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Looks to me from the picture that the rain baffle ring and screen are out of position, leaving nothing to stop snow and animals from dropping into the attic. I've seen some installations here in Kentucky where they leave the baffle ring completely out.

My local mechanic has floor heat in his commercial garage building with a natural gas boiler. I was in there when the temperature was down below zero. His building, though LARGE (6 bays) was plenty warm. He said the cost was very economical too!

Read everything you can on this message board. There's tons of information right from the front lines here. Don't ask a bunch of questions, read and then read some more. I presume your warship has internet and not much to do with downtime. Read, then read some more. When I started 17 years ago, this board was just getting started but I still learned more real life stuff here than anyplace else. Let what you find here guide you in further studies. This place can teach you what questions to research. Take the harder road and find it yourself instead of just asking someone else to tell you the answer. You'll remember it much better when you find it yourself, though it's more about learning how to find the answer. for yourself. Study for and pass the NHIE. That's the first BIG step. After that, hook up with a multi-inspector firm in California. Gets you some real life experience. After you've got the inspection basics down, start studying marketing. It doesn't matter how good of an inspector you are if you can't make the phone ring. Even the best inspector in the world is going out of business if they can't make the phone ring. Talk with Mike Brown about doing a website for you. He can best advise you when to start on that. Save up some money. It'll be awhile before you start making a living at it. The better prepared for that, the better off you'll be.

17 years ago, it was my second choice after Inspection News. Didn't take long to make it my first choice. Much friendlier and respectful. So many know it all people on the face book groups. I tend to use Facebook for my personal stuff with family and friends.

Here's what they look like in Central Kentucky. This one was out on the back of the building. There's a disconnect for each unit right under the meter.

Thank you, Bill. I'll pass that along.

What do you call the low piece at the bottom of the gable that runs from cornice return to cornice return? Can't find anything on line giving it a specific name. Now someone asked if it had a particular name. Any ideas?

What do you call the low roof section at the bottom of the gable? Can't find anything on line giving it a specific name. I usually just call it the low roof at the bottom of the front gable. But, someone asked if it had a particular name. Any ideas?

I'm guessing you're right Marc. Les: I'm not sure about the bypass affecting the vacuum, but I've seen them pulling a couple of inches of water column with the bypass present, so I'm guessing the affect is minimal.

Beats the hell out of me, Jim. I'm not a radon mitigator, but I see a lot of them around here given Mother Nature's propensity for spitting it out in Central Kentucky. The cold weather times around here have created some ice mounds around the fan when it's not routed back into the pipe to go back into the ground at the base of the pipe. Easiest place to dispose is right back into the pipe below the fan.

It does create a slightly narrower interior cross section with the collector ring.

Around here, if they put it in at all, they use a condensate collector coupling above the fan with a tube from it back into the pipe below the fan. No restriction of air flow.

Initially, when I read it, I thought condensate drains but those holes aren't how condensate bypasses are done on radon systems. On the pressure side of the fan, I'd guess air is coming out the holes, not getting sucked in. I think Chad has the best answer!

Ah yes, that dreaded "further evaluate".

And you let your sister live with that? Or did you go look?

Didn't even know we had email accounts on here! Did I miss something or are you just special? (Well, besides that.)

If licensing were such a great thing, we would not be complaining about all those state licensed drivers out there on the roads.

Someone is opening up all those old posts again, huh!

Get a chimney cleaning flue kit, cut the brush to the size of the rectangular duct and run it up and down until it all falls to the bottom. Vacuum as needed. Then clean the round with the 4 inch rotary from the outside. If you push any into the rectangular part, it'll fall to the bottom where you can vacuum it up.

Why heck, Kurt. That's one of the nicest ways I've ever seen it said.

No dam & baffle at the soffit, huh.

I've only seen a couple but looked great and seems to work well. As John said, look outside and see if the fixed the issues there also. The way I explain it to clients is: Take five children's blocks and lay them down in a line Take a piece of scotch tape and run it up one end, across all the blocks and down the other end. Stand the blocks up. Push on the side with the tape on it. The other side of the blocks separate. That's the ground (whatever the root cause) pushing against the foundation wall without any reinforcement Now turn it around and push on the side across from the tape. That's the carbon fiber strips in action. A lot of old traditional foundation guys hate it. "Gotta use box beams buried in the cement and fastened to the structure above."

One time years ago. Really beat up house that needed a lot of money invested. like 70 or 80 thousand. The young first time home buyers had been watching to much HGTV. She fell through the floor during the inspection. They told me how much money they had to fix it, $5 thousand.. Less than one tenth of what the house needed. I'm sure somebody bought it and made a profit but it shouldn't be them.

Be nice, Jim.

Added close up pictures.