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  1. conarb

    retrofit windows

    I've retired and don't keep up, but Red is right, I'd venture to say that worldwide more flange-less windows are installed than flanged, I don't like it but as a matter of fact the installation standards are published by ASTM and BOs were supposed to keep up, the AAMA publishes their...
  2. conarb

    Installing Trench Drains in Curbless Showers

    I don't come by here anymore but I had to comment, I haven't had an architect detail a curbless shower drain like that in 40 years, they all specify drains like Acco, I have had problemss with the weep holes being inadequate and people have to remove the grates to clean out "hair baskets" which...
  3. conarb

    30 Years

    That's one of my points, all civil rights laws are unconstitutional and have failed miserably at actually helping anyone, we had a Halloween Party shooting here where 5 black guys were killed, the police arrested 5 other black guys, the black DA released all 5 without charges stating that "5...
  4. conarb

    30 Years

    I left here the first of the year but felt I had to come back and post this article I came across: ¹ https://www.aier.org/article/after-30-years-did-the-disabilities-act-work/
  5. conarb

    ICC Facebook - No longer a building safety organization

    I don't know if you have noticed or not but I have stopped coming around here, the main reason being that the ICC is no-longer a code organization like the ICBO was, but now a worthless rubber stamp for government agencies.
  6. conarb

    OK, Who has a plan of action for the COVID-19?

    Construction is considered "essential" here, I suppose because of the extreme shortages and homelessness: I'd read the whole thing since the reporters have checked with several cities, as usual the holdups are in the building departments. ¹...
  7. conarb

    Porti-potty required?

    CalOSHA requires fresh water washing facilities attached to PortaPotties now, of course you guys don't, and shouldn't, enforce CalOSHA.
  8. conarb

    An average day

    Now you are nit-picking again, the penalty for nit-picking should be loss of pension.
  9. conarb

    churches being used as an occasional homeless shelter

    Well the homeless have to live in code-compliant buildings, let them starve or freeze, who cares? Yesterday I stopped at a new Wendy's, behind it is a creek, some of those people are in wheelchairs, I had to wonder how they get their wheelchairs up and down into the creek, maybe call ADA Guy...
  10. conarb

    churches being used as an occasional homeless shelter

    Today the US Supreme Court refused to look at a 9th Circuit case limiting where people can sleep on the streets, I'd say if cities can't regulate where people can sleep on the streets they can't limit where they can sleep in churches or any other building for that matter, Oakland is looking...
  11. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    What should be the punishment for a civil servant exceeding his authority? The building code is tyranny, nobody gets to vote for it other than civil servants, the creation of the ICC took freedom out of the codes and created a monster that is doing nothing but rubber stamping a tyrannical...
  12. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    You sure like to tell other people what to do.
  13. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    Guess you don't know, maybe that's why OSHA requires it's inspectors to present certificates at all OSHA inspections. If you guys are running out of work and looking for more how about taking over Special Inspector duties instead of OSHA?
  14. conarb

    An average day

    I just had the exact same Rheem water heater installed, the pressure relief valve is inside that black insulation to the right of the Rheem emblem,
  15. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    I did. The one OSHA requirement that I've refused to obey is the prohibition against walking plates, walking plates is a fundamental carpentry skill, if you can't walk plates you shouldn't be on a jobsite
  16. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    The real issue here is building inspectors exceeding their authority, and what should be done about it. CalOSHA has some pretty stiff penalties if their procedures are not followed. I've had to take training classes on this, been fined $50 one time in 1971 for running out of toilet paper in...
  17. conarb

    NYC CRACK DOWN

    Mark is correct, I use The Blue Gavel Training Guides at $339 a year, §1.18 Limits the scope of inspection, §1.19 gives the rules that all inspections must proceed under, §1.20 requires the inspector to provide his credentials, §1.21 goes into the necessity for search warrants under certain...
  18. conarb

    Old Code Interpretation

    Back about 1965 they were completing the Oakland Colosseum project, a friend and I went in to see it and climbed to the top of the seats in the Arena, there were no rails and I had the feeling that if one guy fell at the top it would be like dominoes all the way down. A few days later I was...
  19. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    The batteries in a Tesla cover the entire footprint of the car, I've seen a few burn and for days after there is a black spot on the roadway the footprint to the car, apparently the extreme heat draws the asphalt to the surface leaving a big tar spot...
  20. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    First of all I specifically referenced Tesla because Elon Musk recently made a proposal to sell "Power Walls" putting new batteries into his cars and recycling used ones into homes, these batteries seem to blow up and catch on fire in accidents, so my point is that in the infernos we have had I...
  21. conarb

    I never, ever saw anything like this before

    Tiger: Don't the contractors down there have lawyers to sue guys like you? If you want to enforce Federal law do something useful, bust the illegal aliens who are doing all the crummy work at slave wages.
  22. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    In post #30 you said: "Fight it how? Not do our jobs?" You need to fight it so it isn't in your code. The requirement I see the most rebellion to from the public is the water conservation codes, I've even told people to find a small contractor who will do it and don't get a permit.
  23. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    Just where you find this in the codes: I guess they will be part of California's zero energy initiative. ¹ https://www.huffpost.com/entry/low-flow-toilets-required_n_3800061
  24. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    If these battery packs are a known danger and you require them shouldn't you be liable for any deaths they cause? Remember Nuremberg stands for the proposition that "Just following orders" is no defense. It's all a fraud, for one thing the panels are all shorting out underneath them, of...
  25. conarb

    California cities banning the installation of natural gas

    Back to battery storage, I came across this this morning, a Tesla crash in Austria, it takes 11,000 liters of water to put out the fire, the average fire engine holds 2,000 liters, and the batteries can reignite for three days after the fire. We want these things in our houses? If you guys had...
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