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04-28-2009, 07:40 PM
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Originally Posted by 480sparky
I got a nickel that says that's the ends of the lines pulled into the pipes tied off through the nipples.
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I'm not going to bet you on that because your exactly correct. 
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04-28-2009, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by knowshorts
I don't think this defines the word hack. Now if the guy made the offsets with a fat chick's legs or nippled in small chunks of flex, then maybe you can use the word "hack".
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Now that you bring it up, it wouldn't suprise me if he did 
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Originally Posted by BDB
That has the look of someone not caring what their work looks like.
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I can't agree more
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04-28-2009, 07:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter D
I don't think anyone other than a few people on this forum are going to care the slightest bit that the offsets don't match. It's not the greatest workmanship but in the grand scheme of things I don't think it's much to worry about.
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Oh I agree. Just an observation. Something that was drilled in my head sinces one, sorry. When I first started the commercial contractor I worked for was very anneal about things like that. Seen people fired if the pipes were not straight and if coupling didn't match.
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04-28-2009, 07:56 PM
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Originally Posted by walkerj
The offsets aren't the problem, it's the 4" piece of conduit at the panel AND the offsets don't match.  |
I didn't catch the 4" pipe, guess so
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04-28-2009, 08:00 PM
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Originally Posted by 1991 Storm Trooper
I worked for was very anneal about things like that. Seen people fired if the pipes were not straight and if coupling didn't match.
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Sounds like we worked for the same guy,but I loved it. I've allways liked working for a hardass.
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04-28-2009, 08:02 PM
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You'r the first person I've ever heard call a panel can a tub. It must be a regional thing I guess.
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Ya,, it is... or a shop thing. Just then guts are out. Tub is just a pc of the panel. Also heard it called a pan. 
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04-28-2009, 08:03 PM
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Sounds like we worked for the same guy,but I loved it. I've allways liked working for a hardass. |
There's a time and place for neat work, and there's a time and place for "get r done." If you apply the same rules to every job regardless of time/cost constraints, you are going to be in trouble really fast ($$$.)
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04-28-2009, 08:07 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter D
you are going to be in trouble really fast ($$$.)
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Well we've made good money on every job that the general contractors pay up on.
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04-28-2009, 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by william1978
You'r the first person I've ever heard call a panel can a tub. It must be a regional thing I guess.
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They call them "tub" in Maine and Ohio. It's not a panel 'till the guts are installed. 
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04-28-2009, 09:59 PM
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the pvc looks great, but why are they not buried? it only leaves a small amount of room for concrete. If they wonder why the concrete is cracking, dont show them this picture. I see the gravel they are spreading but you still are thinning the concrete. I know you can do better Dogg..hehe
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04-28-2009, 10:01 PM
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Originally Posted by redbeard43
the pvc looks great, but why are they not buried? it only leaves a small amount of room for concrete.......
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Sometimes, that's the plan..... excavate enough so you can lay your pipes on the rough grade, then fill over them with sand.
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04-28-2009, 10:02 PM
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Originally Posted by drsparky
They call them "tub" in Maine and Ohio. It's not a panel 'till the guts are installed. |
Yes that is correct. Thats why I called it a panel can.
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04-28-2009, 10:02 PM
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oh yea, i call them cans instead of tubs. we used to have a 1000 amp can and used to throw dice! CRAPS!!!
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04-28-2009, 10:05 PM
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Some jobs around here they rough the slab first and then bring in a conveyer belt truck and spread the gravel over the conduit. The conduit is usually about 8" to 10" deep.
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04-28-2009, 10:10 PM
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i know thats a plan but he pipes are "strapped" in place, there is no excavating here. plan ahead on paper then dig. ive done the emt thing before and ive also went to the trouble to make a horeshoe out of the emt. Im not degrading the work, it does look great.
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04-28-2009, 10:18 PM
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Why dig if your under the 4" of gravel.
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04-28-2009, 10:28 PM
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in Texas, mostly, we dont use gravel, hard clay is our game with 100%+ compaction. if your base is 10'' lower than finish grade and you use 4'' of fill with 6'' of crete, then no, i wouldnt dig either unless its bigger pipe.
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04-28-2009, 10:37 PM
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this is some of what we have to work with, the pvc's are not a finished product before the crete, it gives you an idea how we have to do it here.
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04-29-2009, 05:53 AM
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In Picture #2 what's spacing the tops of the service from the wall? The bottom is on the brick which looks to be sticking out 3 or 4 inches from the stucco'd wall above it....
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04-29-2009, 08:52 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by drsparky
They call them "tub" in Maine and Ohio. It's not a panel 'till the guts are installed. |
'Tubs' in Ma. too. The conduits from the 'tub' to the splice can.. 'Gunners',that I think was more of a contractor term.
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