[R-390] Building Standards

[Steve & Carol]

Hi Tisha,

I always find your posts very interesting but putting a ground line into a 
septic tank?? I wouldn't want to be around during a storm if that blew up!!

73,
Steve
WA2TTP
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tisha Hayes" <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
To: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 1:18 PM
Subject: [R-390] Building Standards


>I built new about 10 years ago and was able to be on the job-site at 3 PM
> every day. I purchased a code enforcement book (somewhere on the internet,
> if someone was interested I could go find the darned thing and give you an
> author), and walked around the house each day with the construction 
> manager,
> pointing out mistakes and out of compliance issues.
>
> I was able to get the grounding put in place while they were still pouring
> the footings on the house. Triple coated the basement walls with black
> asphalt roll on coating, filled the cinderblock walls with a very potent
> pesticide to prevent termite problems later on, had the builders add
> hurricane straps on the roof, threaded rod anchors in some of the walls, a
> fireplace (not on the plans) and paid $300 for a guy to come in and run
> fiber optic, Ethernet, coax and shielded audio cables to multiple boxes in
> each room. (20 different drops). I put in fiberglass insulation on the
> interior walls and copper foil down on the floors upstairs (under the wood
> flooring) and Tyvek wrapped the entire house.
>
> The construction manager was this crazy Cajun from somewhere in the swamps
> of Louisiana, he dreaded seeing me each day and tried to get his guys to
> leave before I showed up, so I started arriving early each morning 
> instead.
> I hate retrofits after the fact but still have work to do, putting in a 
> grey
> water system to a cistern for watering and replacing all the outside door
> for steel frames.
>
> Question: This is an odd one. I am on a septic system, I wonder if anyone
> has ever thought of dropping a ground into the septic tank (bronze would
> probably be best). It is always wet and is 10x10x6 so the ground surface
> area would be 340 square feet of surface area (not counting the top) for a
> ground (damp concrete is a good conductor). I may try to drop an element
> into there and hook the Megger to it to see what happens.
>
> When I get around to that experiment I will share the data.
>
> -- 
> Ms. Tisha Hayes
>
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