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    What is your favorite PI???

    Strawberry Rhurbarb is my favorite, closely followed by gooseberry.
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    It happened again in the same Tennessee County, Fire Department watchs house burn.

    Same place just a year apart. The homeowner had not paid the fire department fee of $75.00 and the fire department was forced to watch the house burn. I would think the City would be getting a lot of the unpaid fees in right now...
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    Good News

    Congrats Sue, great news!!!
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    Ammunitions Storage Room at a Sherriff's Facility

    Is that the 10% with the most or the least ammo? :P
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    College Town Blues

    Mac, My experiences with the colleges moving things like museums etc. into the downtown area has been good. My two longest hitches with cities have been in college towns. In both cases, when a museum or similar use was moved to or taken over by college in an old downtown area, it was great...
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    2006 IRC section R309.4 Carports

    darcar, If 50% or more of the perimeter is open, we call it a carport, if less then 50% is open it is a garage. We made that a local amendment, because in the past it had been interperted that if you put an enclosed storage area at one end, it couldn't be a carport because one end was totally...
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    waw swpa

    Welcome aboard WAW. Jump in, the water is always warm, sometimes even boiling! LOL Have fun.
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    Moving a barn to a new location

    So very cool. And what a great show of community support and cooperation. My hat is off to this community.
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    Happy Birthday Conarb!

    Happy Birthday Conarb. And I agree with Beach, the firemen would get you first. LOL
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    Happy Birthday TJacobs

    Happy Birthday TJ!!!! Wishing you many more.
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    How are we doing with Permits?

    New SFR is about 1/3 of 2007 numbers and has been the last 3 years, SFR remodels are going crazy, commercial has held steady and is up this year. Public projects have kept us pretty busy the last two years. Multi-family boomed the last two years, then flatlined this year, but had a couple of...
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    A little different type of ignoring the ADA story

    ..Deaf man complains nudists would not provide interpreter By Daniel Wiessner | Reuters – 3 hrs ago.. ..HUDSON, New York (Reuters) - A deaf man has accused a nudist park in upstate New York of violating federal law by refusing to provide him with a sign-language interpreter at an annual...
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    Driveway

    I get the same message
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    defining the 'work area'

    brudgers, You have made your point, get a little more civil please or drop it. The two of you are not in the same mind set, Mr. Softy is working to understand this. Be constructive or just set back and watch. You could say the same things in a better way. Why try and drive off people that...
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    1 or 2 Permits For A New Commercial Building

    We do multiple permits too. It really doesn't matter if you have one or more permits, if the project is going to go bad one more permit is not going to make a difference.
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    My Mother

    My prayers and thoughts go out to you and your family.
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    Would you consider this against the code???

    I would like to offer her a job teaching some of our neighborhoods how to make their yards look good like hers. Hope the jury trial clears it up like Yankee said.
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    trapguard vs trap primer

    In our area too.
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    Sprinklered building, fire proof (?) records vault

    Thaks for all the input. For some reason couldn't lay my fingers on the sections to start reading and got flustrated. You guys prove why this is the site to be on. :)
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    Sprinklered building, fire proof (?) records vault

    That is what I kind of envision, but was having trouble finding what I wanted in the code so thought I would ask the experts where to read. Thanks Fatboy.
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    Sprinklered building, fire proof (?) records vault

    Actually examiner he is working up a design, I just want to educate myself a little up front. I have to do the code reading either before or after and just wanted to get started. This came up in a very preliminary concept meeting and it interested me since I hadn't run into it before. Even...
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    Sprinklered building, fire proof (?) records vault

    Small town boy a with something I haven't run into before. Help all you fire gurus. :) B use group. Type II B construction, fully sprinklered (kinda read on please). 30,000 sq ft. foot print, 2 stories tall. This office building will have a fire proof vault (similar to a bank vault) for...
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    Hello

    Welcome aboard. Feel free to start posting and good luck working your way "off the tools".
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    New to the job, new to the forum

    Welcome Howey and I don't think we are as bad (LOL) as represented above. Have fun and join in. :) But as Mark said, verify.
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    WELCOME Rebecca, our 1,200th member of the Building Code Forum

    Welcome and 1200 is so cool.
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