Booster pumps.

[Srt4eric]

Imagine this booster pumps on your rodi setup. Dual 25hp electric motors. I'm installing these Saturday in a 3rd level basement for a 17 story building downtown SJ.

 

[sfsuphysics]

Never really thought of that... mostly because I've never lived (or worked) in a building taller than about 4 stories. But I guess that high up you want to flush the toilet you need some hefty pumps to get the water up there. Kind of sucks if there's a power outage though you lose water too I assume. Do they stay on all the time? Or do they just cycle to keep the pressure high enough to allow water to get up there?

 

[Coral reefer]

Sexy!

 

[Srt4eric]

Never really thought of that... mostly because I've never lived (or worked) in a building taller than about 4 stories. But I guess that high up you want to flush the toilet you need some hefty pumps to get the water up there. Kind of sucks if there's a power outage though you lose water too I assume. Do they stay on all the time? Or do they just cycle to keep the pressure high enough to allow water to get up there?

Almost all of these buildings have emergency generators.

 

[Wlachnit]

In the old days, they had large holding tanks on the roofs...NYC is still full of these on top of the old buildings.

 

[Coral reefer]

In the old days, they had large holding tanks on the roofs...NYC is still full of these on top of the old buildings.

Did movies cost 5 cents back when you were a kid?

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

Did movies cost 5 cents back when you were a kid?

And that was the only building in his town with air conditioning.

 

[Coral reefer]

And that was the only building in his town with air conditioning.

But they didn’t need it cause he walked to school every morning barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.

 

[BleepBloopMunchMunch]

But they didn’t need it cause he walked to school every morning barefoot in the snow, uphill both ways.

I relate because sometimes my mom didn't bring snacks when she picked me up from school

 

[Coral reefer]

I relate because sometimes my mom didn't bring snacks when she picked me up from school

Daaaaammn. Thug life all the way.

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

I relate because sometimes my mom didn't bring snacks when she picked me up from school

Hell -- my Mom didn't even bother to pick me up. One semester I lived in the crawlspace of the gym because she told me not to come home without better grades.

 

[Coral reefer]

But that was a nicer place than your old apartment...

 

[Bruce Spiegelman]

But that was a nicer place than your old apartment...

True -- but it didn't have a stripper pole like my apartment did.

 

[Coral reefer]

That’s good, nobody wanted to see you playing on one, even back then.