All Forum Posts by: Steven Westlake

Thanks, it was my intention for folks to learn from others.

 Thinking we could start a list of book topics people would like to see, that bigger pockets could publish:

1. Shows how tenants could apply to various places to get help paying rent, electric, food, etc. we could just show them this and therefore for collect more rent and reduce eviction/turnover.

Put drywall right over lathe boards, you will need 2” screws, but that blown in insulation mostly stays in place. I like 5/8, it’s really tough, and way better sound deadening.

save those appliance boxes for painting or drywall mudding.

remember above, that electric box was buried in the mud and the other one that was just looped out around the stud and then the mud over top of it turns out it’s the same wire.

More hidden live wires- this was just mudded over.

Remove mud / lathe - use a roofing shingle shovel. 2nd level tip, leaving the little skinny boards will hold in blown in insulation, in interior walls that won’t matter.

no mud this time, it’s just hanging down inside the wall, and yes it’s hot too.

never trust an old electric box is dead, this one was drywall mudded and painted over and still hot. Note even the box itself is full of drywall mud.

More clarity-The tenants were all informed of the flush, albeit not with 24 hrs notice. More likely the maintenance man knocked on the door and said your hot will be less than hot for about the next hour while were flushing water heaters out, cold water will not be effected.

 We leave to cold fill running into the tank and open the bottom valve until clean water comes out. Shut the valve and move garden hose to next tank, repeat.

 Fyi, this issue with the water heater that started all this appears to be caused by someone disconnecting wires inside the fused disconnect and wire nuting the hot wires together by-passing the fuses. Also no copper extensions out of any of the other water heaters, and no flex connections, it is all hard plumbed with cpvc. Sadly One of the tenants remembers my father doing the hard cpvc plumbing, I inherited this about 2 years ago.