Rattling Manhole covers

dub45

Not sure where to post this but here goes! Day by day Dublin seems to be more and more a city of rattling manhole covers and for anyone who has the misfortune to live or work near one it can be incredibly annoying.

Anyone know why it is so difficult to design one that does not rattle. I can understand how as they get older it might begin to happen but even new ones seem to suffer this problem

Karoma

"it's a feature, not a bug"
They get bent outta shape when lots of heavy things driver over them. The alternative would be that they last longer and risk breaking altogether.. more dangerous.


If that's what you have to worry about, I envy you

dub45

Originally posted by dub45
Not sure where to post this but here goes! Day by day Dublin seems to be more and more a city of rattling manhole covers and for anyone who has the misfortune to live or work near one it can be incredibly annoying.

Anyone know why it is so difficult to design one that does not rattle. I can understand how as they get older it might begin to happen but even new ones seem to suffer this problem

My point is that even new ones are rattling and try living or working beside one and you wont be so lighthearted about it I can assure you.

rymus

maybe it's a case that the manhole covers are changing size & shape as the temperature changes? Having said that though, I'd seriously doubt the temperatures we've experienced so far this year would be enough to even cause a small change of size.

Maybe they're just not being installed properly? Maybe the annoying noise is a design feature? Do the foundry up in Birr still make them? Why not contact them to have a bitch?

Cake Fiend

My bedroom in the last place I lived was at ground level right beside two manholes. Every time a car went over them, I'd hear a loud *thunk-thunk*. I thought it would drive me mad when I first moved in, but I got so used to it I barely noticed it after a while.

Until I got really stoned one night and was convinced someone was getting shot outside... *THUNK-THUNK*

Lump

If getting stoned is what you have to worry about, I envy you


John

Stark

Bloody mole people people trying to escape again.

(Shit, I've finally said it out loud).

echomadman

get a small acetylene torch and sneak out in the middle of the night and weld it shut

smoke.me.a.kipper

we have 2 of them outside our apartment but these are pavement ones, and they do my head in on busy shopping days like a saturday. god it drives me up the wall.

ArphaRima

Nick them and hope they replace them with better ones.
If it doesnt work, Try again.

Once you have ones you like, then dump the manhole covers somewhere they'll be used again; i hate theft.

nlgbbbblth

if you need to hide cans for a party later on - then lifting up a manhole and hiding them down there is not a good idea

Weil's disease

LegacyUser

why are there ANY manhole covers, there is no underground in dublin, even for sewege as far as i knew, i am just stoopid ?. or what the hell are they for ?

TomTom

Ahugh amount are for access to phone and cable lines.

SantaHoe

Lot of them are for drainage tunnels, those grates on the side of the road that take rainwater? ... have to take it somewhere :P

RobertFoster

Originally posted by Stark
Bloody mole people people trying to escape again.

(Shit, I've finally said it out loud).

No, it's the Turtles! (the Dublin faction)

Dont Ban Me

just rob em and put some red tape around it so you cant be don for manslaughter!!

Victor

Originally posted by bananayoghurt
why are there ANY manhole covers, there is no underground in dublin, even for sewege as far as i knew, i am just stoopid ?. or what the hell are they for ?

So - water, sewage, drainage, gas, electricity, phones (17? different companies), traffic light control - just how does all this stuff get around the city?

RobertFoster

Originally posted by Victor
just how does all this stuff get around the city?

Special brand Council Fairy Dust?

LegacyUser

Originally posted by Victor
So - water, sewage, drainage, gas, electricity, phones (17? different companies), traffic light control - just how does all this stuff get around the city?

well that answers that, i am stooopid