Tips For Mobile Home Releveling

By Marla Mills

Mobile home management usually incorporates various activities such as checking cracks on walls, windows and doors. Cracks are usually a sign that the home is not well balanced and needs re-leveling. This may be caused by many factors such as imbalance of the I-beam and movement of the underground soil. Therefore, mobile home releveling is the ultimate way of restoring the home stability.

A balanced home provides comfort and is also protected from other related damages that may arise. Being a demanding task, re-leveling involves multiple procedures. The first step involves removing the skirting around the entire house. Once the skirts are removed, the homeowner has easy access to all the piers used for supporting the structure.

Once the skirting has been removed, the homeowner or contractor is now free to begin the actual process. Re-leveling begins at the center of the house in that there is equal access to all piers within it. A long level is then placed to each pier to determine its stability using the level bubble. Any pier is considered well balanced if the level bubble settles at the center. A pier that is not level that is not level is marked out for future reference.

A plastic tube is often used to attach a bucket or container that has a capacity of five gallons. About 1.9m litres of water are then added to the container for leveling. The plastic tube is used to set a water mark that is used to check the level of the I-beam bottom. The structure is balanced if the I-beam bottom level and the water level in the plastic tube is the same.

The next step involves placing the mobile home jack at the center. This is crucial in helping it bear the weight and also support the house. The I-beam is then raised at the same height of the water level mark in order to check the level of the structure. This is done to ensure that the level bubble settles at the centre. Routine programs should also be imposed to ensure that all re-leveling programs are effectively managed.

The measures taken also involve routine checking of all areas with problems by jacking the house. Windows and doors should be constantly checked to determine whether all problems have been correctly fixed or any recurrence. Thereafter, a wedge can be used to support the house while removing the jack after use.

There are several management tips that are used for the re-leveling purposes. These include fixing all problems in order to avoid recurrence of past problems. Re-leveling is an effective measure of reducing extra costs used for management as well as restoring the house stability.

Mobile home releveling is also a crucial method of avoiding contact between the structure and any underground moisture that may be there. This requires the use of plastic sheet for covering the ground in order to protect the house from moisture. The effects of vaporization can make dampness and rusting of the metallic parts of the house. All these processes are meant to make the place more stable.

About the Author:

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By Jerri Perry

Substantial projects usually involve a lot of details. By using project management software for contractors, your work will become easier. These programs will offer your team all the necessary information for every area of the job. It will now be easier for you to manage your jobs without substantial financial expense or extensive computer training.

General contractors face challenges that have been properly considered in developing these programs. When a firm depends on traditional means of communication, miscommunication could happen frequently. For instance, updates may not be gotten at the right time or a few of the workers may not remember to turn their time cards in. These events may end up causing a delay in the progress of the work.

Some of these programs enable the contractor as well as the client to benefit from the same communication platform. What this means is that the two parties will be provided with updates of any work that is being done at any time. The risk of not getting information about essential meetings, events and deadlines is also reduced. Dates may be marked on the provided calendar and milestone feature.

Project management software for contractors will help you to make the most appropriate budget. This is very advantageous to you particularly when you are making your bids available to prospective clients. The ROI projections of the anticipated project and reports of how funds will be disbursed could also be produced. Clients are usually interested in this particular area.

When you make use of these applications, you will no longer find it burdensome to keep track of daily issues like expenses and cash flow. You will also be able to track other things like material inventory, fuel, equipment and much more. This cannot be overlooked because it helps in protecting your business and keeping it profitable as well. Small losses that may later become substantial can now be avoided.

Small, medium or large size companies can easily afford these applications and this is another vital advantage that they have. Since heavy graphics are not used, they do not need a lot of processing power or computer storage space. All that is required to access any of these programs is an internet-enabled device because many of them are cloud based. This reduces your expenses since you arent investing in additional hardware.

Additionally, operations will be faster because a lot of tasks that are time-consuming will now be carried out at a much faster rate. For instance, it is no longer compulsory to print certain documents as they are uploaded straight to the program. In addition, updates can be performed at remote locations so there wont be any delay in disseminating information.

Project management software for contractors is extremely advantageous and this is why it is being utilized by several companies. It offers the contractor the capability to effectively manage every area of the project. Since there is free flow of information to everyone concerned, plans will easily be created and implementation will be very successful. In addition, every of these things are accomplished at an easily affordable cost.

About the Author:

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Intel Nehalem Processors and X58 Express Chipsets show up in Taipei for Computex

The crew over at bit-tech are over in Taiwan for Computex and have already spotted some great stuff. The talked MSI into letting them take snap some pictures of Intel’s upcoming “Tylersberg” X58 Express chipset, which is whatthe new Nehalem processor will run on.

They were also able to take some motherboard pictures with the the new triple-channel memory DIMM slots along with the LGA1366 CPU socket.

First, the CPU and its new socket: while the roadmaps say the high-end Nehalem to be launched in Q4 will have up to eight cores, the one MSI had in its office was just a quad-core but with eight threads. The socket is still LGA, but instead of the 775 used on current boards, this one now features 1366 pins and is slightly rectangular – not Pentium Pro rectangular, but simply a stretched out square. The back of the socket now has a metal backplate to brace itself and I’m afraid you’ll be buying a new heatsink too because the socket fittings have changed since LGA775. In fact, the whole area that needs to be exclusively for “Intel CPU use” is now apparently over twice the volume of that compared to LGA775 giving motherboard manufacturers even less space to shoehorn in additional components.

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How To Install Windows Azure SDK for NET

Authors Note :

• Here I am explaining the experience Which I had with Installation of Windows Azure SDK for .NET - October 2012 version (Latest at the moment ) on My Computer
• This may be differ for other Environments (according to the software installed)

What is Windows Azure SDK for .NET ?

• It Enables the creation, configuration, building, debugging, running, packaging and deployment of scalable web applications and services on Windows Azure

What are the Softwares Installed on My Computer ?

• Windows 7  -  64 bit
• VS 2010 SP1 -  32 bit
• IIS 7.5 Express

How to Install  Azure SDK for .NET - October 2012 ?

• It is recommended to use the Automated One-Click Install provided by the Web Platform Installer
• Click  Here for Install Web Platform Installer x64

Thats It.Youre Done.

But Be Aware

• If you dont have a Good Luck Then youre in my boat 
• There are situations where you can have very annoying issues which I had
• Lets see what are those issues one by one

Issue No. 1 : There was an error attaching the debugger to the IIS worker .......

Solution : For The Windows 7 with IIS Express Editions Environment

1. From the Start menu, choose Control Panel ---> Programs ---> Programs and Features

2. Choose Turn Windows Features On or Off

3. Under Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5, select Windows Communication Foundation
    HTTP   Activation

4. Under Internet Information Services --> expand World Wide Web Services --> then

    Application Development Features --> then select .NET Extensibility, ASP.NET,

    ISAPI Extensions and ISAPI Filters (keep default selected items as it is)

5. Under Internet Information Services --> expand World Wide Web Services --> then

    Common HTTP Features --> then select Directory Browsing, HTTP Errors,

    HTTP Redirection, Static Content (keep default selected items as it is)

6. Under Internet Information Services --> expand World Wide Web Services --> then

    Health and Diagnostics --> then select Logging Tools, Request Monitor and Tracing

    (keep default selected items as it is)

7. Under Internet Information Services, expand World Wide Web Services, then Security,

    then select Request Filtering

8. Under Internet Information Services, expand Web Management Tools, then select

    IIS Management Console

9. Press OK Button for Install All the selected features

Note :  If you still having a problem after doing above steps then

            check StackOverFlow - Windows Azure Project is not loading

Thats It.You could get rid of that issue by using above steps.

Issue No. 2 : There was a mismatch between the processor architecture ...........

Extra Issue:

• When having above warning you cannot do debug on your MVC projects View files
• In other words cannot put brake points

Its like below

Important Note : 

  I have put this issue on StackOverFlow - This is not a valid location for a breakpoint

Solution :

1. Go to your MVC Web project ---> Select Properties

2. Then click Build Events Tab

3. After that go to Post-build event command line and type below Text there

               cd $(TargetDir)

               del msshrtmi.dll 

Thats it.Youre done.

• Now you can put Brake Points on your MVC projects View files as you expected

Do You Need More Help ?  

• Could not load file or assembly msshrtmi - incorrect format in Azure deployment
• Windows Azure SDK for .NET - October 2012

Conclusion

• After Installation of Azure SDK - October 2012 edition you may have some issues which I have mentioned above
• So by using above solutions you could get rid of those annoying issues
• Those issues may vary according to your software installations on your machine
• If that is the case then you can use above mentioned links for get more details

I hope this helps to You.Comments and feedback greatly appreciated.

If you feel it was a good article,Give me a +1.Thank You.

Happy Coding

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A. Firstly, write some pseudo code

1. Have an array or list of numbers - 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
2. Shuffle these numbers randomly in a list or array.
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import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;

public class GenerateRandomNumber2 {
 
 private static final int GENERATION_COUNT = 10; 
 private static final int NUMBER_OF_DIGITS = 4;

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 }

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  if(size <= 0 || size > 10) {
   throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid size: " + size);
  }
  
  //power of varargs to create a list of 10 numbers from 0 to 9
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     //get the size - for e.g first 4 shuffled numbers
     for (int i = 0; i<size; i++ ) {          //e.g. loops 4 times
   sb.append(listOfNumbers.get(i));     //string builder is used for mutation
  }
     
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 } 
}

Q. What if you didnt have the shuffle method in the Collections class?
A. Here is the pseudo code

1. Have an array  - 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9
2. Loop through these numbers 4 times and randomly pick an index.
3. Once a number from an index is used, set the number on that index to say -1 so that the same number cannot be picked again.
4. If the same index was randomly picked, try again.
5. concatenate these 4 randomly selected numbers and return them as a 4 digit result.

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 private static final int GENERATION_COUNT = 10; 
 private static final int NUMBER_OF_DIGITS = 4;

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}

Some follow up questions:

Q. Was the above method thread-safe?
A. Yes, as it uses local variables and there is no shared data.

Q. How will you extend the above code so that each number generation happens on its own thread?
A. Spawn new threads as shown below

public static void main(String[] args) {
  for (int i = 1; i <= GENERATION_COUNT; i++) {    //e.g. generate 10, 4-digit numbers 
   Runnable r = new Runnable() {                   //e.g. generate a 4 digit number in its own thread 
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 private static final int NUMBER_OF_DIGITS = 4;
 
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    public void run() {
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    }
   };
   
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   t.start();  //executes the run( ) method
  }
 }
 
 public static String getUniquelyGeneratedNumbers(int size) {
  // input validation -- i.e. precondition check
  if (size <= 0 || size > 10) {
   throw new IllegalArgumentException("Invalid size: " + size);
  }
  
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  }
  
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  }
  
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 }
 

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1. There are 10 numbers from 0 to 9.
2. You cant repeat the same number, so first digit can be chosen from 10 possible numbers, the second digit from 9 possible numbers, the third digit from 8 possible numbers, and the final and fourth digit from 7 possible numbers.
3. Hence, the number of 4 digit number combinations you can have is -- 10 * 9 * 8 * 7 = 540.

Flaw 1:

So, if the GENERATION_COUNT  is set to 5041, the while loop in the getUniquelyGeneratedNumbers(int size) method will never return false, and you will end up with an endless loop.


Flaw 2: 

The above code generate a new thread for each execution. This can potentially create 5040 new threads, which can be expensive new real production code and also can adversely impact performance as the CPU spends more time in context switching. It is best to use the Java 5 executor framework that lets create a pool of thread and reuse them.

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