Jim Baird

Thanks, Michael

This jacket was installed by a handyman, I guess. I don't think it was for insulation.

I thought it was more than 22 yrs. Have learned a lot here from lots of "friends" I'm sure I will never meet. I am way less active inspecting and way more active with local community activities. With some zoning admin and AHJ inspecting experience I try to advise local authorities. Some of them listen and respond. I have a facility for composition and like to write. (Many of my referrals come from clients that like my prose style, believe it or not) I think that trying to model on JLC will be a leap that this group should not try to make. I wish I had better ideas, but I think the professional level of this forum membership really puts limits onto the kinds of content the site can carry. I agree with others' assessments here of other online inspection forums. A lot of ego and ignorance on parade there.

Glad she did not weigh 200 lbs.

Mike, That is a job I never would have finished. Flash to future, I inspected a pos mobile home a property owner had relocated across his own property to set up as an ADU, but before set up was complete, a neighbor begged him to offer shelter to a family that had suffered a house fire and had no insurance etc. My client offered them shelter in his ongoing ADU setting, and before long they became a nuisance, would not leave and loaded the property with loads of junk. Owner appeal to sheriff said he could not evict them without extended court action. Took him six months to execute eviction.

...just like our manual yard equipment, wheel barrow and cart. Pneumatic tires are generally cheaper. I bought solid tire for wheelbarrow long ago. Cost more than the wheelbarrow itself. Garden cart I could not find solid tires, so I just use it with two flats. Rolls OK. When those old tires rot and fall off I might use some lengths of old hose and some duct tape to pad those naked rims some.

I hope you were deputized for those visits. My brushes with legal issues were all on the bottom side of occupancy. I had to verify squalid conditions at dwellings were homes had been condemned by AHJ. My visits were final steps in delivery of due process before evacuation orders. One such case was of an occupant born and raised in a dwelling that was in extreme decline. His parents' portraits hung on the walls but he mainly hung out on the street. His birthplace home was scheduled for demolition, and he refused to accept homeless sheltering options. My visit was accompanied by a social worker and a sheriff deputy.

I was a part time inspector/trainer for two full timers at a local AHJ during the wild Y2K decade. Neither full timer could read the newspaper, much less the codebook. One of them failed a builder's final inspection for a doorbell not working. Builder threw up his hands and sold the house anyway. Cited then by AHJ for occupying a home without a CO, I was sent to signoff, commiserate, and issue the CO to get builder off hook. I made sure not to try that errant doorbell.

"...Going to leave this broke-down palace On my hands and my knees I will roll, roll, roll Make myself a bed by the waterside In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll In a bed, in a bed By the waterside I will lay my head Listen to the river sing sweet songs To rock my soul..."--Grateful Dead Thanks for posting Mike. I have learned so much here from the brethren I will never meet. I can still inspect, but I agree with Les that the "profession" has taken a nose dive in terms of the quality of work. Just passed yr 75 myself but am very lucky to be so functional. A little arthritis here and there but my age peers are dropping off the path.

"tainted" as in bad rep, bad record?

Thanks for continuing your reply, Marc. My understanding of AL single strand was that its increased malleability in response to ebb and flow of current led to diminished connective surfaces that generated dangerous levels of heat. I did not think of copper responding to ebb and flow and keeping enough contact to keep things safe. We still don't have a suitable AL alloy for single strand branch, do we?

Do you mean Eleagnus, or Autumn Olive? The same house had that and English ivy.

At night while you're sleepin' ole Kudzu comes-a-creepin'. Very wet summer found this house being invaded.

" Thinking back, there's nothing I regret more than not taking Chad up on that offer." The Buddhists say that Longing, Fulfillment, and Regret are all the same and of equal value. I have enjoyed your posts here.

Around here unopposed fill over four block high needs engineering.