Comment on Why bag the hydrant?

• plz1@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Cheaper to do bags than re-paint off-schedule. Usually cities have a schedule for maintenance, and the bag, in this case, is preventative for rust without being off-schedule for painting.

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• TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Salt resistant paint is industrial, and it’s expensive. Depending on the product, it can also be a two part system and need special preparation. And by expensive, I mean it can cost over a hundred dollars per gallon, if you aren’t getting a deal on it. That’s a big investment for a smaller town.

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  • Alexstarfire@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That seems like chump change for something that probably already costs over $1000, won’t take a gallon of paint, and is meant to last for decades.

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    • TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You’re forgetting the cost of removing them from the ground to have them sandblasted beforehand. This isn’t latex water based paint for your wall. You don’t just toss it on top of whatever is already there.

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      • this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You don’t remove them you strip clean and paint in place.

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      • dezmd@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Thats why you paint it with the correct paint before you install it in the first place.

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  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I imagine a fire hydrant is pretty expensive as well. Can’t imagine covering it in salt resistant paint would be that much of a price increase and even if it is I don’t imagine it would be cost prohibitive if it means a 20 year replacement cycle vs. a 10 year cycle.

    If anything this may be protecting them from dog piss.

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    • TheUncannyObserver@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You also need your pay to have each of them taken out of the ground and sandblasted before they are coated. Industrial coatings aren’t like house paint, you can’t toss on extra layers and move on.

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      • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Well ya, that’s why you put it on when the thing is being installed. Not talking about a Reno/repair.

        If they didn’t put salt resistant paint on it when they first installed the thing because it was a few hundred dollars more that would be stupid.

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• XeroxCool@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Paint gets scratches, especially where things turn and rub against each other. You don’t want the turning bits becoming seized and finding out at the worst time

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• kevincox@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Isn’t the paint also unnecessary plastic trash?

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• JungleJim@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe they reuse the bags. Bag up 5th Street, salt it, collect the bags and prep 6th.

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• MNByChoice@midwest.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Apparently, the same gets in and corrosion starts. The second article mentions a city that stopped doing it.

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