@Scott Morongell and anyone else on this thread - interested in meeting up either next Thurs March 14 or Fri March 15?

I know this not acceptable so I am thinking I need to remove the debris, spray for mold, paint with mold resultant paint on the joint beams to be safe, lay insulation plastic over the dirt.

Us small fries dream!

A couple of hours later my thermostat started smoking and burnt up melting the plastic and leaving a mark on the wall.

Bought a foreclosure with a wall that appears to be made up of 2x3 walls sandwiched together with some weird hard plastic membrane between them.

You've got bigger fish to fry in your personals but dont stop learning and growing.

I had to do this twice last month in TN.I had them use trenchless technology where they put in a new pipe in both cases.One was for my personal house $3500 and replaced a pipe that was plastic like and maybe 20 years old. 

Arlen if you get to Cleveland have James take you out for deep fried Rueben Balls  !!!  

I arrive & the place is empty except for a couple of plastic patio chairs.

The ink holds fast on them, but the adhesive craps out and the sticker falls off.My latest solution were those plastic key head tags (colored plastic ring with a window in the center for the label).