Yes, It was mid winter, it was a condo, and there was snow and ice everywhere but that was not the problem they’d brought me in for. No their problem was quite obvious and visible, so they thought, but they didn't understand why. That's why I was there. They had water damage on the ceiling and sidewall of an archway, two distinct areas and a significant amount of water. The year before they had had water damage on the ceiling of the floor above and had the roof … (9 comments)
building inspection: This wall looks pretty good, no problems here, right?
- 05/01/11 04:10 PM
This wall looks pretty good, no problems here, right? Well maybe. But look up at the second story level. Look where the decorative front type brick meets the planer single colour side brick. You can see the joint between the two, right? The light whitish colour of the mortar, yes. Why is it like that, we don't see any others like it do we. So lets go over and take a closer look at it. Now you can see it ;
Now you CAN see it! There's a bulge! What does that mean? That means that the ties that … (8 comments)
Usually I'm presenting an aspect of home maintenance, value improvement or 'how too' instructions to feature best practice ways to do things around building and property issues.
Some times it's building tech history or how thing came to be as they are, the back story on terms, expressions and phrases.
I keep track of the strange, the unique, the special and interesting things I get to see, including the dangers. These are filed as OMGs. OMGs always have photos, so I share the file with you from time to time.
The rest come out of thin air. More than once I start writing a comment on someone else's blog and end up inking a whole new blog. Am I inspired or am I ranting? You can decide.
Tt Was, And There Was, Everywhere But That Was Not The Problem.
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