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Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “A growing problem in the US…pipes that are not getting enough exercise. Sadly, cellulose begins to build up around the trouble areas and resemble cottage cheese.”
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Pipe leak at the securefoam factury. Fortunately it sealed itself before the whole building filled up!
Great minds think alike, did that a couple of weeks back
to the main water line under the house.
Hasn’t froze yet.
Not to be confused with http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foamhenge
Certainly, my favorite of the Henges.
I had an exposed section of heating pie in a tight crawl space. This solution worked great.
I wonder what the toilet of this house will look like.
It might not look great, but it works. Better than frozen pipes for sure.
What happens when you don’t spend a little extra money to have a certified professional install the plumbing on your nougat pump.
Ummmmmm….nougat!
Bit big for the 11″ one in Spinal Tap’s show. The dwarf would have quite the workout trying to crush it.
You said just about what I was gonna say =P Foam Henge! Where the demons dwell! Where the banshees live and they do live well!
I thought the Spinal Tap version was 18″ in height. Anyway, this one is in no danger of being trod upon.
Someone actually built a Foam Henge in Natural Bridge, Virginia.
http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9209
I think it shows a great deal of restraint to have left that valve there. Also, to not have made little blobs around the base that look like piles of animal poo.
If Britney Spears have come clean with her acne problems so can you…
This is the single portal left standing of the lesser know Foamhenge.
Kludge or Sludge? You make the call.
After all that foam… THE DAMN THING PROBABLY STILL LEAKS… I hate plumbing…
I’d say more art than kludge, but cool nevertheless.
Pipe foam wrap would have been easier, just as good and look better. But give a man a can of spray foam, his eyes go wide, his lips pull back and his IQ drops 50%.
I resemble that remark…
Nyuk, nyuk!
I double alleycat’s statement, been there with all plumbing and insulation my very old house needs.
Just turn the valve to open the Foamworld portal ….
Good thing their house had a foam-proof valve.
Let’s See Jimmy Get That Lawsuit Now! Hehehe.
Anybody know how to get that spray foam off stuff?
Sometimes the best way to stop is to never start.
Trim off all you can is about the only safe way to do so. Unsafely? Most of that foam crap is highly flammable. Torched a small mount outdoors once to prove to friends why I didn’t like idea of using that crap. Suffice it we stayed upwind from the noxious black smoke/fumes that were produced.
In other words, ” clean the pipes?”
There are alot of ways to remove it, a knife will cut through it fine as long as it has dried, there is also another product you can buy that is a cleaner, specifically designed for the reusable guns contractors uses, it’s basically dry claeaning fluid and it really stinks (even worse than burning the stuff) since this stuff won’t stick to plasti, the easiest way to avoid having to scrape it off is touse garbage bags or plastic to cover any areas you don’t want the stuff to stick too. In fact, movie prop guys will spray this stuff into a garbage bag, then mold it into props, wait for it to dry, then paint it.
Exactly what I was thinking, epidon.
Looks more like meringue than foam to me! Yiam!
Another example of not quite using the right tool for the job. Expanding urethane foam is meant for confined spaces, not freestyle application. If he can get sheets of insulation, I’m sure he could get pipe insulation as easily as cans of urethane. I suppose it does work, though.
The real question is why is that section of pipe there in the first place, and as tall as it is? It would have been simpler to keep it all underground and install the valve where it emerges into a heated space.
We can’t really call this a fail until we know what it was supposed to be.
There is a similar u-shaped pipe in my laundry room from some former owner. Best I can tell, there used to be a softener system there that treated all incoming water. I guess someone got tired of it and just connected the in pipe to the out pipe rather than go under the house.
I don’t have a marker to mark where I want you to cut the door so I will mark it with this expanding foam.
♪ ♫ Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are foaming… ♪ ♫
But it’s so ugly…even if it’s a valve and pipes in a garage why not make it pleasant to look at?
Because now it fits in with the rest of the room: pepto-pink building material to the back, multi-colored interlocking floor covering on the wall to the right, old carpet adhesive all over the floor…a lot cheaper to make the pipes one of the brotherhood here, I’d say.
They could have built a stalactite of foam coming down from the ceiling and pretended it was a natural formation
The real foamhenge – http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9209 .
I have actually seen a “foam henge”, which was (as the name suggests) a foam version of stone henge. I think it was somewhere near Natural Bridge, VA, or Appomattox, VA.
it’s near Natural Bridge…..
what can I say? Virginia, my home state: home of Washington, Jefferson, and both Foam Henge AND the Giant Presidential Head Park….. proud history and tacky tourist traps, all in one place!
A growing problem in the US…pipes that are not getting enough exercise. Sadly, cellulose begins to build up around the trouble areas and resemble cottage cheese.
Yeah, there is a foam henge near Natural Bridge VA, I saw it on the way down to Bonnaroo. It’s on I-81 in Western VA, otherwise known as the longest, boring-est highway in the world haha
there is a real life “foam henge”
Forget this… f*ck the napkin!
Thats not Foam Henge THIS IS FOAM HENGE! “http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/9209″
I think somebody needs to post that Foam Henge link one more time.
Since when do mashed potatoes make good pipes?
expands 10X by volume