Agenda. Any member of the public wish to make a Public Comment on any item seeing none, Public Comment is closed very good commissioners under Department Matters directors announcement. Tim frye the directors report was included in the packets happy to answer any questions seeing none, commissioners review of past meetings. Tim frye Planning Department staff a quick a couple of quick announcements donna i did not have a formal report from the commission i want po to mention one is the departments annual preservation staff retreat is scheduled for the end of october occasionally a couple of commissioners participate either during part of the retreat or the full retreat and well forward you the information on october 27th once we have more information and again youre welcome to participate if you would like to do so and second just a quick announcement that Department Staff commissioner hyland and commissioner wolfram nieftsd visited the cal house this morning on the presentation work pr
King of cleveland as they wrap up their visit today. And angelina, one of the biggest stars in the world, she visits studio 1a to talk about her new movie and life in the spotlight. December 9th, 2014. This is today with matt lauer and Savannah Guthrie live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to to good morning, everyone. Welcome to today on a wet Tuesday Morning. We have josh elliott here. As photoops to, not too slouchy last night. It was a really good night for the royals. By that i mean king james took on the cavaliers and beat them. That was the moment a lot of people were talking about. When i thought royals, just like us. Taking selfies. Will and kate. They will need umbrellas today. No question about it. Were in the middle of a noreaster. Al, we turn to you for that big story. It is literally double trouble. We will start in the northeast with this noreaster. We have flash watches in effect and coastal flood warnings the 1 2 feet above normal an
Good afternoon and welcome to the department of Building Inspections brown bag lunch. We depo this every third thursday here at the department of building inspection. We have an interesting topic today about preventative home maintenance. And well talk about what that means a little bit. I have two great guests, extremely knowledgeable folks, anthony wong who is a contractor here in the city, thanks for joining us, anthony. And dan, also a contractor and both of these gentlemen do a lot of small, medium and some, i guess you do some large size jobs as well. But also have maintenance and home prevention, damage prevention and maintenance issues built into the work they do. In fact, i know dan brought along a list of maintenance check lists that they actually use in their business to help people. So what do you use that mapet nance check list for . Maintenance check list for . For every project we finish, we sign a Service Agreement or offer a Service Maintenance agreement and then when
If the fasteners rust, the brick is just sitting there and in an earthquake the whole brick can fall off. You should always have a sixinch separation between the lowest shingle or piece of siding and ground contact. And that should be a concrete foundation there. So its probably there probably is a foundation but they figured out a way to extend those all the way down to the ground which is a problem. So the reason you want to have it up from the ground is that we have a lot of water splash in heavy rain and theyre going to get wet and also that what happens is water through capillary action and other methods will actually get sucked up through behind those shakes and shingles, if they can go all the way down to the ground. Dan mentioned a topic that i think is really important. It covers not just Building Maintenance but generally New Buildings and everything. And thats that the building is made of a system of components and the problem is that not all of these components have the sam
Thats my speernls. What do you think . Experience. What do you think . Its really important. Also, when do you the Water Testing you have to make sure you test around the windows and then go back inside to see if theres any dampness around the sheet rock, to see if there are areas you need to do additional flashing or caulking which again is a temporary measure. But thats a good time to check to make sure that your windows are waterproof. So dont be overly aggressive about Water Testing, though. If you take a hose ass and squirt it at something, water will hose and squirt it at something, water will go in. When you wash it off and hose it down gently and carefully, it gives you a chance to look for problems as well. Yeah. The main thing is wash around all the windows. The water will go inside your house,ed siding. So dont be overly aggressive with your hose. If you go to a window an start squirting it, itll get wet. Lets look at another style of house. Heres wood siding with stucco in