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Kids, don't punch ceiling tiles in your dorm
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It's a miracle nothing ever happened in our dorm. We were total idiots (including knocking out ceiling tiles).
I saw a guy shit in someone's dorm couple semesters back. That being said no one that I know is stupid enough to destroy anything in the considering your build for basically everything.
whatever happened to simply throwing pencils up at them to get them to stick in
though that was more like middle school
arent you supposed to do other stuff in college like strand farm animals in buildings or something
or freeze a sheet pan of piss and push it under someones door frame
though that was more like middle school
arent you supposed to do other stuff in college like strand farm animals in buildings or something
or freeze a sheet pan of piss and push it under someones door frame
This is a lot less fun than what we did. We got a couch on the roof, taped an inflatable pool to the ceiling...freshman year was fun.
Even in the drunk state we were in, I don't think any of us would have tried to break a ceiling tile. Damn.
Even in the drunk state we were in, I don't think any of us would have tried to break a ceiling tile. Damn.
Student dorms get preeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetty wild, even in my limited experience. I'm lucky enough that I transferred in and didn't have to live at a first-year hall, avoiding the horror stories and invasions of privacy I hear about. Removing ceiling tiles to hoard junk, weed, and other things happens often enough. I don't have to even think about that stuff to get rain leaks in my room, though.
How the fuck are people bursting pipes with a punch? Sounds like that building needs an inspection.
Yeah, that's what I was gonna ask. Students are stupid and all, but they aren't strong enough to punch a tear into water pipes.
Me too. I played baseball with an apple and an dead lobster
My dorm only had ceiling tiles on the first floor and the year I lived down there we discovered that somebody had hidden an original NES in there and forgotten about it.
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Funny you mention that one of the dorms tested positive for extreme mold buildup and was evacuated earlier in the semester. No ETA on when it'll reopen. UT tested all the dorms and found small amounts in every building.
Best guess is they jumped to hit the tiles, and the extra momentum was enough to knock something loose.
It's kind of amazing that any dorm building full of 19 year olds having their first taste of independence survives at all
When I was at Penn State, the dorms were retrofitted with sprinklers due to the Seton Hall fire in 2000. I was always nervous that somebody would manage to set them off accidentally and ruin all my stuff. (I took a few art classes, and water doesn't react well with paper, and then there was all my electronic stuff.)
Thankfully, when some idiot did manage to do something stupid, it was on the other side of my building, and only affected his room and anyone below his. Despite the very big stickers below the sprinkler heads warning everyone not to use them as hangers, I hear that someone decided to hang their coat from it, and set it off in the middle of the night. It was annoying to have to be evacuated that late/early, but I suppose it could have been worse.
Thankfully, when some idiot did manage to do something stupid, it was on the other side of my building, and only affected his room and anyone below his. Despite the very big stickers below the sprinkler heads warning everyone not to use them as hangers, I hear that someone decided to hang their coat from it, and set it off in the middle of the night. It was annoying to have to be evacuated that late/early, but I suppose it could have been worse.
It's my limited code understanding that pvc is only for waste water when in a building and 100 gallons per minute doesn't sound like waste water.
Dunno. A quick google seems to suggest that PVC is suitable for potable water but not sure of whatever the tennessee state or local regs are.
Honestly I kind of feel bad for those three students. Out of all the dumb things freshman kids do, punching a ceiling is pretty dang low. Like of course don't punch a ceiling, but that shouldn't cause a pipe to burst that can cause that much damage. Sounds like a building that was already falling apart.
I work in risk management, primarily for large corporations and large insurance companies. If these children, have parents who own homes, man, their parent's are going to get letters saying that the insurance company for the university is going to ask that the parent's homeowner's policies split the costs for the damage. This is mainly because parents usually end up signing paperwork stating they will be financially responsible for their kids while they live in dorms. Or the actual student will be legally liable. In my experience, having sent out these letters, these go one of three ways:
1. The student and the parents get indignant and refuse to cooperate. Whatever, I hire counsel and they sue the parents' insurance carrier and we usually get some sort of recovery.
2. The student dodges phone calls, letters, certified letters, etc, and never talks to me. I file a complaint against him/her, no response from the student, and then I get a judgment and what a way to start adulthood.
3. The student is remorseful, and apologizes for his lapse in judgment, contacts me regardless of whether I've filed the complaint or not, and I make the whole thing go away and no one goes after anyone for anything.
I wonder how this will play out.
1. The student and the parents get indignant and refuse to cooperate. Whatever, I hire counsel and they sue the parents' insurance carrier and we usually get some sort of recovery.
2. The student dodges phone calls, letters, certified letters, etc, and never talks to me. I file a complaint against him/her, no response from the student, and then I get a judgment and what a way to start adulthood.
3. The student is remorseful, and apologizes for his lapse in judgment, contacts me regardless of whether I've filed the complaint or not, and I make the whole thing go away and no one goes after anyone for anything.
I wonder how this will play out.
Flexible PVC piping is getting really popular. I've seen it in a lot of new houses the last few years. I don't know if it would be in a big building like a dorm or not, but I know a few plumbers who prefer it to regular water pipe because it's a lot easier to work with. I don't trust it. I wouldn't have it in a house.
Punching ceiling tiles is nothing compared to what used to happen in our dorms. We turned an entire floor into a giant slip and slide one night.
Flexible PVC piping is getting really popular. I've seen it in a lot of new houses the last few years. I don't know if it would be in a big building like a dorm or not, but I know a few plumbers who prefer it to regular water pipe because it's a lot easier to work with. I don't trust it. I wouldn't have it in a house.
I primarily only see it in higher end homes/commercial spaces with heated floors.
The dorms at my alma mater were so small and shitty no one would purposefully wreck them. They were hovels as they were. Since I graduated though they built new dorms and renovated the old ones: https://www.odu.edu/life/housing/on-campus-housing
When I was there they were basically large cement closets. I always lived off campus because of that. I mean they even have a kitchen now? We just had vending machines.
When I was there they were basically large cement closets. I always lived off campus because of that. I mean they even have a kitchen now? We just had vending machines.
People at UTK that aren't in something like engineering partying all the time aren't going to have very good careers.
they were probably fire sprinkler piping and all the pipes ive ever seen has been metal piping.
I swear to god, some kids go to college just because it would be their first time ever living without parental supervision. They move out and just go nuts with no goddamn common sense.
