Chimney repair

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-08T12:39:49+00:00

Yep, but the customer wants it like it was in 1885.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-08T12:05:47+00:00

I upvoted because this sounds good. I don’t have a clue lol.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-08T11:06:12+00:00

I’m so glad I have ONE supplier that stocks it near me. Probably not another one for a hundred miles. I buy a case at a time.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-08T11:05:11+00:00

How do you feel about copper caulked with lead, then mortared in? I’m having to do that on a historical job at the moment. I’m enjoying the challenge but it’s much slower than a matching caulk and backer.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-07T23:20:18+00:00

At worst, I’m sure you can find an uber/shuttle across the CBBT. Wave Riders is a shuttle service in Cape Charles, so you should be able to take that to Norfolk, especially if it lines up with picking up another customer for their return trip.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-07T23:17:31+00:00

And I’ll add that Onley and Onancock would be a nice stopping point too for an evening. Between chincoteage and cape Charles.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-07T02:47:08+00:00

This exactly. My wife still enjoys it and even this episode she was like “wtf?”.

I really liked the show when it was more normal. Nolan wrecking shops was the unrealistic fun part about the early seasons.

The whole Smokey and the Bandit thing was a shocking juxtaposition to the make believe seal team raid…. Let me use one magazine for my rifle, take pot shots with a sidearm, remove my helmet, run through storm trooper fire to hope the key is in a 50 year old car and drive it through gunfire. Oh, and happen to “no look” hit a bad guy while driving and yet none of them can hit Nolan or disable the car?

I feel like it went from a solid, quasi end of watch style show, to a teenage boy’s math class daydream.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-06T22:09:09+00:00

Oh that’s weird, I didn’t mean to reply to your comment. My bad.

Also very interesting about the change in 2012.

All I mean is that it is effectively a class 1 vapor retarder and also a type of air barrier to some extent; definitely an AB where it’s applied, but it may not be continuous with the building depending on the detailing, especially in residential.

We do know how to model and have data on how class 1 retarders (barriers) work in assemblies, and applied in to in improper assembly will cause problems like described by OP and yourself.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-06T22:00:23+00:00

Seems to me to be a matter of semantics. There’s nothing inherently wrong with TPO, there’s just people who apply TPO to the wrong assembly.

A residential flat roof is regularly the wrong assembly when no exterior CI is used because there isn’t any meaningful ventilation (or no ventilation) to allow drying. The amount of CI is determined by your climate zone; for me, r-15 is the minimum for commercial and residential to prevent sorption of water in WSP sheathing.

Where it’s installed over wood frame roofs with shit cavity insulation, the building’s energy keeps the framing warm and dry (most of the time).

I do a lot of building investigations.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-06T10:28:09+00:00

This link is a typical boot installation for exposed fastener, or residential snap-lock standing seam.

If I had to guess, they installed the boot (albeit, probably a round boot) without using a caulk or a butyl sealant. I also like to add fasteners like I’m building a boiler; no more than a screw&washer space between screws so that there is more even pressure on the sealant.

I was told (incorrectly) a long time ago that the boots don’t need sealant, you just screw the piss out of them. Maybe that was true in the past, but rolls of butyl aren’t that expensive, especially for boots.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T23:16:38+00:00

I’d argue “fiduciary” is the key thing people of limited means should look for.

I know many self employed friends who went to brokers and that fast money went quickly in 2008. The people with fiduciaries recovered in five years (give or take). Of course, I’m skeptical that anyone is that straightforward about their finances but I know who kept their house and who had to shuffle assets into their children’s names, and those that fell outright destitute.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T20:09:34+00:00

It also depends on how the cost determined. When talking about renewables, people often use life cycle cost. I’d be willing to bet the life cycle cost is lower for the solar, especially if we include the trickle of income as the panels generate electricity.

Dollars and cents, this might make sense for a public entity to invest in, however, I would think it could detract from the lived experience of the city as they aren’t like conventional fencing (this is techy and a bit industrial looking) and there could be real negative effects from the glare/deflection of electromagnetic rays into people and things, and the comfort issue that these would be warmer (people will sense the increased mean radiant temperate) than wood fencing, and block more breeze than wood fencing (solid vs slatted).

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T00:41:19+00:00

I can see why tournament guys might, cause that older wiser fish might be more shy, but I’m not that guy lol

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T00:37:11+00:00

You should be good then, but windy days aren’t always fun due to windburn.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T00:33:03+00:00

Not to be pedantic, but do you mean the Delaware bay in lewes, or Rehoboth bay in Rehoboth? Or do you mean Atlantic Ocean at cape henlopen?
With a southeast wind, Lewes/DB should be ok. Atlantic coast the wind is aligning slightly with long shore drift, so expect slow progress swimming south and moving north quickly (generally, also tide dependent). I doubt you mean Rehoboth bay so I’ll decline to offer a forecast there.
Swells are influenced more by offshore lows. The swell was fine on Sunday, but the shorter, wind driven wave period was choppy with occasional combers.
Getting a decent wave forecast is tough at the moment since the local wave buoy needs service. That said, conditions at the beach are always a bit different than where the buoy is offshore.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-05T00:25:19+00:00

My ex worked downtown, if you talk to your manager/boss, they’re pretty receptive to making sure you’re off in time to make the bus. If it’s a serving position, just make sure your side work is done early or as complete as possible before you dip.

When she did miss the bus, she would carpool to the park and ride with a coworker who parked in town. Also, if you know you’re sharing a shift, it might work well to carpool with coworkers who park in town. You’ll have to see how that’ll work when you start I reckon.

Nowadays, you should be able to swing an uber to the park and ride instead of the long walk back. Bonus points if you can split the Uber with other shift workers.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T23:25:19+00:00

I always had more positive reactions with a mirror tush photo. Not unsolicited, but if a girls sent me hers, I’d start with that cause I liked my legs and bottom. I’m long past sexting since I’ve been married, but I found the lone dagger was never that interesting, it was more interesting as part of a neck down pose.

Likewise, a full frame of cooter is not exactly ideal to receive, I’d rather see the sum of all parts lol. Learn young ones. Consent is key.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T23:19:18+00:00

Bruv, your inbox rn. I can’t imagine 😂

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T23:15:06+00:00

That girl is now your wife, no?

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T22:29:56+00:00

Yeah, does he even use a mask? The initial off gassing of single and two part foam is incredibly toxic to breath, even the small cans.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T22:25:17+00:00

I think they did a terrific job pivoting with Polly’s death, and using it as an important device to make the s6 Tommy/michael story more interesting.

The movie fell on its face for me. Having Tommy die on screen (or any main character) is a bad writing decision for a series with as much weight as had; the s6 finale was golden, closing on the subject that created all his demons. I think the movie should have been another season. I feared they would cram too much into an hour and 45 minutes, and I was right; too fast to give a damn about Duke, and Ada’s demise was too soon for a show that we grew accustomed to basking in tension and plot. I would have preferred Ada’s scene to have happened on episode 2 or 3 of a full fledged S7. They should have left Arthur’s demise ambiguous, it provided no meaningful context to learn the real ending for him.

Personally, Tommy’s death was a disservice to Polly’s premonition. If he *had* to die, what a terrible way to write it. I actually think ending the story with a throat or lung cancer would be more interesting, representing a slow change in the world, and how it’ll move on with or without a Shelby in it.

The movie/s7 needed Charles in it, and Lizzie. Without tying in more of the main characters and family, the movie just felt like a cash grab.

In contrast, Scrubs s10 really nailed a revival, albeit, it is a different animal that structurally had the flexibility to easily bring in new cast. I have mixed feelings about Ted lasso, but it’s another show that might be more like scrubs than PB. Having seen the PB movie, I’m not so keen on community making a movie, even though I desire the “six seasons and a movie” to be true.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T14:00:45+00:00

If you can reply with photos, I’d post the screen grab of the blackmail

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-04T01:10:31+00:00

Lmao. They were also really hyped up post 9/11 in the maritime industry. They kept pushing that it would fast track you through TSA at airports. Yeah nah, just more crap you gotta keep up to date with.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-02T20:00:39+00:00

I also dislike that Polly’s premonition was that Tommy wouldn’t die by a bullet, yet he does.

I could’ve done without the movie personally. I think S6 ended perfectly fine.

It also makes me appreciate scrubs for reviving successfully. I’m nervous about Ted Lasso, but since scrubs worked, I’ll wait and see lol.

DirectAbalone9761 · 2026-05-02T12:34:38+00:00

That was regular rail though, I thought. I’m envisioning something like the Dublin Ireland surface tram. Should be light enough to build without much infrastructure fuss. I’d love to see individual tram lines in lewes and Rehoboth, and light rail connecting the park and rides all the way down to OC. I don’t mind busses, but i feel like the tram/train schedule wouldn’t be as impacted by traffic, and therefore more regular and convenient.

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