QOD for 03/13/04

Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Hi to all,

As Dave is at the Mokan Education conference this weekend you get the pleasure of my company both today and tomorrow.

I thought that as he's away I'd play with another photo question while he's not looking, I hope it has enough visual clues

Regards

Gerry


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Originally Posted By: Brad Myers
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Ship lap


Originally Posted By: Brad Myers
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I’m very sorry, I didn’t mean to post my answer. This is one of my first times at this message board, I thought I was casting my vote.icon_redface.gif


Originally Posted By: jfarsetta
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Not asking style, but material,



Joe Farsetta


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Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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But as a majority of people who responded to this quiz got beyond sarong here is the explanation as to why Masonite is the correct answer, the best way of understanding this is to look at the reasons why the other alliances cannot be correct.

Vinyl siding: the picture cannot be of vinyl siding for the following two main reasons, firstly you can clearly see in the photograph of the boards are butted together rather than overlapped, the second reason is the obvious swelling around inappropriate face nailing of the product.

T1-11: the picture clearly shows that the product has staggered joints which is not a feature of T1 11 siding, which comes typically in 8 ft by 4 ft sheets, so that the verticals seams are continuous.

Shiplap: as Joe F. pointed out shiplap is a style of or design, rather than a material, but also traditional shiplap would have the joints in each row staggered rather than as can be seen in the photograph, three rows having continuous vertical joints.

In fairness to all I wrote this question to deliberately throw everybody off the scent, and this question is very typical of questions that our members will see in licensing exams, first of all of you really have to pay attention to call the question is actually asking, and then be able to analyze the available answers in relation to the question, rather than just checking off the first available somewhat sensible answer.

Like I said, I can get somewhat sneaky ![icon_wink.gif](upload://ssT9V5t45yjlgXqiFRXL04eXtqw.gif)

Regards

Gerry


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"Education is a journey, not a destination"

Originally Posted By: Lew Lewis
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Gerry,


I thougth Masonite is a brand name? I would describe it as a composition material and not try to determine who manufactured it.

Neal


Originally Posted By: gbeaumont
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Hi Lew er Neal icon_question.gif


Yes I agree with you, masonite is only a brand name for a specific manufacturers product, however it has become somewhat a "generic" term for this type of siding.

I nearly did reword it after I had posted it but decided against it.

Regards

Gerry


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Inspection Depot Education
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"Education is a journey, not a destination"

Originally Posted By: pdacey
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Everyone I know calls it Masonite, or that sh!tty siding. icon_rolleyes.gif



Slainte!


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Originally Posted By: smcintire
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You can tell that it is LP by the random knot patterns that they stamp on the product. For example center right hand section of picture you can just make this out. I am sure most know this, just thought I would add this comment.