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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 29, 2017 0:13:04 GMT
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Post by jolovespiggies on Aug 29, 2017 8:01:26 GMT
What is that please Baz hunni, is it a puddle?
Hugs JO xx
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Post by bazookagoof on Aug 30, 2017 2:05:46 GMT
What is that please Baz hunni, is it a puddle? Yes, it is! I was waiting for a contractor at a building and noticed a hardened footprint in the concrete. It had rained recently and rainwater had filled the footprint, and the clouds were dissipating, and I was lucky enough to catch it with my camera phone. Would have been marvelous if I'd had my regular camera, but I'll take what I can get for sharing.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Aug 30, 2017 8:11:41 GMT
Thanks Baz hunni, I can see it is a foot print image now.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Sept 2, 2017 21:57:57 GMT
Oh, wow! That is really cool! Sometimes the most simple things are the most amazing
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Post by bazookagoof on Oct 9, 2017 0:07:24 GMT
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 9, 2017 8:56:27 GMT
What is it please?
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 9, 2017 18:42:30 GMT
Cool! PVC pipe art I think those are exhaust pipes for plumbing, Jo, but I'm not sure.
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Post by bazookagoof on Oct 10, 2017 0:24:24 GMT
What is it please? Hugs Jo xx 3piggles is right about the PVC pipes. Specifically, I believe they're exhaust pipes that flow out on the rooftop- they're curved so rainwater does not fall down into the interior of the building. (They'd be better if they were curved more, but nobody bothered to consult me about this during the construction.) I think they are tied into the laundromat dryers in each unit.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 10, 2017 8:16:20 GMT
I knew they were some sort of pipe but they were arranged in such a way that made them look arty. Thanks for the explanation friends, feel a bit silly now lol.
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by Bean on Oct 10, 2017 8:19:54 GMT
You don't see them on roofs like that over here, do you Jo? I like the photo, it makes me imagine them all hooked up to different rooms in a big building and people shouting down them at each other!
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 10, 2017 14:00:22 GMT
We may have some very different plumbing structures from yours. It's required that anything that exhausts any form of pollutant be exhausted outside the house, or at least through a specific type of filter. That's supposed to keep the air quality inside the house pretty good. Also, because of how our plumbing is designed, there needs to be a way to not only allow gasses to escape, but to allow air where needed to create or eliminate vacuums. So any buildings built pretty much after the 70s, I think, Baz would know, have pipes that vent the gasses out of the roofs, allowing the right amount of the right air to get into the system. So we all have some version of those, and as Baz said, they should be shaped more like a shepherds crook, so no rain or snow gets into them.
Exactly what needs to be exhausted, and to what extent, may also vary by state, as I know here in New England, we always have exhaust vents in the bathrooms, to vent the steamy air from the shower. In Florida, they didn't have those vents, yet the air was already more humid than it usually gets here, and taking a regular shower, not a really long one, put so much humidity into the bathroom, I found it hard to breathe. Hotels had exhaust fans, but none of the houses we visited, did? Some regulations only apply to places where it gets a hard frost and snows, such as how roofs have to be built to carry snow loads, and how deep a foundation has to be, if a foundation is even required. In the south, it seems a lot of houses are built on concrete slabs, and have no foundations, because they don't have to build below the frost line.
I've seen shows on building in other parts of the world, and it's nothing like what we have. Germany has some great, money/energy saving building requirements, as does Iceland. It's not optional there, as it is here.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 11, 2017 8:20:46 GMT
Haha Bean love, yes you are right, they do look like some communication device.
Hugs J xx
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Post by Bean on Oct 11, 2017 8:57:56 GMT
My kids would have a good time with them if they worked like that!
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Post by 3piggles on Oct 11, 2017 17:50:46 GMT
LOL, I can imagine the fun people would have with those, if they were communication devices Makes me kind of glad they're not
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Post by jolovespiggies on Oct 12, 2017 8:08:25 GMT
Ha ha, very good love, I hadn't thought of that!
Hugs Jo xx
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Post by bazookagoof on Dec 1, 2017 3:10:03 GMT
This is a closeup of a spike on one of those fancy truck hubcaps:
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 1, 2017 8:59:18 GMT
Sorry, what is this please?
Hugs JO xx
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Post by 3piggles on Dec 1, 2017 21:08:22 GMT
I've seen those. We call them chariot hubcaps, as they remind us of the ones used in chariot battles.
Jo, they are attached to, or part of the hub cap. Some people with big trucks use those, instead of the ones that come with the trucks. They are aftermarket, so don't come with the trucks.
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Post by jolovespiggies on Dec 2, 2017 15:54:25 GMT
Thanks Piggles hunni, they look like something out of Ben Hur. Hugs JO xx
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