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 |  |  |  | soaking a building before demolition?
< on 9/17/2004 5:44 AM >
|  | | | one of my favorite places ever is in the process of being demolished and i go back everyday or so to check on its progess, as each day about 5% more of it is gone.
i noticed as i entered the building the sound of water falling from the roof, as if it was raining, upon further inspection i noticed the deconstruction crew had several hundred feet of sprinkler hose along the facility, and brought up to various parts of the roof, soaking a good portion of the interior.
anyone know what they would do such a thing?
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| | | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 1 on 9/17/2004 6:04 AM >
| | | | they usually spray them as they tear them down to keep dust low...usually using a firehose. Perhaps that is what the purpose is.
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| | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 2 on 9/17/2004 1:30 PM >
| | | | KC is right, they use it to keep the dust and small parts of debris from going all over the place, water makes things heavier and denser so they wont be flying around.
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| | | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 3 on 9/17/2004 2:30 PM >
|  | | | It's also part of the asbestos abatement process.
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| | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 4 on 9/17/2004 7:10 PM >
| | | | Also the ocaisionally use water to test the bulidings structual strength, soaking something in water will show weaknesses in it ie: the bulding. such as to give them a better idea of how structually sound the bulding is and what kind of demo they need to do.
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kc
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| | | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 5 on 9/17/2004 11:35 PM >
| | | | Posted by Gunslinger
Also the ocaisionally use water to test the bulidings structual strength, soaking something in water will show weaknesses in it ie: the bulding. such as to give them a better idea of how structually sound the bulding is and what kind of demo they need to do.
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didnt know they did that, may explain what robdobi saw a bit better. as it seems they were doing more than just wetting it down to keep dust low 
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| | | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 6 on 9/18/2004 12:32 AM >
| | | | It might help prevent fire as well, steel wrecking ball / claw smashing into metal and concrete can mean sparks, and a dry building could be dangerous.
But yeah, keeping dust down would seem to be the most logical reason.
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| | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 7 on 9/18/2004 4:24 AM >
| | | | Rob funny you made a thread about this, I was dropping off something for my work in waterbury and I hit traffic.. turns out they were tearing down a building and the reason everyone was going slow was the firehouse they were using to spray water on the building was acting like a speed bump. I got to agree with everyone else, when I saw them spraying the building I thought it was to keep the dust down too.
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| | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 8 on 9/18/2004 6:54 AM >
| | | | Thats what they want you to think. They want to, just like your own kids, make a big fucking mess.
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| | Re: soaking a building before demolition?
<Reply # 9 on 9/18/2004 1:31 PM >
|  | | | I don't know whether this is actually one of the reasons why they would soak a building, but I suppose it would also help in pulling the building down - because the water would make the wood weaker and increase the weight on load-bearing walls etc. Maybe...? *shrugs*
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