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Oct
26

I’m Italian, Could You Help Me With My Translation?

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The housing block consists of 3 different parts: A, B and C.
The portion A is formed by a Senior citizens centre of 85 mq with a wide main entrance, two amusement arcades of 12,40 mq eand 13,60 mq, two bathrooms of 5,60 mq and 5,20 mq and a little snack bar of 14,20 mq.
The portion B is formed by a meeting center of 70,00 mq, two bathrooms of 7,00 mq and 6,00 mq, a study of 11,90 mq and a wide hall.
The portion C is formed by a beauty shop of 100,00 mq, two bathtrooms of 8,00 mq and 4,20 mq, few rooms and a waiting room.
The wide car park will be consisted of 30 car?s places, 15 on the right hand and 15 on the left hand of the building.
The partion walls will be made with 10 cm thick formed by perforated brick tied together with mortar.
The floor will be made with 16 + 4 cm thick formed by bricks and cements.
The roof will be made with brick tiles light brown 2,20 meters in height, so will be used like storeroom.
The attic will be made with 16 + 4 cm thick formed by bricks and cements and will be covered with a waterproof sheath with 4 mm thick, with a rock wool insulation with 50 mm thick, with concretes with 50 mm thicks.
The inside walls will be covered with plaster with 1 cm thick and will be given a coat of anti-mould paint.
The outside walls will be covered with plaster and than will be given a coat of weather proof paint.
The hydraulic lift will have a capacity of 4 people and 4 stops.
The building will be equipped with the follow installations:
? Plumbing with copper pipes
? Waterworks and Sanitary Fittings
? Elettric installation with automatic circuit breaker.

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Oct
26

What Is The Safest Building Demolition Methods?

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Hi, I’m doing a research on the safest methods to demolish a commercial building in a suburban area. Demolition of a shopping mall surrounded by houses and shops.
This demolition happened in my country where it went awry and cause the loss of a few lives. The contractors hired for the work claimed the method they used is one of the safest in the industry – ‘the top down method’ using hydraulic crushers (cranes), eating away chunks of cements and steel beams floor by floor from top to bottom.
However, initial investigations showed they are not using the proper techniques and procedures when the work was carried out, like not having an escape ramp for the cranes to descend and so forth. While it may be one of the ways of demolition, I don’t think its the safest, considering vibrations could cause corrosion in the floors below. Compounded by the fact that the building is about 35 years old.
I’m writing for a national daily and would appreciate some expert opinions and experiences in this area. I could provide the photographs of the disaster through email upon requests.
Website links for my further research are also welcome.
Thanks in advance for all serious comments and opinions.

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Oct
26

Properties Of Load Bearing Piston?

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The load-bearing piston in a hydraulic system has an area of 0.20 m2 (that?s
about a half-meter radius circle), and the input piston has an area that?s 50
times smaller. Suppose the larger piston must support an 800-kg load of
cement.
(a) What force must the hydraulic fluid exert on this load-bearing piston?
(b) What is the pressure in the hydraulic fluid?
(c) What force must be applied to the input piston?

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Oct
26

Did You Know That Is Is Impossible To Be Totally Vegan?!?

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The use of animal products and by-products is tremendously pervasive. For instance, animal fats are used in the production of steel, rubber, vinyl, and plastics. Hence, cars, buses, and even bicycles are not vegan items. Animal products are used in bricks, plaster, cement, and many home-finishing and insulation materials. They also can be found extensively in everyday products, including over-the-counter and prescription drugs, glue antifreeze, hydraulic brake fluid, perfume and cologne, videotape, photographic film, tennis rackets, musical instruments and innumberable other items.
So what are your thoughts now?

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It is actually a firewall. Not a basement wall. Made of hollow concrete blocks filled and plastered with concrete. No water pipelines inside the wall. Leaks only when it rains. Rain water seems to seep through the joint between the wall and the concrete beam. Flashing seems OK. Wall has hairline cracks; sweats through cracks, but most of the leaks seem to be through the wall-beam joint.
Already tried lining the top of the beam with concrete sloping towards the wall-beam joint. This reduced leakage, but 3 portions along the joint are still leaking.
Is there any guarantee that this problem will be eliminated by painting the outside of the wall with elastomeric paint, say, Drylock? If so, how long will this solution be effective; that is, how frequently will the wall have to be repainted?
Browsed through some related questions here. Some answerers propose using hydraulic cement.
Which of these 2 proposed solutions would be more effective (over the long term) for this problem?

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Oct
26

Do You Have An April Fool’s Pranks In Plan For Tomorrow?

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Here are some ideas from http://www.shanemcdonald.com
Ring your friend before he / she goes to work and say ” I’m so sorry to hear you got fired ! ” – Act surprised they didn’t know yet.
Wet a tissue with milk and run around holding the tissue to your eye pretending you stuck your pen in your eye, when somebody comes close, squeeze the tissue to make the Milk spurt out all over the place.
Place Cling-film over the toilet seat – an old prank but a good one !
Ring your friend and pretend to be from the local GPs office. Tell them they might have Newcastles Disease ( a chicken disease – don’t tell them that ).
Sign somebody up to an embarrasing email newsletter.
Go around the office and tell random people that a particular person (e.g. your friend) wanted them to drop over at 11am – they will be surprised when 50 people drop around to their cubicle at once.
Start a rumour that your company is being taken over and loads of staff will be made redundant. Watch the onset of panic.
Put loads of Pencil (scribble and really build up the graphite) on a piece of paper and then rub around the eye and upper jaw. Then go around the office and say you were hit beacuse you didn’t get the report in on time.
Advertise your bosses job in the local newspsper – (Great if you want to get fired !).
Get a universal remote control and turn the volume up on all the TVs in your local TV shop, while standing nearby. Try be covert so you can keep doing it.
If you are a manager or have employees under you, send people looking for made up items such as the dehydrated water, the hydraulic cement humidifier, the double sided transperencies, a fallopian tube, the blunt knife, a glass hammer.
If you work in a restaurant, tell all employees that due to new fiar trade regulations, each serving of fries or chips must contain exactly 257 pieces.
During lunch, say to your friend, “Sorry to hear about your partner, (pause) I suppose you had to find out about the affair sooner or later – the whole office knew about 2 months ago.”.
Use a 3M Post-it notes placed underneath someones’s computer mouse – ensure that it covers the ball or the optical sensor on the bottom. When they go to use the mouse, it won’t work! On the 3M Post-it simply write April Fool!.
Get access to another person’s office, cubicle or room, and move the entire contents of it to another location or even just outside the door. Another variation is to turn all objects in the room the opposite direction.
Do a few replacements … Substitute Gravy instead of coffee granules !
If your last one out of the office, empty multiple packs of Jello or Gelatine into the Toliets – the result next morning will be fun !
Break a chilli pepper and rub it a few times on mugs and cups .. adds spice to the daily cup of coffee.
If you have a digital camera, take a picture of the toilet, then plug in your digital camera into a PC or TV (using TV-out) and get the picture on screen. When you see people coming out of the toilets, start laughing out loud and pointing. The person will come and see the picture and think you saw them in there !
Switch the signs for Mens and Ladies toilets … watch the fun !

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Oct
26

Steps On How To Seal A Basement Wall Crack?

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On heavy rains, water is coming through some cracks in our basement walls. House was built in 1940.
Need some help on how I can best seal these cracks.
I’ve exposed, chiseled, and cleaned the cracks.
In what order (if any) should I apply the following fixes:
- Liquid Urethane Foam Injection
- hydraulic cement
- water sealer (or waterproof coating system)
Any tips on how to apply these applications would be appreciated.
The more details you can give me the better. I am not going to hire someone to do this.
Thanks,
DK

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Oct
26

If I Give You 20 April Fools Pranks Can I Have 50 Stars?

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here they are:
Ring your friend before he / she goes to work and say ” I’m so sorry to hear you got fired ! ” – Act surprised they didn’t know yet.
Wet a tissue with milk and run around holding the tissue to your eye pretending you stuck your pen in your eye, when somebody comes close, squeeze the tissue to make the Milk spurt out all over the place.
Place Cling-film over the toilet seat – an old prank but a good one !
Ring your friend and pretend to be from the local GPs office. Tell them they might have Newcastles Disease ( a chicken disease – don’t tell them that ).
Sign somebody up to an embarrasing email newsletter.
Go around the office and tell random people that a particular person (e.g. your friend) wanted them to drop over at 11am – they will be surprised when 50 people drop around to their cubicle at once.
Start a rumour that your company is being taken over and loads of staff will be made redundant. Watch the onset of panic.
Put loads of Pencil (scribble and really build up the graphite) on a piece of paper and then rub around the eye and upper jaw. Then go around the office and say you were hit beacuse you didn’t get the report in on time.
Advertise your bosses job in the local newspsper – (Great if you want to get fired !).
Get a universal remote control and turn the volume up on all the TVs in your local TV shop, while standing nearby. Try be covert so you can keep doing it.
If you are a manager or have employees under you, send people looking for made up items such as the dehydrated water, the hydraulic cement humidifier, the double sided transperencies, a fallopian tube, the blunt knife, a glass hammer.
If you work in a restaurant, tell all employees that due to new fiar trade regulations, each serving of fries or chips must contain exactly 257 pieces.
During lunch, say to your friend, “Sorry to hear about your partner, (pause) I suppose you had to find out about the affair sooner or later – the whole office knew about 2 months ago.”.
Use a 3M Post-it notes placed underneath someones’s computer mouse – ensure that it covers the ball or the optical sensor on the bottom. When they go to use the mouse, it won’t work! On the 3M Post-it simply write April Fool!.
Get access to another person’s office, cubicle or room, and move the entire contents of it to another location or even just outside the door. Another variation is to turn all objects in the room the opposite direction.
Do a few replacements … Substitute Gravy instead of coffee granules !
If your last one out of the office, empty multiple packs of Jello or Gelatine into the Toliets – the result next morning will be fun !
Break a chilli pepper and rub it a few times on mugs and cups .. adds spice to the daily cup of coffee.
If you have a digital camera, take a picture of the toilet, then plug in your digital camera into a PC or TV (using TV-out) and get the picture on screen. When you see people coming out of the toilets, start laughing out loud and pointing. The person will come and see the picture and think you saw them in there !
Switch the signs for Mens and Ladies toilets … watch the fun !

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