All Forum Posts by: Brad Smith

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTH9102E7qk

I have a credit at Home Depot and need some flooring so we're thinking about using this over laminate.  Anybody got any experience with it?

Brad

Thanks, Bob, I saw your book recommendation:

http://www.michaelcorbett.com/flipit.html

You're close by here in Central Texas, maybe some day we can meet up.

Brad

On another forum, I posted a question about finding a red wire when trying to hang ceiling fans in a 50's house.

That's helpful but I'm finding current on the red/white wires, not the black/ground.  There is no ground in this house.

BTW, [RANT] I deleted my link to that website.  People on forums can be such D _ _ _ _ S!  I have been criticized before for posting a new thread when the question has been asked before.  This time, I got hit for "hijacking" a similar thread with my question.  Sheez... this forum is so much more user friendly!!!  

Finished water line earlier this week but somehow realized that disconnecting the galvanized water line also isolated the rest of the piping in the house from any grounding.  So, I bought some 4 AWG copper wire and a couple of grounding rod clamps and hooked the old supply line (under the house) back up to the piping under the house.  At least there is now the original grounding that existed before replacing line with PVC.

By the way, I went through the wall above the footing.  The footing was wider than my rented hammer drill bit but I was able to go through mortar between some of the stone of the wall.  

 Once again, "they" is referred to but there is no "they."  I'm not getting a permit and I'm not being inspected so it's just me.  I do work with a plumber and PVC was his first suggestion, too.  Sch 40.

Now I think I'm going to drill through the footing.... seems way simpler.

 Yeah, Jason, there's actually a panel in the floor where a floor furnace used to be and it's right where I need to get into the crawl space so relatively easy access.  I think I'm going with the hammer drill approach.  Yeah, I wanted that straight run when I was finished.

Thanks!

 It's gonna be PVC. No "they" involved, just me.  In some ways, the hand digging was, in part, just to show I could still do it... ego thing.  I could have rented a trencher for $150 bucks (probably)) but I felt confident I could knock it out... and I did!  In the time it would have taken to go pick up the trencher, do the work, and return it, I had much of it dug.  

It occurred to me that a couple of years ago I created a bathroom in a lake house we had and I had to put in a rear discharge toilet (sounds redundant) to avoid cutting into the slab by drilling a hole through a cinder block wall.  Kind of the same thing here so I could just use a hammer drill to drill through footing.

As stated in original post, pier & beam!

Yeah, glad to be down here in Tejas. 79 degrees today!

Picture below taken yesterday.

It's not a sewer line, it's a 3/4" water supply.  I think I know where the leak was but can't repair it due to corrosion. 

The hand digging was an "exercise opportunity"! :-)