[QUOTE=kfc510;688093] it seems like there should be a reinforced-concrete underground bunker at the schools. QUOTE]

Why underground? Think how big that would have to be. And what if attendance...

A pdf is created in adobe. You can take a pdf file and zoom in to any part of the image, you can save-as just that screen shot, you can add notes to the image with arrows, circles, lines etc. You...

Ask whomever created the plans to send you a pdf of each page.

[QUOTE=J Paulsson;687273]I don't see what the problem is with nailing, QUOTE]

He mentioned finished space below, maybe he is concerned about creating nail pops in the existing sheetrock ceiling.

Denial? Trying to keep up an image? Maybe they think it will make the house sell faster and for more $, and they will make enough to pay the debts.

I think you're screwed and you have no one to blame but yourself.

"and my employee definitely never took into consideration the clauses on the second page."

"persuade them to honor the verbal...

What is slide 14 showing, with the split wood. And it looks like lumber core plywood on a bigger scale, with gaps between the cores.

Actually, those metal stakes are drilled about every inch or so for 16's, so once the metal stake is in the ground you just drive a nail through it into the form board. Trying to drive an inch metal...

One thing you are forgetting is the soil conditions. When I lived in san Antonio, there was only about 6" of topsoil over many feet of limestone, so any digging was difficult. All underground...

You don't need a backrest for the seat?

Looks like a bordello.

And tell us what happens if you try to tweak the glass into position just a tiny tiny bit ...

Do the handrails have to be pipe?

And Dick is correct, almost all states have adopted their own stricter version of the ADA, and some cities have adopted an even stricter version of the state...

There are three things in play here:
1. ADA, which does not govern, but is a reasonable guideline for dimensions and such. Sidebar: the ADA Accessibility Guidelines are the result of a civil...

That's true, but don;t forget the possibility of free labor, like Boy Scouts or a church group.

What are you going to do with a 29" wide ramp? Very few wheelchairs will fit that width, and it's too narrow for a person on crutches too.

Never mind, I just saw the same posting in the...

Used to mean something, back in the day, but now unfortunately it has become another marketing tool and too often nothing more than a gimick or outright deception.

Ignoring the attachment of the countertop to the cabinets and wall, could you just fasten a standard grab bar to the top of the counter, running front to back just an inch or two offset from the...

Find an old timer who used to install metal 4x4 tiles in gas station restrooms.

If only the new plaster that you installed is peeling, then there should not be an issue with lead, unless you used it when you fixed the wall last time. And if only the part you replaced is peeling...

Have you considered trusses?

Well don't I feel dumb. Need to start reading the dates ...

Don't worry, he's also going to ask the kid in the lumber aisle at Home Depot for advice.

Everyone is beeing cautious and conservative, and that's how it should be. Too bad the OP didn;t...

I didn't realize you had cut individual strips of liner, that makes sense. I thought maybe you had draped a wide piece of liner across several joists.

Tom, how did you get the water to flow toward the gutter and not the other direction?

That's whay they sell masking tape.

NW Archy ... why did you suggest SL over a sand fill? Why not a foam backer rod?