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Plastic Sheeting I Geyser Installation I Modern Flush Toilet Invention I Ice Urinals Myths Busted
MYTH: When a geyser is installed the plumbers often go
through the roof and tear the plastic, this plastic is a
waterproofing membrane and now the roof will leak!! Under-tile Membrane UT White® / UT Blue 180® / UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® are polyolefin membranes that have been specially formulated for use under roof tiles. They are 0.18 and 0.25 mm in thickness and made in rolls of 1, 5 x 30m or 1,25 x 40m. UT White® / UT Blue 180® / UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® are dimensionally stable, light in weight and weatherproof; handling and installation are easy, and they seal around nails. They are used for the prevention of draughts and dust penetration into roof spaces through tiles, and prevent damage to ceilings, rotting of timbers and corrosion of plumbing. Dust has also been known to penetrate between cornices and walls, initiating or aggravating allergies in susceptible people. The membranes are also designed to prevent moisture from warm damp air reaching and condensing on the ceiling boards and other vulnerable points in the building fabric. UT White® / UT Blue 180® / UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® also prevent strong wind from lifting and ripping off roof tiles. Most home loan institutions insist on the use of under-tile membrane where the roof pitch is less than 26 degrees or more than 45 degrees and in exposed coastal areas. Specifications One layer of UT White®/UT Blue 180®/UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® weatherproof sheeting, installed over common rafters and under battens to receive tiles. Allow a minimum overlap of 100 mm. Open Soffit Detail Boarding to be used at the open eaves to carry the UT White® / UT Blue 180® / UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® to the gutter. The boarding gives added security to the structure because it prevents wind-lift of the tiles from the underside of the open soffit. Closed Soffit Detail Turn down the UT White® / UT Blue 180® / UT Blue 250® / UT Woven® over the fascia board at the eaves and seal into the gutter. Benefits
MYTH:
A geyser can be installed by anyone off the street
and you don’t need to be qualified to install these DIY items!
MYTH:
The modern flush toilet was invented by a
19th-century British plumber named Sir Thomas Crapper. Thomas Crapper (1836-1910) did exist and is credited with improving the functionality of the early flush toilet (or "water closet," as it was then called), but he did not, contrary to popular belief, invent the pseudo-eponymous bathroom appliance from scratch. Credit for that goes to 16th-century author Sir John Harrington, who not only came up with the idea but installed an early working prototype in the palace of Queen Elizabeth I, his godmother. The first patent for a flushing water closet was issued to Alexander Cummings in 1775, sixty years before Thomas Crapper was born. The son of a Yorkshire steamboat captain, Tom Crapper's destiny was fixed when he was apprenticed to a master plumber at the age of 14. He owned his own plumbing shop in London by the time he was 25. Crapper was awarded nine patents for plumbing innovations during his lifetime, three of them consisting of improvements to the flushing water closet. Though he made his name as a sanitary engineer to blueboods, Crapper himself was lowborn and never knighted, so it's a mystery why storytellers consistently award him the title "Sir." He is sometimes erroneously referred to as "Sir John Crapper."
MYTH:
Ice left in Urinals Helps users aim better,
compensates for poor male sanitary habits
The melting ice acts as a slow, continuous flush
Also the sediment created by the urinal cakes left in the urinal coagulate with effluent and create blockages that occur regularly, establishments using ice have fresher cleaner toilets than those who don’t, (it can only work if the establishment has its own ice machine The negative part of ice is the amount of ice needed to replenish throughout the course of a business day is time consuming, whereas toilet cakes would only have to be replaced several times in a week. However The cakes often have an odor of their own (cheaper versions use camphor oil, while pricier brands substitute other chemicals), which can become stronger when customers and employees uh, forget to flush. Ice cuts down on the smell, and rinses down the drain with little fuss. Apart from urine, one also has to remember that beer, vomit, and chewing gum are other things which fall into the trap; again, ice does a better job of masking this than camphor. When a busy establishment is running at maximum capacity automatic flush systems and deodorizing systems don’t cope as well as ICE does Having said all of the above the new waterless Urinals do away with liquid altogether. LONG LIVE ICE IN URINALS!!!!! |
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