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Invisible wrote:
> Also, next to the stairs, I found this:
>
> OVERALL RISE OF STAIR 3825mm
>
> EACH RISE: 165mm (x23)
> EACH GOING: 250mm.
> BALUSTRADE TO BE TOP FIXED.
> DESIGN TO COMPLY WITH B.REGS
> PART K & M.
>
> I just love the way they quote the size of a flight of stairs in
> millimeters! I mean, it rises 12 feet up, and we care about 25mm?
Hey, I just noticed. The individual stairs are numbered. As in, from 1
to 23. Wow!
There's also a small barely-readable table that says
C ARCHIVE STORE / INST. ROOMS RESETOUT 01.10.07 SH DS
B DOOR REFS ADDED. DIMS UPDATED 28.08.07 SH DS
A ISSUED FOR COMMENT 15.08.07 SH DS
REV DESCRIPTION DATE DWN CKD
I notice that in the middle of the building there's a line of what look
like H-section girders. Each one has a dashed line going through it,
ending in a unique letter on the outside of the building.
(To give you some idea, the lines C, D, E and F are all parallel and
equidistant. However, F and G are *not* parallel. The exterior walls on
particular, this means that the corridore to my office and my server
room has non-parallel walls. Let's hope I don't need to wheel anything
large through there!)
There's also lots of little enigmatic annotations such as
BELOW GROUND
DRANAGE CONNECTION
FOR WHB
and
STUB STACK
and
sinks/washers
see fittings
and
RWP
INTO
BG.
Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
+-----------+
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| RISER |
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+-----------+
Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
There's also lots of circles with numbers in them. Or bisected circles
with pairs of numbers in them.
I'm sure all this means something to the guys drawing the plans. ;-)
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> Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
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> +-----------+
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> | RISER |
> | |
> | |
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> +-----------+
>
> Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
>
What the...
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You should ask for 3D plans in .pov format. Or make them?
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> You should ask for 3D plans in .pov format. Or make them?
OMFG... POV-Ray FTW!! :-D
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Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
> Invisible escribió:
>> Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
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>> +-----------+
>> | 87° 94°|
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>> | RISER |
>> | |
>> | |
>> | |
>> | 90° |
>> +-----------+
>>
>> Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
>>
>
> What the...
Should probably be more like:
+--..__
|87 ''--.._
| 94|
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|90 |
+--------------+
...still not too fun to build.
--
Tim Cook
http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-empyrean
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And lo on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:40:26 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> did
spake, saying:
> I'm just sitting here looking over the plans for our new building at
> work. It looks roughly like a tangled maze of lines, encrusted with text.
>
> Some of the text is in fact almost unreadable because it's so tiny. Even
> when printed out, I can bearly read it. I had a look at the PDF file,
> and it says the document dimensions are "23.39 x 33.11 inches". A quick
> trip to Google tells me that's 594.106 x 840.994 mm. (Wow, that sounds
> pretty big!) A quick check on Wikipedia tells me that's exactly A1. (!!)
>
> So, where the plan says "1:50 scale", it's really "1:400" when printed
> on A4 instead of A1.
Taking into account that the software may have 'fixed' it to print within
your printer margins.
> The drawing contains a number of items of interesting text. For example,
> this is "DWG NO 2222.173". It is described as "GROUND FLOOR PLAN, OFFICE
> B SETTING OUT".
>
> Also, next to the stairs, I found this:
>
> OVERALL RISE OF STAIR 3825mm
>
> EACH RISE: 165mm (x23)
> EACH GOING: 250mm.
> BALUSTRADE TO BE TOP FIXED.
> DESIGN TO COMPLY WITH B.REGS
> PART K & M.
>
> I just love the way they quote the size of a flight of stairs in
> millimeters! I mean, it rises 12 feet up, and we care about 25mm?
Yes if you want it to be 12 feet up when it races the top.
> I have no idea what "BALUSTRADE" is. (Assuming I've even read it right
> from the tiny writing on the printout.)
It's that bit that stops you from falling off the side of the stairs.
> Similarly, ever head of "BRISE SOLEIL"? Because apparently this building
> will have *lots* of those.
Sun-shade.
> But most of all, it's just numbers. *Millions* of numbers. Almost every
> line has a second line next to it with some numbers. Many of the corners
> there are dashed lines *everywhere*.
>
> (I just reliased... Every single doorway in the place has a unique ID
> written on it. Wow.)
Yup
> There are also all sorts of symbols that look like they probably mean
> something to a building engineer. Means nothing to me though! Heh.
Yup again
> It's certainly interesting anyway...
Looking at building plans is always fun.
--
Phil Cook
--
I once tried to be apathetic, but I just couldn't be bothered
http://flipc.blogspot.com
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Phil Cook wrote:
> And lo on Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:40:26 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did
> spake, saying:
>
>> I'm just sitting here looking over the plans for our new building at
>> work. It looks roughly like a tangled maze of lines, encrusted with text.
>>
>> Some of the text is in fact almost unreadable because it's so tiny.
>> Even when printed out, I can bearly read it. I had a look at the PDF
>> file, and it says the document dimensions are "23.39 x 33.11 inches".
>> A quick trip to Google tells me that's 594.106 x 840.994 mm. (Wow,
>> that sounds pretty big!) A quick check on Wikipedia tells me that's
>> exactly A1. (!!)
>>
>> So, where the plan says "1:50 scale", it's really "1:400" when printed
>> on A4 instead of A1.
>
> Taking into account that the software may have 'fixed' it to print
> within your printer margins.
True...
Perhaps that's why part of the building is missing? Or maybe it's just
that this particular drawing only includes that part, I'm not sure.
>> It's certainly interesting anyway...
>
> Looking at building plans is always fun.
I'm glad someone else thinks so.
I have no idea what half the stuff means, but I'm nosey anyway! ;-)
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Tim Cook wrote:
> Nicolas Alvarez wrote:
>> Invisible escribió:
>>> Ooo, I just found a small space that looks like this:
>>>
>>> +-----------+
>>> | 87° 94°|
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> | RISER |
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> | |
>>> | 90° |
>>> +-----------+
>>>
>>> Hahahah! Some poor **** is going to have great fun building THAT...
>>>
>>
>> What the...
>
> Should probably be more like:
>
> +--..__
> |87 ''--.._
> | 94|
> | |
> |90 |
> +--------------+
>
> ...still not too fun to build.
That's a tilt of a tad more than 4°, but essentially yes. ;-)
(On the paper it sure looks like a perfect square. But there we are.)
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>> That's because people who build the stairs works with that order
>> of tolerance (mm).
>
> So... what the hell do you do if you build some stairs, and the sement
> sinks by 0.4 mm while drying? (A perfectly likely outcome.) Then each
> step might be 0.4 mm out...! No noes! o_O
Who secures stairs in place by resting them on unset concrete? :-S
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scott wrote:
>>> That's because people who build the stairs works with that order
>>> of tolerance (mm).
>>
>> So... what the hell do you do if you build some stairs, and the sement
>> sinks by 0.4 mm while drying? (A perfectly likely outcome.) Then each
>> step might be 0.4 mm out...! No noes! o_O
>
> Who secures stairs in place by resting them on unset concrete? :-S
I was thinking more that the *stairs* are made of concrete...
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