A load bearing wall is exactly that. It holds up the weight of the whole building. If Hitty really wants to destroy someone’s mojo, tear down that wall!
To answer Hitty’s first query, I recall the words of Ford Prefect: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.”
As for her second question, I suspect that a building like that has mostly load-bearing columns, so the few load-bearing walls that there might be are rather critical if one wants the building to remain standing. So if you absolutely must crash through walls to get where you’re going, please choose non-load-bearing walls.
I watched a building being torn down at an Air Force base (the warehouse I worked at was half a mile away). Not a huge building, two stories with a little observation/command(?) block on top, I have no idea what its original purpose was. The whole thing was reinforce concrete with columns throughout. They used a big excavator with probably hardened teeth on its bucket to, more or less, chisel around the edges of this building and work its way in. Took it several weeks to reduce the whole thing to rubble.
That works well for smaller buildings like that. They don’t have to evacuate the area, and they don’t have to board up the windows of neghboring buildings to protect them. And they can haul the debris away as they work. Depending on the size of the building, the whole project can be done using only a few people to operate the heavy equipment and drive the trucks. Even with taking several weeks, it’s more cost-effective.
Check out some videos of demolishing buildings on youtube. For taller buildings like Annex One, they use explosives to take out the load bearing walls and columns on the lower level(s), in a very specific order. If they get it right, the building simply collapses in on itself. If they get it wrong, the building doesn’t come down at all, or it falls over sideways and hits a lot of stuff it’s not supposed to. The explosions have been known to shatter nearby windows, and the cloud of dust when the building comes down spreads out for several hundred metres. Between the prep work, the evacuation, the potential damage, and the explosives themselves, it’s extremely expensive. But it’s also the safest way to bring down a tall building. Then they have several weeks of hauling the debris away once it’s down.
Hitty’s real challenge in this case would be getting out of the building without being crushed.
There was a program on Discovery (IIRC) that showcased buildings being demolished, hosted by two guys from a uni that taught a degree program in it. Very interesting to watch, especially how paranoid everyone got when a building didn’t fall down when the charges went off!
It looks like it was some glitch with my webhost. I spent the day trying to contact them and then suddenly everything was up again, so mission accomplished, I guess!
Ramshambler should be able to answer that question.
Wall is singular, so just one.
A load bearing wall is exactly that. It holds up the weight of the whole building. If Hitty really wants to destroy someone’s mojo, tear down that wall!
To Hitty, a maze is simply straight lines waiting to happen.
Heh, Hitchhikers guide reference.
To answer Hitty’s first query, I recall the words of Ford Prefect: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.”
As for her second question, I suspect that a building like that has mostly load-bearing columns, so the few load-bearing walls that there might be are rather critical if one wants the building to remain standing. So if you absolutely must crash through walls to get where you’re going, please choose non-load-bearing walls.
I watched a building being torn down at an Air Force base (the warehouse I worked at was half a mile away). Not a huge building, two stories with a little observation/command(?) block on top, I have no idea what its original purpose was. The whole thing was reinforce concrete with columns throughout. They used a big excavator with probably hardened teeth on its bucket to, more or less, chisel around the edges of this building and work its way in. Took it several weeks to reduce the whole thing to rubble.
Hitty might have found it a challenge.
That works well for smaller buildings like that. They don’t have to evacuate the area, and they don’t have to board up the windows of neghboring buildings to protect them. And they can haul the debris away as they work. Depending on the size of the building, the whole project can be done using only a few people to operate the heavy equipment and drive the trucks. Even with taking several weeks, it’s more cost-effective.
Check out some videos of demolishing buildings on youtube. For taller buildings like Annex One, they use explosives to take out the load bearing walls and columns on the lower level(s), in a very specific order. If they get it right, the building simply collapses in on itself. If they get it wrong, the building doesn’t come down at all, or it falls over sideways and hits a lot of stuff it’s not supposed to. The explosions have been known to shatter nearby windows, and the cloud of dust when the building comes down spreads out for several hundred metres. Between the prep work, the evacuation, the potential damage, and the explosives themselves, it’s extremely expensive. But it’s also the safest way to bring down a tall building. Then they have several weeks of hauling the debris away once it’s down.
Hitty’s real challenge in this case would be getting out of the building without being crushed.
There was a program on Discovery (IIRC) that showcased buildings being demolished, hosted by two guys from a uni that taught a degree program in it. Very interesting to watch, especially how paranoid everyone got when a building didn’t fall down when the charges went off!
So where were y’all this morning and afternoon? I kept getting a connection-time-whatsit screen every time I tried.
It’s hard to post rude and sarcastic comments if the site goes down.
It looks like it was some glitch with my webhost. I spent the day trying to contact them and then suddenly everything was up again, so mission accomplished, I guess!
Computers! Making everything SO much more convenient since [remainder of answer folded, spindled, and mutilated]
Bug Martini was also down a lot of yesterday, and just went down right now! I wonder if you two are on the same host.
“Between Failures” was down just a few minutes ago…same message, which didn’t look like the usual message, popped up.
(Yay, the site’s back! Thanks, whoever got that working!)
Hitty may not know much about load-bearing walls, but her partner is a world-class expert. They’ll do fine.