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An average day

What you see here is a heat exchanger.

FVIR water heaters are not supposed to have external insulation because it may cover the combustion air intake.

Most new water heaters are FVIR.

Most new water heaters have plenty of insulation.

Mine keeps my garage warm. I have a large garage.
 
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ICE said:
It's the live amo that gets them going.
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When I was a kid framing with my weed-challenged cousin, he enjoyed taking the duds and hammering them into the windows sills. Well, enjoyed it until one blew his hammer head off and broke his nose.

Brent.
 
Not here either..

The beauty of my current job is this: I can totally ignore other jobsites; if we haven't been hired to inspect them, we have no authority/responsibility for them.
 
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I am still looking for a house to buy and came across this:View attachment 1953

The picture is from Redfin. It appears that there is no guard rail At the second floor. I sent a copy of the picture to the local building dept.
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That's a beautiful stairway! Won't be nearly as pretty after they make it code compliant. :)
 
Isn't the first step to be considered a landing? As a landing, isn't there a minimum depth?
 
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Isn't the first step to be considered a landing? As a landing, isn't there a minimum depth?
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This is not the required egress door so if there are two or fewer risers and the door does not swing over the stairs, no landing is required.

The bottom riser is 8.5" and the top riser is 9.5". The treads are way different from each other. Two additions and five outbuildings (all occupied by renters) were demolished by order of a code enforcement inspector. I was on the property to inspect an el. service upgrade and that all of the demo work has been completed. The stairs have been there for a long time (20 maybe 30 years}. I was told to ignore it.
 
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An attic storage/playroom space has been created in garage. The floor joists are 2x6. The span is 29'5". I could not find a splice in the floor joists. It would take a 30' 2x6 to pull that off. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself.
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I've never seen a 2x6 even close to that long! You should have asked him where in the world, he found such an animal. Not that it really matters, considering there so many other problems, but...
 
There needs to be a "Warning! Floor may collapse at any time!" sign in that mess of signs....

ICE said:
An attic storage/playroom space has been created in garage. The floor joists are 2x6. The span is 29'5". I could not find a splice in the floor joists. It would take a 30' 2x6 to pull that off. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it myself. View attachment 2017

In the attic space there is a 2x hung from the ridge. The 2x is then nailed to the vertical 2x. The vertical 2x is toe nailed to a flat 2x that rests on the top of the 2x6 floor joists. The flat 2x is face nailed to the top of the floor joists. This took place at the mid-span of the floor joists.

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The attic is accessed by a drop down stairs. I was told that the kids use it during the winter when it cools down. The owner is a fireman.
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This was a first for me. Everything is painted black so it was difficult to see but I looked closely and didn't see any splice. A splice wouldn't hold up anyway.The lumber had to be special order and expensive. The flat black paint is odd as well. The weight of the new carpet is nearly enough to undo the entire construction.

I didn't want to go up the stairs to get the pictures but I just had to know what was holding it up. The realtor (it was an open house) must have thought that I'm strange.

Here's another house with a walk-through closet.

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A doorway was cut in the back of the closet and a walk-in closet was created. Make a right turn and there is an ironing board and a flat screen tv.

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I envy you and all the knee construction techniques you run into! It must keep life very interesting to say the least.
 
It looks like he is directing traffic. He is holding a water hose and is spraying down the solar modules. The building is a public library under construction.

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When I see something like this, it tends to put a dark cloud over everything that you do.

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