here's a brick chimney. we have few brick chimneys in san francisco. this is a major hazard.there's little reenforcement an they're incrediblely heavy. >> here's one that's been braif a little bit. that's an original brace that will buckle . >> yes, sir. i was curious if you have -- sort of developed deck nothings to retrofit structure reenforcement of these exterior brick chimneys. >> absolutely. some cities have passouts. when i do home remodels, it involves putting a collar aroun the chimney and running some diagonals down. you might have to put two or three collars, but the biggest i issue is to keep the his oric character. it's doable. you just need to know about it. you may be living next to one o these and knock on the neighbor's door and say i reall don't want to have your chimney in my bedroom after an aert quaik. >> yeah. let me mention we're looking at that chick any that has a singl brace. pat says it might take two or three. contractors often say i ool tak care of that problem for you. i say you shouldn't be asking your contractor to design the solution. you shou

cleaned out because chimney fires are a huge cost of residential fires and that is when the chimneys are not cleaned out, they are fire starters there. so it is critical that if you are going to use a wood burning fireplace, you ain't it out once a year. >> people often say you should bring your water hero. we have such clean water in san francisco, i have not seen that to be an issue. but if you need to take action, not in san francisco. it is not an issue. this is your emergency water supply. make sure they are strapped like that. garage doors, get lubricant and just lubricate those things and clean the bottom, clean it off and lubricated. it will last an awful lot longer. fire extinguishers obviously are good home maintenance. >> you have to make sure that they are up to date. it changes every couple of years. >> and blasting a wanted to mention was earthquake safety. when you do your home maintenance, preventing damage from earthquakes is a big piece of this, and it is a valuable piece of ceramic with the group on the bottom that keeps it from sliding off the shelf. there are so

it has to have its own chimney, its own chimney. fireplaces, wood-burning have chimneys. >> and the maintenance on those is much more than these would be. you have to clean those out once a month. >> the code requires that you exhaust 3 different products of cooking. one is heat, one is steam, and one is grease and vapors. heat and steam only need a so-called type 2 hood, it doesn't have to be welded all the way up, but type 1 for grease-laden vapors is welded all the way. this is sheldon lu from the health department. sheldon, he actually was here when they did a recent health inspection, i understand, and alicia is the district health inspector. here is their score, it was 98 down from 100. 98 is fantastic. how many restaurants in the city have scores of 100. >> we don't have a lot because we have a new program that is similar to other programs in the state of california where there's a, b, c grading, we have a number grading here in san francisco. so, therefore, it's a brand new program, we are trying to get with our operators to

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things i like about this building it has elevated roof on the section behind and ventilate and no chimneys. >> right next to it isn't there a copper smith building? >> up the block. >> fo fol sum. >> this is in fact a san francisco landmark and 1911 and as a black smith shop and so many change. a rarity. tools, manufacturers, general black smith. still used as a black smith shop. one of my favorite buildings in north beach area is the sheet metal shop and the shop -- this entire building, facade is made of sheet metal. as we get closur closer you cane somebody tail piping to the building and it's sheet metal. >> and made to look like break. >> the letters are made of sheet metal and the eave over the door and every piece of this thing. the glass is i guess not. the door is sheet metal. the door jam. fantastic. >> maybe they got a special price for the sheet metal. >> and here's a permit to put it on the building and cost $700 to put the minor editions to the front of the building and a new cement floor 1921. >> do you think they put the correct amount down back then? >>im sure of it. >> on

is there is on the chimney, the base. i am sorry, but we need help to get to the truth of this matter. president peterson: thank you. it commissioner hwang: ms. wuerfel, i have a question about your attempt to communicate with the permit holder spree -- permit holders. in your brief, you have stated that you along with neighbors attended two meetings in 2007 with brand new plants and then the owners applied for a site permit in september, which is currently in the process of being withdrawn. in november, 2008, they moved out. have you had any communication with the property owners? >> no, since they put in their site plans in 2007, all of that was a shock to us. there has not been any communication. even when they moved out. commissioner hwang: what at times have you made, if at all? >> we are available any time. i don't knock on their door and say what are you doing with your plans? i expect them to send notice to the neighbors, and we have attended each and every invitation. but i don't that is appropriate for me to kno

it is not clear if the existing brick chimney will stay or go. the plans referenced an intention to relocate an existing second-floor bathroom, but no such bathroom shown as existing. i believe in correct plans contributed to misleading the city review process of this project. at second, the planning staff has performed an adequate review of this historic resources and did not comply with residential design guidelines required for all exterior alteration projects to residential buildings. there has been a planning department flag on his property since 2007, according staff to provide special review of this building, but this alert has been ignored. had the project been reviewed by preservation specialist familiar with the park side district and its approved contact statement, the potential historic nature of this building would have been recognized and the special guidelines for such buildings applied. also there would have been consideration of the roofline changes for this property as they affect the row of four historic houses. as noted in the

>> on a home stretch much the last things you want to think about is nonstructural items such as chimneys you might want to anchor it or strap it and reenforce your roof so if it falls it doesn't cave in the roof. water heaters, some people in chance houses have fancy chandeliers. if you have heavy pieces of furniture or appliance. put straps on your water heater at the upper and lower third. anchor the straps to the studs. don't just screw the straps into board make sure you go into a stud u. who can see what's wrong with this picture? it's missing the base. need to elevate your water heater on a metal stand raise it 18 inches off the ground. you can go to a hardware store and they will sell you sheet metal stands. look at your hand outs for places to go to. go to 72 hour. org. we hope this was helpful to you. we appreciate it if you fill out the information form. >> now for questions. >> you are talking about the cripple walls below the first floor. my first floor is kitchen living room area below grade. i want to fix the earthquake problem but i have to put electrical lines and plumbin

you have a chimney build up. >> one of the things to point out they're using normal combustibles to start fire which is wood and straw. in the year 2006 in people's home the normal combustible is not a class a material it is class c, which is the polystyrenes and foam materials. so the natural produced on the interior of the building is greater than what you see here today. >> if we fill

but not long ago i was up at a place called chimney rock in southwest colorado. and it's over 8,000 feet. and you are up at the southern end ftd rocky mountains and there is this scarp of rock that rises up probably about a thousand feet out of a valley floor and right at the tip of this scarp there are two twin towers of rock. if you get to a certain place on top of this very narrow butte, you can see between these twin towers and there happens to be a great house built between these two towers and every 18.6 years when the moon goes into its northernmost point on the horizon, it rises between those two towers. i was there at the beginning of the last 18.6 year cycle and we stood up there, probably 20 of us, researchers, forest service people, all gathered at the same spot with cameras and huddled -- it was late december at 8,000 feet and we were all watching this gap. and somebody had done very intricate work to figure out exactly where you need to stand to see the light at exactly the right time. and as we were all gathered up there, i remember this older arch

finding the next route it take you from ledge to ledge to ledge, down through cracks and narrows, chimneys leading down step by step. until you get to this arch. it's a small arch, it's only about this tall. the photograph is a little -- well, size, scale dimension, they all kind of leave out there. right inside of this arch way there is a bunch of broken pottery so you know this was a used route a thousand years ago. and the arch leads down into a canyon that opens up and you go up a side canyon into this little alcove where a piece of the ceiling has fallen just slightly. and i found this place. the first time i found this was on the 27th day of a back pack and i got up to this spot and i took my hat off and i stuck my head in the crack, which is something that i do frequently out there, because i know every once in a while you're going it see something back inside one of these cracks. and back in this crack there was a basket about 1500 years old that had been turned upside down so it wouldn't collect anything and it was way back down in the crack so that no light or wind would touch it

chimney, yeah, fireplace. be aware of the fact that just because it's a wood building and the event caused some sort of compromise of the structure of the building and the building is still standing doesn't necessarily mean there's not a danger there. so what could you as nert's do to make that situation better or at least keep it the same so no one else gets hurt? keep it off, yeah. keep people away. perfect. take out some of that yellow tape that you have, that yellow caution tape, and string it around around keep people back. in this particular case, what could you do to make that situation better? turn off the gas. where would you turn the gas off at? at the street, okay. that's a good place to do it. but you always want to do it at the safest location. so if the street is the safest location, that's where you would do it at. this house here fell over. doesn't have something called a sheer wall. so it's just a platform or a platform or a balloon, nothing that keeps the wall from racking, they call it. so y