My exisitng coal bunker has an earth floor and 3 breeze block walls of about 4foot by 3 foot with an old door for a roof.
How can I improve it?
A concrete floor sloping toward the front seems obvious.
any better ideas?
[g]george [dicegeorge] wibbled on Monday 08 February 2010 13:55
Smooth paving slabs bedded on sand would be just as good (sand optional, but will allow more even laying so coal shovel doesn't snag on the edges).
Thats not a coal bunker its a junk pile :-)
Talking about bunkers, there is a ex ROF site that has been slowly redeveloped into both a housing estate and an industrial complex. The deeds to the houses state that they can't grow anything edible for at least 10 years.
There are various mounds of earth around the site, I found out today, that it is because the blast walls could not be demolished due to the strength of the concrete and were buried.
Can anyone expand on this?
Dave
see :
why didnt i think of that? thanks
[g]
No, but talking about ROFs, I worked in one for a while. I remember that, because a speedy evacuation might be necessary, we were required to reverse into parking places. Any car found to be parked nose-in would be removed.
If it were me I'd apply that rule to the whole country. :-)
Net curtains for that homely feel. And I'm told laminate flooring is all the rage.
But how would a woman be expected to park up :-)
Dave
Going off a sample of one, they can be trained, and will even (in an absent-minded moment) thank you for it. Incredible but true.
Barrat, developers of toxic land countrywide at all?
Explosive manufacture is a messy business, and elf an safety are relatively new concepts.
Reclamation usually only goes down so far, top soil removed and taken to specialist dump , then seal off rest with membrane.
Cross fingers.
Allow 10 years as being limit of company still being liquid enough to bother suing for liability.
Cabinet War Rooms in London have a 12` reinforced concrete wall cut through with a core drill, lots and lots of times, Kelvedon Hatch out at Chipping Ongar 14` with abrasive belt and lots of kango hammers, both are a credit to the guys that did the cutting.
Seen the size of concrete base a wind turbine needs..?
added uk.rec.subterranea if there is anyone there......
Cheers Adam
is that factored into their alleged "green credentials"?
JimK
In what way? The ammo dumps would have fairly solid walls, weak roofs and surrounded by slopped reventments to deflect any blast up and away from neighbouring dumps. I can see the walls being been strong but you can demolish anything if you hit it hard enough. Hitting things hard costs money though, cheaper to leave them, build around and make them feature of the histroy of the site.
Infra-red webcam so you can see how much coal you've got left.
Owain
Thank you. :)
Oh! Thanks, I hadn't looked at it from that point of view.
I re learned about using volcanic powder can strengthen concrete. When I thought about it, most of the towering peaks in the West of Scotland are the remains of volcanic mountains that have had the mountain eroded over the thousands of years that they have been there.
No and I don't want to see the turbine either, they spoil the line of sight wherever they get planted :-((
Dave
Yes, you are quite right in that. I worked with military jets that were armed with live bombs and missiles, but only when they were parked up in what was called the 'butts'. What they were was two very high and long mounds of earth with the ends pointing to another two butts side on, so any blast would also go upwards and not outwards.
Dave (not thinking too well in this cold weather)
My mate worked over the road from an old Vickers Armaments factory that was due for demolition. The crew started work, then stopped when they realised there was nothing alive inside - no spiders, rats etc. Whole thing had to be decontaminated and what was meant to be a housing development is now a retail park.
I'll bet that clenched their bums tight shut. It is an eerie thing to enconter, I'd bet.
I'll bet the decontamination was mostly down to a thick layer of concrete then.
Dave
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Owain saying something like:
Need that to spot the black cats pissing in it.
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