[R-390] Building Standards

[William J. Neill]

Remind me to tell you a story someday about a former co-worker on the  
railroad who, in his innocent post-pubescent youth in the late  
1930's, lived in Sanderson, Texas, where his father was a yardmaster.

Sanderson is built on rock and without the benefit of sewage systems  
we take for granted today.  In fact, cess pools were more or less  
craters in the granite that lay beneath the four or five inches of  
sand the small town rested upon.  The story involves cleaning the  
family cess pool by a one-armed handyman with a half-stick of  
Hercules No. 8 Nitro-Gel.  And a freshly painted house on a hot  
summer day with all the windows open.

Bill Neill
Conroe, Texas


On Aug 3, 2009, at 8:03 PM, Ron Kolarik wrote:

Bronze would be a good choice but.......have you ever seen a steam  
explosion?
One good strike and you could have your own UFO....no fun.
There's probably a good deal of methane in there too, maybe better to  
just put rods
down in the drain field.

Ron
k0idt


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Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:18:04 -0500
From: Tisha Hayes <tisha.hayes at gmail.com>
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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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"I will not recant the truth. I am corn, not chaff; I will not be  
blown away
with the wind or burst by the flail. I will survive both."
-Walter Milne, 1558
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