[R-390] Building Standards

[wb5uom at hughes.net]

Sanderson Texas.... Now there is a desolate outpost. Just 1/2 mile from Hell
(And was actually just looking at some land for sale out there for fun)

David/WB5UOM


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "William J. Neill" <wjneill at consolidated.net>
To: "Ron Kolarik" <rkolarik at neb.rr.com>
Cc: <r-390 at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Monday, August 03, 2009 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: [R-390] Building Standards


> 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>
> Subject: [R-390] Building Standards
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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
> 
> ----------------
> "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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