It used to be common practice for gut rehab contractors to paint the copper
pipes black - make 'em look like the steel sprinkler pipes. Couldn't fool
anyone in construction business but the painted pipes didn't get ripped out.
Eric Hammarberg
Director of Preservation
Sr. Associate
LZA Technology
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New York, NY 10011-2014
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-----Original Message-----
From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2004 4:10 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [BP] Polka, Dot?
In a message dated 2/14/2004 2:27:51 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
So, who wants iron in their brick anyway? Do you want somebody to come
along with a big magnet and steal your building in the middle of the night?
Ruth
Ruth,
People who want iron spot brick like little speckles (iron spots in brick
are about the size of a bit of black pepper, or a fly "speck") in things,
when you look REAL close. There aren't enough iron spots in a brick to
allow you to pick up an iron-spot brick with a magnet, and you probably
couldn't get a magnet to stick to an iron spot, either. So, even if wanted
someone to do so, the chances of some miscreant using a magnet to steal an
iron-spot brick building are in the pretty slim range, even at night, and
even in New York.
Back in the olden days in Joisey City, my associates and I were renovating
an apt building in our neighborhood, and came in one morning to find that
all the new copper pipe we had installed had all been cut out and stolen for
scrap. After that we used PVC, which has no scrap value. Copper and brass
bring substantially more when sold as scrap than steel or iron, so don't
figure on getting much for Chris' new artwork/washing machine panel when you
finally come down to see us in New York and walk by his house with a magnet.
However, there was a famous case probably 30-35 years ago, in which a
cast-iron building down at the South Street Seaport in NY had been
carefully disassembled and stored for later reconstruction, but was stolen
for scrap metal and never seen again, at least not in the same
configuration. It would be nice to think that the original iron may have
reappeared in the form of steel in the new building that had to be designed
for the same site, to mimic the original CI one.
Ralph
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