This question is kind of like the old joke: “How many men does it take to change a roll of toilet paper?” No one knows----it has never happened. Some jurisdictions get around this issue by requiring deck framing inspections----where the floor structure gets inspected prior to inst
...
05/31/2010
Whether you find yourself crawling across a desert or across a garage floor there is little to support the notion that one can ever truly know where one is going. The journey almost always involves foresight, planning, and balls. In my experience, in spite of our planning, dreams and goal
...
05/30/2010
Raincamp in Bellingham yesterday was a hoot. As always there was too much information to absorb and hopefully some of the stuff thrown at us will stick in some fashion. One of the statistics that was interesting was that 10%-12% of people under the age of 25 say it is OK to sen
...
05/28/2010
Far across the road…….. …….over the stone wall and under the Rose Bush, there lives a group of beings with powers equaled only by humans. One could argue that both they and humans are competing for the low rung on the ladder, as far as mammals go, but I will leave that for you to decide.
...
05/27/2010
I can imagine that whoever had to move all this insulation wished they were Moses, and that they could have parted that Yellow Sea of Insulation as easily as Moses parted the Red Sea. Moving all that old dusty insulation---especially the underlying layer of rockwool insulation----by s
...
05/25/2010
When we were born we were pure experiencing machines. We grew and learned every day----literal sponges of the environments we grew up in. Sometimes we soaked up good information and sometimes we soaked up misinformation and even disinformation. Of course there were lots of soaked di
...
05/24/2010
This porch roof slopes badly. While the picture doesn’t really do justice as to how much it slopes, I think you will still be able to understand my point. Look at the gutter. Can you see how the gutter has been installed to compensate for the slope of the porch----as indicated by being a
...
05/23/2010
There are a couple of obvious things about concrete. It is heavy and it cracks. Once the material is laid down, unless you do what is necessary to stop it, it will continue to go down. Like I said---it is heavy. It is very common, when building houses, to fill around the fou
...
05/22/2010
Leaking at the corners of gutters is very common. Sooner or later the seals at these corners break down and need to be re-sealed. Leaking at these locations can cause damage to the fascia behind the gutters and hidden decay/rot is common and even affects the ends of the rafters that the f
...
05/21/2010
.JPG)