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Country Boy wrote:

baptistbrother wrote:

Stoltz13 wrote:This a picture of an apartment owned by a friend of mine:



Although one person was home at the time... nobody was hurt.

That is what a little bit of steam pressure can do !

where was this?

Market street in Mifflinburg, PA

I thought so, a guy I work with is on the volunteer fire crew, he looked at it and said it looked like someone chucked a grenade in the house...

well bb... if you have ever wanted a bigger bedroom...

now you know how to do it !

Incidentally, one of the brethren in our church was killed by a pressure tank (perhaps not a water heater, though). I'm not positive what made it go, but after seeing him at the funeral, though they did the best they could to fix him up, I think everyone got a healthy dose of respect for a pressurized water tank of any kind. (His prescence is still missed in our church...)

Country Boy wrote:

baptistbrother wrote:

Stoltz13 wrote:This a picture of an apartment owned by a friend of mine:



Although one person was home at the time... nobody was hurt.

That is what a little bit of steam pressure can do !

where was this?

Market street in Mifflinburg, PA

My aunt teaches at a Christian college in the neighboring town of Penns Creek. It's a small world.

Wow, a great picture.

Kind of makes you respect the volumetric ratio of water turned to steam: 1700 times ...

I saw the pictures of the experimental reactor that went supercritical (prompt sc) in Idaho around 1960. When a control rod was pulled out, a steam bubble was formed beneath it, and turned into a missile. Unfortunately the guy pulling the rod was impaled against the containment ceiling roof ....

follower wrote:Wow, a great picture.

Kind of makes you respect the volumetric ratio of water turned to steam: 1700 times ...

Keep in mind, in the case of a water heater explosion, the expansion is instantaneous.

Also keep in mind that the room is already filled with a specific volume of air. So it's not like this steam has all kinds of places to go. Something has to give.

KER-BOOM!

surdelmundo wrote:

Sunbeam wrote:Shoulda gone with ICF.

But I wonder how many people know what you're advertising.

I do! I do! Pick me! Pick me!

...I have the feeling, SunBeam, that were the building constructed with ICF, you'd have ALL the windows blown, with a serious amount of damage to the upper floor and the roof.

...on a lighter note: Imagine if there were someone in the upstairs when that happened. My mom says that "they'd think Jesus was returning". It would be most scary, for sure.

Now to see about checking out the pressure relief valve - which probably hasn't been checked in 5 or more years...with lots of hard water having passed through the system.

Oh my! They just fixed the "debug-blah blah blah-can't-see-your-post" problem! YAY!

Oh. Rats. Maybe that was just a fluke.

You're in rare form tonight, Hoover.!

You might be right about the ICF with the exploding HW heater, I pondered that for awhile myself.

But that building laying there sort of all apartish looked so cheap, it was just the thought that popped into my head.

Sunbeam wrote:You're in rare form tonight, Hoover.!

You might be right about the ICF with the exploding HW heater, I pondered that for awhile myself.

But that building laying there sort of all apartish looked so cheap, it was just the thought that popped into my head.

ICFs are the bomb! ...er, so to speak. Here's the good stuff... (I can't remember how to post URL's the cool way) holdfast.com

HooverRated wrote:(I can't remember how to post URL's the cool way) holdfast.com

highlight the url and then click the url button
thats the easiest way

http://www.holdfast.com

Who are those people? Are you on that pic? Do you build ICF houses? What kind do you build?

My husband has built with Arxx, and maybe another kind as well, but his favorite is Nudura.

I love the feel of ICF houses. I love the deep windowsills.

Those people are employees of Holdfast. I know the guy that owns the company - he's my mom's cousin. No, I'm not on the picture. I don't build houses, although if I would build a house, it would probably be Nudura ICF. It just seems to be the good stuff, and I'm pretty much sold on the idea. Besides that, familial ties help things out quite a bit.

Sunbeam wrote:Who are those people? Are you on that pic? Do you build ICF houses? What kind do you build?

My husband has built with Arxx, and maybe another kind as well, but his favorite is Nudura.

I love the feel of ICF houses. I love the deep windowsills.

I worked for a general contractor who built several ICF houses with BLUEMAXX which has since changed names but the product is the same. I thought they worked well once you learned where to reinforce to prevent blowouts. The system included wall braces with turnbuckles which went a long way toward a level/plumb finished product. It makes a solid house that will be around for a while.