MattAndKim
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Do not wrap your tank with aluminum foil unless you just want to get a laugh out of the techs. You would get similar shielding by wrapping your tank with said cheese sandwiches.
Xraying my fish tank... :-/
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Netofficer3710
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don't let them in...
sjwitt
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I'm also surprised by this... if they are asking you to remove your fish/coral are they insisting ALL lifeforms are out of the building? ... Like other pets and, um, humans!? Seems very weird to me. They should have to have some type of environmental permit to do this, wouldn't you think?
If you own this condo, you should own all of everything inside your 4 walls including what happens in them. I wouldn't think just because it is a condo, you "have" to do anything.
Now if this was a roof structure I could see where you would have to grant access to get it fixed as it is part of the building, but this is running lines for a new service. I wouldn't think they would have to xray the building. Perhaps that is the cheapest way of figuring out where to run the fiber, but most likely not the only way.
Now if this was a roof structure I could see where you would have to grant access to get it fixed as it is part of the building, but this is running lines for a new service. I wouldn't think they would have to xray the building. Perhaps that is the cheapest way of figuring out where to run the fiber, but most likely not the only way.
collie man
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can you ask for a copy of the xray? that would make a cool picture. imagine seeing and apartment with a fish tank and all the fish are skeletons!
unbelievable
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I'm a union electrician and I've never heard of a building being xrayed to figure out where to drill. This is probably one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of....... unless we are all missing something fiber is extremely small in diameter so what exactly are they planning on running?
Our condos are 4 stories tall. I believe they were built in 1991. Why they need to Xray instead of using blue prints,.. I don't know.
I did speak to our home owners association and asked them to speak to the techs. Catching 5 fish in a reef tank will not be easy,..
I googled and search this topic with no results.
For the one that asked earlier,.. Yes it's for fios. Everyone on our building is excited about it.
I should be speaking to the techs sometime today. At this point I think I'll be removing zoas and Sps corals that are fragged. I'll try and catch what ever fish I can. I'll do all of this during the tank "night" cycle. My tank doesn't turn on until 4pm. The xray process takes 15 minutes.
Sjwitt.. Yes they are requiring all life forms be removed. Anything within 30 feet of the machine.
I did speak to our home owners association and asked them to speak to the techs. Catching 5 fish in a reef tank will not be easy,..
I googled and search this topic with no results.
For the one that asked earlier,.. Yes it's for fios. Everyone on our building is excited about it.
I should be speaking to the techs sometime today. At this point I think I'll be removing zoas and Sps corals that are fragged. I'll try and catch what ever fish I can. I'll do all of this during the tank "night" cycle. My tank doesn't turn on until 4pm. The xray process takes 15 minutes.
Sjwitt.. Yes they are requiring all life forms be removed. Anything within 30 feet of the machine.
Hahaha would be nice,.. Especially if I end up with xmen type fish that watch TV and eat dinner with me after. Lol
I'll ask and see what where amd how they are planning on Xraying
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They are going to x-ray to see where they can drill? Seriously, this is more cost effective than requesting the blue prints? Companies have been running cable for as long as I can remember, and they either used their knuckles or a "fancy" stud finder. Seems like a LOT of overkill here to run some cable... I can't imagine signing off on this even if I didn't have a fish tank, or even a plant in the condo... Maybe it's just me, but it sure looks like a situation here where they have found the least cost effective, most dangerous solution to ensure they can be totally lazy.
Sign me up for one of those coral morphs tho.
Sign me up for one of those coral morphs tho.
My husband is also an union electrician. His last job in a hospital that he worked at xrayed the floor so they would make sure there were no pipes cut. It is done. That being said, he said they were all standing right next to it while it was happening. This was more than a year ago and he is still around.
Bluecheese
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I doubt the amount of energy they'll use will be enough to harm anything in your tank. If it was really that high they would have to take drastic measure outside as well as the energy particles would bounce and beam around all over the place.
Weird procedure though!!
this is probably a legal issue , that they have to warn you so that if anything would happen you would not go after them.
If you are really concerned, I would just remove the fish...and take them to the park for the day!
Weird procedure though!!
this is probably a legal issue , that they have to warn you so that if anything would happen you would not go after them.
If you are really concerned, I would just remove the fish...and take them to the park for the day!
unbelievable
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I guess I should have been more specific. That happens all the time so when u core through the concrete you don't hit any pipes in the deck but like you said you can stand right over the unit as its going on. I've never seen anything else other than that type of xray for coring purposes.
bdr
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Union electricians seem to be coming out of the woodwork here as i too am one. We xray walls and floors all the time when we are working in hospitals and plants where if you hit a pipe, a life line or process could crash and cause a huge amount of chaos. We dont xray so we miss the rebar in the concrete we xray so we use a core drill (a drill that drill a hole from 2- 24") we miss pipes im assuming they want to run a pipe for their fiber and would rather not drill through the feeders to your apt or your neighbors. As for the lead 2 years ago i installed a whole new diagnostic imaging department (x-rays) in a hospital. cinders blocks wont do a thing and as for lead being to heavy not at all. the walls around the suite were lined in 1/8" lead. now a whole roll that would go around your tank 10 times took two people to lift. If they think its that much of an issue they can bring in a shield and block it from the side they are shooting the picture from.
ezerasurfr
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Maybe there is a rat infestation the condo association doesnt want the owners to know about and they told Verizon they didn't have the plans. This way, they would have to xray and deplete the rats too...
When fios was installed in my old apartment (build circa 1860), nothing was xray'd. They just core-drilled down all 3 stories in one of the closets. This seems ridiculous with new condos - it's no wonder TV and Internet cost so much.
When fios was installed in my old apartment (build circa 1860), nothing was xray'd. They just core-drilled down all 3 stories in one of the closets. This seems ridiculous with new condos - it's no wonder TV and Internet cost so much.
frankpayne32
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This is one of the most interesting threads I've seen on here...lol.
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