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Favorite Comment: Fixer Dogmeat says, “In case of fire, stand directly underneath sprinkler so that it will provide the 144 square inches of protection you need from the flames and heat as it douses you with a 20-gallons-per-minute waterfall.”
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Great job.
end of the line for that pipe, and probably for anyone near it during a fire.
*sigh* All right, it’s inevitable, so let’s hear what ceiling cat’s going to do today…
Ceiling cat is *glub glub cough sputter glub hiss cough glub glub*…
Alas, poor ceiling cat! *sniff* He shall watch us no more. (bells ring ominously in the distance as dark clouds begin rolling in)
Thank you. That did not disappoint. I wonder if there are even any words left that end in -ate?
Never mind, no need for anyone to answer that, as I suppose I can stand to ponder that question the whole rest of my life…
“Wher is ur plummer nao?”
Ceiling Cat will never find his way through our new deterrent system!
In case of fire, stand directly underneath sprinkler so that it will provide the 144 square inches of protection you need from the flames and heat as it douses you with a 20-gallons-per-minute waterfall.
Can we see how it looked AFTER it failed the Fire Dept. inspection?
Perhaps more of a large diameter dome to better disperse the water?
Nah, they’ll have just turned it upside down, ensuring the ceiling remains fire-free.
keith fox: “Fire In The Hole!”
/me raises right eyebrow and says: “Indeed”
thx
Nice trim work on something the Fire Inspector ain’t gonna sign off on.
What’s with the immaculate trim on an unfinished ceiling?
There are so many contradictions and mechanical irritations in this picture I think I’m going to grind my teeth in my sleep tonight.
Please, please, I hope the fire marshal and code inspector teamed up, found the individual responsible for this, and pointed and laughed in their face.
“What’s with the immaculate trim on an unfinished ceiling?”
Because when carpenters only find work stumbling their way through drywall and plumbing, they are forced to get people’s attention by any means they can. This is the result of someone’s cry for help, really, and so now, the occupants can cry for help, too, should there ever be a fire.
the sad part, that was taken at a lumber yard.
Explains about 40% of this picture… haha thanks!
A-MEN brother! …to make matters worse, this was in a commercial building.
Fire inspector: “Well, everything seems to be in order here. So, do you have any big plans for the weekend…WHAT THE HOLY HELL?!”
Facilities manager: …
“Oh, you mean when we finish an unfinished ceiling we have to replace all the sprinklers with down-facing ones? Gee, I never knew that…”
“And oh, I also didn’t know that the pipes doesn’t have to end with a totally pointless turn to the right…”
Ah, drat. You found me out. That “sprinkler” doesn’t really work – it’s just there so’s we get sign-off on the checkbox what says we have enough sprinklers per 100 sq ft of floorspace.
The REAL sprinkler is based on the fact that the end of the pipe is only held on with wax.
Clearly the right turn is necessary; else the Hanger would screw up the trim job. Duh!
“Well, inspector, it’s like this: we figured the wood enclosure would catch fire before anything else and the ensuing heat would activate the sprinkler more quickly, thus making this installation actually safer than the requirements of the building code.”
I don’t know weather to laugh or cry at this one. I guess I’ll just have to pipe down for now.
“Whether” to laugh. Son, I am disappoint.
I think he really means “weather”.
When that sprinkler goes on, there will be some weather. Indoor weather.
I thought he meant “weather,” but the first sentence was destined for the umbrella picture from earlier today. But what the heck: Son, I am disappoint, too.
Please to ‘splane disapoint. Mothra’
and so the mighty ceiling cat called forth the humans with harry butts and sagging pants to install his new water fountain. He was very displeased with the results, and so summoned Cthulhu on them.
“So… you see, technically, there’s a space-warp-fault right between the two levels of this building, so we built this ingenious detector in case it opened.
-You just forgot the sprinklers on the blueprint didn’t you?
-Ahem… No… you see… we architects never make mistakes. So its a… a… technical obligation. Totally planned.”
“Let’s see Tom Cruise get through THIS with a harness and tools!” Mission Improbable.
A tile on the next floor reads: IN CASE OF FIRE REMOVE
Silly fixers! Go away! It is not a fire sprinkler system, it is a chemical emergency shower bath! Oh yes, laugh, laugh now! When you are burning in the eyes and look up for where is your help, you will not see any help! You will not see again, because you will not have a chemical emergency shower bath! Haha!
I printed this one out for my code inspectors, so at least it brought joy & mirth to 3 guys over their moring coffee. Unlike, the burning, fiery pain it will bring to the cube dweller below…
I am surprised that the “Master Capenters” did not center the opening around the sprinkler head.
“Why not just turn it 180°?” “Because we’re carpenters, not plumbers.”
Or maybe they just figured one particular tile on the floor above was particularly likely to ignite…
The cheap ass molding really does it for me.
This is a fine example of when someone needs to “Think outside the box”