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I did some new construction plumbing for a few months when I was younger, I've also done low voltage electrician work. I've had plumbing problems at my place and would hate plumbing that is not new construction.BTW....as an electrician I hate plumbing.
It's a cultural thing.
I was a Journeyman construction electrician for years. Foreman many times. Specializing in commercial/industrial work...mostly because I could do motor controls, security-related wiring, and complex AV system wiring with integrated lighting systems.I did some new construction plumbing for a few months when I was younger, I've also done low voltage electrician work. I've had plumbing problems at my place and would hate plumbing that is not new construction.
I noticed that thru the double pane windows here I can hear thru them pretty easy. So maybe heat is conducted also?I've heard that in some colder parts of the world it is common practice to cover your windows with cardboard every year to add a layer of air gap insolation and save on heating.
They usually fill those with argon gas. Heat would definitely conduct through them but they are much better than single pane.I noticed that thru the double pane windows here I can hear thru them pretty easy. So maybe heat is conducted also?
As a small voltage electrician apprentice, I was ordered to go under houses and run security wiring. Talk about spiders and 3-dimensional webs. The spiders would hang their webs in drop strings that looked like a thick beard. I would wear a hat and a pull over hood, but still the amount of spiders I encountered were terrible.I was a Journeyman construction electrician for years. Foreman many times. Specializing in commercial/industrial work...mostly because I could do motor controls, security-related wiring, and complex AV system wiring with integrated lighting systems.
I've done everything from hospitals to courthouses and of course Switch Yards, high rises, Chem plants, car makers, and steel plants.
And I still hate plumbing. It's always in the way because for whatever reason every time there's plumbing somebody wants lights, plugs, or some other electric devices. PITA!
So I have an intrinsic dislike for plumbing and those who install it. The worst are those who are installing air handling devices heated or cooled by water lines (water is either heated or cooled and then forced air moved over heat exchangers) This work of HVAC is done by "Tin Knockers" or plumbers....they are a brain dead lot. Pipe fitters tend to have a few more skills of being able to work with others but not many.
Today most plumbing of 1" or smaller plumbing lines are done with PEX. And that stuff is amazing. It can freeze and thaw over 100 times and never bust or leak. However....rodents can't get enough of it. Squirrels and mice love this stuff. They have added chemicals to make it taste bitter to the rodents but since when has lead or steel pipe tasted great? CPVC doesn't attract mice but the microplastics it gives off and it's susceptibility for breaking is over the top.
Heavy wall copper is still the best stuff. Not the thin stuff in most homes that crushes the second you try and cut it...but the red line copper pipe. However...most guys today don't sweat the joints very well. It has to be extremely clean and untouched when sweated. And ½" of silver solder is all you need for a ½ joint....that's all it will hold. Anymore than that and you are wasting the stuff. (Which is expensive)
Yes, unfortunately I know way too much about plumbing and flow dynamics. I was thinking about getting an instrumentation certificate. Tech 3s get golden child treatment and are in constant demand. But life in refineries and petroleum plants kinda sucks too....no matter how ridiculously much they are paying these days.
Oh plumbers get in some NASTY situations as well. Plumbers always have work because stuff always leaks at some point or valves go bad....something always needs fixing. And water leaking will destroy any building rather quickly.As a small voltage electrician apprentice, I was ordered to go under houses and run security wiring. Talk about spiders and 3-dimensional webs. The spiders would hang their webs in drop strings that looked like a thick beard. I would wear a hat and a pull over hood, but still the amount of spiders I encountered were terrible.
As a plumber apprentice it was nice and clean. So ya I can see some jealously perhaps.
I've heard also that metal window frames and studs are really bad in the cold weather. I believe they conduct heat much more than wood so the heat in your house has a passage way out through your walls and around your windows.They usually fill those with argon gas. Heat would definitely conduct through them but they are much better than single pane.
Unless you can insolate something with a vacuum, like a thermos, you will still have conduction and convection. Thermal radiation is only a big factor at high temperatures.
Electric waterheaters must drive you nuts, lolBTW....as an electrician I hate plumbing.
It's a cultural thing.
I don't know if they still do this.I've heard that in some colder parts of the world it is common practice to cover your windows with cardboard every year to add a layer of air gap insolation and save on heating.
I don't mind wiring them or even changing thermostats and heating elements or the electrode that removes hard water calcium and other elements from the water....just plumbing them really sucks.Electric waterheaters must drive you nuts, lol
As a small voltage electrician apprentice, I was ordered to go under houses and run security wiring. Talk about spiders and 3-dimensional webs. The spiders would hang their webs in drop strings that looked like a thick beard. I would wear a hat and a pull over hood, but still the amount of spiders I encountered were terrible.
I did some new construction plumbing for a few months when I was younger, I've also done low voltage electrician work. I've had plumbing problems at my place and would hate plumbing that is not new construction.
Plumbing has changed over the years, from materials to amounts of places in homes in and outside where water is available or necessary for taps for water and also for exiting.
The very old in ground often has broken apart, shifted, crumbled, roots grown into…
The fairly newer PVC is the modern preferred, but can be not sized properly, or connected properly, and “in ground” or “behind’ sheet rock…you would not know. Improper “reducers”, can also be a menace for proper pressure.
Just saying new or old construction, be it plumbing (or electrical) can each come with their own set of problems. And modernly…the water, the waste, the electrical gadgets…are rather enormous.
So tell me, if you know:
How do you connect a standard 4" PVC sewer line up to a hollowed out log?
The guys in NYC really want to know. They haven't really found an ideal solution yet.