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Great info. Thanks for posting this.

Hello, Thanks for good shielding details. I am installing my small wood burning stove (750 sqft capacity - US Stove Co) in my sunroom. It will be on the corner of big Pella windows. Manufacturer recommends 13” clearance from the sides of the stove. However, these are outside contact windows. I am worried about they are getting cracked with cold and hot heat differences. Is there any ballpark % addition to window clearance instead of wall clearance?

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Anything this old, the heat exchanger must visually be inspected. Second, the reason they have a "higher heat output" is because back in those days everyone oversized furnaces. I see it all the time. Some 125,000btu furnace when the house needs 60,000. Can't make this stuff up.

Thank you so much for these videos! Your channel is the only one that is giving me actual answers. My install is in a manufactured home and requires that we have a fresh air intake pipe coming into the stove. Can I run the air intake pipe through the heat shield? Or should I run it through the hearth pad and sub floor and then out to to underpinning of the house.

Worst case scenario, just go by the correct board and sister it to the existing.

Hello! My husband and I are making an offer on our first home. It's a real fixer-upper on a lot of land in the Ottawa area. The furnace needs to be replaced and I'm looking at a winter of fixing it with no heat. I am looking for temporary wood-burning heat options to supplement electric wall heat incase we get a very cold night or the power goes out. Long term I'd love to install a wood stove. What are your thoughts on temporary portable wood stoves, and running your chimney out a window?

I used a 4' square piece of metal roofing material, with a 1.5" stand off.

If I put tile over backer board and put the sheet metal behind the backer board that would allow 67% reduced clearance between wall and stove?

Can the chimney braces be attached to the outside of a standing seam metal roof? Ie clamped to the seam? Like how snow barriers and solar panels can be?

When you say that you can reduce the distance from back wall by 66%, is it from the shield or the wall itself?

Say I have a carpet floor, build up my hearth, made out of 2x6 frame with 1/2” osb on top, then 1/4” cement board, then porcelain tile. Can I keep the carpet underneath since I have the clearance/fire barrier?

Thank you so much for a simple yet detailed explanation. Am in Canada too.

thank you man more videos God bless you

do i need a ballard post if the stove is in the corner as soon as you come through the bay door?

Thank you.

My daughter just got screwed by an inspector like you if its not right fix it don't leave it your hired for your knowledge and honesty but you guys don't care hire your own inspector not jokers like this guy

Thank you. Is this nook available for purchase? Or possibly from a library?

Thanks for the information and video

The widely used Air O Cell test only tests the air in a 3 foot circumference for on average 10 minutes. It is the least effective of all the testing methods yet the one most mold "inspectors" use. Plus you can take an Air O Cell sample of an area at three different times of the day and get 3 different results. It is NOT a reliable test of the air quality in a room and especially a building. It is meant to be an aid in an inspection and help the inspector determine if there is mold somewhere that is not visible. There are better ways to test the air quality in a building or home but they all have limitations and rely on the inspector doing the testing properly and according to industry standards, which in my opinion as a Certified Mold Inspector and licensed attorney, most do not do. Great video. Concise and informative. As you said, until the area is tested you can't say for certain if it is mold. It should be tested especially if there was a water intrusion event.

Back in the good old days when surviving each day was an adventure!

Sheesh it's been there for 70 years!? Let it go, they probably just had the wrong size delivered and the crew was there ready to roll, at least they they put the 2 boys to make the gap

I know as a carpenter when we ran into situations like that, we were told that plywood could be screwed to one side of the joice, screwed and glued..

Yeah what's the problem. They couldn't afford the proper material for the floor framing. It's not like it is structural. What you can't see is that all the wall framing looks like a Jenga tower built out of 24 inch long scraps of 2x4.

70 year old engineered timber beam. Probably stronger than the 2x10s.

It must a very old house. It has diagonal 1x6 boards for the subfloor. A newer house would have plywood.

Wise words.

What's the span ?

I mean you could go through and jack the floor, cut out the scabbed 2x8 and replace with 2x10s but why? In my mind the only thing that made no sense is the 2x2 piece should have been on top of every scabbed board, not on the bottom.

I'm not convinced the goal was a level CEILING, I think the goal was a level floor.

My house built in 1800s and people saying it's going to fall apart. Like, NOW, of all times is when it is going to fall apart? Some things to change, sure. Fall apart? Likely not.

Its comical that anyone is price shopping for an inspection when theyre looking at spendings 10s if not 100s of thousands on a home, get the best inspection you can get, and itll likely save you money on the back end

I do septic pumping, and this is so true, its a shot in the dark with septics, the only thing we can see is the condition of the tank once its pumped, and the levels that were in it when I started

The way i see it, its been there all these years and doesnt seem to have moved, code as far as framing goes, is often massive overkill, since no engineer wants to sign off on the one that fell down. I wouldn't be worried about it at all if I was looking to buy the house.

Amazing, thank you

Amazing thank you!

Thanks man, good to know!

Awesome!!

Can't hear a thing.

At 3:20 You are correct. It compares incoming current throught the hot lead to the outgoing current through the neutral lead. If the difference it greater the 0.006 amp (6 milliamps) it will trip.

Or how to clean the lense?.do you use any type or solvent, water etc or just use a cloth?

I'm not a builder or trades person, but I like your videos. I find houses kind of fascinating for some unbeknownst reason. I feel like they have lots of stories to tell. My current home has had way more issues than what the home inspector found (same with my last house). Trouble shooting and fixing them has been an adventure, to say the least. I think I've got it mostly figured out, but there are things with my house that I wish I knew more about. The hallway drops an inch over a 3 foot span in one place, for example. And one room has an odour that just won't go away despite new paint and flooring.

Hi from Ottawa! Great videos! thank you for the information. I purchased a used Bennington 8350 in great shape. Bricks and seals are almost new. Need to get in installed in my 1916 brick foursquare. Before next winter.

Fire or mold treatment? There's no ventilation in the atic and plenty of insulation plus it looks like a heating flue pipe is installed which can cause the underside of the roof to heat up in the winter without ventiliation mold growth couldoccur.

I stick frame roofs. That old roof probably had a purlin that was damaged in the fire and the restoration company did a piss poor job of replacing it.

These are all USA rules yes? In AU we have different regs…

I have two downstairs in my house and the green light is not as bright as it is supposed to be. Is that a problem?

Coefficient of expansion and galvanic corrosion are the big issues with aluminum wiring. You don't have to have heavy loads to have problems. The biggest issue I found with aluminum wiring was using the push locks on outlets for feed-through. I know push locks have come a long way but I still feel more comfortable using the screw terminals for fastening wires.

anyone else check their fire-alarms after hearing a low battery beep?

My inspector was clearly in cahoots with my realtor