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16. What you describe is what was done in my federal building back during Obama's "ARRA"-funded renovations

Fri Oct 31, 2025, 05:14 AM

Oct 31

of what was an FDR/CCC-era building, where one of the projects was to renovate all of the bathrooms and plumbing. It was a multiyear hassle (for employees forced to go on another floor to the bathroom) as they "enclosed" the entrances of each one in sheets of plastic and had air-monitoring pump thingys out in the hall. They had a plan for doing those bathrooms by alternating the floors where work was done to minimize the lack of availability. They also replaced all of the windows in the building, so almost the entire building was enclosed in scaffolding except for the lowest couple of floors. I kept my blinds closed while they were tromping around out there on the scaffolds near my office!

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