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<blockquote data-quote="Dress2Jacket" data-source="post: 929275" data-attributes="member: 5508"><p>One of my jobs when I was at Tech was dorm repairs. Minor stuff like fixing interior doors, patching holes in the wall, disassembling sky racks people abandoned. Stuff like that.</p><p></p><p>One day I was given a work order to add a second bookshelf in one of the rooms in Techwood. Supposedly, all two person rooms in Towers, Techwood, Smith, etc (the old dorms) had two bookshelves, but this one didn't. Someone noticed, so I needed to install one. SOP was to drill a pair of holes in the concrete blocks between rooms, epoxy big expensive thingamabobs into the holes, then bolt the bookshelf to those.</p><p></p><p>I go drilling into the interior (between rooms) wall at Techwood, and when the drill breaks through into the void in the block, I see light through the hole. Turns out, Techwood didn't have concrete block walls. Just a thin 3" wall of concrete and lath. Awesome. See: How to turn a 30 minute job into a few hours of patching, painting, etc. </p><p></p><p>Ultimately, I installed the bookshelf on an exterior wall, which was thick enough to drill into.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dress2Jacket, post: 929275, member: 5508"] One of my jobs when I was at Tech was dorm repairs. Minor stuff like fixing interior doors, patching holes in the wall, disassembling sky racks people abandoned. Stuff like that. One day I was given a work order to add a second bookshelf in one of the rooms in Techwood. Supposedly, all two person rooms in Towers, Techwood, Smith, etc (the old dorms) had two bookshelves, but this one didn't. Someone noticed, so I needed to install one. SOP was to drill a pair of holes in the concrete blocks between rooms, epoxy big expensive thingamabobs into the holes, then bolt the bookshelf to those. I go drilling into the interior (between rooms) wall at Techwood, and when the drill breaks through into the void in the block, I see light through the hole. Turns out, Techwood didn't have concrete block walls. Just a thin 3" wall of concrete and lath. Awesome. See: How to turn a 30 minute job into a few hours of patching, painting, etc. Ultimately, I installed the bookshelf on an exterior wall, which was thick enough to drill into. [/QUOTE]
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