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  1. Architect1281

    Stairs vs Means of Egress Stairs

    Every step you take; every breath you take; someone's watching you. When you are in a structure, building, edifice, room, space, compartment, you are within an element of the means of egress; one element or another, common path, access, exit or discharge, so if you must move your body...
  2. Architect1281

    Nonbearing Steel Studs

    LIke Soji Screen n Rice Paper
  3. Architect1281

    Nonbearing Steel Studs

    Is there a minimum size and thickness for a wood stud non-bearing partition? like maybe strong enough and deep enough to allow the fasstener of the veneer / sheathing to anchor?
  4. Architect1281

    Worlds least Accessable urinal.

    To quote the Taller of the Penn and Teller Magic comedy team when showing his Home of the Stars on TV "Yeah I have a sink and a urinal, don't understand why you need both?
  5. Architect1281

    Semantics

    Picketless Fence?
  6. Architect1281

    Semantics

    Solar Clothes Dryer?
  7. Architect1281

    phone camera use

    Set Camera to store images on mico sd card, request search warrant have lawyer make warrant specific to photographic evidence and hand over card only.
  8. Architect1281

    Electrical Training for Ohms Law

    My cat got its head stck in a yougurt cup it was trying to empty the other day, Similar?
  9. Architect1281

    Awesome Sunset

    FMWB My first read ow your comment ended differently in my mind
  10. Architect1281

    OSB on walls ceiling and floor

    Think of it as slightly structural really ugly wall paneling.
  11. Architect1281

    Lots of work ahead

    Direct vent high efficiency heat sources can avoid the Old Chimney (unlined ) issue, and anyone who wants to run c ss t for other than the last appliance link should search the words KaBoom on google.
  12. Architect1281

    Why a Group E

    The E is / used to be I-2 which was a much nastier classification and pretty much prohibited the use in Combustible unprotected structures. the E with direct exiting a a friendlier more similar use.
  13. Architect1281

    Qualified person

    Agree with Unc B the Labor and Licensing laws of the governing body determine qualifications with the minor exception that in RI we allow any Owner Occupant to determine that they can kill themselves if they can hold a tool. The 2014 NEC 70 will require DC power to be terminated as it leaves...
  14. Architect1281

    domestic kichen exhaust duct in multifamily

    A better method of compliance is to place all ducts and vents either kitchen or bath below the required floor ceiling assembly and then enclose them in a transverse bulkhead or soffitt above the kitchen cabinets or shower tub enclosure directed to an exterior wall. This may actually involve a...
  15. Architect1281

    It's Green It's Sustainable OOPS!

    So in order to make exterior pressure treated wood earth friendly and forward re-cyclable without the nastiness of chemical induction a glass infused product was developed. Slight problem seems to be occurring that it may not react well in moist or wet conditions ...
  16. Architect1281

    multiple Business & Professions Code violations

    We check for license / registration on all contractors / subcontractors designers and registered professionals who must also have a valid COA (certificate of Authorization) and find approximately 20% are missing something, suspended, expired, or working through violations. If an owner hires an...
  17. Architect1281

    Type NM-B Pulled In Before Building Dried In.

    We always allow you to install NM cable in a building before it is secured against water penetration; and we always make you pull it out if it gets wet............
  18. Architect1281

    Conex Boxes as dwellings?

    A Conex box / container is (should be) treated as a USED structural element. R104.9 Approved materials and equipment. Materials, equipment and devices approved by the building official shall be constructed and installed in accordance with such approval. R104.9.1 >>> Used materials <<<< and...
  19. Architect1281

    Fire separation between drive thru and B use

    A Motor vehicle beneath any other use is addressed as a parking garage or s-2 use and if the car is running and not parked or stored is it still a garage? I have always treated drive under or drive through as if it were a garage use S-2; As a designer and as a reviewer enforcer. I do not treat...
  20. Architect1281

    Enforcement of exterior steps as means of egresso

    The question of if it's not in the house is it a Stair, or Stairway and is it the intention of the code to adress it as such? Yes was my poll response not because ot the vagaries of the means of egress because I could put in a dirt slope to the required landing otherwise but by definition like...
  21. Architect1281

    California to Ban Flame Retandants

    Just associate it with California where all options are available.
  22. Architect1281

    National Electrical Safety Code

    Paul S your are correct sir if it is the provider they stop at the meter / transformer / supply high voltage which can then be distributed within a structure or complex . The NESC is the Provider "Do it our way code" and is not a premesis NEC code. In RI our major state complexes and...
  23. Architect1281

    Pier foundations

    The minimum number of piers would be (1) WITH A REALLY GOOD ENGINEER . Pier foundations and spacing are not prescriptive (IRC Construction codes for Dummies) and would therefore require engineering.
  24. Architect1281

    Glazed curtain wall allowed?

    Just because it looks like glass does not mean it's fenestration.
  25. Architect1281

    new post

    To CDA ther are two ratings on solar panels 1. Rated for Ground mount. 2. Rated as if it had a Roof Classification as if a class of roofing it must match. also just had some 200,000 sf installations and had the DC voltage from the combiner boxes at the panels deactivated remotely at the on...
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