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What Is A Cubic Yard
A cubic yard is a unit of volume. It tells you how much space something occupies. Picture in your head a box that measures three feet on each edge. The space inside that box measures one cubic yard
What are safety hazards and health hazards?
This is in no way official – it just came out one day in conversation and it seems to answer the question: Safety hazards are those things that can hurt you. Health hazards are those things that can make you sick. Some items, situations, environments, etc. can fall into both categories. Both health hazards and safety hazards have the potential to cause death.
OSHA publications mention that safety hazards apply mostly to the physical conditions of the workplace or the way equipment and machinery are used. Examples mentioned include electrical safety, power and hand tools, working and walking surfaces, trip and fall hazards, ladders, scaffolds, and other personal climbing and elevated support devices, lock out and tag out procedures, compressed gases, flammable or combustible materials, other hazardous chemicals and so on.
The list of health hazards goes on and on and just about every environment and occupation has its own list. The most commonly listed are: carbon monoxide, cockroaches, dust mites, lead, mold, pesticides, radon, rodents, asbestos and arsenic-treated wood.
HUD Regulations Attachment 5 mentions that the EPA website (http://www.epa.gov/epawaste/hazard/index.htm) lists additional health hazards. Specific health hazards mentioned in Attachment 5 are: decaying food or other organic matter, dead animals and animal feces, pest infestations, broken glass or other sharp objects, large containers of liquids, large quantities of paint or paint products paints or solvents in any amount stored in or near papers, fabrics or other flammable materials, highly flammable chemicals (e.g., solvents, paint thinners, gasoline, motor oil and motor additives, etc.).
Contractors must know local laws and ordinances which may have their own list of safety hazards and health hazards and the required methods of disposal. Particular attention must be given to all objects, appliances in particular (ovens, refrigerators, food freezers, etc.) that have doors; many municipalities impose criminal charges for improper storage and/or disposal.
How do you determine the number of units in a property?
HUD Regulations do not define a unit. The dictionary definition of unit is:
“a self-contained section of accommodations in a larger building or group of buildings that may contain food preparation or sanitary facilities, or both.”
Without specifics in the regulations, the industry normally defines a single family residence as one unit. Some contractors report that they use the number of water heaters as the number of units and some contractors charge for extra “units” when the single family residence has more than two bathrooms.
How much anti freeze do you need to put down each drain when you winterize a property in Missouri?
The HUD regulations specify that “Adequate amounts of antifreeze are to be placed in all fixture traps, including toilet tanks and bowls.”
Editor’s Note: By performing the winterization, the contractor takes on the responsibility for any freeze damage. Each contractor will have to decide what is an “adequate amount.”
Can I include a trip charge fee for the drive time to property sites?
A trip charge is allowed only when traveling to a property in order to submit a bid. Travel to the property for work is not allowed because HUD regulations state that all of these expenses are included in the fee for the work.
Some of the greediest companies actually will subtract a previously approved trip charge payment from the fee paid on work you completed as a result of submitting the original trip charge and bid.
What Is A Unit?
A unit is a self-contained section of accommodations in a larger building or group of buildings that may contain food preparation or sanitary facilities, or both.