Showing posts with label Seattle VA Hospital. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Seattle VA Hospital. Show all posts

Saturday, May 12, 2012

First week September 2011


The first job I started doing when I got to the site was installing allthread from the interstitial floor down into the rooms.  Like many jobs I've started since I joined the union it was the first time I'd done this and of course at the time I had little idea why.


The allthreads come down and of course are secured in the interstitial and then braced using adjustable aluminum braces.  


The ceiling grids weren't there the day I started.  It hadn't dawned on me to use my phone camera the first week I was there so these pictures were taken around the second week I was on the job.


Finally, the purpose of the allthreads is to hold this track.  A lift, I'll show later, lifts the patient off their bed and moves them into the bathroom.  This track is rated to hold and move 600 lbs.