This is my next door Neighbors House in Bartow County. It was probably built in 1999. She hit the gas instead of the brakes. This garage has 2 headers so this could have been real bad. The bottom plate did move. She was quoted very high rates from contractors to fix it. I just took a sledge hammer and pounde it back. It took about an hour.
Why we Need Narrow Wall Bracing
Now Bolts might have helped, but if bolts were there, the studs might have seperated from the bottom plate causing as much or more damage. I like the brackets and bolts shown below. I wish the code would require these.
Narrow Wall Bolts with Brackets
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I have one major home builder that tells me he is opposed to arc fault breakers being used throughout the house as is required starting 1/1/2010. He says his cleaning lady can’t plug her vaccuum cleaner into a bedroom outlet becuase it allways trips the arc fault. I WONDER WHY!!!
This is Why
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Ok I have the HVAC line going into the Sanitary Drainge or Sewer. If it were a high effency furnace it wouldn’t need a trap primer. Now the trap primer shown below has holes in the side. The builder was trying to tell me that the trap primer has b built-in air gap and thats what the holes were for.
Trap Primer Without Air Gap
Now I went to the manufacturers site and found this information
Filed under Air Gap, Plumbing, Trap Primer by .
From the State Amendments
R502.2.2 Decks.
(Remainder of section left unchanged.)
(Effective January 1, 2007)
Decks shall be constructed in accordance with this code or Chapter 3 of the 1996 Forest Products Society, “Wood Decks, Materials, Construction, and Finishing” manual. Where supported by…
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This bird is an endangered species because it is in the power lines.
This bird is endangered
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- Icynene Insulation System
- Demilec USA Sealection 500 Spray Foam Insulation
- Demilec USA Sealection agribalance Spray Foam Insulation
- Home Insulation Corporation – Home Foan/Insulthane 100
- BioBased Insulation, LLC – Biobased 501w Spray Foam Insulation
- NCFI Polyurethanes – Sealite Spray Applied Polyurethane Insulation
- NCFI Polyurethanes – Insulstar Sealite Spray Applied Polyurethane Insulation
- Baysystems North America, LLC – Bayseal OC Spray-Applied Polyurethane Insulation
- BASF Polyurethane Foam Enterprises, LLC – Spraytite (158,17881206) Comfort Foam (158,178) and Walltite
- LaPolla Industries, INC. – Foam-Lok FL2000 (Air Tight CC) Spray Foam Insulation
- Certainteed Corporation – CertaSpray Open-Cell Spray Foam Insulation
- Certainteed Corporation – CertaSpray Closed-Cell Spray Foam Insulation
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I have this scenerio often.
- Receptacle Outlets under counter
The Receptacle Outlet above now has a plate over it. In my opinion it was OK. The 2005 NEC says that
Exception: Receptacle outlets shall not be required on a
wall directly behind a range or sink in the installation described
in Figure 210.52
I think this outlet was OK.
Exception to (5): To comply with the conditions specified in
(1) or (2), receptacle outlets shall be permitted to be
mounted not more than 300 mm (12 in.) below the countertop.
Receptacles mounted below a countertop in accordance
with this exception shall not be located where the
countertop extends more than 150 mm (6 in.) beyond its
support base.
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This guy threw the original panel cover away and put up a decorative one on a basement finish. I would not pass his inspection. He ended up having to replace the whole panel due to not being able to find one. The house was from the late 1980’s
Bad Panel Cover
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This is a footer in the lake. This post is temporary.
Click in the photo below for a bigger one.
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Meter Base in Brick
This meter base can cause a problem when removing the meter. It will break the seal and cause a water penetration. The Power Company looked at it and said it’s OK.
The question I have is can the SE cable go behind the brick. Normally the cable is not allowed to be in the structure before it reaches the meter.
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