Good Morning List, Here's a little story that should make the professionals amongst us chuckle on this Friday morning. I was on an inspection at a new residential pedestal building yesterday afternoon and was supposed to be inspecting the UG piping and 200 PSI hydo before they closed the trench.
Well first they had to re-excavate the trench because we figured you didnt want to see thrust blocking, clamping, rodding, and depth. My X-ray inspector glasses are on backorder ..... Well then comes the hydrostatic test .... mind you this is about 40 feet of 6 inch DI pipe, not big by any stretch of the imagination. The contractor informs me the compressor will be right here in 5 minutes. So I decide to wait and eat my lunch in the car. After 20 minutes I dont see anyone showing up with a hydro pump so I go back into the building to see whats going on. They take me over and show me a gauge on the pipe - 100 PSI. I tell them it needs to be 200 PSI for 2 Hrs and they say thats impossible since the compressor only goes to about 120 PSI. Huh ???? I say show me this compressor - something is wrong. Indeed something was wrong. The compressor was there all along, they were waiting for a longer hose to connect it to the pipe. They needed a longer hose since the compressor is out back connected to the truck that pulls it around. It was a trailer compressor we see for jack hammers and such - not a hydrostatic pump. You mean to tell me there's 100 PSI of air only inside that pipe right now ????? Sure, what else would we test with ....... Just before I left I made sure they bled the air out from a safe distance and wrote a note on the inspection sticker 'Needs Qualified Contractor with Proper Equipment'. You cant make this stuff up. Dave P. An AHJ in NJ _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
