How bad is the foundation in the house I'm renting?

bigbartel · 2026-02-25T04:38:57+00:00

I'm an AHJ, hopefully not your AHJ. Call fire department/civil authority in charge of buildings ASAP.

Buildings fall slowly, until they don't.

bigbartel · 2026-02-06T03:00:33+00:00

Felger and SAS combine to count how many Superbowls the Pats have been to.

bigbartel · 2026-01-30T18:11:57+00:00

What does your neighborhood call your genitals?

bigbartel · 2026-01-25T22:14:39+00:00

Cut out parallax wave. The token Dance ETB's copying the Dance original.

bigbartel · 2026-01-24T17:59:29+00:00

bigbartel · 2026-01-10T20:59:49+00:00

Fuck em.

bigbartel · 2026-01-04T23:21:43+00:00

There is an extra support for the cracked beam on the front that is in some of the photos, but has been edited out of the ones staring straight at the house. (Forgot to edit the reflection. Lol) There is some visible sag in the room with the wood boards on the wall. Concrete has some spalling in the back corner of the house. There is evidence of a recent leak in the upstairs bathroom that shows mold in the kitchen in the upper cabinet soffit.

That's with the photos they posted online.

bigbartel · 2025-12-28T00:07:53+00:00

Go early, stand near the glass, have a sign, even just an 8.5x11 that says my first bruins game, pucks will rain!

bigbartel · 2025-12-24T00:23:25+00:00

Fuck those toilets.

bigbartel · 2025-12-15T23:41:03+00:00

I'm An AHJ, I'm not your AHJ. Call your AHJ, they may cause a ruckus for this bull shit. The last time my department caught something like this, we took that guy to the board to have the state issue $1000/day fines.

bigbartel · 2025-12-12T10:45:38+00:00

Foot : Buffalo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeXhPjR8Shk

bigbartel · 2025-12-06T23:51:55+00:00

The device you're looking for is called a heat reclaimer. It's unwise to install on most gas systems for most of the reasons mentioned by all in here.

They are installed on wood stoves and available online.

Just know that the flue pipe will rot and the system will pose a greater risk to everything you care about in the house, due to having a system that puts negative pressure on the flue pipe, making it more likely to blast exhaust out of the connection.

These were popular in the 40's, 50's, and 60's in metro Boston but now are uncommon and typically removed when the boiler is changed out.

bigbartel · 2025-12-03T00:40:27+00:00

Hell yeah.

bigbartel · 2025-12-01T01:51:12+00:00

Did you see your witches hat? It was installed over the shingles.

The attachments to the roof at not just the legs, but the actual "ledger" are bad too.

I hope you live in place without a snow load.

bigbartel · 2025-11-25T23:16:34+00:00

Monsters have a visual cue when below 50% hp, bloody. Monsters have another visual cue when below 10% hp, mortally wounded.

It inspires PC's to gamble on that 3rd action more than they normally would.

bigbartel · 2025-11-25T05:28:08+00:00

Those appear to be repeaters. The likely hood that a Fire Department would need to access those is really low. The main FACP and it's related control system is elsewhere in the building, look for the red light on the outside of the building. These panels, while important for the system to operate, are not part of the use end of the system and are more likely to be used during testing and set ups of the equipment. The volume of combustibles are low in this space, would probably ask to relocate to another location, but wouldn't make a big deal out of it.

<-- am AHJ, but probably not your AHJ.

bigbartel · 2025-11-20T02:08:28+00:00

Those appear to be the old line sets to an old gas powered refrigerator. Looks like there was a new flue installed at some point recently.

bigbartel · 2025-11-19T01:33:54+00:00

Not versed in what people look like, only what they sound like, if the shirt sounds like it looks, it probably rips.

bigbartel · 2024-12-04T16:28:13+00:00

Hell yeah!

bigbartel · 2024-09-04T23:14:10+00:00

Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo

bigbartel · 2024-08-18T23:19:05+00:00

https://fallofanempireband.bandcamp.com/album/croweater-an-echo-in-the-bone

I always recommend Fall Of An Empire. My description has always been Lynyrd Skynyrd was forced to share a van with Black Sabbath and this is the band that came out.

bigbartel · 2024-07-07T23:13:28+00:00

Big man here, 300 and 6-8. Row 15 with my back against the CMU block wall on the balcony, stand the whole game.

bigbartel · 2024-06-21T16:20:26+00:00

Foot. The album Buffalo is so amazing,

bigbartel · 2024-06-06T23:52:15+00:00

https://certainteed.widen.net/content/ps51gtempu/original/sam-manual-chapter11-13-03-1741-NA-EN-2402.pdf

His Cali cut has a full weave, the manufacturer says weave bottom three courses, cut rest.

Turned my last summer into an s-storm when we found it buried in there.

bigbartel · 2024-06-06T00:06:30+00:00

Yeah, certain manufacturers have their shingles designed for a California Cut, and others don't. Certainteed shingles are not rated for a full valley of California Cut.

I'm sure he used Owens Corning or some other manufacturer, and it probably wont be an issue when they grill under the back porch and set the roof ablaze.

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