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[loribates]

I know it's not acceptable according to code, but considering the fact that I have had several sheets of this stuff stored in my basement for a couple of years now, I live in a 100 year old balloon framed house with virtually no firestops in the walls. Same house used to cope with modern electrical draws on 100 amp service and only 5 circuits on screw-in fuses (over-amped to 30 when I moved in) that would smell hot and arc at me every time I changed one(which was often when I changed them back to 20 amp fuses) and a lot of it still knob and tube with no ground..... I've since updgraded to 200 amp service, rewired the whole house and rebalanced loads onto 16 new circuits, added dense pack cellulose, replaced the gas appliances and converted most over to electric, I'm WAY further ahead of the fire-hazard/safety game than I used to be. I couldn't sleep at night back then. I wouldn't be cutting in any electrical or mechanicals where I'd put these, (only along one and a half exterior concrete block walls) and considering that there's a lot more in that basement that would and could feed a fire, I don't think I'd lose any sleep over a few of them stuck to the wall as compared to the same number leaning against the opposite basement wall being stored. The city inspector tends to get more uptight about the check valve on the boiler once a year than he ever has seeing the screen stuck to the wall

[AnalogRocks]

Keep in mind Lori that when styrofoam burns it releases massive toxic chemicals as compares to seasoned wood. My brother-in-law is a firefighter. He was telling me once about a styrofoam fire. They estimated the people made it 4 paces before colapsing.

As oppsed to a wood fire where you get out luckey and smell like a camp fire for a while.
Plus styrofoam flashes faster than wood.

Also just for fun take a piece outside and pour some gas on it.

[AnalogRocks]

Keep in mind Lori that when styrofoam burns it releases massive toxic chemicals as compares to seasoned wood. My brother-in-law is a firefighter. He was telling me once about a styrofoam fire. They estimated the people made it 4 paces before colapsing.

As oppsed to a wood fire where you get out luckey and smell like a camp fire for a while.
Plus styrofoam flashes faster than wood.

Also just for fun take a piece outside and pour some gas on it.

[loribates]

ok then. Who's coming to fir this out and hang sheetrock?

[AnalogRocks]

[AnalogRocks]

[loribates]

Oh, cmon, how much beer could you POSSIBLY drink?

[dturco]

[loribates]

[RobertMfromLI]

[loribates]

Well, since this got revived, let me tell you what I've been doing in the basement.... NOTHING. Absolutely nothing. But that doesn't mean I haven't been doing work elsewhere. It all started when I cleaned out the basement. All that stuff in the pictures in the "storage area has been organized, arranged, or gone to the dump. I ran new circuits into the closet, moved all of the servers and AV equipment in there, got remote repeaters (YIPEE) but in cleaning out the basement where I can see the walls, I discovered areas that had been retaining moisture on the first course of block. Several blocks had started to disintegrate. So...... before I can fix that damage I turned my attention to outside the house and fixing the grade to get the water away from the foundation.

I've been ripping out old settled sidewalk and reinstalling sidewalk along the whole east side of the house. I've poured 4 ft wide sidewalks/slabs butted up to the foundation with a good grade on them to carry the water away from the house and am digging drain channels at the outside edge of the slabs to carry the water to the back yard and to the street. The west side is where the driveway is that's never been concreted, but that's up next. I'm gonna have to bite he bullet and hire that work done. I just can't mix that much concrete in the poor old wheel barrow.

After that's done, I'll repair the blocks that need attention in the basement, re-point in a couple of spots then next come a couple of parallam beams to carry the staircase and the span that I want to open up (I know several will be glad about that.....) Yes, I hired a structural engineer and he spec'd the beams for me so no worries, it will all be code and once those are in, I can start the fun stuff!

Anywhoo, that's my update.

[drice1234]

I love it when a woman talks construction