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I want to purchase a RILEM tube, for measuring masorny wall porousity, but can't find any place that sells them.
Anyone have any sources? Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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Try here Will... http://www.prginc.com/Masonry/rilem.html
Jeffrey R. Jonas Critical Eye Property Inspections JRJ Consultants Owatonna, Minnesota Chapter President InterNachi Awards Portal: http://co.nachi.org/inachiawards/
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Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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relliott is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
With all the split block around here, that might be a good tool to have.
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As well as generally, for masonry inspections.
Look at this picture. New brick veneer house. Note the efflorescence pattern around the door and window. Proper flashing above both, BUT, the lintel / stone interface was sealed with caulk. The result? Interior water flowing over the end dams of the flashing and running down the wall on the door and window side. The water source was from the gap between the balcony stone and the stone wall. Water, just pouring down behind the wall, getting stopped by the flashing, but over running the flashing because it had no place to go. BTW: There were weep wicks, but they were caulked shut as well. When will they ever learn. Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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Please Note:
relliott is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Coulkd swear I see wicks in the picture but must be the white caulk.
Also almost looks like a see a line of rust along the lintel edge. Source was a gap under the concrete coping at the balcony Will? I take it there was no moisture barrier under the coping. |
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2) No flashing under the coping, but also an open area (see attached picture) and also note the staining on the coping with the efflorescence below. Hope this helps; Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! Last edited by wdecker; 3/24/09 at 4:54 PM.. Reason: Addition |
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Hey Will, Is there a tool you DON'T have?
Michael Merino Merino's Home Inspection & Education Inc. "Not just an Inspection, an Education"SM Phone/Fax 708~535~6057
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Just rge ones I need to do the job.
It's not what tools you have, it's how you use them Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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Please Note:
relliott is a non-member guest and is in no way affiliated with InterNACHI or its members.
Looks like that guardrail is cracking the concrete.
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http://www.chimneysaver.com/mat_tube.html
1 800 860 6327 Kenneth Sitzes NACHI #04122492 Eagle Inspection of Illinois 618-830-8283 Waterloo, Illinois 62298 ghinspector@yahoo.com InterNACHI State of Illinois Continuing Education Administrator |
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Thanks, Ken.
With regards to the water problems we have been having with masonry buildings around here, here is a great picture that I took, in passing, on my way to an inspection, yesterday. Typical problems: 1) No flashing of coping stone at parapet walls. 2) No flashing at joist ends 3) No flashing at lintels 4) No flashing at sills 5) No flashing at stone accent transitions. Go figure. The picture says it all. A 2 1/2 year old condo building. Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors - Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father |
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1) I am very familiar with such consteuction, having inspected many of them.
2) You learn to read the efflorescence patterns. 3) And, most important, I stopped back, after the inspection, and looked at the building. I cheat Will Decker, CMI ILL License # 450.0002240 Board Certified Master Inspector Decker Home Services, LLC Chicago and Northern Suburban Home Inspections Office: (847) 676-8393 Cell: (847) 609-2345 Home: (847) 673-2702 wjd@DeckerHomeServices.com www.DeckerHomeServices.com Learn, Educate, Serve and have fun doing it! |
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Quote:
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors - Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father |
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