45 minutes to the trail head that is. Once you get to the trail head, the amount of time it takes you to climb the 2000 ft of elevation gain will depend on your fitness level and will power. It is 7.2 miles round trip to the lake and back. Lake Serene is nestled between the peaks around Mt Inde
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05/30/2013
Seems like a “cut-and-dryer” case of what were they thimkin?! As anyone that regularly reads my posts knows---I love standing seam metal roofs. Inspecting them is difficult if they are steep, but because a fair amount of skill is necessary to install them, they usually don’t have a lot of issues
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05/29/2013
The receptacle pictured below is a standard dryer receptacle. It is installed next to the stacking washer dryer and was likely used for the dryer, previous to the dryer being converted to gas. What is a handy sort of guy to do with a left over dryer receptacle? Well why not plug the generator
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05/25/2013
A long time ago I installed a sliding glass door and the installation instructions actually said: “If all else fails----follow the installation instruction manual.” While it was meant to be humorous, I think it was also quite effective in getting the installer to actually read the instructions--
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05/24/2013
There was a time, in the not so distant past, when the only means of grounding the house electrical system was accomplished by connection of the grounding conductor to the metal water pipe coming to the house. There are still a large number of such houses. While I could talk about where this wir
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05/21/2013
Most inspectors will tell you that they don’t like crawl spaces. Like Mickey Rourke in Barfly would say (not about crawl spaces, but about cops), “I just feel better when they are not around.” The problem is that crawl spaces represent a tremendous source of blog fodder. There are the wood des
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05/19/2013
What do you do when you have a bunch of kids with nothing to do? Well you can have them cut the grass around all the storm water retention ponds located all around the city. These ponds are located inside fenced areas that under normal conditions utilize the fences to keep the kids out. But
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05/16/2013
While I always have to chuckle to myself whenever anyone buying a 1967 house wants to know if the house has asbestos in it, I always do my best to take their questions seriously. I realize that in all walks of life people don’t know what they do not know, and what good does it do to poke fun at
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05/14/2013
Personified, bona fide, certified, deep fried, electrified---or more accurately---mortified! The first thing that stood out as I looked at the house was the cool wood box under the roof overhang. It had a nice pull handle, a nail to keep it shut, hinges----and---wait a minute---a cord with a p
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05/12/2013
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