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observationcoffee · 4 months ago

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little warning/reminder for heating rice in the microwave to keep yourself warm, or hot water bottles, or anything that is much warmer then your skin. Especially electric heating blankets and heating pads: it may be tempting to put directly against skin but do not do that always have a layer between you and it like a towel or blanket. Even if the heating pad comes with a fabric cover you still need to add another layer between you and it.

Don't leave it in only one spot either, it should be in one spot no longer then 15 mins at a time and if its an electric heating pad/blanket DO NOT FALL ASLEEP AND LEAVE IT TURNED ON you can 100% burn yourself In your sleep! I have done that exact thing and have scars from doing that! Many electric pads/blankets have auto shut offs, but some still sell them with the ability for the pad/blanket to keep reheating itself indefinitely until you turn it off manually. That being said, placing the heating pad/hot water bottle/ect against your lower back where your kidneys sit is a great way to warm up your feet quickly since the major blood vessels feeding your legs runs through there and it's fairly close to the surface of your skin.

News is running a bit on how to make your house warmer in winter here, and starts with a bloke inspecting a house and it literally goes, "this house has no insulin in the walls, floor, and the ceiling insulation is full of gaps. The windows are single glazed and have poor coverings. There are nearly inch wide gaps at the base of every door including the external ones. Is very breezy inside."

Like. I know that's normal here, I live here, but sweet jesus.

News ended up advising that people put blinds in and get solar power. How tf are poor people gonna do that? Renters? Stupid advice. It's getting below zero at night rn and barely scratching 10°C in the day, which means it's the same damn temp indoors

I've improved my home by putting furniture against external walls as insulation. I've got fleece safety pinned to the inside of my curtains ($10 for a half sheet of fleece at spotlight rn!). I've taped the balcony door shut. I've committed to only heating two rooms and I've door snaked the doors to the rest of the house to save money. Do this even if you dont have a heater, your body heat is doing something. I chose bedroom and living room, some people might include kitchen to use heat from the oven but my house doesn't lay out for that to work.

Also, wear lots of clothes and blankets. It's 1pm, I have three shirts, a jumper, and three blankets on rn. Drink tea to keep hands warm. Try cleaning something with hot water instead of turning the heater on in the day, helps get your fingers warm and is slightly active. It's okay to sleep in gloves and a beenie. A hot shower to get your temp back up is good if you prep clothes and don't wet your hair.

If the world were better these houses would have been built well, but that's not where we are. There are tricks to use, use them

#Someone in the post also mentioned this but I cannot stress enough how important it is to make sure your water pipes do not freeze.#if they are not designed with freezing temperatures in mind they can burst and flood your house costing thousands of dollars in damage #always keep a faucet dripping and doubly so if its in a room thats notoriously cold #keep the bathroom sink cabinets open to allow warm air flow to reach the pipes #if you have any closets or cabinets with exposed pipes consider keeping that open for the same reason #regularly inspect any pipes for damage #for outdoors make sure to drain your pools #unhook and drain your garden hoses #and drain/disconnect any sprinkler systems #all of these things can freeze and burst if not properly drained #keep your main garage door closed as well if you have one

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aspisfiresafetyltd · 2 years ago

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The Essential Guide to Home Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance

Indeed, far from reusing sprinkler heads, as part of a rigorous Home Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance there may be circumstances when we would recommend the replacement of a sprinkler head that has never been used. This is because we understand that the sprinkler heads, as the “business end” of the system, must be 100% effective 100% of the times they are needed. Really, this part of Home Fire Sprinkler System Maintenance should not really be regarded as a cost. As we said, when they spend money on the purchase, installation or maintenance of an Ico system London property owners are making an investment.

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techmomma · 5 months ago

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Various things I have learned while working at this mitigation company:

different insurance providers are more or less willing to cover more things. some companies are real lenient and will give you a lot of leeway. some will absolutely not and will find every means possible to not pay. we tend to keep an unofficial list (at least among employees) of which ones we love to work with (aka which ones will approve and pay for the most and be easiest to deal with) and which ones we hate working with (they will usually reject the claim meaning NO mitigation work is done at all because you think most regular people can afford $20K mitigation out of pocket?). you can ask us which ones we like working with.

if the overhead sprinkler system is activated, then even if nothing burned, you will still need so much mitigation. modern sprinkler systems aren't just full of water, they have various fire-fighting chemicals in them that should not come into contact with people for extended periods. and definitely not food.

not every business is willing to pay for fire sprinkler mitigation. sometimes they just decide to paint over it! one of the local grocery stores decided to do that! remember what I said about exposing those chemicals to food?

mold can start growing from a water leak within like 48 hours. faster if it's a sewage leak. if you had a leak and you waited a week to call anyone, you need a mold inspection too.

we get screwed over by churches so, so much.

all houses must be tested for asbestos before any mitigation can begin. it used to be that we only really needed to test on houses built before about 1990, but as asbestos was used in building materials LONG after that, they've finally cracked down and now all houses needed to be tested. my coworkers aren't as happy about this as I am.

if the building was built before 1978 though then we have to test for asbestos AND lead! I think we should test them all for lead frankly but the law says 1978.

asbestos and lead usually have to be removed by special companies. we use subcontractors for that since we don't have the equipment ourselves.

subcontractors! your mitigation company usually can't do everything themselves, so they'll enlist the aid of another company. so for example, when we have to test for asbestos and lead, we use a subcontractor who has the equipment to analyze samples.

generally, if you can see damage, whatever is inside the wall is so, so much worse.

there is so so much mold in like every building

even with industrial cleaners and professional equipment, mold is so hard to actually get rid of permanently. if it's gotten into an organic material like wood or cloth, you can count that as pretty much permanently affected. they will almost always be unsalvageable.

this counts for say, the wood beams of your house. we can clean them down and spray mold killer and seal them, but it'll ever be a 100% guarantee, ESPECIALLY IF YOU LIVE IN A WETTER CLIMATE. LIKE, IDK, WASHINGTON.

houses on the water are so full of mold

if you have a sudden Emergency, please make sure you decide if you're going to use a mitigation before you actually call us. especially for emergencies where there's water like actively flooding your house. please, for the love of god, don't call us and say "we have an emergency and need help cleaning this up" and then call a short while later saying "well, actually, can we be put on hold, we're not sure if we'll go with mitigation yet...". our technicians are almost always working on a job, we don't have anyone just sitting around the office we can send at any time. and sometimes those jobs can be like an hour away from our office

that means the tech has to pack up their equipment on the site (meaning making sure the site is secured especially if it's going to rain), get back to the office (remember the hour drive from before), get the right equipment for your emergency, and head out there. if they've been pulled from their previous job site they had to drive an hour for, we're not going to fucking send them back.

meaning if you cancel, that's like half of our day wasted and now that other job is going to be behind, too, because they're minus an extra five hours that could have been spent doing the work for that job

please. please don't do your own mitigation work. oh my god.at the very least because sometimes insurance companies get super super picky about that and might reject your claim for it.

if you can see water damage on the other side of a wall, it means the water has gone through the drywall. the longer it's wet and uncared for--I'm talking like, 2 days or more--the more likely things will need to be removed and/or demolished. certainly after 2 days the insulation will almost certainly need to be removed and new insulation installed. this will cost money.

the older the building, the more likely anything in that building will fail at any given time. sure maybe the piping lasted 100 years but that's because it took 100 years to eat away the piping until it finally gave out on the 101st year

meaning the older the building, the more likely it becomes that you'll experience pipe bursts, leaks, electrical mishaps, sewage leaks, etc. etc.

when it comes to water mitigation, there's two kinds: cleanwater and blackwater. cleanwater is what comes out of your tap. blackwater is poopy sewage. blackwater is, without fail, a gazillion times more expensive because it will, as a requirement, involve some form of demolition. it should. that's a health hazard man. you don't know what (else) is in poopy sewage water.

if you can't have the water turned off to do any mitigation, then you HAVE to get a specialist before we can do any restoration. if the pipe is still leaking, then mitigation work will kind of be for nothing.

if you're planning on filing any claims, do that FIRST before you call anybody. the insurance company will have a list of people to call and will tell you how to go about things so that your claim is solid. filing online is fine but it's usually a good idea to have an actual name and contact information for an adjuster (the person who'll be looking at the damage and seeing what needs to be done)

don't fret. sometimes even things I thought would be totally unsalvageable were salvageable! they have lots of tips and tricks, and the technicians and their managers are usually happy to talk about their trade with you

a lot of these technicians really do care, even if they're mostly in it for the work. so many of these guys would do this because this kind of work is pure enrichment for them, but they got families to take care of. it gets genuinely frustrating sometimes to know what work needs to be done and wanting to do so, but the insurance company won't pay out, so nothing can be done.

if your insurance company is giving you the reach-around and you think they're fucking you over, there's something called the insurance commissioner. they're who you can report insurance company fuckery to and the commissioner is usually pretty on top of it. I've seen customers be fucked over for months by their insurance company call the commissioner, and within a few hours the insurance company ~*~magically~*~ has a fire lit under their ass and just so so happy to help you out.

you get what you pay for. whether construction, mitigation, whatever. you pay for cheap mitigation work, you will get cheap results.

something you really don't want cheap results for: mitigation work

things landlords are absolutely fucking notorious for: wanting cheap mitigation work. don't listen to any stupid schpiel they give you about caring or whatever work they said they put in. sure they did pay $10k for restoration work--because it was a job worth about $20k, and they went with the rock-bottom contractor who put a half-assed half day's work in that will fall apart in a few years

fuck landlords and property managers. but you already knew that if you follow me.

Lastly, if you have time to spare and want to make a technician's day, ask them what their worst or most fun job was. they are so happy to tell you.

they have so. many. stories.

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novelmonger · 5 months ago

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After a long delay (brought on by distractions as well as scurrying around with moving preparations), I finally got around to watching The Two Towers with the Design Team audio commentary, with Richard Taylor, Tania Rodger, Grant Major, Alan Lee, John Howe, Dan Hennah, and Chris Hennah.

Here are some new tidbits of information I've gleaned from it:

Richard Taylor's least favorite prosthetic work of the trilogy is that opening shot in TTT when Frodo starts awake and you can see his ear. Richard doesn't think the color-matching was done very well - but in their defense, I literally never noticed it in all the dozens of times I've watched this movie XD

When filming on location up in the mountains for Emyn Muil, people would go to lunch on ski lifts because there were ski resorts in the valleys XD

I never picked up on this (oops!), but the idea was that, though the Uruk-Hai were bred to be hardier and stronger than regular Orcs, the unnatural process of creating them meant that they age and deteriorate faster than regular Orcs. So when they're in the sunlight, their skin gets blotchy, their eyes get cataracts, and their hair starts turning grey.

When they burned the village in Rohan, they accidentally burnt one of their fake dead horses, which cost $2,000 to make. Also, there was one shot (which didn't get used) where the fire from one of the buildings suddenly shot out towards the camera, and the cameramen had to flee for their lives!

They specifically called for extras who actually knew how to chop down trees for the scene where the Orcs are cutting firewood at the edge of Fangorn. They ended up with a couple guys who were champion woodcutters - which I didn't know was a thing!

Richard Taylor said that if he could go back and redo one thing for TTT, it would be to redo the contact lenses for Snaga, because they ran out of time to make any themselves and had to just use commercial ones, and he didn't think they looked subtle enough. It's okay, Richard, I don't think anybody's noticed!

The way they made the inside of the Orcs' mouths black (because Orc blood is supposed to be black, so the reasoning is that no part of their bodies would be reddish or pinkish) was that they had a licorice-based mouthwash they would make every Orc actor swish around in their mouth before each take to blacken the inside of the mouth. And they would have to be careful not to get too much of it on their teeth, or the teeth would all get black too @_@

In the scene where the Three Hunters meet Eomer for the first time, they didn't want Karl Urban to wear the metal hero's helmet they'd made, since he had to dismount a horse. So the helmet he's wearing is made of urethane, but is designed and painted so well it looks like metal. The same goes for the horses' armor, because even leather will irritate a horse's skin when it's not accustomed to wearing anything on its face.

Richard Taylor points out that Gollum's hair is actually one of the most important elements of his design, because without it, he would just look like an alien. The straggles of hair humanizes him and helps us believe that he was once not so different from a Hobbit.

Weta hung a maquette of the fell beast from the sprinkler system, until one time the building was getting an inspection and they had to take it down ^^'

There were 350 sets planned for the whole shoot, though in practice, of course, they ended up doing a lot more work than that, what with rearranging certain sets like the Fangorn ones to make the locations seem bigger than the space they were actually filmed in.

A year before they started shooting anything at the Edoras location, they contacted local farmers and asked them to grow wheat for them, so they would have enough to thatch all the buildings. Because some of the wheat still had seeds, some of them started sprouting during the shooting. I haven't seen it, but apparently there's one shot where you can see a bit of green growing on one of the roofs - unintentional, but it adds an extra element of authenticity to the scene.

They built the indoor stable set close to the mountain where they built Edoras, thinking that surely there would be at least a day or two where the weather wouldn't permit them to shoot at Edoras. But there was no inclement weather the whole time they were shooting there, so they didn't end up needing the stables after all. So they had to break down the stable set and take it all back to Wellington to use later.

To make the rabbits that Gollum hunts, they got rabbit skins and stuffed them with something like gelatin or Turkish delight, so Andy Serkis could get at it with his teeth through a hole in the skin and pull it out like he's eating the guts. I don't think I ever really thought about it before, but I guess I always sort of assumed Andy Serkis was just miming it and they filled it in with CG or something.

They hired a traditional saddle-maker to originally make about 25 saddles for the main actors, thinking they would only need him for that and then let him go. But he ended up working for them full-time to make all the saddles, work on repairs, etc.!

Helm's Deep was the first drawing Alan Lee worked on for the movies, and it was also the first miniature they made.

For Treebeard's leaves, they had to outsource leaves from China to get the right look and shape, but then they weren't the right color, and they couldn't afford to have the factory in China paint them. So there was one guy who spent months hand-painting all the leaves that would go onto Treebeard's body @_@ This is the kind of above-and-beyond work that makes LotR so incredible, I think.

The Forbidden Pool wasn't supposed to be so murky; they designed the bottom of the pool with all of these rocks painted to make it look deeper than it actually was. They had trouble with the water foaming, because there are detergents in paint, so whenever you have water running over a painted surface, you run the risk of the water foaming up. But they ran out of time to figure out how to get the water to flow clean so you could actually see into the bottom :'(

Richard Taylor's least favorite piece of armor was the extra shoulder guards they gave Legolas for Helm's Deep. They wanted to show him also adding some extra armor like the others, but also wanted him to be immediately recognizable in wide shots. Richard Taylor thinks they compromised too much - they should have committed to either more or less. Personally? I never even noticed it was any different ^^'

They were struggling to get the Elf extras to march in time with each other, but what they discovered was that if they told them all to hold their bows exactly upright, the concentration it took to keep the bows in position actually helped them all march in sync with each other! Funny how little things like that work with our brains.

If I understood correctly, that one Uruk at Helm's Deep who screams with a really wide mouth in a close-up is actually an animatronic?! It was the first thing they built and shot for the demo they showed New Line to convince them they could make this project, but actually the last thing they shot for the final version of the movie.

The Uruk crossbows were made from timber that was leftover from some repairs in the workshop XD

Okay, here's a bit of lore that never really comes out in the movie: The berserkers, the Uruks who are first off the ladders (or like the suicide bomber guy carrying the torch to the wall), were designed with the thought that their helmets are filled with human blood before being forced onto their heads, so they'll be filled with bloodlust and be fiercer when they fight.

The greens department was too good at their job! Sometimes, they would dress the set with all the rocks and bits of grass and other things like that to be ready for the shoot, and it would look so natural that when other crewmembers would come in to set up, they would park their trucks and equipment on a part of the set that had been painstakingly dressed for filming!

There was a Gore and Injury team that was responsible for all of the makeup for blood and that kind of thing, and they were all very proud of their jobs. The truck they used to cart all of their buckets of fake blood and slime used to be a fruit and vegetable truck, and it still had the logo on the side that said "Fruity" XD

"We ended up making blood in huge quantities." - excellent out-of-context quote XD

(I feel like I've heard parts of this, but not all of it.) The first battering ram they made for Helm's Deep was way too heavy for stunt guys wearing full armor and also trying to act. But the second battering ram they made was too light! So with the third attempt, they made it lighter with a hollow middle where they could put sandbags to adjust the weight to get it just right. But the sandbags would move around as the ram was lifted, so they had to put barriers ("bulkheads" I think was the word used) inside to keep the sandbags from all bunching up at one end or the other.

Richard Taylor observed that actors and stunt people are actually more dangerous with the rubbery stunt weapons than they are with the real, "hero" weapons. With the sword made out of real metal with a sharp edge, they're cognizant of how dangerous it is, so they're more careful with it. But if you give someone a rubber sword, they'll whack the living daylights out of everybody XD

One of the challenges of using a miniature for the flooding of Isengard is that water doesn't scale very well. Because of water's surface tension and other physics factors, if you shoot water flooding a miniature, it will be immediately obvious that the water is too "big" for the objects it's flooding. So, ironically, they had to put a digital layer of water over the real water they filmed to make it look more realistic.

I can't remember if this was mentioned in the Director/Writer commentary or not, but back when LotR was originally envisioned as two movies, Peter Jackson wanted a dramatic moment with Frodo to end the first movie, and so for a time they floated the idea of one of the Nazgul on a fell beast coming to Amon Hen when Frodo puts the Ring on. John Howe talks about this, and how it's actually not as far from the book as you might originally think, since in the book, Frodo puts on the Ring on the Seat of Seeing and catches a glimpse of some flying creature heading his way. In the book, he takes the Ring off in time so the creature doesn't actually find him, but the idea was to have the Nazgul arrive in the movie. Thankfully, that didn't end up being necessary because they were able to make three movies.

The scene after the battle of Helm's Deep where Legolas and Gimli meet up and figure out who won the competition was John Rhys-Davies' first day on set??? He wasn't used to the prosthetics on his face yet, so he'd sweated a lot and it had become detached and left a weird wrinkle in his forehead. So they had Gino Acevedo, one of the prosthetics people, lying hidden amongst the orc corpses, holding onto a string or something attached to the prosthetic, pulling on it to try to keep it taut against John's forehead. I watch the scene, and I can't even imagine that happening off-screen @_@

In the Flotsam and Jetsam scene, the props guy came up to Dan Hennah before shooting was supposed to start, frantic because the apples weren't floating. Dan was like, "What? No, apples float!" but the guy tossed an apple into the water and it sank. So they hastily tried to come up with a solution, thinking they'd have to core a bunch of apples and stuff them with polyurethane to get them to float. But Dan was still positive that apples floated. So then he grabbed an apple and tossed it into the water...and it floated. And so did the next one, and the next. Eventually, they figured out what the problem was: There were some wax apples among the props that were so lifelike that the prop guy thought they were real apples, but the wax ones were heavy enough that they sank. So they could just use real apples in the scene. But they did have to stuff the turkey with polyurethane so it would float.

They ended up making 139 different versions of Frodo and Sam's packs @_@ They had to make different packs for different stages of the journey, because of weathering and eventually them carrying less and less in the packs as they get to Mordor. Then they had to make twice as many, because they also needed scaled-down versions for the scale doubles.

#lord of the rings #lotr

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jadevalentine-writes · 1 year ago

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WIP - Chapter 1 - Good Omens Fanfic

Woops I fell into the Good Omens fandom and am in my second era of being obsessed with David Tennant, please send help. Wanted to get Chapter 1 finished tonight but they WILL NOT. Stop. TALKING. Have this preview instead! <3 Much love - Jade

That night started like many others.

It was half-past six and they were leaving the bookshop for dinner. Aziraphale was excitedly pitching a new restaurant as they weaved between pedestrians and the few automobiles that decided to snail down the street.

“Apparently they have the most lovely oysters!”

That nearly stopped Crowley in his tracks.

“Oysters?” he asked as they approached the Bentley. “Well, I haven’t had good oysters since-”

“Rome,” they both said.

Aziraphale let the small smile that tugged on his lips blossom when he saw the crooked one on Crowley’s face.

“Now those were oysters! We can always go to Rome, you know,” Crowley added as he opened the driver door and folded himself inside the old car.

“I know,” Aziraphale said, a bit wistfully as he slowly opened the other door - the Bentley preferred his gentle touch, he thought. “For tonight, however, I’ll make due with these oyst-ow!”

Aziraphale felt something jab him in the back of the head after he pulled his legs in and shut the door (gently). When he turned to inspect what had intruded upon his skull, he was met with a face full of green foliage.

“Crowley?” he asked as the demon in question started the engine and the Bentley started to pull away from the curb.

“M’yeah?”

“Why are your plants in the backseat?”

“Mm?” Crowley turned his head completely around to look into the backseat, ignoring the road in front of him. Aziraphale gripped the edges of his seat as the Bentley miraculously swerved around a parked car and half-dozen pedestrians without Crowley’s notice.

“Oh yeah,” Crowley mumbled as he turned back around, attention once again lazily on the road. “Just thought they needed some fresh air is all.”

Aziraphale furrowed his brows. Sarcasm, but just a dash. Meaning whatever the real reason was, Crowley was sore about it. Aziraphale decided to press his luck.

“Is there something wrong with your flat?”

“What? Ah, no, no, uh, flat’s good.” And then, quieter, “I think.”

“You think?” Aziraphale asked gently.

Crowley shrugged, unaffected by the questioning or the other vehicles he tore past at three times the speed limit.

“Yes, I think. Haven’t exactly been there in a few months myself.”

“A few months?” Aziraphale turned to Crowley, no longer worried about the road. “Crowley, what happened to your flat?”

Aziraphale fought and failed to keep an image of Crowley’s pristine flat in flames from his mind. Then again, Crowley would be quite at home in fire. Suddenly the image warped and the flat in his mind became flooded with a complicated sprinkler system of holy water. He shuddered and shook his head to banish the thought.

“Nothing happened to it!” Crowley groused. “At least, I hope not. Rather, it’s a bit occupied at the moment. And not by me! Hence the plants. I couldn’t abandon them, now could I?”

Although Aziraphale smiled at Crowley’s affection for his chlorophyll companions, he would not let his…fondness for the demon distract him from the matter at hand.

“And just what is occupying your flat so that the plants can’t be there?” Or, Aziraphale dared to think, who?

Crowley growled and Aziraphale could feel his lovely golden eyes glare at him beyond the dark shades. Crowley wrung his hands on the steering wheel and Aziraphale soothed the Bentley with a delicate pat on the dashboard.

“My…replacement,” the demon spat. “You know, since-” here Crowley waved his left hand which, though somewhat distracting - Aziraphale always did think he had lovely hands - did well to encompass everything that has transpired since Armageddon-that-never-was. “Anyway turns out that my flat, er, the flat, was part of the job in the fineprint.” He sighed and sagged into his seat slightly. “You think I would have known. I invented the concept of fineprint in contracts. Guess I never thought it would be used against me.”

Aziraphale was silent as he pondered Crowley’s words. They had both been left well enough alone after saving the world. A small price to pay, he supposed, considering neither of them were discorporated. Who would have guessed that their ruse would frighten each other’s sides so much they would have a semblance of worry-free existence for several months?

At the end of the day, though, both sides still needed to get things done. Tax fraud would not commit itself, you know? Aziraphale supposed it made sense that Hell would replace Crowley since he was no longer truly aligned with their side. Though if that were the true reasoning, he supposed Hell should have sent a replacement a long time ago.

“Just so I understand, your replacement is living in your, eh, the flat because it comes with the job?”

“Mmhm.” The noise was small, but Aziraphale could almost hear Crowley’s teeth grind together as he spit it out.

“And they could not be trusted to care for your plants?”

“Oh, absolutely not!”

“I see…and…does that mean you’ve been living in the car as well?”

Crowley opened his mouth to answer, but no sound came out. He tilted his head side-to-side, his jaw flexing as though trying our words to fit, but ultimately settling on nothing. His jaw clicked close and Aziraphale felt the Bentley speed up in response.

“Crowley, you could have-”

“Oh, look, we’re here!”

The Bentley jerked to a halt, though neither passenger moved forward an inch. Aziraphale narrowed his eyes while Crowley’s mouth stretched in a wide grin.

“Why don’t you miracle us up a table while I find parking, eh angel?”

#good omens #ineffable husbands #good omens fanfic #ineffable husbands fanfic #aziraphale #crowley #aziracrow #wip #this does have an official title #but I shan't share it until it's officially posted on AO3 #which hopefully will be this weekend #won't get industrious and say tomorrow

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shantanusontakke · 1 month ago

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In today's world, safety is paramount, especially when it comes to fire hazards. Fire alarm detection systems play a crucial role in safeguarding lives and property. This blog explores the various components, types, and importance of these systems.

What is a Fire Alarm Detection System?

A fire alarm detection system is designed to detect and alert occupants of a building to the presence of smoke, fire, or other hazards. These systems can vary in complexity, ranging from simple smoke detectors to sophisticated integrated systems that monitor multiple buildings.

Key Components of Fire Alarm Systems

1. Smoke Detectors: These devices sense smoke as an indicator of fire. There are two primary types:

- Ionization Detectors: More responsive to flaming fires.

- Photoelectric Detectors: Better at detecting smoldering fires.

2. Heat Detectors: These activate when a specific temperature is reached or when there’s a rapid increase in temperature.

3. Manual Pull Stations: Located throughout buildings, these allow individuals to manually signal an alarm in the event of a fire.

4. Alarm Notification Devices: This includes horns, bells, and strobe lights that alert occupants of the danger.

5. Control Panel: The brain of the system, it receives signals from detectors and activates alarms and notifications.

6. Fire Suppression Systems: Some systems integrate fire suppression technologies, such as sprinklers, to control or extinguish fires automatically.

Types of Fire Alarm Detection Systems

1. Conventional Systems: These are typically used in smaller buildings. They group detectors into zones, making it easy to locate the source of the alarm.

2. Addressable Systems: More advanced, these systems provide specific information about the location of the alarm, allowing for quicker response times.

3. Wireless Systems: Ideal for buildings where wiring is impractical, wireless systems use radio signals to communicate between detectors and the control panel.

4. Smart Fire Alarms: Integrating with IoT technology, these systems can send alerts to smartphones, providing real-time information about fire conditions.

Importance of Fire Alarm Detection Systems

- Life Safety: The primary purpose is to alert occupants early, allowing them time to evacuate safely.

- Property Protection: Early detection can minimize damage to property and assets.

- Compliance with Regulations: Many local codes and regulations require the installation of fire alarm systems in commercial and residential buildings.

- Insurance Benefits: Having a functioning fire alarm system can lower insurance premiums and provide peace of mind.

Maintenance and Testing

Regular maintenance and testing of fire alarm systems are crucial for ensuring their functionality. This includes:

- Monthly visual inspections.

- Semi-annual testing of alarm devices.

- Annual professional inspections by certified technicians.

Conclusion

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rainedragon · 7 months ago

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I'm exhausted. It's 10pm, I've read 108 pages on university webpage UX design and I have another 142 pages I need to read before tomorrow, and I need to retain it all because I need to be able to get my team all on the same page on a navigation strategy so we can move forward on the project I'm leading that is a month behind. I was hoping this book would have a definitive answer to a complex question that has been a sticking point and it doesn't. I'm still recovering from being ill last week, something is wrong with my foot making it hard to walk, and the percription coupon database ransomware hack means I can't get my mingraine meds unless I pay out of pocket for them because insurence won't cover them. A vandal turned my hose on and walked away and while the county will waive the bill for a leak, they won't for that. So I owe some amount of money that I will not know the extent of for several weeks and despite knowing I can probably pay it, I'm very anxious about it. I need to get my sprinkler system inspected before the end of the month and I still need to hire someone to fix my leaky door and repair the water damage to my ceiling, and I have 3 medical referals I haven't managed to follow through on, and I'm supposed to be dieting to get my cholestrol down but being hungry all day ontop of everything else just makes me want to cry

...ugh and I still need to do my taxes.

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centexinspection · 9 months ago

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fireserv-blog · 2 years ago

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basicelements127 · 11 months ago

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aspisfiresafetyltd · 2 years ago

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starfishface · 2 years ago

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Just for shits and giggles, here’s a tale I call the Stupid Sprinkler Saga, a string of events that happened over the last few weeks

So I bought a house back in spring. I’m still learning the ins and outs of home ownership, because I’ve only ever had apartments, and when something goes wrong in an apartment, it’s someone else’s job to fix it. I do not have this benefit anymore. And it is much more stressful, come to find out

So as this is the first winter I’ve lived in the house, and a few weeks ago my dad told me that, before the weather gets too cold, I should shut off the water to my sprinkler system and drain the pipes so they don’t freeze and potentially explode when the weather dips below freezing. He comes over to help me locate the valve that will cut off water to the sprinklers, and that it’s probably buried in the yard with a plastic lid covering it. We just have to figure out which one it is.

He comes over. We search the yard. We cannot find the sprinkler valve.

He comes over a second time for an errand and we search the yard again. Still can’t find it. But this was in November, we live in Texas, and we probably had a few weeks to months before it gets cold enough to freeze.

In early December, the city sends me a letter saying I have to get my backflow preventer inspected. I find a guy on Google and he comes to do the inspection while I’m away for a con.

A few weeks later, while I’m out of state for another con, I hear that we’re getting a crazy-big cold front in a few days and the temps will be dropping into the teens for a few days. I still haven’t figured out what to do about my sprinklers. Commence panik

By the time I get back from my trip I have about 48 hours before freezing temps set in. I call the sprinkler inspection guy and ask if he happened to see the sprinkler cutoff valve while he was doing the inspection. He said no.

I spend several hours digging through Google and YouTube. “How to locate sprinkler cutoff valve”. “Where is my sprinkler cutoff valve?”. “How to drain sprinkler system”. “What if I can’t find my sprinkler shutoff?” etc. During my research I go out and search the yard and my house several times, following the advice of the videos and articles I was seeing. No dice.

One article I saw suggested that, most of the time, a permit and blueprint for an in-ground sprinkler system has to be submitted to the city for approval before it’s installed. So the city might know where the valve would be. My house was built a while ago but it was the only light of hope I had at this point. I call the city. They tell me they don’t know where the valve is, but they can send a tech out to help me find it within the next few hours. Perks of living in a small town.

A few hours later the water tech from the city arrives. He spends about 15 minutes searching my yard and asking me questions. He cannot locate the shutoff. He even tells me I might not have one. We find a valve that will shut off the water supply to my house hidden in the bushes, which would cut off the water to my sprinklers, but would also shut off the water inside my house. This was less than ideal.

He spends another 10 minutes searching, and even talks to my neighbors who pull up while he’s digging around. The neighbors confirm that they have a sprinkler shutoff valve, and I should have one too, since our houses were built around the same time. The tech calls another tech in to help. The other tech arrives and there are now two city workers in my yard, plus me, all trying to figure out where the hell this valve is.

And then we find it. In the stupidest place imaginable

A bit of backstory: My house has some very stupid quirks left from the previous owner that I’ve just.... put out of my mind in an “I do not percieve it” kind of way. There’s some random piles of rocks in the backyard from a half-finished landscaping project, the remnants of what I think was supposed to be a fire pit in the middle of the backyard, and, notably, a weird plastic canvas bag sitting on the fence line. The bag is old and gross and looks like it’s filled with some sort of white cotton stuff, and it’s been sitting and leaning against my fence since I moved in. I always thought it was either A) something gross I just didn’t want to mess with, and/or B) belonged to my neighbors, since it sat right against their fence line. And when the second tech got there, he went to mess with the bag.

The bag that turned out to be an insulated bag that was covering the damn sprinkler shutoff valve/backflow preventer.

This piece of shit bag has been sitting at the edge of my yard since I moved in and no one knew what it was until a city worker realized it was perfectly in-line with the water meter on the street and must be covering something important.

It took 4 people to figure this out

Sprinklers are stupid the end

#starfish rambles

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