Submitted by LPercepts t3_z5fhvz in todayilearned
How did they do it without any interruptions to plumbing, power, or gas?
Photo in linked page shows what appear to be large hoses. I'm guessing that's the plumbing. I don't know how they could do a cut on that without an interruption. Perhaps a quick cut over, over night, was considered acceptable, but I don't know.
Power can be run in flexible cables fairly easily, and even bridged while live if you're careful.
Gas I dunno. Presumably flexible lines of some kind, but that's not something I'm familiar with.
Pex
Nah, you don’t do gas in pex, it’s always steel
Yep, I lived in a house that had a 1911 furnace that had been converted from coal to sawdust to gas, it was plumbed with steel pipes that were only for "structural tubing" use, they weren't even legal for plumbing/water much less gas!
The look on the face of the HVAC guy who installed the new gas/electric furnace in ~2009 was hilarious, he was like "I have never seen this kind of pipe, it's not legally rated for water or gas...."
I loved that old house, lathe and plaster walls with knob and tube wiring, no grounds, The oven was from the 1950's and if you touched certain parts it would shock you.
Holy shit, my grandma's stove would always shock me and everyone called me a liar!
Thank you for vindicating me... 30 years after the house was demolished.
The replacement house was very nice, and the new stove never shocked me.
PEX wasn't in use in the US until the 1980s
I was trying to be phunny
If you're rotating a building like this 90 degrees then no doubt the plumbing, power and gas were all definitely interrupted.
Yeah but at 2am no one cares lol
Yeah well I just responded to his question. Then obviously they would have to replumb everything and do all the electrician work etc. It makes you wonder why the rotated the building, and didn't just reinstall the door on the other side.
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