5600-5700 block of W Wilshire Blvd (commercial + food service), Los Angeles, CA 90036
Walk a commercial space for drafts and seal one door, 5600-5700 W Wilshire block.
Walk the doors and windows for drafts and seal what leaks. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $45 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- Proofdated leak list + before/after photos of the sealed door + incense re-test photo + GPS
- Open until2026-11-10
- Levelintermediate
All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Walk the doors and windows for drafts and seal what leaks. Conditioned air leaks out of storefront and service doors all day while rooftop units run to replace it. Nobody has ever walked this space with a lit stick and counted the leaks, so the cheapest fix in the building has no list to start from. Start after the crew's safety orientation. Never light a stick indoors before the manager says yes. Confirm with the site's host before you claim: this listing names a block, not a building, and does not mean any owner asked for the work. For the payer: - Price: $45 per job, counted in openings sealed. - Likely payer: LADWP rebate programs, paid to the account holder after the program's pre-approval. - No license is needed while the whole job, labor and materials together, stays under $1,000 (Business and Professions Code section 7048); at $1,000 or more, a CSLB C-2 Insulation and Acoustical license.
Offer to pay $45. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Get the manager's go-ahead before lighting anything indoors, and confirm with them whether the space's smoke detectors or fire-suppression system will trip from stick smoke; work in a zone they clear, or have them ready to reset the system if it does.
The full safety list for this job:
- Gear, Title 8 sections 3385 and 3384: slip-resistant closed-toe shoes for stepping up to reach and dropped tools; nitrile gloves for caulk, foam sealant and solvents.
- Orientation, section 3203: the crew's injury and illness prevention program orientation comes before any work.
- Interior and ground-level exterior only; no ladder work.
- Keep the lit stick clear of hood filters, fryers and paper storage; never test near an open flame line during service.
- Look up the year built before the visit and photograph the record; ask the occupant about children under six or a pregnant resident. Sealing a door edge with strip pressed onto sound paint is allowed work; touching the sash, the sill or the stops of a double-hung window rubs lead paint into dust. Gas wall heaters, floor furnaces and atmospheric water heaters are common in older homes: keep to doors and test the CO alarm. Winter steps can be slick in the shade; wet floors and wet ladder feet are the real LA hazard. Standard PPE means gloves, safety glasses and closed-toe shoes; a dust mask is not protection, so where fibers, vermiculite or mineral dust are possible the crew uses a fit-tested respirator under the employer's respiratory protection program with a medical evaluation (Title 8 section 5144), or stops.
- First-day orientation in plain words: hazards on this job, who to call, who can stop the work (Title 8 sections 3203 and 1509).
- No scraping, sanding or dry cutting of paint on sash, sills or trim; assume lead before 1978; keep children and pregnant residents out of the room; wet wipe and HEPA vacuum only (Title 8 section 1532.1).
- Training before any ladder use, three points of contact, never the top step; a spotter does not replace training or a level, footed ladder (Title 8 sections 3276 and 1675).
- Old window putty and caulk in homes built before 1981: do not cut or scrape until tested (Title 8 section 1529).
- Water, shade or a cool room, rest, watch each other, especially in closed rooms in summer (Title 8 sections 3395 and 3396).
- Held until a licensed crew does it: it takes a California contractor license and the owner's or agency's written permit for this exact work, both recorded before any work starts.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- a utility knife to cut the door sweep or adhesive weatherstrip to fit
- caulk gun and acrylic latex or acrylic silicone caulk labeled to meet SCAQMD Rule 1168
- backer rod, strip, door sweeps and foam gaskets
- damp wipes and a HEPA vacuum
- stepladder (fiberglass near electrical)
- CO alarm for the visit
- gloves, safety glasses, a fit-tested respirator under the employer's program (Title 8 section 5144; an N95 is voluntary use with the Appendix D notice)
- year-built printout and a one-page go or no-go card (lead, gas appliance, ladder, wiring)
Steps
- Obtain two things in writing before any work: the owner's or manager's consent for this work at this address, and, when an LADWP rebate pays for it, the rebate pre-approval with the pre-approval photos taken as the program asks. Work done before the pre-approval can be ineligible, so the start waits for it. Write both at the top of your proof.
- Look up the year built and photograph the record. Before 1978 assume lead on every painted surface, touch no paint, and hand any sash, sill or stop work to an RRP-certified firm.
- Prep each gap by wiping it with a damp cloth and vacuuming with a HEPA vacuum. No scraping or sanding; old caulk bonded to paint is left for an RRP-certified firm.
- Pick a still hour before or after service. Close what should be closed, light one incense stick, and walk every door, window frame, pass-through and wall penetration slowly, in order.
- Where the smoke ribbon bends, there is a leak: photograph the bend, write the location on a dated list, and keep moving until the whole space is read.
- Choose one exterior door from the list, the worst or the easiest, and fit a door sweep or adhesive weatherstrip from the hardware store, cut to fit.
- Photograph the sealed door up close and re-test it with the incense stick to show the ribbon now holds.
- Hand the building the counted, dated leak list with the one sealed door marked done.
What counts as done
- Photo of each leak found, with the dated counted list
- Before and after photos of the one sealed door
- Re-test photo showing the smoke ribbon holding at the sealed door
- GPS waypoint of the space
- Photo of the year-built record.
- Photo of the paint condition at each opening before work.
- Photo of the CO alarm test.
- After photos show no scraped wood or paint chips, no caulk over a vent or weep hole, and no strip that keeps a door from latching.
- Site record: the exact site's name and street address, and the contact who agreed to the work
- Consent: the owner's or manager's written consent, naming the address and the work, dated before the first photo.
- Pre-approval first: the LADWP rebate program's pre-approval or reservation number and date, from before any work, or the words 'no rebate' when none is claimed.
- Completion matches the pre-approval: the pre-work photos taken for it, and the completion measurements (linear feet sealed and the doors and windows treated) that match what the program approved.
- Sign-off: the owner or manager signs off the finished work in writing, and LADWP's completion review accepts the record when a rebate pays for it. Write who signed and the date, or the date you asked.
- Photos: take the before photo and the after photo from the same point (stand where the first one was taken and match its frame), each with its GPS point and its date and time.
- Label: photograph the product label or package (make, type, size) and write the installed quantity: linear feet sealed.
Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.
The standard this serves
Living Building Challenge, Energy Petal. The Energy Petal is the Living Building Challenge's boldest promise: a building that makes more energy than it uses, proven over a full year of lights, laundry, and cold mornings. Mastery looks like a house so tight and so carefully tuned that its rooftop panels run the meter backward. Every such house began the same humble way, with someone finding the leaks and sealing them. A packet like this one, a few honest hours of sealing and measuring, is the first rung of that ladder. Buildings become net positive one closed gap at a time.
What is promised, and what is not
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