Tom Raymond

A MW circuit would trip the GFCI nearly every time the circuit was used. Here in lies the problem. How much you wanna bet the GFCI for the washer and drier IS the multi wire circuit? Prior to the GFCI requirement it was common practice to split the hot side of a duplex to create two dedicated cicuits. If this building was roughed in with a MWC and then a GFCI installed on the finish then one hot lead is protected and the other is connected to the load terminal and is not protected. If this would work without causing the breakers to trip, then it would very likely cause the GFCI to malfunction. Tom

He obviously raided his garage for that one (and all the hose clamps). A trip to autozone and he could have found one that more closely matched the bends he needed[:-bonc01] Tom

Hi All, Just got this at my day job and thought it was worth posting. The NYS building, fire prevention, and energy codes are available online, FREE, viewable by section, and cut/paste-able into other documents. http://www.dos.state.ny.us/code/ls-codes.html Happy Reading, Tom

My bad, probably a little snippy for my first post here but I've been hanging around and feel I know some of you guys. I do know Chad and his, shall we say, fondness for proper terminology. "Step flashing" in the local jargon would be woven into courses of shingles of some kind or other that is then covered on the vertical side by either the siding or a counter flashing or both. In any event, the proper technique for John's post would be for a continuous flashing from the wall onto the waterproof membrane under the metal, a bead of approved sealant, the metal roof panel, a bead of approved sealant, another continuous flashing, and a counter flashing that is cut into the brick. What he has is a sloppy metal roof-over that is unfortunately all too common. Tom

And you use that radiant heat loop often in Florida[^] Tom

Hi, Been lurking here for a while and finaly had to say something; how is it that all of you missed the fact that this is a standing seam roof and can't possibly have step flashing? Chad you'll never live that down! BTW, that detail sucks. Tom