Hi Donna Loomis, Being a resident of another country, I can't give good advice, but here are a couple of ideas. When you buy a home or other property, often you may be required by the agency holding the mortgage to buy mortgage insurance, which means that, should you not pay, the insurer is required to make good on the loan. Here in Canada, if you are paying under 25% down, you are (almost always?) required to purchase such insurance. It may be possible that whoever agrees to pay you whatever number of dollars to purchase your business can purchase similar insurance, which would pay you if the purchaser defaults. Should you be the agent holding the promise to pay, you might require that they take out such insurance. It might be very difficult to find such, and if found it might be very expensive, for a house usually ramins pretty well intact after a period, but if someone through negligence, inattention, laziness, lack of skill or whatever does not/is not able to keep the business functioning in a fashion similar to its former level, it could deteriorate rather quickly - thus losing a great deal of its value. In which case, the guarantor of the loan would have had to pay out a good deal of money to you - and be left with a bag of sand, so to speak, to show for it. Not a good situation, from their point of view. Even if a dozen such situations turned out well, one dead dog could be very hurtful to them - two would be a disaster, as their margin on each situation would not be large. God wishes for success in whatever you choose to do with the business - and its aftermath. joyful guy P.S. I presume that it's not a partnership/ownership of the Loomis Courier/money carrier trtucking agency that you're referring to. (:^) j g

OK. I think I have this figured out. For gunite pools, it sounds like PB use the rebar structure as the bonding grid and tie everything to it. It also appears that at least 4 tails are tied to the pool rebar before gunite for future tie in of the decking. If concrete deck is used, then the rebar must be tied together at 12" oc both directions and bonded by tying to the 4 tails from the pool rebar. If pavers are used, sounds like code will allow a single #8 buried at 4-6" around the pool, but that a copper #8 mesh out 3' is a better way to go... placed between compacted substrate and sand base. If any of this is wrong or not customarily how you see it done, please let me know. As for the lights... the green wire that goes from inside niche (in potting compound) through the conduit to the junction box is a BONDING wire, not equipment ground. I assume there is a separate connection point in an Intermatic junction box for the internal bond, since the bonding system is NOT supposed to be tied to equipment ground. As for the lights, do most pool builders just put the junction box at the pad or do they put it in a flower bed somewhere near the pool? ie. is it OK to run 75 feet of 1" conduit with water in it all the way to the pad? Seems like you just ask for trouble with all the possible leak points along the way. Or is the pool light gasket supposed to seal any additional water from getting behind the light once it is installed?

I do apologize for the terminology, it drives me crazy in my line when people mix the terms and I can't figure out what they really want. I have already had 2 separate electricians do work on related parts of this system over the past few months and this is the current state it's in so I just wanted to make sure no one would get hurt. Thank you for your response though. Tony

I also have a grid with the parallel tines and only a few horizontal ones on my cleanup sink (i.e., no "little squares" or "checkerboard") and rarely does silverware fall through. (The one on my prep sink has little squares/checkerboard.) Regarding "chasing food stuffs down the drain" - I did that in my old kitchen with no grid, so it's no different now. In fact, it's easier as I don't have items sitting on the bottom of the sink to get in the way of the stuff I'm trying to wash down the sink! I love my grids. They were included with my main/cleanup sink and after using them, I ordered one for my prep sink! I prefer the SS ones that came with my cleanup sink to the vinyl-coated one for my prep sink (my only option), but I would rather have one than not of either kind! Pros of a sink grid? Biggest advantages to me: Water doesn't backup into the colander when draining pasta and When I rinse down the sink, items in the sink no longer block the drain or block the "way" to the drain so I don't have to "chase" specks of food, etc. around the sink! Other advantages: There is less scratching of the bottom of the sink (this is minor to me since I don't mind the scratches) When I dump something in the sink, whatever I've dumped doesn't wash all over everything sitting in the sink....whatever is dumped goes straight down the drain If I'm handwashing dishes, I can use the grid tines to hold things up, especially plates & bowls (similar to a dish drainer) and dishes air dry faster b/c air circulates all around them I can rinse and drain dishes on the grid and still run water in the sink w/o running it all over the items again Things lay flat on the grid (no slope like in the bottom of a sink bowl and items in my sink no longer slip down the slope and cover/block the drain) If your sink is too deep for you on a daily basis, the grid will raise the bottom of the sink an inch or so Less need to clean/wipe the bowl b/c things aren't as likely to "stick" The stainless steel ones in my cleanup sink also act as a trivet for hot things (when the sink is clear, of course!) As to the issue of veggie peelings and other things getting caught that others have brought up in other posts...based on my experience, I think this is a function of whether the grid tines are in a "checkerboard" or mostly in one direction and, possibly, how wide apart the grid tines are. I say that b/c my prep sink has the "checkerboard" tines and I've found things are much more likely to get "caught" in it than in the ones in my cleanup sink where the grid tines are mostly in one direction. Things don't get caught in the grids of my cleanup sink all that often. Another issue people have brought up on other posts is wiping down the sink under the gird...I don't find it an issue - just lift the grid up, wipe the sink, put the grid down...simple, easy, fast! Pics of my grids: Cleanup Sink: ...