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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-07-2000 09:33 PM

How many of you have had roof leaks? I have yet to see a theater where the roof HASN'T leaked.

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Randy Stankey
Film God

Posts: 6539
From: Erie, Pennsylvania
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-07-2000 09:44 PM

Speak of the devil....

It's NEVER been watertight since the day they put the roof on. Legal battles all over the place...
The construction co. blames the architect... The Architect blames the mfg. ...
The Mfg. blames the construction guys.
etc,etc,etc....
We are so used to it leaking in that we don't even notice the trash cans in the middle of the halls to catch the drips anymore!

We have water dripping through the light fixtures. We have water dripping on the rewind bench. There are a few spots where you can see the water drips on the drop-ceiling above a projector. I just hope it doesn't get bad enough to cause a cave in.

One time there was 2-3 inches of water surrounding a projector and dripping directly onto the sound rack. Actually, "drippig" isn't the proper word. It looked like somebody was PISSING on it from above the ceiling!

We've had theatre ceinings collapse mid-show. Once on a Friday night. We had to unbolt rows of seats to get the Genie Lift in there to replace it. Behind some of the screens there's water dripping down the sound insulation and right onto the speakers. There's one screen where there's a brown water stain in the corner. Thankfully it's not bad enough that 90% of the people don't notice. It's only about a foot across... but I'm sure it'll grow!

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Ken Layton
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1452
From: Olympia, Wash. USA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-07-2000 09:52 PM

The single screen CAPITOL theater in Olympia, Wash. typically has water dripping into the main power service entrance panel (it's scary) and the plaster gets soaked in the auditorium and falls on the balcony seats.

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Stephen Jones
Master Film Handler

Posts: 314
From: Geelong Victoria Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-07-2000 11:45 PM

I haven't come accross a theatre yet that did'nt bloody leak,one instance during heavy rain in a 600 seat cinema a sheet of plaster came off the ceiling crashing down and hit the floor and seats with a huge crash followed by a giant water fall.It was lucky that no one was sitting there as a session was running at the time as they would have been killed for sure.I could see a bulge forming when I was checking the projector as all good projectionist should, but by the time I got to the phone to give a warning it was to late.

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Anthony Matarazzo
Film Handler

Posts: 30
From: Brisbane Australia
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-08-2000 04:29 AM

At one of our loaction the air con room in abover the cinema. The cooling tower is also located there. It had over flowed a few times and the water has came through the cinema ceiling while there where people it it. Free wash

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Chris Erwin
Expert Film Handler

Posts: 195
From: Olive Hill,KY
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-08-2000 06:16 PM

NOW PLAYING AT A THEATER NEAR YOU>>>
**AQUAVISON**

See such hits as "Waterworld","Halloween H20" or the classic "The River" in glorious Aquavision. Roofs were specially defected, er,I mean designed,to rain glorious amounts of precipitation on happy patrons who came to see the water and feel the water all around them.

--Chris

P.S. Slickers and Ponchos on sale at the snack bar!

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Christopher A Kerr
Film Handler

Posts: 43
From: Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 01-08-2000 07:27 PM

The satalite dish cable for our non-sync feed comes down throught a pipe in the roof and into the booth. When it rains you get a steady drip-drip-drip of water falling on your head if you have to use the phone in the booth as it is located right uder this pipe.

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Jason Burroughs
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 654
From: Allen, TX
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-11-2000 12:26 PM

At the Loews Keystone in Dallas, sortly after a rainstorm a 200lb section of cast iron drainage pipe (about 1ft in diameter) came crashing through the ceiling in one of the auditoriums, demolishing 1 surround speaker and the hand rail along the wall, during the middle of a movie. Luckly no one was there when it happened. As I remember there was only a couple of people in there at the time one guy casually strolled out of the auditorium over to the managers desk and politly notified him that the ceiling had collapsed in the auditorium and went back to watch the remainder of the show, now with a 1ft diamater skylight. The location of where the pipe landed was about where the lightswitch for the worklight in the auditorium is. After that happened they had the construction company come out and check all the remaining drainage pipe to make sure they were secured properly, as it turned out they forgot to put a support bracket under the pipe.

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John Walsh
Film God

Posts: 2490
From: Connecticut, USA, Earth, Milky Way
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 01-11-2000 12:39 PM

"...one guy casually strolled out of the auditorium over to the managers desk and
politly notified him that the ceiling had collapsed in the auditorium and went back to watch the remainder of the show, now with a 1ft diamater skylight..."

Ever notice how nothing fazes people in Texas? I mean, the worst shit can be happening, and a guy from Texas will say; "'scuse me, but if this here earthquake don't destroy the tap, kin I have another beer, please..."

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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-11-2000 01:43 PM

Well it is raining here in Santa Rosa California. I am rushing around our new cinema to find the leaks. I found one small drip in the managers office. The bucket is in place and hopefully it will be ok.

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Jon Bartow
Master Film Handler

Posts: 287
From: Massachusetts
Registered: Nov 1999

posted 01-11-2000 09:57 PM

About two years in one of the theaters that I service they had a roof drain leak. It was about 4 months after they had opened. When they were building the place in Nov/Dec the roof drains were plugged by ice. Well... one of the idiot construction guys managed to cut a 12" roof drain pipe right through. After the ice melted during the next rain storm 8,000 square feet of roof drained into one auditorium. When the manager showed up to open the next morning, 5 feet of water in the theater!
Also, ALL of the theaters that I service have many roof leaks.

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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-12-2000 09:42 AM

The roof leak total for our new cinema is three. One in our office comming from the ice machine chiller on the roof. One in auditrium 4 from the HVAC onto a seat. and the last one, and its a good one, down the inside of the lamp exhaust of theatre #1 there was a quarter inch of water in the lamphouse! Looks like the exhaust needs a new hat.

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Reeve Byrne
Film Handler

Posts: 35
From: Anchorage, Ak USA
Registered: Jan 2000

posted 01-12-2000 06:34 PM

Well at my theater the roof leaks but it just leaves marks on our drop cellings. Nothing, to my knowledge has ever acually made it into a theater or projector or anything eles.

It would be kind of cool to see a theater submerged in five feet of water. How did they drain it?

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Scott Norwood
Film God

Posts: 8146
From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas)
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-12-2000 09:36 PM

It's not exactly a "roof leak," but we had a couple of other interesting experiences--an old air conditioner (Carrier Model #1...yes, really) that went crazy and sprayed water everywhere...also, a rather tempermental ice machine that would work fine for a few weeks and suddenly decide that it was time to flood the floor in the office.

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Ian Price
Phenomenal Film Handler

Posts: 1714
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 99

posted 01-12-2000 09:39 PM

I'm happy to say that our landlord his happy with us now and is trying to fix every problem. He sent roofers over to the theatre and they spread tar everwhere. I hope it solved the leak problem. We will find out tomorrow when it will rain again.

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