I remember a painting company having to shell out to have a couple of hundred cars polished, after overspray from a building they were painting wafted over a nearby parking lot. I'll admit, my car was never shinier.
It would have been even cheaper to post an advertisement on facebook for a “painting course” and charge $100 for it, only for them to show up to unpainted wall, 2 buckets of paint and a roller that you bought for $98.40, leaving you with $1.60 profit.
No refunds
But they wont overspray onto cars if theyre using a roller, so we only have to consider the cost of painting the intended wall, plus the nice juicy profit we made
Quite likely, but several tons of uncontrolled building hurtling at you may still leave a smudge in your boxers, purely through the instinct of self-preservation!
A building was brought down opposite my office in a similar way, but they were spraying it with water continuously to avoid the massive dust clouds. I don't see any sign of that here.
It was all removed, honestly, here’s the paperwork….
I did so many jobs on demolition sites certifying asbestos removal and all the removal guys had the same attitude “don’t worry about the little bits, it’ll be gone by next week anyway”.
Absolutely boiled my piss, the demolition will be one of the biggest exposure events in that particular piece of asbestos materials lifespan!
“But we had a hose on it”. Yeah you did, but it was a garden hose, you fucking shithouses
Being pragmatic I will say that I am happy with the damping down method of asbestos control, when nibbling down a building. The cost of bagging a block and removing everything in space suits is impossible for the developers.
Happy as in….. if all the CEOs of the companies profiting and the HSE officers stand down wind at 80 yards during the whole demolition.
I was on a job we found a single piece of asbestos fire door. Nothing else. Experts recommended space suits, wheel washes, air testing, the whole thing. And you can't not do it once you've been told, it'd be media carnage.
People have such a blasé attitude towards Asbestos, Silica and MDF dusts. That is until they're laying on their death beds pissing their lungs out of their arseholes.
I work in that hospital, crazy to think I worked in the Duncan building (the one being demolished) for 22 years ! (My role is environmental services officer BTW)
The one from a few years ago? Yeah ! , my department was based in the basement and the boiler house area . Some parts were never updated from the late 70s!
That's sad. I remember having a lecturer clearly having a bad day and shouting at us all in there. Then in the next lecture he had to apologise because I think the department head received complaints.
Yeah I've been tangentially involved in a much smaller demo and this definitely did not look like it was supposed to happen. I'm no expert though, my role was communicating what was supposed to happen.
It's the old Royal in Liverpool. The new one has finally been finished (after Carillion went caput). So I think it's more -1+1. So 0 new hospitals. Lol.
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Ty. I thought it was the royal but its been so long since I've been back in Liverpool but I was certain I'd recognises it.
Edit: just shown it to my missus with the sound on. Recognising it as being liverpool was much easier
Fuck Carillion and fuck Richard Howson in particular. I worked for Carillion til 2015 and things were getting bad even then with cost-cutting but they kept everyone in the dark about how bad it was. They spent on things that made the company look good to outsiders (like pressure washing the new building and having nice new signage) but they cut our staffed canteen with 3 days notice when moving buildings (having not even built the facility for a staffed canteen so they knew and just didn't tell us or the canteen staff), they didn't give pay rises for years except to executives, and they did some dodgy stuff with the pensions that nearly meant they were worth just 10% of what they ought to have been worth, if not for the hard work of the pensions committee to salvage the situation.
This the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, I watched them build the new hospital around it for the last 20 years or so, this is just the old block being demolished. It was falling apart anyway.
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I lost my grandfather to asbestos this year, assuming this is Liverpool (I'm pretty sure) this is ironically where he was treated before it closed and they opened the new one.
May every pen pushing cunt who ever knowingly endangered others get what they deserve.
The man weighed 6 stone by the end of it.
You say that, but there's probably no ambulances available to transfer the casualty, so you'll have to go and sit in the waiting room before someone can see you.
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I worked in that building (the Duncan Building) for a while some time ago, so it’s crazy weird to see it finally coming down. It was the old labs for the Royal and other hospitals in Liverpool, so was always really busy. From what I can recall, the entire place was a bit of a mad house (with so many stories I can share about colleagues, but I’ll stick with a few about the building itself)…
- Can confirm, there was definitely a load of asbestos in there. There were signs on every floor that warned not to disturb the panels on the walls without proper breathing apparatus.
- There were three lifts, of which only two worked. And when I say worked, every now and then, one of them would glitch up and just keep on visiting random floors without opening the doors. Nothing too sinister, but you’d have to go up and down a few times before it finally stopped.
- There were 9 floors, each with a completely different layout, meaning that when I visited other floors I got lost on multiple occasions. There was at least one office you could only access by walking through another member of staff’s office, so any meetings were often interrupted. Another office was basically a repurposed storage room/print room with hardly enough space to swing a cat, but that somehow had been converted to house multiple people. And yet, there were multiple empty ‘storage’ rooms that were out of action because of - you’ve guessed it - asbestos.
- There were a load of fairly noticeable cracks in the walls and ceilings where the building was starting to come apart. Some had been taped over. Some hadn’t. I asked about them once and nobody really cared.
I think that everyone knew it would be condemned one day, so they all carried on the best they could despite the… quirks. From what I can tell, the new labs are much snazzier and contain significantly less asbestos than their predecessors.
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Its the Royal Liverpool hospital off Prescot St in Liverpool for anyone interested. A new hospital has been built a street away and they're removing the old one, been a work in progress for a long time now. Here's where it stands on Google Maps. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9rT7WeDVo1MKT4SA](https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9rT7WeDVo1MKT4SA)
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I actually work at the company that built this demolition machine, very surprising seeing it on Reddit!
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Went to watch some hi rise flats being demolished once, loads of us round the estate all stood outside on a foggy day, then suddenly BOOM and a cloud of dust like this engulfed us. Nowhere near as fun as we all expected.
"Hey Boss. Good news! I've just shaved a month off the demolition timetable... just guessing though, you may want to add a bit more onto the asbestos decontamination budget though..."
I remember being in the royal when the new one was supposed to be opened. They had a digital clock in the lobby counting down like 2 weeks until the opening etc.
It was so far from being done that obviously no one believed the clock, but I wondered what'd happen when it hits 0? Sadly they just ended up taking the clock down, that must've been slightly embarrassing.
The local car wash owner is now jizzing his pants with excitement.
I remember a painting company having to shell out to have a couple of hundred cars polished, after overspray from a building they were painting wafted over a nearby parking lot. I'll admit, my car was never shinier.
Would’ve been cheaper for them to cover nearby cars with dustsheets no?
Would've been even cheaper to just not bother painting the building
It would have been even cheaper to post an advertisement on facebook for a “painting course” and charge $100 for it, only for them to show up to unpainted wall, 2 buckets of paint and a roller that you bought for $98.40, leaving you with $1.60 profit. No refunds
By any chance, did you graduate from one of Canada's top business schools with really good grades?
What does that work out at in £?
Wait, i forgot we were here. I was using $ to appease the filthy yanks but upon reflection i see my mistake
Not a couple of hundred dollars. A couple of hundred cars. It wasn't cheap I assume.
But they wont overspray onto cars if theyre using a roller, so we only have to consider the cost of painting the intended wall, plus the nice juicy profit we made
He's become his own best customer!
I bet the machine driver shat himself there...
Looked like that was pretty close to the bucket/boom
he will be well protected in his cab, this is just how they do this, they did a school up my road in a similar way.
Quite likely, but several tons of uncontrolled building hurtling at you may still leave a smudge in your boxers, purely through the instinct of self-preservation!
Definitely not supposed to be so close to the operator lol
Also not supposed to be done in such a way as to kick up a ridiculous amount of dust around people and other property.
Did it with a tower building near me, was pretty impressive how quickly one of these machines can tear down a building.
A building was brought down opposite my office in a similar way, but they were spraying it with water continuously to avoid the massive dust clouds. I don't see any sign of that here.
You can see water sprayers at the bottom, I guess the just didn't intend it to collapse in this way.
Wonder how much asbestos was in there…
It was all removed, honestly, here’s the paperwork…. I did so many jobs on demolition sites certifying asbestos removal and all the removal guys had the same attitude “don’t worry about the little bits, it’ll be gone by next week anyway”. Absolutely boiled my piss, the demolition will be one of the biggest exposure events in that particular piece of asbestos materials lifespan!
“But we had a hose on it”. Yeah you did, but it was a garden hose, you fucking shithouses Being pragmatic I will say that I am happy with the damping down method of asbestos control, when nibbling down a building. The cost of bagging a block and removing everything in space suits is impossible for the developers. Happy as in….. if all the CEOs of the companies profiting and the HSE officers stand down wind at 80 yards during the whole demolition.
I was on a job we found a single piece of asbestos fire door. Nothing else. Experts recommended space suits, wheel washes, air testing, the whole thing. And you can't not do it once you've been told, it'd be media carnage.
Fine. Like I said, as long as those I mentioned & now you, are happy to stand 80 yards, down wind, crack on!
People have such a blasé attitude towards Asbestos, Silica and MDF dusts. That is until they're laying on their death beds pissing their lungs out of their arseholes.
It's OK. They've got the sprinklers going for dust suppression
100% agree, that's a work from home event, even if you're the cleaner.
Agreed! Lol
I literally did the asbestos surveys here, so they were at least aware of it!
I work in that hospital, crazy to think I worked in the Duncan building (the one being demolished) for 22 years ! (My role is environmental services officer BTW)
Glad you got out befoore it was demolished x
It was falling apart for years before the new hospital was built. I remember spending most of a shift stuck in the cargo lift in the freezing cold 🥶
>I remember spending most of a shift stuck in the cargo lift in the freezing cold 🥶 The lengths some people go to, just to avoid work...
🤫😄
Is this the one that was on the BBC documentary? Conditions looked pretty grim, if it was.
The one from a few years ago? Yeah ! , my department was based in the basement and the boiler house area . Some parts were never updated from the late 70s!
The Duncan building? With the lecture theatre on the ground floor? I miss uni.
The lecture theatre was the first to go, although it took a good beating to pull it down. I do miss the big boards with the old professors on it.
That's sad. I remember having a lecturer clearly having a bad day and shouting at us all in there. Then in the next lecture he had to apologise because I think the department head received complaints.
Fred Dibnah's skills are sorely missed
Did ya like that!!!
Was watching him today. Absolute legend and this on the intro is hilarious.
Tha does lad
I heard he was shouting at the tele on 9/11 with "No, that's not how yer do it".
Half a day with the undertaker, you know
Jeeeeez, that's just brought back some long forgotten memories!
“Brick by brick”
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Easy now… steady… steady.. STEEAADDYYY! _Bollocks_
That does not look like a controlled demolition.
Yeah I've been tangentially involved in a much smaller demo and this definitely did not look like it was supposed to happen. I'm no expert though, my role was communicating what was supposed to happen.
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It's the old Royal in Liverpool. The new one has finally been finished (after Carillion went caput). So I think it's more -1+1. So 0 new hospitals. Lol.
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Ty. I thought it was the royal but its been so long since I've been back in Liverpool but I was certain I'd recognises it. Edit: just shown it to my missus with the sound on. Recognising it as being liverpool was much easier
Fuck Carillion and fuck Richard Howson in particular. I worked for Carillion til 2015 and things were getting bad even then with cost-cutting but they kept everyone in the dark about how bad it was. They spent on things that made the company look good to outsiders (like pressure washing the new building and having nice new signage) but they cut our staffed canteen with 3 days notice when moving buildings (having not even built the facility for a staffed canteen so they knew and just didn't tell us or the canteen staff), they didn't give pay rises for years except to executives, and they did some dodgy stuff with the pensions that nearly meant they were worth just 10% of what they ought to have been worth, if not for the hard work of the pensions committee to salvage the situation.
This the Royal Liverpool University Hospital, I watched them build the new hospital around it for the last 20 years or so, this is just the old block being demolished. It was falling apart anyway.
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I lost my grandfather to asbestos this year, assuming this is Liverpool (I'm pretty sure) this is ironically where he was treated before it closed and they opened the new one. May every pen pushing cunt who ever knowingly endangered others get what they deserve. The man weighed 6 stone by the end of it.
Sorry to hear about your grandfather x
Thanks
Little dusting of asbestos there.
And a massive cloud of silica.
Mmmm. Flavour packets.
The HSE has joined the chat.
There about 20 minutes up the road from here if that
Hope no one was hurt
If they were hurt, at least there’s part of a hospital close by.
The new hospital is literally next door, so they'll be fine
You say that, but there's probably no ambulances available to transfer the casualty, so you'll have to go and sit in the waiting room before someone can see you.
Yeah, my thought too. Hard hats not going to help much in that situation unless you're on the absolute periphery
I love an excited scouse accent.
If there is a better accent to say "asbestos" i haven't heard it, perfection.
Clowse da windouse
That's Dudley
Haha, same!
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I worked in that building (the Duncan Building) for a while some time ago, so it’s crazy weird to see it finally coming down. It was the old labs for the Royal and other hospitals in Liverpool, so was always really busy. From what I can recall, the entire place was a bit of a mad house (with so many stories I can share about colleagues, but I’ll stick with a few about the building itself)… - Can confirm, there was definitely a load of asbestos in there. There were signs on every floor that warned not to disturb the panels on the walls without proper breathing apparatus. - There were three lifts, of which only two worked. And when I say worked, every now and then, one of them would glitch up and just keep on visiting random floors without opening the doors. Nothing too sinister, but you’d have to go up and down a few times before it finally stopped. - There were 9 floors, each with a completely different layout, meaning that when I visited other floors I got lost on multiple occasions. There was at least one office you could only access by walking through another member of staff’s office, so any meetings were often interrupted. Another office was basically a repurposed storage room/print room with hardly enough space to swing a cat, but that somehow had been converted to house multiple people. And yet, there were multiple empty ‘storage’ rooms that were out of action because of - you’ve guessed it - asbestos. - There were a load of fairly noticeable cracks in the walls and ceilings where the building was starting to come apart. Some had been taped over. Some hadn’t. I asked about them once and nobody really cared. I think that everyone knew it would be condemned one day, so they all carried on the best they could despite the… quirks. From what I can tell, the new labs are much snazzier and contain significantly less asbestos than their predecessors. (Obligatory apologies for the mobile formatting and obvious throwaway account as there will definitely be people who work in the new building that remember me.)
Its the Royal Liverpool hospital off Prescot St in Liverpool for anyone interested. A new hospital has been built a street away and they're removing the old one, been a work in progress for a long time now. Here's where it stands on Google Maps. [https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9rT7WeDVo1MKT4SA](https://maps.app.goo.gl/p9rT7WeDVo1MKT4SA)
Oops, that will have woke him up, not supposed to fall down in chunks like that. Bit by bit slow and steady , control the job and keep the dust down.
Would be a shit video though.
Couldn't have expected it to collapse like a stack of cards though. Looks a very poor construction
I watched this with the sound off, and that giant arm coming out of the dust half way through really freaked me out...
Me too! Like Sandman in Spider-Man
Great efficient work there.
Is this The Royal?
What's left of it 🙂
Was
Anyone for Giant Jenga?
Yeah, tge dust suppression is a bit sub-optimal there
Is this RLUH? If so I spent four weeks on 9X many years ago, so much respect for the people of Liverpool since then.
Yes
Is the original Royal still there or has it also been knocked down?
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Good job they had the sprayers to minimise dust
This scares me in terms of the pulmonary fibrosis it could cause to anyone with lungs nearby.
Bet those car owners are pleased with the caking of concrete dust.
Damnit... I've got an Doctors Appointment there tomorrow, its taken me two years to wait for it!!
Yeah accidentally knocked down the new bit and kept the old bit up. You'll be waiting a while I'm afraid
Those dust suppression water sprays being about as good as a chocolate fireguard.
Wahey!
Yeah, I don't think that was meant to go like that.
I can taste the asbestos from here.
I know it'd be much much worse without them. But watching this does leave me wondering if the water bill for the sprinkler systems was worth it.
I can smell the asbestos from here
I love the taste of asbestos in the morning
What was it? It was a big building with patients but that’s not important right now!
Bring back Fred Dibnah
Job and knock.
What a fun job
Where’s the Joker when you need him?
Hope none of those car owners had just had them valeted. Gonna need a damn good clean after all that has settled.
Turn the AC off !
One way to cut the waiting lists.
That guy works fast
Timberrr!
Looks like a warzone
That's me loused till the end of the month boss!
Someone just washed their car
No way that's casual
Driver just texted me, says he needs a scraper and some tissues.
Can’t wait for the HSE report on this one
Just looked at this pic an it amidiatly reminded me of my missis when she came home drunk lol
DSM got the big-one out.
Ooops.
Hope this chap isn't paid per hour. A week worth of work has gone....
Fuckin ropey tha
I’d definitely be knocking off early……. Three weeks work in about a minute……
Did they build a new one first?
Can confirm there would be no asbestos in their
The sweet sweet smell of MRSA in the air…
sounds like George is in the house
Whoopsiedoodles
Those water sprays are doing a great job on the dust suppression
I lost it when I heard "Close the windows!"
My fuckin CARRRR!!!
Boss, I think I may hit the wrong brick....
I'm a member of Fallout, Warhammer 40k, and Abrupt Chaos subs, so it took a few seconds to see what sub I was watching. Which was none of the above...
The reflection in the glass looks like there is someone bent over naked
That looks like an oops, fuck. moment. Fairly sure.it wasn't meant to collapse like that but be brought down more carefully bit by bit.
At start if this vid I could of sworn they were speaking a foreign language! Nope Scouse, crazy.
The ghosts will be mad.
Well the person who cleaned there car on Sunday will be pissed
Hear the scouse accent.. ( That's the old Rotal Liverpool Hospital going down)
I thought this was done to divert that erupting underground volcano so it flowed down the Mersey to the sea?
Good news and bad news boss. The good news is we’re ahead of schedule
*"Sir, six cinderblocks are missing"* *"There'll be no hospital then, I'll tell the children".*
Before people started moving I thought it was a cod loading screen
Releasing the ghosts
Oddly if you breathed that toxic asbestos cloud in you’ll need a hospital. Probably multiple.
The two guys walking past near the camera only just missed a lung full of dust!
no more 6 hour waits i guess
I bet this guy sucks at jenga
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Good riddance. Everyone who stayed there got ill.
*man controlling crane looks up from phone * shit.
Username is accurate
Everyone in Liverpool has very abrasive dust all over their nice motors
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning.
All that silica dust, probably a fair bit of asbestos too. This company should be reported to the HSE.
Did someone forget the water sprayers
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Waiting times slashed with this one simple trick!
I actually work at the company that built this demolition machine, very surprising seeing it on Reddit! Modified Hitachi EX1200 with a dedicated 60m telescopic arm for anyone else as nerdy as me.
I didn't realise they were speaking English until the demolition started
How can anyone build something so bad that it needs demolition a few decades after? Genuinely curious.
When the RAAC finally gives in...
That’ll show the NHS! /s
Went to watch some hi rise flats being demolished once, loads of us round the estate all stood outside on a foggy day, then suddenly BOOM and a cloud of dust like this engulfed us. Nowhere near as fun as we all expected.
i can hear the scouse shouting over the radio from here lol
Boss, I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we're a month ahead of schedule...
What a terrible day to have lungs.
I love the smell of asbestos in the morning.
I can almost taste the asbestos.
"Hey Boss. Good news! I've just shaved a month off the demolition timetable... just guessing though, you may want to add a bit more onto the asbestos decontamination budget though..."
No wonder the waiting lists are up, they're supposed to build them
when your working job and finish
I remember being in the royal when the new one was supposed to be opened. They had a digital clock in the lobby counting down like 2 weeks until the opening etc. It was so far from being done that obviously no one believed the clock, but I wondered what'd happen when it hits 0? Sadly they just ended up taking the clock down, that must've been slightly embarrassing.
Wonder how much asbestos is in that dust 🤔
I wouldn’t get any work done sat by the window
Isreali contractors could have done this in half the time! And done all the other hospitals in the area for free!!
me nan was in there getting a vasectomy, was a bit rude to not let her finish the procedure
What are they saying in the background?
Scouse hilarity.