Can't believe what just happened

[SandyFloor]

I had a customer booked in for a couple of weeks ago to floor her extension but she had to postpone due to it transpiring the builders had put a screw through a pipe and the slab under the floor was soaked. Anyway she called me earlier and asked me to pop round as she was concerned the builders had butchered the chipboard floor too much to enable dehumidifiers to do their job. Much of the chipboard had been lifted and although it looked dry she said there was still some dampness and she knew because she'd used divining rods to check. At this point she produced these two L shaped wired she'd knocked together herself. I immediately thought I had a right headcase with with me.

Obviously my skeptisism was showing in my face and instead of her telling me gave me the rods which I held out in front of me and walked about the room and sure enough in certain areas the rods swung into each other quite decisively. I made a note of where this happened and popped out to get a damp meter and tested various areas.........the rods were spot on. The areas where the rods swung in gave a high reading and where they didn't gave a low reading. I could even use the rods to find the heating pipes concealed under the floor which I confirmed afterwards by looking under the floor. I mean where there was a pipe the rods swung into each other quite sharply and then swung back as I kept walking.

Now I am skeptical to say the least but this has really got me. I know divining has no scientific grounding but I didn't know where the dampness or pipes were and this method found it all. A weird freaky half hour but amusing.

 

[doug boardley]

you must have "the touch" Sandy. One of my ex-bosses was a dab hand with them for finding water mains.

 

[White Room]

Could be the new way to check on the moisture in a gypsum floor:dunce2:

 

[Diamond Pool Finishers]

yes mate, its freak's you out when you first try and they move :yikes:

 

[mikethetile]

first time I saw this was when a waterboard worker used it to find the location of a water pipe to connect to

he used two bits of bent wire in empty bic pen tubes so he wasnt even touching them

I was laughing so he gave me a go and up the road I went with these wires crossing outside every occupied house when I walked across their service

dont know how it works but it does

 

[hillhead]

ghostly going ons !
fair play Sandy,i believe in lots of things like this and have seen with my own eyes too.

 

[SandyFloor]

Phew!!! I'm not the only one then. Thought I'd be getting told I was a nutter :lol:

 

[mikethetile]

we know your a nutter Sandy

we dont need diviningf rods to tell us that LOL

 

[SandyFloor]

we know your a nutter Sandy

we dont need diviningf rods to tell us that LOL

No need for flattery :lol:

 

[mikethetile]

none intended LOL

 

[Ajax123]

Could be the new way to check on the moisture in a gypsum floor:dunce2:

PMSL :0) I'll have to add that one into my presentation on 25th.....

 

[user123]

Same thing as Mike happened to me... when I sold the cottage in Cornwall there was an issue with the land drains that had been there for well over a hundred years, into the neighbouring field etc, and the Dad of the future potential buyer approached me with these L-shaped bent wires stuck into biro casings, and said to me, I have a feeling you can do this, find the pipes! I thought oh WHAT???? You don't argue with the Dad of the person who is maybe buying your house!! Thought he was completely potty, I ask him what I'm supposed to be doing and he says just criss cross the garden, walking up to the boundary wall and see what happens! He followed me and sure enough , those wires swang together at certain points, I didn't do a thing, I swear, as if hit by a magnetic impulse, the man just followed me and put markers on thoes spots, and sure enough, the markers added up to two lines which shoed EXACTLY where those pipes were, couldn't believe it!! Wonderful stuff. I have used dowsing loads since, basically to find almost anything I am looking for, like the hole in the ground in the garden where the rotary drier was previously and it had all grown over,and even to find my keys in the house, basically following the dominant wire that tells me to go left or right.. so weird, I know :lol: and sometimes I have used the pendulum when I wasn't quite sure which medicinal herb would be better or worse etc etc... it just works, and still I am surprised ever time, I don't feel I don't do anything at all. You're not the only weird one here, Sandy

 

[easyt]

I have used divining rods to locate water, gas and electricity mains on a number of occasions. I did a little trial with 16 people -some at work and other friends and family. 12 people were able to do it, 4 were not.

The first time I used it was in a field adjacent to a sewage works construction site. I was working as site engineer for the contractor and the location of a sewer pipe laid the previous year by the engineer I replaced had been lost. I went to have a natter to the resident engineer and he passed me two bent pieces of welding rod an told me how to locate it. I wasn't sure if it was a leg pull . It worked well - the sewer was over two metres down.

 

[CCTiling]

Nice one Sandy....that is weird!!

 

[Alan.P]

I'll have to give that a go, always open to new ideas, not that it's new lol, just me trying it