Noel In denver - Good luck and bad luck photos

Dave Stroman

Isn't that funny how it goes sometimes.

One time I installed a snow melt system. The concrete person needed to add a step in front of a door and drilled a few holes to dowel the step into the slab. The red antifreeze started to ooz out of one of the holes. He poured the step anyway!

Dave Stroman, Denver

N.S

good luck and bad luck

Some days you have all the luck and miss. Some days you have all the luck and hit right on

J.C.A._3

Strange happenings !

I was working on a job a few years back, when from the boiler room I heard...." we've got a leak".

After the contractor had nailed a new sill plate for the new addition, and started removing the old one...the nail shot from a gun was dislodged from the tubing...where it had held steady for almost 7 years. (I guess the glue on those puppies IS good!)

20 minutes and 2 couplings later...back to where I started. I think the concrete repair MIGHT have taken a BIT longer..

Stuff Happens....What CAN you do? (keep smiling and bill appropriately, YOU didn't do it!) Chris

Mark Eatherton

Induced bad luck...

from Jack Hammer surgery...


My guys just completed a series of repairs (36 WRONG connections buried directly in concrete) on a snowmelt for a parking garage ramp in LoDo. The people who did the jack hammer work caused more damage than the original contractor! All in all, the owner is real happy because we saved them around $450,000. They wanted to completely remove and replace the ramps due to glycol leaks.

The guys found that where the 1-1/4" COATED steel pipe entered the slab, that magnesium chloride (Ice Slicer from the roads) had corroded through and was the man reason for leaks. That, coupled with the non code compliant PEX to steel adapters (R-20) X 3/4" Male) was giving them the impression that it was not worth trying to salvage.

Jack hammer surgery. What a concept!

ME