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  1. jim baird

    Enjoy

    "...Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team..." When my daughter played rec dept softball, she broke an ankle just before the season opener. The last game, with cast removed, she was under orders not to run, so her coach sent her to bat with instructions, "If you hit the ball...
  2. jim baird

    Enjoy

    I survived "duck and cover", Pledge of Allegiance, school prayers, and one Leno did not list. When fire ants first landed and began their northward migration, planes used to fly over the playgrounds while we ran around at recess and scatter some kind of pellets, (likely diazinon) which we would...
  3. jim baird

    permit expiration, when does clock tick tock?

    Most admin procedures spell out permit "service life" as ending if work is "abandoned" for period of six months or so. How do local AHJ 's here start that clock ticking? Closest neighbors here mark time from date of last inspection visit, and also restart that clock each site visit. For one...
  4. jim baird

    Woman with a pencil who draws

    I think that in general languages use the masculine form as an inclusive term, so that "man" w/pencil etc. actually means "hu-man" w/pencil who sketch etc. Posting here can be very informative, especially when you have to do the mental work it takes to frame a question. A certain amount of...
  5. jim baird

    altered equipment

    I have always been surprised by the variety of designs in electric equipment in general. Not to distract too much, but in a general sense I like to believe that engineering gets better thru time, as the body of knowledge grows. In some applications, however, it appears to me that engineering...
  6. jim baird

    altered equipment

    Thnaks for replies. My call to utility's engineering guys I think will be ignored, as they don't want to be involved in my call (tho they have not shied from kicking back my prior approvals of same listed equipment before). I told electrician all I see now is altered equipment, and it is up to...
  7. jim baird

    altered equipment

    Local utility does not like some listed equipment, and rejects it. One design is an over-under meter base-disco fed from underground.Utility wants minimum 3" width inside the metal shroud that is on the left side, separating the utility's "lateral" from the body of the disco enclosure.Local...
  8. jim baird

    Heart Healthy For Men

    I only look just to the right of 'em.
  9. jim baird

    Code official pleads not guilty to murder

    When I was in 4th grade a classmate was poisoned by her mother, slowly, with arsenic. After her death authorities dug up mommy's two prior husbands and found them both arsenic laden. Mommy is still in jail, if she in fact still lives.
  10. jim baird

    Code official pleads not guilty to murder

    Arsenic and old lace?
  11. jim baird

    10 Best Reasons for a Waiver

    We done it this way for 30 years. You are the only inspector in this state who says so.
  12. jim baird

    I had to match what was there!

    So, if those rafter things can bear OK at just a 2X4 depth or whatever there is left there.... If so, why not cut off some more to just make a sloped ceiling?
  13. jim baird

    How to frame a cathedral ceiling

    I have seen some very pronounced bowed wall tops coupled with sagged ridges, but that took yrs and yrs to express.
  14. jim baird

    Tell the ISO what you think

    As I rate insurers as being below bankers in their utility to society's operation in general, I have to say I see ISO as being predators who prey on predators and victims alike, maybe the jackal would be the appropriate animal comparison. Is there any among us who thinks that anyone's...
  15. jim baird

    Soggy subfloor

    Good question, GH, as usual.
  16. jim baird

    Soggy subfloor

    My email to Huber (I think the product is theirs--(AdvanTech)) got a phone call from a rep in our area. He said his material was warrantied for 300 days exposure, and if edges swelled they would be willing to look at it and fix it (sanding edges etc) if buyer had the proof of purchase etc.
  17. jim baird

    Public Toilets required?

    "...an example of a business that has no "Customers, patrons or visitors..." There is one here. An "artisan sausage" maker, who has only four employees, markets online and delivers to customers, needs only one unisex restroom for use of employees.
  18. jim baird

    Soggy subfloor

    A house under permit (just barely) was framed, OSB'd on walls and roof, Advantech floored, but no roof felt, no house wrap, no windows or doors for almost a full six month period, during which two or three snowfalls and several rainy days introduced lots of moisture to the forlorn looking...
  19. jim baird

    How to determine which cooking processes produce grease laden vapors?

    The list of menu items does not make me salivate. My heart goes out to the "inmates" there. Where's the tofu?
  20. jim baird

    Electrical Inspection question

    Sounds to me like the disconnect means grouped at the service attachments, labeled, make the installation kosher.
  21. jim baird

    Guards (2006) Sec: 1013 (Cable Infill)

    I think choice "b" makes the best sense, tbz.
  22. jim baird

    Those darn pizza ovens

    Finally got info from manufacturer, and just off phone with manufacturer's engineer who wrote spec sheet for equip., last updated on 1/18/11. Sheet says ventilation recommended, but not required. Engineer says he prefers type II with a kosher filter, but design and install of venting is up to...
  23. jim baird

    What to do when your dryer duct is too far away to terminate

    Blame it on the architects who always want the laundry room in the middle of the McHouse. Also, manufacturer's specs can get 'em off the hook, no? One I wrote up produced documents stating THEIR dryer would push the lint etc 40+ feet.
  24. jim baird

    Separation of exits

    Sketch would help but I share your unease. Are you saying both exits are at an end where deck and ramp lead to grade?
  25. jim baird

    PACKERS or STEELERS

    Cheerleaders will get the most cheers.
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