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  1. jim baird

    Help with a tenant's deficiencies

    I agree with FM Burns comment/query. If the OP is the building owner, looks like he is the party responsible for fire protection systems and overall building issues. Don't see how it is the tenant's job, unless it is just the cooking hood suppression.
  2. jim baird

    IMPC Unconstitutional and Unbiblical

    Rights of property ownership have to be balanced by responsibilities of ownership. We messed up when we violated that Universal Apple Maintenance Ordinance and got busted.
  3. jim baird

    ADA attorney sweeps area

    Thanks for sharing this, Mark. In GA accessibility retrofit is pretty much ignored. An owner only has to show that retrofit will cause him "hardship" to get a pass.
  4. jim baird

    Support For Bathtub

    A plumber I knew would put down a sheet of plastic and dump a bucket of drywall joint compound on it to bed a tub.
  5. jim baird

    I was surprised

    "...I got a call about a fire ..." around here people call the fire department when there's a fire
  6. jim baird

    Support For Bathtub

    What I see often is jet tubs suspended from their rims on framing with nada under the bottom. Also tubs and tub/shower units with little feet on their bottoms, that often do not touch floor. Where missing there is usually a little bag taped to the surface of the unit with shims and...
  7. jim baird

    Toe nails = bearing?

    I see the rationale you mis-applied, Darren. I can't quote a reference, but I see the bearing requirement as applying where the load is in a vertical direction. Those angled cuts of rafter ends need bearing for the full length of the angle cut where they meet the ridge/valley/hip member...
  8. jim baird

    floor drain requirement?

    Mark, when I save the link it does not bring the diagrams/sketches with it. I also do not see how to search the document.
  9. jim baird

    Free water heater

    no problem with combustion air, tho.
  10. jim baird

    floor drain requirement?

    Thanks for replies. GA state has its own accessiblity code, but it is only available elcetronically in a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal version of a PDF, and is not searchable. I thought the plumber was blowing smoke myself, but I don't know everything.
  11. jim baird

    floor drain requirement?

    A plumber on a jobsite where accessible restroom was being installed told me accessible restroom usually called for floor drain, but that this one did not. I had not heard of this one, and my search ('06 IPC and GA State Accessiblity) found nothing. Comments?
  12. jim baird

    Hookah Bar

    Need to install "dog whistle" smoke alarms that only are heard by firemen and dalmatians.
  13. jim baird

    water heater disco location

    what about that section quoted above that called for discharge to "flow by gravity"?
  14. jim baird

    Who Are You, Who Am I?

    joking aside, I'll nibble. 1970 college grad, followed by lots of outdoor work, carpentry, pipe laying, cabinet shop, jack-of-trades. Began inspecting and writing housing rehab work for a local block grant agency in early 80's, worked as a carpenter at a big university, certified in...
  15. jim baird

    Women in Code Enforcement & Development Chapter Offer Speed Mentoring Event at Dallas

    Next we'll get the drive thru seminar, followed by the honk and wave.
  16. jim baird

    "Jump Platform" for Egress?

    Haha. I guess they had instructions telling you to be sure and throw a matress out first for a "landing platform"?
  17. jim baird

    Who Are You, Who Am I?

    And I seen the Allman Brothers in 1969 with an audience of about 50 folks, in a City Park. Introduction was by "machine-gun" Ronnie Thompson, the mayor who swore he would lay down on the tracks with his Thompson gun to flag the train carrying nerve gas to be dumped in the "LanticOcean", which...
  18. jim baird

    naturally durable species

    Black cherry (prunus serotina) is very durable, as spikes of it endure in my home woodlot for many years, but it does tend to get riddled by carpenter ants. I use a tall spike of it for a flagpole that has endured for approx twenty years. A local lumber supply that ran a window/door shop made...
  19. jim baird

    Domestic cooking appliances used in commercial buildings.

    gt, Would burner removal spoil listing of cooking equipment? BTW at a "group shelter" at a nearby state park I have seen what looks like a locally made hood with fire suppression equipment made from a portable fire extinguisher that had a pull-chain rigged to it. Over a standard domestic...
  20. jim baird

    Domestic cooking appliances used in commercial buildings.

    gt, pardon my ignorance. What is FCO? Fire Commissioner's Office? This is a recurrent problema around here too.
  21. jim baird

    Here is the real agenda the HBA is working toward

    There is a modern myth of the pristine nature of "free marketism". It says that unfettered business will always act in the interest of society at large. It simply is not so. When the banks were cut loose by the repeal of Glass-Steagal, they created the mountain of imaginary assets that...
  22. jim baird

    fee waiver for schools

    Thanks for all the replies. As I suspected there is a range of answers to the question. Local school admin, in letter of appeal, cited no law, rule, or other language, except the popular vernacular, "we've always done it this way". Mind, I am in an area that has only in the last twenty-five...
  23. jim baird

    fee waiver for schools

    Just a show of hands, please. Comments OK too. County school system building addition to school within this muni's boundary. Building permits are issued by muni, not county, inside city limits. Architect sent me plans, which I reviewed. Contractor came for permit. My review of record found...
  24. jim baird

    LGreene has anew job

    I guess being a hardware expert is one way to open doors.
  25. jim baird

    No Permit, No Inspection, No Way

    what brudgers said. Most HI's doing EW also get retainer up front.
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