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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: BazaJT on 04 August 2019, 07:57:39
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C'mon lad get your backside in gear and pop over to Whaley Bridge and show them how to carry on sorting their dam out. Don't forget to take your wellies in case it lets go though.
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Yep two large sheets of plastic ( one for the inside and the other for the outside). Plus a large tube to syphon the water out
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I notice how the news talked about "engineers" having turned up to fix it. They'll be the ones carrying the shovels, then. >:(
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C'mon lad get your backside in gear and pop over to Whaley Bridge and show them how to carry on sorting their dam out. Don't forget to take your wellies in case it lets go though.
Give the man a chance Baza, he hasn't finished his tea yet! :o ;D
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I notice how the news talked about "engineers" having turned up to fix it. They'll be the ones carrying the shovels, then. >:(
I bet whoever did the last inspection has had a twitchy ring these last few days! ::)
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I live on top of a big hill 60 miles away ,so I'm not getting involved ;D :D
plus ,it's bad enough getting my Omega wet when it rains ;D
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I notice how the news talked about "engineers" having turned up to fix it. They'll be the ones carrying the shovels, then. >:(
I bet whoever did the last inspection has had a twitchy ring these last few days! ::)
Yep, wouldn't fancy being in his shoes, especially if the local residents discover him. :o
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Pis in one of todays papers from a year or two ago,show small trees growing through the part which has now collapsed. Suggests a lack of ongoing maintenance ?
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Pis in one of todays papers from a year or two ago,show small trees growing through the part which has now collapsed. Suggests a lack of ongoing maintenance ?
The root cause?
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Pis in one of todays papers from a year or two ago,show small trees growing through the part which has now collapsed. Suggests a lack of ongoing maintenance ?
plants growing in expansion joints (a bit like weeds growing in between block paving ) makes little difference when you have massive flows of water under the slipway ,washing out the sub-strait :y
the slipway is just a small section of the retaining "dam" , i'm sure they will find later that many other sections require beefing up .
I'm surprised the concrete is so thin on the slipway though ,I've seen better shed base pours :P
as with the other national infrastructures ,like gas and electricity , massive investment is required to the network ,but now the water,gas and electricity is in the hands of the private sector ,shareholder profits are more important than safety or longevity.
I've recently installed a 5 stage filter system on my kitchen tap after seeing the filth that my drinking water filters and Koi pond top up filters captured :o
that "linescale" in your kettle proves interesting when you test water quality for nitrate,nitrite,PH,lead/heavy metals,chlorine,chloramine, amonia, and tds in general ::)
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And yet we're all still here. ;D
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And yet we're all still here. ;D
Just... ::) ;) ;D
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We all used to lick lead paint off our toys,play with mercury,suck lungs full of lovely asbestos and coal dust etc etc :P
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Yep two large sheets of plastic ( one for the inside and the other for the outside). Plus a large tube to syphon the water out
You forgot the half dozen cans of squeezy foam. Every builder I've ever met seems to love that stuff.
That said I've just been using some on our place so I'm hardly in a position to judge. ::) ;D
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Yep two large sheets of plastic ( one for the inside and the other for the outside). Plus a large tube to syphon the water out
You forgot the half dozen cans of squeezy foam. Every builder I've ever met seems to love that stuff.
That said I've just been using some on our place so I'm hardly in a position to judge. ::) ;D
Squeezy foam. That would be a brilliant solution. I would expect sections of rebar brayed in every so often too. In Spain the builders have a useful finishing product called Caucho. It is like a rubber liquid you paint on to keep water out ( or in)......
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Apparently a light misting of water helps with the curing process...
Sounds ideal really ;D
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It's not UV stable
It is a good product for some situations ,this DAM leak is not one of them ;D
sticking plasters on the outside of a leak rarely ends well
I'm sure there are plenty of engineers on the case now with a plethora of new products to try use successfully :-X
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It's not UV stable
It is a good product for some situations ,this DAM leak is not one of them ;D
sticking plasters on the outside of a leak rarely ends well
I'm sure there are plenty of engineers on the case now with a plethora of new products to try use successfully :-X
Not wanting to rain on your parade ( or whatever the expression is!) but is there actually a leak? Just a bit of concrete crumbling a bit because the dam was full to overflowing.
A lot of foam, rebar and some caucho over the top and job jobbed. The hard work has been done by helicopter men. These engineers will just come up with some great costly scheme that will cost twice the agreed budget to implement
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But under the concrete slipway is just ground that will erode very quickly
needs draining down enough to engineer a strong concrete slipway and puddling clay inside ,deep enough so the water does not go under the slipway
water will find it's own level,it will sneak through the smallest of gaps and carve a bigger path over time.
sand in the bags that Boris did will not last ;D
a missed small scale hydro-electric power opportunity on the long term solution too i'd imagine ;D
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HEP. You have persuaded me.
We live near a huge 10 mile long lake and it has a hydro electric power station. Quite small as it is sized for minimum flow throughout the year
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It must be a bit of a shock for the RAF, being brought in to stop the breaching of a dam instead of creating them. ::) ::) ::)