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NYC REQUIRES CAST IRON PLUMBING???? What the actual fuck, that's INSANE.

Kai Mast

@kaimast.com

San Francisco does too for sewer pipes running under buildings

Steven Lucy

@slucy.bsky.social

As does Chicago :) bsky.app/profile/sluc...

Steven Lucy@slucy.bsky.social

Here’s a pic from today, a 2” copper drain (from a single floor drain) immediately upsizing to 3” cast iron even before it joins with the other drain.

Jeremy NT

@jeremynt.bsky.social

There is power in a union 😁

crzwdjk.bsky.social

@crzwdjk.bsky.social

20 Sept

The Chicago plumbers' union gave everyone lead poisoning (lead water pipes were mandatory there until the fed banned it)

@austinmusicscene.bsky.social

For sanitary drainage above five stories, yes. But the bigger issue is that copper is required for all water supply, no matter the height.

Airgap Your Mind

Dear god, the only reason I could afford to replace water pipes was because we ran PEX, I am flabbergasted that they would mandate the most expensive and difficult to repair options all around.

David Bonowitz

@dbonowitz.bsky.social

nanzhounoodles.bsky.social

Is there no union issue? You'll recall that this was on the list of issues that affected Gray Davis' recall in CA: bsky.app/profile/dbon...

David Bonowitz@dbonowitz.bsky.social

As I recall it, he took the plumber's union position against cheaper pvc piping in order to hold their political support. But that was a small issue among many ... still, enough to motivate one engineer (no, not me) to run against him in the chaotic replacement election that gave us Arnold.

@nanzhounoodles.bsky.social

Only Nixon can go to China situation

Definitely a big union issue. There are some weird dynamics between Mamdani and the construction trades. He campaigned on having all affordable housing be union-built, then deemphasized that as soon as he started gaining traction and then dropped it entirely as mayor. And then he was cagey up until…

Mike BOO-rnandez

@burnorbrah.bsky.social

He’s cashing in alot of DSA-membership and leftie-vibes capital as he does a lot of trade-union unfriendly things. It’s good, but one wonders how long he can keep it up

I’m not sure DSA really cares all that much about these parochial NYC union issues, I think it’s just an aesthetic

…the election about the affordable housing streamlining ballot measure (which the unions opposed), but then endorsed them at the last minute. All of the trades endorsed Cuomo, not him.

Taylor Rule

@taylorrule.bsky.social

What do you make of the plumber's claim that cast iron is less cheap to repair?

Taylor Rule

@taylorrule.bsky.social

Sorry. I meant less expensive to repair

@pipedreaming.bsky.social

My vague sense is that drainage piping basically never gets repaired, it just stays in the walls for a few generations until it gets replaced. @pipedreaming.bsky.social?

John Lansing

@pipedreaming.bsky.social

Exactly. 99% of the labor related to that piping will be the install and eventual full replacement of the piping (usually during a deep MEP retrofit of the building) not maintenance.

John Lansing

m.youtube.comNo-Hub coupling on cast iron pipes - How to do it correctlyYouTube video by MegaSafetyFirst

If someone needed to replace a single cast-iron pipe, like because it corroded, replacing it wouldn’t require sawing or welding PVC since they could just remove the couplings to replace the pipe (like below). You can also do this with push-fit plastic piping but that’s still mostly a Euro thing.

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@bicycle.bsky.social

20 Sept

yeah so how do we get @nycfuture.bsky.social posting here again