If you’ve ever heard the phrase, ‘water always wins’ (from, for example, a mold remediation specialist), it may have planted a few doubts and questions in your mind….such as ‘wins against whom?’ or ‘what does does that even mean?’.
Dave, of Practical Engineering, offers a captivating twist on this question, and what lays (or lurks) behind it. In order to offer lasting solutions to clients with mold issues or other problems related to how water flows and behaves in a built environment, we need a feel for cryptic phenomenon such as ‘water hammer’ and, my favorite, the ‘hydraulic ram’ (since it reminds me of how the human heart works).
Here are two videos from Dave that may change the way that you perceive and approach water ‘problems’: