Things built, torn down and other projects.(Pictures)

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LouderVol said:
people would be shocked with how little is included in the city's/utility's master plans. there is vary rarely a professional working on those projects out in the field, and the city/utility isn't responsible to anyone but themselves, so it doesn't matter if they get it wrong.

its pretty much only stuff they installed. and its certainly not everything they installed. pretty much any big project is going to uncover something that shouldn't be there, or is in the completely wrong area.

here in atlanta they were boring and pushing thru some gas pipe. it went thru some old lady's basement. it wasn't discovered until the lady died and they were trying to sell the house. the pipe was supposed to be under the street like 30 feet from that location.

another time they cut the emergency line from a military base back to DC. when it went dark they scrambled jets ready for nuclear war.

there were issues up in knoxville with the baseball stadium because of unmarked utilities causing delays.

we had a project where there was 5 foot storm line running under our property. it was supposed to be the next lot over.

another one had a buried power line that no one claimed until it was cut.

another one had buried pipe big enough for someone to walk in that went more than 40 miles to a military airbase. airbase vehemently denied for months it was there at all, or if it was theirs. base didn't know it was there, and didn't believe us until the GC stuck a guy on an ATV up the pipe and had him pop out on the airbase. he had coordinated with the commander before hand to make sure his guy didn't get shot. less than a week later the airbase was filling those 40 miles with concrete and rubble. never did find out what it was for.
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it would seem that the use of GPR, or ground penetrating radar would be more prevalent to identify these types of project risks during the planning phases. I know it's expensive but dayum.
 
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Smokey X said:
it would seem that the use of GPR, or ground penetrating radar would be more prevalent to identify these types of project risks during the planning phases. I know it's expensive but dayum.
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pretty much never happens. you have to have a reason to look for something to bother bringing out that level of equipment.

also the GPR stuff doesn't reach very far underground, at least compared to how deep some stuff will be ran. I am working on an 8 story building here in Atlanta, we have something similar to piles going 40 feet into the ground. GPR isn't reaching that far down.
 
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Anyone here think the Bidet toilet seat is a good idea?
You better take it apart to clean it every now and then.
This one appeared to be a clean toilet.

It wasn’t.
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Orangeslice13 said:
@LouderVol
Is this how you support a beam holding up the second floor living space?View attachment 772307
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its probably fine. at least there is something below it.

my friend inherited his grandfathers house. There was a major beam with nothing below one end, and no real cantilever either. As far as they could tell the only thing keeping it in place was the 2x4 on either side of the beam that a couple 9p nails had been driven into. like 2 on each side.

one of those situations where if it works, its not stupid. needless to say they fixed that.
 
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Tiffany has sworn for a month she got shocked loading the dishwasher. I came in that morning, and touched everything, ran water holding the dishwasher, nothing. Honestly thought it was just a nerve pain thing for her, until a moment ago. Our garbage disposal had quit working about a week or so ago for good. It had a moment or two recently, but just thought it had died. I was loading the dishwasher, and touched the sink, and wham, it bit me. So, like a normal guy, I did it again 😆, sure enough, bit me again. I started my investigation, with my magic electrical detector pen, and the dishwasher is fine, nothing odd. Wires to the disposal were fine, but then I touched the disposal itself, and my pen lit up. I also touched the sink, and it lit up. Apparently, something inside the disposal is off, loose wire maybe, and it's putting electricity into the outside of the disposal, which is connected to the metal sink, and boom, you get bit if you're touching anything else metal. Flipping the breaker after the dishwasher is finished, and gonna unhook it in the morning, replace next week hopefully. Just found it odd, never experienced that.
 
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joevol33 said:
Tiffany has sworn for a month she got shocked loading the dishwasher. I came in that morning, and touched everything, ran water holding the dishwasher, nothing. Honestly thought it was just a nerve pain thing for her, until a moment ago. Our garbage disposal had quit working about a week or so ago for good. It had a moment or two recently, but just thought it had died. I was loading the dishwasher, and touched the sink, and wham, it bit me. So, like a normal guy, I did it again 😆, sure enough, bit me again. I started my investigation, with my magic electrical detector pen, and the dishwasher is fine, nothing odd. Wires to the disposal were fine, but then I touched the disposal itself, and my pen lit up. I also touched the sink, and it lit up. Apparently, something inside the disposal is off, loose wire maybe, and it's putting electricity into the outside of the disposal, which is connected to the metal sink, and boom, you get bit if you're touching anything else metal. Flipping the breaker after the dishwasher is finished, and gonna unhook it in the morning, replace next week hopefully. Just found it odd, never experienced that.
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My money is on a direct short in that disposal motor.
 
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