HOWDY & Welcome to another round of Questions of The Week!
A member of the Awards Committee will post questions, at a random day/time. Eligible members may make one post per question thread to answer the questions.
Correct answers (as judged by the Awards Committee or Poster of the Questions) wins.
Request your choice by emailing fastreply@nachi.org and submit your Mailing address for shipping
Choose your prize from the following list!:
>$50.00 gift certificate from Inspector Outlet
>Case of books “Now That You’ve had A Home Inspection”
The Big Texas BBQ Experience hosted by our Committee member Emmanuel Scanlan
SCOTT BRIDGES wants to know:
Column and post end connections shall be fastened to resist ___ and ___ forces.
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2) MARTIN WILES wants to know:
What requirement dictates the size of an AAV?
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3) RICH BLEICH wants to know:
According to Article 440.32, if an air conditioner motor compressor consumes 4800 volt-amperes of power at a line voltage of 240 volts, then the minimum total circuit ampacity shall be which of the following:
A. 44.3 amps
B. 25 amps
C. 30 amps
D. 20 amps
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4) Inspect this please
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5) Inspect this please
Extra credit for a chance to get the Inspectorsaurus Coffee Mug
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This is an all day affair and you won’t get home that evening! So we have booked deluxe accomodations for you at a premier local resting place!
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Yes sir! All Inspectors have a side hustle to fill time between inspections. My side hustle are vacation packages revolving around “Road Kill Roundups”. The most popular package includes the following in a “3 Days, 2 Nights, Total Texas Roadkill Roundup Extravaganza”. I have the back 50 acres of my place set up with stables, bunk houses, a chuck wagon, fire pits for cooking and socializing, and a HUGE tank (Texas speak for pond) loaded with cottonmouth and gators (gators are indigenous to North Texas).
Upon arrival if the guests don’t have proper western wear (boots, jeans, Stetsons, etc.) I open the gift shop for sales. Make lots of money on that.
Each day we saddle up the horses and go hunting for road kill. Plenty around and most times it is all done by lunch time.
We then come back and have a class on how to gut, skin, and prep the roadkill for cooking dinner. Breakfast and lunch the first day has already been prepared from previous road kill trips. On subsequent days we use the previous day’s leftovers.
By late afternoon we have the “Texas Road Kill Games”. People are free to bring along a problem in their life. Someone always does bring a problem. We throw them in the tank and wager how long it takes the cottonmouth or gators to get them. Make lots of money on that one!
On subsequent afternoons, if we run out of problems, we see if any guests are dumb enough to take a dare and swim the tank. If not we take the nasty, whiny, bitchy guests and pitch them in and wager.
By evening the road kill from the day has been cooked and we hang around the chuck wagon and eat al fresco on rugged old time picnic tables. Afterward we do a splinter check and move to the next activity.
After dinner we all hang out at the fire pits drinking Champipple and recap all the fun from that day. Typically someone is so drunk they fall into a fire pit and we have wagers on how fast everyone can piss to put them out!
Later in the evening we all sit around the fire pit and play a geetar and sing western songs.
Jeez Marcel that sure looks like you!! I don’t vet these type people for obvious reasons. Have you been sneaking into our Road Kill Roundups to make extra money? Maybe that’s your side hustle then.
I think Manny is just trying to entice more winners with the juicy descriptions of his goings on down in those counties of Collin, Rockwall, Hunt, Dallas, Tarrant, Kaufman and all surrounding areas.
I don’t know. With all the special treatment he’s describing that the chooser of his prize would get, he just seems to be tryin’ a little too hard to get people down there.
I don’t know if I would do it now. Maybe some others will be fooled but not me.
If it seems too good to be true, it probably is….yup…fool me once…like that.
Oooh Oooh I know that’s Marcel at our “3 Days, 2 Nights, Total Texas Roadkill Roundup Extravaganza”. Do I get a coffee mug for Marcel exposing himself to my guests?
