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  1. jim baird

    Those darn pizza ovens

    cda, I think the answer to your last questions may be yes. They have as yet not even identified model number or any identifying info. A health dept inspector I know says that brand of little oven does not require the business that installs it to go through food service licensing. It is...
  2. jim baird

    drawing the line

    "...do a good plan review...." Exactly what was not asked for nor directed. Person in charge for City played cards very close to chest, did not invite anyone else's input. As soon as job was awarded he retired and was gone and inaccessible. (Small town life)
  3. jim baird

    Out tax system explained in Beer

    A friend of mine's mom was in college in GA when the revolution hit Cuber. Her sister is an orthopedist there now and makes something like $40 a month, but Hey she's got a job she likes.
  4. jim baird

    Those darn pizza ovens

    Thanks for the replies. We are still on '06 codes here in GA. My query to the vendor for better, more specific or clarifying info re the equipment was met with no info. He said all he does is deliver it and plug it in, and the approval is totally up to me. Plus he told his customer that only...
  5. jim baird

    Those darn pizza ovens

    Convenience store owner wants to install one of these convection pizza things. He brought his vendor's rep with him. In response to my query about exhaust, suppression, and need for them to document their claim that they didn't need no stinkin' hood, I was e-mailed a letter from an engineer at...
  6. jim baird

    drawing the line

    Thanks for the replies based on such little info. Architect now says he understood the town was going to pave adjacent lot to provide accessible route. A sort-of site plan exists, but just shows an asphalt parking layout and does not address building at all. I let architect know that need for...
  7. jim baird

    drawing the line

    Thanks for replies. As often is in small-town politics this project was done "under the radar", as for an interim there was no inspector at all. Now there is just me, as an hourly "contract" inspector. A former clerk who "ran everything" shepherded the project through (bldg is City property)...
  8. jim baird

    drawing the line

    Maybe this is the wrong thread. Architect on project for the little town I work for designed a restoration for an old building. Showed two exits, but did not show any landings. (I did not participate in development, review, or approval of hte plans) Now close to the end, there are problems...
  9. jim baird

    rollback of new requirements

    Our state legislature, during its annual adoption/amendment cycle of codes, decreed that beginning 1/1/11, all new 1&2 Family Dwellings would have to pass DET (duct and envelope tightness tests) to get CO. This AM the agency that administers sent out a waiver notice of "at least" six months'...
  10. jim baird

    No More MH/RV Parks

    Sue, What have you got against "affordability" anyway? I think we should all take a tour down to Rio or Sao Paolo for an eye-opener. It has been said by those who study this stuff that over half the housing on the planet will soon be "shanty" types that ring those mega-cities like Rio, Lagos...
  11. jim baird

    Can you say cluster f&^%?

    Jeff, you and all the other pointy-headed intellectual bureacratic types have no respect for individual effort and creativity. I'm beginning to think that PA outranks GA as the epicenter of hillbilly and bubba building tech.
  12. jim baird

    GA piney woods getting green

    ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF ENVIRONMENTALISM about energy efficiency and the Jevons Paradox. Britain in the middle of the nineteenth century was the world’s leading military, industrial, and mercantile power. In 1865, a twenty-nine-year-old Englishman named William Stanley Jevons published a book, “The...
  13. jim baird

    Minimum cage size for go-go girl

    I agree with yikes. The space is contained in furniture.
  14. jim baird

    Update-ish

    Gentlemen, gentlemen, God rest ye merry shipmates! Some, like pwood, can handle whatever is served up without complaining. Reading Carl Jung lately, I stumbled on a memorable quote. "...fanaticism is never any more than overcompensated doubt..." So the louder one blows one's horn, the more...
  15. jim baird

    GA piney woods getting green

    "...unnecessary, mandatory regulations..." Welcome to the South, Dave.
  16. jim baird

    GA piney woods getting green

    Thanks for the reply, Dave. Somehow I missed the page you referenced. My e-mail to DCA finally got a response that invited me to call and talk on phone. Funny, isn't it, how everybody wants to talk on the phone. Talk is so cheap, but the written word is like tracks in the mud, and may be...
  17. jim baird

    I am tired

    Try doing in in different languages, "Uno, dos, tres, un, deux, trois"
  18. jim baird

    Personal care homes

    Yes, and the Bill of Rights goes back to the late 1700's. It has yet to be fully and fairly applied.
  19. jim baird

    Personal care homes

    Just an update. Attorney agrees with me that zoning violation is not there, says that the landlord may break lease if he thinks the neighborhood is in danger, and that the neighborhood, if they band together and go to the district attorney, can talk him into addressing a threat to safety...
  20. jim baird

    Courtesy Inspection

    If there are safety concerns I will site visit to look for those issues. This visit is usually rental complaint. I always write up the visit and findings. Because this is a small town I have walked across the street for "friendly' visit, but caution them that I am not a designer, just a...
  21. jim baird

    GA piney woods getting green

    State legislature has adopted National Green Building Standard with amendments. My tenuous grasp so far tells me localties can choose "cafeteria" style on aspects/degrees of compliance. This will likely be a tough sell with new permits down about 90% from a cpl of yrs ago.
  22. jim baird

    Iso/bcegs

    Well said. If your AHJ is small you don't get any bennies. I am convinced that all insurance companies gather all data only in a quest to justify increases in premiums. They really don't compete very much against each other.
  23. jim baird

    definitions debate

    Exactly my commonsense reaction. One is product, other is process. Another word I have trouble with is "electrical" when "electric" does just fine as an adjective. If we save a couple of letters, it should save space, ink, paper, trees, thought, energy, and maybe lots more. Electric is...
  24. jim baird

    ADA litigation reform needed

    This story reminds me of a Kurt Vonnegut film, based on one of his stories, called "From Time to Timbuktu". Setting is a time in future where equality as a concept has been carried to logical extreme. No one is allowed to be better, prettier, smarter, stronger, etc. than anyone else. Those...
  25. jim baird

    Five Thousand Years Ago

    The idea of lost knowledge is a common myth, and that is not to say a myth just ain't so. There has to be way more knowledge lost than has been kept, since writing, history, etc are so recent.
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