Demountables for us
Comment on I had some that looked exactly like this
chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yeah, we called them “Portables.” They were there long before I came, and will be there long after I am dead. Long live our plywood fortresses.
gila@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Kcap@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Did you go to Summer Heights High?
gila@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Not far off
veroxii@aussie.zone 9 months ago
I’m pretty sure ours was asbestos… back in the 80s.
kinther@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Portables
Yup, that’s what I was told they were called.
Speculater@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m pretty sure ours are still there 23 years later.
slingstone@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I was searching the thread to see if everyone called them that or if it was regional.
onion@feddit.de 9 months ago
For me it was containers like these
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GiddyGap@lemm.ee 9 months ago
At least you had windows. My kids are in a pretty new school building, but most of the classrooms are located in the middle of the building without windows and natural light. Seems like another one of those “only in America” things.
onion@feddit.de 9 months ago
Yeah the “middle” was the school yard surrounded by narrow buildings
Zekas@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I’m sad to report it’s very much not limited to America. My local university had these things pop up to some considerable height because one of the buildings was condemned due to mold. Condemned about three years ago and is still standing. There’s also a number of schools using these things because they burned down or got condemned or whatever, I’m not entirely sure. At least one of those has been going two years longer than it was supposed to.
GiddyGap@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Oh, I’m not talking about these “temporary” container-like structures. I’m talking about newly built permanent school buildings that have no windows in the classrooms. I’ve never seen that outside the US.
sjmarf@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
My school had several holes in the middle of the building to avoid this. Most of them are just filled with gravel
someguy3@lemmy.world 9 months ago
What’s with the cable at the top between sections?
onion@feddit.de 9 months ago
Grounding, to make sure the containers stay at the same electric potential
nao@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Not only at the top, there’s also cables at the bottom between sections and what looks like a cable duct mounted in front of it with a bunch of cables coming out at the top
onion@feddit.de 9 months ago
The cable duct looks like ac lines, and the yellow cables at the bottom are probably grounding