulkhead enclosure, the bulkhead enclosure shall comply with Section 310.1.1 Minimum opening area. All emergency escape and rescue openings shall have a minutemen clear opening of 5.7 square feet (0.530 m2). Exception: Grade floor openings shall have a minimum net clear opening of 5 square feet (0.465 m2). 310.1.2 Minimum opening height. The minimum net clear opening height shall be 24 inches (610 mm). 310.1.3 Minimum opening width. The minimum net clear opening width shall be 20 inches (508 mm). 310.1.4 Operational constraints. Emergency escape and rescue openings shall be operational from the inside of the room without the use of keys or tools.

Could it be a cold joint and not a crack?

Better yet, both!

IMO the home inspection profession will be instrumental in effecting that change, not the AHJ. Education and proper certification/ credentialing in the IRC or whatever code is adopted in your area is imperative to this forward leap for our profession. I truly believe we have a golden opportunity to take the lead in this aspect and will be light years ahead of the AHJ. No disrespect toward them intended, but, IMO a properly motivated and educated HI will always outperform his government paid counterpart for one major reason. His personal a$$ets are on the line.

If one could e mail cash there would be no P.O Box, trust me on that one.

I think the tide will turn Chris but it takes time. A harbinger of the future? The San Francisco Peninsula has sustained what is probably the hottest real estate market in the country for the past 7 or 8 years along with the highest prices in the country."As-Is" sales are the standard. Open house on Sunday, offers accepted until close of business on Wednesday then we will choose the one we want to accept and will also notify one or two others and place them in back up positions, inspections completed prior to listing...that is the standard. I've seen an interesting change come about, slowly but steadily the agents have changed from getting the weakest inspection they can, to getting the best inspection they can. The reasons are simple. Decreased liability and increased credibility. I think it is the wave of the future but I think things in most places will get worse before they get better. My advice to those who are faced with the onslaught of incompetent competition. Raise your prices, a lot. If you are a better inspector, command a better price and set yourself apart from the competition. Make it known that they are indeed not your competition. I raised prices 3 times in the 12 months and business is still increasing. You will generally get to work with a better class of referers too.

I have it on extremely credible authority from those who take the time to create the exams that the CREIA exam is more difficult than the NHIE and our annual CEC requirement is 30 which any ASHI member joining CREIA needs to maintain in lieu of the 20 required by ASHI Jim. There was no lowering of the Standards on ASHI's part as far as CREIA goes.

Sorry if I wasn't clear in my assessment of Nick's industry Gerry. I suppose I could call it an industry because it manufactures certifications. Let me rephrase it for you. It is my opinion that any professional organization that operates as a profit making center for an owner (as opposed to being non profit and we won't even go into said owner's law scoffing past today), that demeans the word "certified" in an effort to market itself and it's members, whose standards eliminate huge safety issues and whose primary purpose is marketing rather than education and standard setting, oh, and which sees a profession as an industry is not praiseworthy or credible by any stretch of a sane imagination for any reason whatsoever. Frankly I feel you should continue to refer to what NACHI involves itself with as an industry.

While they are apparently striving to raise the bar, NACHI's requirements for continuing education and the knowledge level to join are lower than some other organizations. They do function well as a marketing organization though. In this profession you will find the organizations that are most credible have education and standards rather than marketing at the forefront of their public image.

2428 is listed in 2427 as an exception so it would conditionally apply. I would not be surprised to see the mistake caught in the next edition. The IRC fails to distinguish between vent conectors and vents in this case. 1/4" rise per foot always applies to gravity venting systems and the +50% of the smaller rule would need to be met in the case you describe m. The 2-3" water heaters need to go to a 4" common vent.

Wow Scott. What a coincidence. A guy with the same name (Pat Murphy) is Prez of Uplynx. Do you think this could possibly be a commercial ad under the guise of a post?