Here is a job that I am currently working on at the Hotel Bel Air. They are putting in a new 2 story spa building and gym. The small bungalow that I demolished is where Marilyn Monroe had once stayed and was turned into a small gym back in the 80's or 90's.
This has been an interesting job so far do to its history, high profile location, and the existing utilities that could not be shut off due to the fact that the entire hotel is still using them. Mainly the issue is the gas main feeding the boilers for the heating system and the circulatory heating system pipes which are feeding the entire hotels heating needs.
In several of the photos you will see the gas main which was adjacent to the bungalow and bolted to the wall. I had to demo this building without shutting the system down or demolishing the gas main.
In some of the other photos you will see a 4" pvc pipe that I hit while removing asphalt. This pipe is one of the circulatory lines for the heating system. I nicked the the pipe putting a golf ball sized hole in it. Warm water began bubbling up immediately. The reason that I hit the pipe was because it was directly under the asphalt at the joint. It wasn't buried at all!
You can see the melted asphalt on the pipe.
This was a major problem. It was 2 p.m. and was starting to rain. Nobody had any repair parts. We found the piece that had chipped off and patched it back on. It still leaked but it was able to function again until the next day when it was properly repaired.
Two of the rooms had issues with no heat that night.
Besides this problem, everything has gone pretty smoothly so far.
Here is a link the the album if you want to see all the photos and some video.
http://s27.photobucket.com/albums/c1...l%20Bel%20Air/
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