Les

yes and no. it is a solvent base for asphalt shingles. penetrates and viola' it extends life by 231years!

very popular in Michigan, Ohio and Indiana. I don't caare for it

three, one, two in that order. three evokes a "smell".

he is an ***hat! He wants professional courtesy(s) and acts like a fool. Of course this is just my opinion.

We had the wall phone with crank. Pick up receiver, crank four or five revolutions, wait and tell operator a five character "number". Used until 1955. sometimes it was 44rf6, iv5423, or if shopping for a car BR549.

Merle, your photos do not make sense and regardless they can't be uploaded. Please re-consider reading this entire thread for you own peace of mind. Regards.

Thanks Mike. Guess I should have capitalized my answers. Merle - my apology. I'm in this business for over fifty years and sometimes I forget everyone does not have the same access to my "memory" knowledge or skill set. Asbestos is not a joke but it is manageable if understood and removed from emotion.

Merle, No, no and no. Please do some more reading. Furthermore, you can not prove a negative.

Mike O called me AI once. I think it was in Kansas City or maybe St Louis. I pretty sure he really meant : Almost Ignorant!!

My first inclination was - Here is another person commenting yet saying nothing. But I'm wrong. They are being pretty logical in their thought process. I'm not endorsing his statements, just his thinking.

couple of things: foundation health is hard to define. foundation condition is quite important. Drainage is the most important factor for us in the Mid-west and northwest. Always important. Of course, if you live on a slab of concrete then drainage loses some of it's importance. And - there are many components to a house foundation and any one could have a problem. Sill, plate, vapor barrier, wall, knee wall, floor post, pillar post, tile, gravel fasteners, material, type of wood, etc. Often it is just easy to tell them "you have a foundation therefore you will have a problem". Eventually.

they left the top open to allow excess heat to escape!

the load path would be like a jigsaw puzzle !

I know a guy on the west coast that deal in issues like this! remember Bonnie Trenga?

Great! I had a similar experience with Delta couple months ago. Patience, carefully chosen words, and a smiling telephone voice!