Exposed pipes

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I know that exposed pipes are in basements of various homes especially if the home owner doesn't want to finish it. A while ago a cousin of mine and I went to visit a boarding high school that is for all girls. This school is supposedly a very top school. Also someone told me that parents who are wealthy send their girls to the school. When the guide showed my cousin and I the dorms I was shocked. I saw exposed pipes in the hallway leading to the laundry room. My cousin didn't like the dorms at all. The school has a nice campus, but the dorms and the classrooms needed to be remodeled badly. I don't know how many 14 year old new freshman girls feel about seeing exposed pipes as they do their laundry. We weren't even in the basement of the dorms. My cousin told her mom about the exposed pipes and her mom said to see that is no good. I agree! So now after seeing exposed pipes in that dorm I been obsessed with them. I thought about posting daily if possible on facebook about me encountering exposed pipes at various places like buildings or restaurants. I may even go more than that and try and visit all 50 states to see exposed pipes in at least one major city. I mean why put them in a nice dorm in the first place??

I don't really have much to say on them, but I do like seeing them. To me, they have a reassuring feel, as you almost always (at least in my experience) see them in older homes and other old places. Often they are in dark warm places that are quiet, places like the basement in these homes or underground rooms, where a person can sit and think and be left alone.

Exposed pipes remind me of super mario bros!

If it were me, I would bring it up with the school and let it know it bothered me.

I went to a small public school in the Hollywood district of Portland when I was younger, and my desk was right next to a lead pipe running with searing hot water. I used to melt eraser on it during lectures, but now it bothers me because I was sitting right next to something that could seriously injure me. I feel the same way about other exposed pipes.

I don't know exactly what actual physical harm exposed pipes can do to you.

I think they are very unsightly and they are an indication of old/not-well-designed buildings/houses. Feeling comfortable at home (and any other place) is really important for your mental (and physical) well-being (for most people). In a miserable-looking place, you might be subconsciously affected by it and somehow feel unhappy. So, I would rather not have exposed pipes visible around me. Exposed pipes also remind me of dirty humid places where cockroaches and other yukky insects etc are breeding.

I don't think that school can easily remove the exposed pipes. Doing so would probably require some work involving drilling etc and cost some money. So, I guess you might as well find some other school if you are actually looking for a high school for yourself or someone else.

Well the thing is this girls boarding high school was built in 1906. My cousin and I went to visit another boarding high school in another state, which was co-ed, but that school was built in the 1880s and the dorms were so nice and no exposed pipes! The campus was so huge and nice and everything was remodeled. We even visited the boarding school that Senator John McCain went to and it too was built in the 19th century but everything was remodeled and we didn't see any exposed pipes. I guess seeing exposed pipes in a dorm would make me very uncomfortable. But when I was a teen I didn't really think much of my surroundings, but now as a adult I really pay attention to detail.

Or super-modern architecture (like the technology center at the university I attended).
Either way, I don't mind if they are exposed or not (as long as they aren't sewage pipes - that wall may very well serve as the last bastion against the impending s**t storm).

Maybe I missed something, but what exactly is the problem with exposed pipes? I don't see any problem with them, unless they're freezing over in the winter or something.

Just what I was thinking.

There's some exposed pipes in the dorm I live in, and in my room (in pretty much ALL the rooms, I think) but they don't bother me too much....unless they break and start to leak, of course, lol. They're pretty thin pipes that span the area from the top of my doorway to the midpoint of the ceiling. We're not allowed to hang stuff from them at the risk of them breaking, and anyone who tries to gets a write-up or something and has to take whatever it is down.

They could rupture and spew their contents everywhere. If that had ever happened to me, I'd be covered in burn scars right now because of what exactly was going through them.

The apartment building that one of my friends lives in has exposed pipes. The strange thing is that the building was built in 1983. i bet that she's missing her old apartment. Nobody should have to live in a place that has exposed pipes. It's way too dangerous.

There's just as much risk of that if they're hidden in the wall as well...if they're exposed it's actually easier to get to them to repair a leak if there is one! And in a residential area, you're typically just going to have cold water in those pipes, no biggie. I highly doubt they'd have steam or other hot fluid running through them, particularly if in an accessible area, unless the piping is insulated (safety hazard).

It's ugly that's all.

How's this for exposed pipes: The hallway where my office is was built around the outside of an existing building. A drainpipe from the roof runs down the wall in the hall and when it rains, rainwater pours through the pipe very loudly (and leaks all over the floor).

In a previous workplace a soil downpipe (brown water [aka sewage]) cracked (it was over 100 years old). It took weeks to find out what was making the hideous smell (with the [powerful] extract on full the stink was noticeable outdoors), and longer to fix it.

If the pipe was exposed then it would have been noticed quicker, and been easier to fix.

In terms of the school mentioned above exposed pipework in the laundry room (and corridor if it only gives access to service areas) would not be participial bad.