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The last person who works on an inadequate and/or illegal installation owns it.

I caulked the seam between the vertical flashing coming out of the roof at a right angle and the horizontal shingle overlap, so the water runs down the roof past the skylights rather than running under the shingles. I should mention that I did not reshingle the whole roof after installing the...

Yes. Much better to transfer measurements than to measure them yourself, plus the burden is on the seller to match it.

The place needs an Exorcist! Maybe two! :shock:

Over here we have Black's Law Dictionary. What does it mean at zero degrees Longitude?

You can check the caps yourself with a DVM, a 1 megohm resistor, a 12v battery and clock.

I guess the pump marketing department has decided that circulating the cold water around the motor with a thin coiled pipe to increase the motor duty cycle is not worth it. Even with free DIY labor it may not be worth it.

It is not good if a person's behavior is predictable. :(

If you can't touch it for more than a few seconds it's at >50C. IIRC 70C will burn you immediately. http://www.antiscald.com/prevention/general_info/table.php

Should they have known better or is this a once-in-a-lifetime knotty problem which would trip up almost everyone?

If you don't want to rent a fiber optic viewer like SeeSnake and make a small hole you may need to put a large hole in your wall to inspect what's going on behind it. With my pinhole leak I could hear it in the pipes, they transmit the sound of high pressure turbulent water flow very well...

I didn't see that one ahead of time! :D :D

Shims. You might have to custom make them. Figure out ahead of time how much elevation you need by using your level, known sizes like drill bits and the formula for tangents.

If you ohm it out, the heating element should read R = (V^2)/P with V^2 being 52900, so a 4kw element should read approx. 13 ohms, cold. Evidently there was a short circuit which has now melted away.

It took my self-installed Velux non-openable skylights six months to leak because of just the right combination of wind-driven rain. I put off drywalling the lightwell for this reason. A roofing guy came and caulked the whole thing, this was in 1994. Just recently I had the same problem and...

Does the tenant have other electrical problems? It could be somebody careless is screwing around, upstream, or it could be a as yet undiscovered fault in the system.

Rent a room heater attached to a kwh meter and heat the room for a few hours on a cold night for which you know the average outside temperature for the few hours. Women are more sensitive to cold. For more accuracy repeat this experiment over several days and nights. With some formulas...

The washer abuts a seat so make sure the seat is not pitted.

It's easy enough to drill wood but if you want to search for one put a time limit on your search ahead of time. Depending on how you value your time you might be able to buy a new workbench instead of finding this Holy Vise. Btw, vice   /vīs/ Noun Immoral or wicked behavior...

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