China's Tofu-Dreg Buildings are Getting Worse!

[@jeffcole5708]

To think the same builders are in Africa and other needy countries, frightening.

[@ryanadams0922]

boy I cant wait to hear the news coming from those counties when they said that a building made by Chinese killed a bunch of their own people.

[@notyourmom850]

You can just imagine Whinnie the Ping rubbing his hands and yelling in Mandarin: "BELT AND ROAD BABY!!!!"

[@FrozenHaxor]

They came to Poland but instantly the practices were seen through and it didn't fly so they fled since no money was to be made doing it the right way.

[@sushiwushi5335]

​@@FrozenHaxormakes me wonder how their Military be 😂

[@GodLovesComics]

Yes, and if you think they don't care about Chinese lives, imagine what they think of Africans and their safety. Letting China build your nation's infrastructure is like giving the Trojan Horse a guided tour of your capital.

[@TheRubsi]

In my area in Germany we had a bridge that was in use for almost 60 years. Suddenly some "nerd" did some calculations and arrived at the conclusion that the bridge would crumble if it was packed with trucks on both sides of traffic and they all would be breaking at the same time (due to shearing forces apparently). Mind you that was not because th engineers back then were idiots, but because the trucks back then were not as heavy and because the bridges were not made as strong on purpose .. in case the russions invade with tanks (!!!!). The whole bridge was shut and some extensive fortification was done to the pillars (at first they even wanted to tear it down and rebuild it). It caused a few months of nightmarish traffic that lead to incredible anger and frustration for many people. But then i read in the news that a bridge in India collapsed and killed dozens of workers and passers-by. And I remembered why we have these rules. This video is yet another good reminder.

[@olymak]

In South Korea they done in different way, so done normal strong bridges, but at the entrance of the bridge there's a massive concrete structure shaped like one "n" it's mined so if the north Korean tanks get close they blow up that and the top part falls down blocking the road...

[@chinmayjoshi3592]

You'd be pleased to know that there were no casualties in the "bhagalpur bridge collapse" incident. The recent incident was the second time it has collapsed and the state level government had to halt its construction after it was flagged for using unsafe materials. The officials of the state govt. and the contracted company are being investigated for corruption among other charges, but it was known publicly that the construction was being botched to fill pockets for a long time, even within the state populace (they still elected the same party for caste-issues).

[@DUSTKILLL]

But the Russians did invade you with tanks 🤣

[@TheRubsi]

@@DUSTKILLL might want to read up on the timelines.

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

I recall what I believed was a myth at the time about the tiny hatchway under German overpasses - that it was a pre-staged location for blasting charges to block the highways in case of the USSR's attack.

[@retroarcadefan]

Its sickening that people can have so little morals to not even make simple life saving water pressure checks.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Marxism is the mold or model for that lack of morality. Marx was a devil worshiper and hated the God of the Jews/Christians. That alone tells everyone why corruption, mass murder, chaos and oppression follows it wherever it goes.

[@HoneyLover64NthngHppnd89]

Morals are like safety in china, its hard to come by

[@kdrapertrucker]

Remember this the next time someone says communism would make life better. The Soviet union was Just as bad. You've never seen greed until you've seen local communist official greed

[@kdrapertrucker]

I'll bet the local party official responsible for this project has a real nice home with abundant water pressure.

[@amarissimus29]

It's way worse than that. Walk onto a movie or TV soundstage and give the appliances a test for functionality and safety. Would you be surprised that everything looks great but nothing works?

[@davidmachemer1015]

You didn't even mention the common practice of locking fire exits shut with bicycle chains. I personally saw with my own eyes high-profile high-rise hotels downtown where the fire exits were locked with bicycle chains. Also a landmark 9-story shopping mall in Shanghai with fire exits chained shut. Chinese architects do not know how to properly specify fire exit doors or door hardware so they specify the wrong kind of door and lock and the building owner is at a loss how to secure the doors. So they chain them shut and probably pay off the fire inspector to let him know before he comes for an inspection so they can open the doors up. You truly take your life in your hands living in China.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Its common not only for china tho. In many places with low income fire exists are being closed just to not let homeless/criminals/strangers in (same with china probably).

[@miscme7116]

I'd be carrying bolt cutters always with me if I had to live there. Would save my life one day. NOT Chinese made bolt cutters, I'd bring one from Europe with me.

[@Terabit3]

I guess nobody in China has ever heard of the triangle shirtwaist fire

[@BIGBADBOY9112]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 funnily enough a correct fire exit door will keep anyone out while still functioning as it should lol.

[@ano_nym]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 a normal fire exist opens from the inside, not the outside, so that isn't a problem.

[@iloveplayingpr]

It's scarier how construction workers do this intentionally to go back to the same site and offer "repairs", doing it perpetually until they're caught.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

The workers are not to blame... if they are intelligent enough to notice they also know speaking about it (whistle blower) is a life hazard as well... It is the criminal construction company (aka CCP in charge) and the architect who designed this building... a mad man, he is the responsible one

[@user-jp3ni6yn7m]

@@RebeccaCampbell1969 "Just following orders" historically hasn't been a great defense

[@Bergerons_Review]

You can't build properly if you don't get any materials for it.

[@BeastOrGod]

It's scarier how construction worker return at all to finish the job. Their work are death traps, yet they finish them anyway.

[@mandowarrior123]

​@@RebeccaCampbell1969most of them are to blame too. Only very rare exceptions like these expose it. Chabuduo happens on all levels.

[@ohyeahwhat5387]

I've been following you starting with your original channel for 7 years. Nothing has changed, in fact it's gotten worse in China. Keep telling the truth, someone has to.

[@papasanzer8787]

Watching that worker scrape away a weight bearing pillar that easily is terrifying. I'm guessing someone got paid a hefty bribe when they "inspected" that work site.

[@nightmarerex2035]

the same "bribe" that is given to the peaople so government has "100% approval rating" becuase you loose your origins if disapprove?

[@themomaw]

The ones within easy reach of the ground might be legitimate. Who's going to go out on the scaffolds 20 floors up if they don't need to?

[@MauseDays]

that video was like huge levels of axsity induceing cringe i was like..nope stop stahhhp STAHHHP

[@danthemancasey]

"Lack of ethics"... That's an understatement! Being in the electrical field, I could not sleep at night if my work put a single person in danger, let alone hundreds!

[@topsuperseven7910]

This 'Tofu Crust' construction thing becomes far far more worrisome when a lot of Western civilization realize that just about 90% of everything you see in Mainland China was built less than 35 years ago and the 'expiry date' was 20-30 years. Obviously, Europeans have been rebuilding, refitting, rebooting massive infrastructure for many cycles now. In North America, they have also been through several cycles where their buildings, streets, bridges were dying out at 35-75 years and then replaced etc. China has never had this before. You can put it this way: They have a LOT of people who now know how to put up a 30 story concrete and steel high-rise and install the elevators. They have almost NOBODY who knows how to replace the load-bearing frame around elevators or for that matter FIX and maintain the now aging elevators. Even the simplest things. They have MANY that know how to put up a street lamp. When the streetlamp started pulling out of the sidewalk it was bolted too (yikes) we saw a dozen migrant workers clumsily pouring concrete all over the base. Chabiduo - good enough! Then the big clump of concrete base start pulling away from the bricks and sidewalk... same crew back to mix and dump MORE concrete all over the base until a little mountain of concrete was 'good enough!'. I watched as the elevator repairman stripped parts out of the working elevator to fix the broken one and like a bad comedy movie, a month later switched parts out of the 3rd elevator to fix the 2nd one. No joke. Possibly worse than incompetence, a keen neighbor insisted that he actually saw the box of new parts (which are very very expensive) he thinks the repairman swapped old parts back-and-forth to say it was fixed but took the box of actual new replacement parts to sell somewhere else. Which would actually be standard cheating scams in China so it didn't surprise me. We're now at a remarkable point where a MASSIVE MAJORITY of everything you can see, from bridges to streetlamps to highrises and sewage systems is ALL now entering its anticipated expiry date where it's predicted to start failing. BTW, this isn't a secret thing as that long ago Chinese were also fully aware these were only expected to last 20 or 30 years. It's just that around 1995 they just had to fly, just get it done and then believed that it was fine because in 30 years China would be the richest most advanced Godnation on earth and heaven. By 2026 China would so easily replace all these things with new Godlike structures anyway. However... ...it turns out that in 2025 they don't have the money to rebuild entirely new things and they don't have the money for the even more expensive difficult maintenance to keep them intact. 50 years ago, Las Vegas slapped up every spaceship looking casino and hotel as fast as they could slap them together knowing these were '30 year max' structures. The difference is that Las Vegas DID earn so much money that by the 1990s they demolishing them (even making them party events and movie scenes) and replace the entire site with new improved longer-lasting hotels. China can't do that and even worse they don't even know how to fix them up to last much longer anyway.

[@AaronSoul725]

Thank you for the fantastic read!

[@robertglover-e6y]

all the money has been taken away to the west by cronies and relatives of those in power

[@godsbutterflys]

Insanity.. Do the people who buy these places have any idea how bad it is. I mean their paying big money for sand castles..🤔🫣😵‍💫😟😔😔

[@Mianhe]

@@godsbutterflys I'm sure they know, I'm also quite sure that they got no other choice.

[@olymak]

That's why they just demolish every building, and build fresh...another tofu on the same place LOL they like it like that it's part of their culture LOL

[@travellolo]

I am a fire code expert, retired after 30 years. Dry standpipe systems are no longer installed in new construction. Some cities stopped installing them after the mid 70s. Mostly because wet sprinkler systems are so effective at containing fires.

[@josephjames259]

I have only seen dry systems in attic areas.

[@Lawleygagger]

I retired in 2009 as a sprinkler fitter from SF Bay Area, and we were still installing what they would call a dry standpipe, but however we also tied it to the wet systems with small pipe control valve, and check valve so that it would always have standing water that way the pump truck wouldn’t have to fill but rather pump and usually always in conjunction with a class 1 standpipe. And yes wet systems work great, one of the systems I put in saved a building and hopefully they continue to work well for years to come… it sounds like I miss work lol 😂

[@joveylndicdican1763]

It's not a dry riser as you can see the small emergency fire reel is plumbed into it, which is supposed to be live at all times.

[@greenpedal370]

Very few sprinkler systems in the UK. I don't think I have ever seen one.

[@travellolo]

@greenpedal370 They save hundred if not thousands of lives per year.

[@rockys7726]

This is why we get defective drywall in the US which costs millions of dollars in lawsuites. The world needs to learn the lessons to avoid chinese products/services. The sooner people learn the better off we will be without Chinese made products.

[@denise8242]

Amen to that!

[@patrickt49]

Unfortunately greed overrides even common sense

[@peterg1448]

@@patrickt49 sadly common sense is no longer all that common

[@ct5625]

Every time a relative buys something from Amazon I warn them, especially when it's a household product or makeup or something... None of this is being checked. There's no telling where it was made, with what chemicals usually banned under Western law. Millions of tons of this crap is flooding our markets every year and no one seems to have any clue of the risks.

[@ThePelican12]

@@peterg1448 It was common?

[@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658]

Even a rotting Soviet-era panel building is preferable to the Tofu-Dreg and that is saying something.

[@kurtfrancis4621]

Soviet-era building are actually quite safe. Built like the Kremlin with real steel and concrete. I know, I've stayed in them. Just look at the building hit with missiles in Ukraine. Tons of them still partially standing because of solid construction.

[@Texaca]

@@kurtfrancis4621 ...that is very accurate and true 💯 some of those structure that have been hit in Ukraine, were probably built when Ukraine was probably still part of the USSR.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@Texaca Most of them were. Like 70-ish% of all buldings in post-ussr countries were build in that timeframe, and still standing strong. I even walked past my old block where i grew up recently, it is still the same. Same slightly damaged stairs, same steel doors as if 20 years didnt passed at all.

[@martindworak]

Yea, I grew up in a Soviet era block/apartment/flat, that was in Poland. My block was built sometime in late 80s and they look even better now, then when they were new, that’s because they can just put up a new facade and protect the inner reinforced concrete and it will never deteriorate, it’s not like they have earthquakes in Europe. China seems to engineer their buildings for failure, everything they make is garbage to be honest.

[@kurtfrancis4621]

@@martindworak Tofu-dreg projects plague the last 20 years in China. Might as well play Russian Roulette with you life living in those buildings.

[@colleen36]

Those inspectors are brave to show this.

[@Redmanticore]

the city can just decide that oh, we dont need your services anymore. by the way, you are blacklisted in the system, so you wont get the same job in any other city, either. they will never tell it to his face, of course. in western world the public worker would contact his union lawyer for wrongful termination and media.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@Redmanticore It could beem state inception in the first place, if they are going after building company for example.

[@matheusjahnke8643]

@@Redmanticore that's why in Brazil public servants can only be fired after an almost-judicial process[which... of course might just end up in the judiciary because the person usually doesn't want to be fired]. Just before the current constitution in vigor there was a military dictatorship... one way used to censor people is to arbitrarily fire them from public jobs. So the constitution made public servants become "stable" after 3 years. Of course some people get accommodated because after you become stable you may slack[not too much.. but still], but at the same time it helps protect against undue political influence, like the tax/custom auditors which caught the [now former.... but at the time, current] president's sneaky gifts entering illegally

[@JonMartinYXD]

The rebar snapping is terrifying. Rebar has one job: resist tensile loads. That building will collapse in an earthquake or even a strong enough wind.

[@awnage]

I was in Russian in the late 90s and thought that construction was bad. This takes the cake!

[@watson9897]

40 years ago my dad would say, "they run this place like a Chinese fire drill". Stores, restaurants, etc. I never knew what he meant, till now.

[@andy4an]

dry riser is something else. there is still a water conenction to the main, but the main is filled with air. when you start flowing, the air is forced out first, and then water is allowed to flood the system. these are used in areas that freeze, so there isn't frozen water in your mains. this is obviously not a dry riser system, and water shoudl be flowing out of these hoses.

[@SeruraRenge11]

God this reminds me of Russian armories. The armorer is always selling off shit to make some side profit, and when the inspector comes around asking how much he has, officially he has 50 fully functional T-72s, just need a little maintenance and they're good to go (spoiler, he doesn't have that many left), so he just says he has 50 and the inspector doesn't want to actually do his job or worse, take the heat if he has to report back that there's no longer 50 there so he just writes down that that there's still 50 without checking. And then Russia gets into a war and it turns out they had way less materiel than their reports said they did.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

They have 50 T-72 most likely. 40 of them are just not ready for any combat or even simple movements without long repairs. And 20 of these 40 are already rusted away and need to be thrown away. That how conservation work in russia.

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 And the other 20 had vital components sold off by the armorer for scrap, thinking it's not like anyone is ever going to actually USE those tanks.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@SeruraRenge11 Not for scrap, they are not that wasteful. Just all used to keep at least last 10 tanks running and shooting for a while. After all fluids are much more valuable then chunks of metal.

[@trolojolo6178]

Your source is?

[@SeruraRenge11]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 God that reminds me of how the northern assault on Ukraine from Belarus was primarily halted...because the Russian troops there sold off too much of the fuel for their tanks for profit and thus couldn't make a big push.

[@trandkiet]

It was GREED, not a shortcut. I think that they skimmed the cements and pocket the money when they built those structures.

[@UsoTeaMor]

A shortcut that's due to their greed

[@jpmtlhead39]

Last week on a restaurant on big city in china ( the name was on the tv,but i cant read it) a restaurant just blow off during dinner time. 40 + deaths dozens of injuries due to a gas leak in the kitchen. What struck me the most by the images,is the fact that the restaurant was on a super busy avenue, with Hundreds and hundreds of cars and people passing by,the destructrion was immense even on other buildings and were debris everywhere in that part of that big busy avenue...and after looking to those images i wonder how only 40 people have died in that massive explosion, specialy when they were saying that the restaurant was full and had a capacity for almost 400 hundred people. It was a miracle,or the chinese Authorities not saying the truth...🤔

[@Ba.Fi.]

They would never ever lie would they.🧐 😂😂😂😂😂

[@jpmtlhead39]

@@Ba.Fi. no,they are very Honest and straightfoward people,the Chinese Authorities. Very reliable.

[@jpmtlhead39]

@@DK-ev9dg defenetly. even the dead were screaming everytime they spotted a camera.

[@toolegittoquit_001]

Their opening destroyed all expectations 🔥🔥🔥💀

[@jpmtlhead39]

@@toolegittoquit_001 if there are any still remain...

[@DJdoppIer]

Those clips with the crumbing support beams were probably the most terrifying. If you even stare at that building too hard it's going to fall down!

[@UltimaDoge]

The last clip of the guy scraping away stuff from the pillars… I’d run as fast as I could to get away from that building. This gave me severe anxiety issues!!!

[@Ironbuket]

The people doing the extinguisher demo at 6:33 : You don’t use a co2 extinguisher on a paper fire and you aren’t supposed to hold the cone. The official that took over at 7:30 could have ended up losing his skin gripping that nozzle as he did

[@fajile5109]

I was wondering why she was wearing such heavy gloves.

[@nigelft]

​@@fajile5109 I saw that too ... For those wondering, CO2 extinguishers release an extremely cold gas, that if you were to hold the cone with a bare hand, your skin will literally freeze to it is seconds. Yes, you can use CO2 on a paper/cardboard fire, but you have to aim directly at the base, not the top, of the flames, and also where the flame is at its hottest ...

[@ironmatic1]

@@nigelft I know that would work on a super small wastebin or something, but that fire looked, to me, too large to fully extinguish with that small of a CO2 bottle.

[@平和-x6u]

wtf ? :D you cant exthinguish fire in open area with co2, its only used for exthinguish fire in closed rooms like labs etc.@@ironmatic1

[@SurvivalInstincts]

Thanks!

[@Bluesmata]

Love you and laowhy86's content. 👍

[@jamesabestos2800]

Learned his alternative name is C-Milk

[@johnmc3862]

​@@jamesabestos2800Yes, terrible name!

[@bgil9381]

The next earthquake in a Chinese urban area could be disastrous.

[@ct5625]

It's certainly going to be interesting the next time China experiences a major EQ. And there will be one. A lot of these massive buildings are going to crumble in a matter of seconds.

[@SnowWhite-hr4ho]

Or the 3 gorges dam that's scary

[@etuanno]

@@ct5625 Most likely faster than when they try to explosively demolish them. You can't calculate how much and where you need to plant them when the material is highly inconsistent.

[@newturtle3]

@@etuanno for the dam or for the dedonation explosives? Both probably lol

[@etuanno]

@@newturtle3 For the detonation explosives. High rise buildings tend to do a lot of damage when they collapse in a direction they weren't ment to. ;)

[@htomerif]

So on every water riser you've shown, the thing wrapped around the riser is called a "service saddle" or a "saddle tap" or about a dozen things, but what it is is a clamp with a gasket that allows you to cut a hole in a large pipe and run a tap off of it with minimal effort. They just didn't bother to cut the holes in the pipe when installing them. -edit 1:44 for reference, bolted around the large pipe. They just didn't bother to cut the hole in it to make it work. Probably because they would have to have shut off the building water supply for a day to do them all, or just no one knows what they're doing.

[@fajile5109]

Probably. They must have done the first few floors.

[@htomerif]

@@fajile5109 You're giving them way too much credit. These side taps are for retrofits, not new installation, so they messed up the original installation of the riser pipes. My guess is when they went to make it look like the fire hoses were connected to something, they cut the first riser pipe hole and found out none of it was connected to water. Its all fake.

[@ironmatic1]

@@htomerif Mechanical tees have been used for cheaply bid jobs, which sounds just about right for China. Owners with good, in-house specs will forbid them in new construction of course. In the video he says they worked below the 6th floor, so what fajile5109 commented seems right. Just a few weeks ago I saw a Reddit post of a pipefitter here in the US (or maybe Canada) who discovered a tee on a sprinkler system with a coupon that was never drilled, leaving an entire portion of an office building dry for years. Very scary. The other thing I noticed in the video is the way that hose valve is facing. Couldn't even couple a hose to that if there was water.

[@marshap7403]

I also noticed that the yellow lever was still up and the water was still closed.

[@cmaven4762]

I vote for the latter.

[@philmccracken2012]

I love the "4th little pig" analogy. I also love the content you put out! Been watching you for years.

[@onedrop7967]

Always love yours and Matt's work.

[@Ba.Fi.]

Thanks for all the very informative videos, I learned more about china in the last two years than ever before. It would be a really great country without the ccp. Keep up your really important work.

[@matthewmosier8439]

It's funny how the agents in academia here in the West always tell us that "capitalism" is causing all of our problems. Pretty sure corruption, greed, and unsafe conditions are all elevated by the C CP

[@mousseman8239]

I was frankly surprised the fire extinguishers didn't contain liquid oxygen....

[@gdutfulkbhh7537]

The people involved are bone idle, corrupt and stupid - not actually evil. Also, liquid oxygen costs money...

[@_blank-_]

😂

[@pictsidhe6471]

Do you know how expensive that shit is?

[@BiggieTrismegistus]

Even better: hydrogen

[@elplumaje]

14:54 the domino effect at this bridge (or aqueduct) is crazy... 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@ddicin7759]

They seem to be LARPing at creating a functional society rather than actually DOING it.

[@Matixmer]

Well the LARP new cities as well.

[@matthewmosier8439]

But their agents work overtime in universities in the West, telling people how great China is. Go type a criticism of it in a progressive Leftist comments section. They'll attack you without even knowing why they are upset.

[@newturtle3]

*god has entered rhe chat* Welp time for the DM to cast the spell of earthquake

[@Guildofarcanelore]

It's the 差不多 attitude towards things that leads to this. People need to be held accountable for this, but they aren't the kind of people who are accountable to anyone.

[@patrickt49]

Well it starts with Chinese face culture which is a copout to avoid responsibility therefore nothing ever changes.

[@davesy6969]

What is scary is that major infrastructure projects such as dams, bridges and high speed railways could have been built to a similar spec.

[@sharonlavery7656]

Three gorges could be made of sub standard materials, that's a very scary thought !

[@stargazer378]

There's a video out there of a highway collapsing because they used fake rebar to save money. They absolutely build in this quality, and it's terrifying.

[@davesy6969]

@@stargazer378 i saw a video of a chinese worker breaking rebar by hitting it onto a brick wall.

[@vocassen]

@@davesy6969 Hey at least the brick wall didn't break... did it?

[@davesy6969]

@sharonlavery7656 I have seen satellite photos of the 3 gorges dam, before the floods a few years ago, it was slightly concave, as it was built. Afterwards, it had straightened out.

[@johngolombek61]

Your posts and your knowledge of the people and the language always impress me sir. Ty for for the your time .

[@stepsvideos]

I think I have watched all of your tofu-dreg videos, but it still feels just as shocking as the first time. It just can't be true... but it is. For a country to whom image is everything, you would think those responsible of such life threatening, criminal behavior, would be severely and very publicly punished.

[@ano_nym]

Easier to just hide it.

[@h8GW]

Punishment will happen once one of these buildings fail so badly that it's impossible to contain from even foreign media. Still, the punishments will probably be limited and the reform effects not likely to last.

[@etuanno]

@@h8GW Nah, they will hide it. Just like the massive flood in Beijing where nothing happened and only 11 people died? Nah bro. Same with the floods not too long ago where a bridge collapsed and there were workers installing panels on a different bridge so that nobody could see the collapsed bridge.

[@newturtle3]

What you mean the government officials? Pffttt They are the oned orchestrating it all

[@westpearson6759]

I was also in China when that new, large apartment building (12, 15 story tall??) just fell over! No foundation!

[@cmaven4762]

It had a foundation. Unfortunately the construction company then proceeded to dig all the soil out from underneath it. I'm still trying to figure out who thought it was a good idea to build the underground parking lot AFTER the 13 story building was completed...

[@mikesaboe4590]

I would really love to see an interview between you and Peter Zeihan. You guys are very on point with your discussions on China.

[@JohnDornacher]

The ball valve handle in the back is in the off position. No water will come out unless the ball valve is open.

[@BodyByBenSLC]

I work in property management. For all the problems that I deal with it, my building is light years ahead of this. This is shocking.

[@HueMongussD]

Why didn't they go to the basement and check to see if the main suppply valve is open?

[@tanaokam9385]

Big fan of your video's i really appreciate your content. Be safe take care and keep on going ❤.

[@thomasgregory4871]

Speaking of important details...in the plumbing world, when there is a valve (that yellow handle next to the red fire hose) is perpendicular to the water line, that means the valve is closed. That means even *IF* there was a water supply to that red fire hose, turning that round handle would accomplish nothing because the water supply valve is closed.

[@shaggygoat]

It must be terrifying living in a high-rise building which could be demolished with an ice cream scoop in about the same time it would take to demolish a 4L punnet of ice cream..

[@chrisevans2686]

did you not notice the little yellow lever in the vids; if it's up water off, if in line with flow water- on ??!!??

[@teksatan4699]

Second issue, The fire extinguisher part. That fire was *fueled* with an accelerant. You can tell by how the fire instantly relights when she stops spraying. With fueled fires you have to put out ALL the flame in one go, because if you don't the flame that is left will instantly re-ignite the unburnt fuel.

[@phrixos2826]

It was a lovely surprise to find u here Winston, ive missed u about! Hope the family is very well sir!

[@kristinfrostlazerbeams]

Question: Do any of the people who completed their inspection of the fake water connections ever see any consequences for their lack of doing their job? What if any consequences and who decides that?

[@davidmachemer1015]

That depends on whether or not they have the right 关系 or connections. Seriously. Even if a mandate comes from a higher level of government demanding justice, they will pick someone else to take the blame - most likely a low-level worker without connections who only followed orders. China is a terminally ill society under the CCP.

[@bobhill-ol7wp]

Given they once sentenced a man to death for selling fake ants, they will probably have something very similar planned

[@HGh-ph6cs]

What? The only thing I'm confused with here is the concept of 'fake' ants...... Please enlighten me to this new phenomena?? Who? WHAT? why??? HOW?

[@matthewmosier8439]

​@@bobhill-ol7wpNope. Politically connected people are safe enough. It's C ommunism. The only ones who suffer are the "little people".

[@Seed]

9:34 someone was murdered but anyway that doesn't matter.. SORRY WHAT?

[@ttmilk6633]

in the US Bricks are not a structural component, but instead a "Facial". Cosmetic component. In the past structures were built with brick structurally, but today it is against code.

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

Not in China.

[@sashamoore9691]

It’s not against code. Maybe in the western USA, but def not in mid west or eastern US. Nothing is a facial cosmetic standpoint tf. U sound dumb

[@RobertSzasz]

See the Davenport Iowa apartment collapse for what happens when dipshits start modifying a structural brick wall.

[@TM-il8rb]

source?

[@grouchy88]

being a craftsman myself i cant fathom the void that should be those construction workers morals and work ethics. how on earth can you sleep, knowing, somebody might/will die due to your crappy work

[@sd906238]

Winnie the Pooh must be blowing a gasket watching your video.

[@ThatScottishguy1]

Hi Serpertza , I didn’t know you had this blog too?, Keep up the good stuff bro .

[@marshallb5210]

the second and third hydrant has a second valve that is closed (yellowish handle, perpendicular to the pipe means it's closed) so i'm not sure what they were testing 😆

[@Blunthammer]

That is a vent/test valve.

[@rebapuck5061]

You open that yellow valve to direct water from main pipe to red hose. Main pipe was dry. Think kitchen sink.

[@firelordlovesthisworld]

Brooo these episodes are gold! I'll buy the patron someday! and you'll be my first on that app lol

[@RipOffProductionsLLC]

6:48 to be fair, that lady is also using the extinguisher wrong, she's targeting the flames, not the base of the fire...

[@marcdevries9027]

That is a CO2 extinguisher. It cannot put out a fire of solid fuel. You use it against burning liquid by removing the oxygen from the fire. Whatever she would have tried, the fire would continue. And she was instructed the wrong way as well, because the part she holds becomes REALLY cold. You can see it turn white from the cold. You do not want to hold that as it will freeze your fingers. That policeman holds it the wrong way as well. You hold that further back where it does not freeze.

[@itrytobeanonymoustoo5289]

Should we create a pool to bet on when China's skyscrapers start falling down?

[@Redmanticore]

considering it raises the gdp more to build than to maintain buildings.. local municipal might just see crashing buildings as opportunity to build more again, to raise GDP.. i once read somewhere that china used more building material in 3 years than usa used in last 100 years, dunno if that was true.

[@johannmueller9660]

@ 5:50 there is a yellow lever behind the hose.... this should turn off the water, not that shouldn't still work since I didn't see any way to turn off the water in the first part.

[@rebapuck5061]

Yellow lever is to direct water to red hose. What water?

[@SG-js2qn]

China: "We're bringing our tofu construction to your country."

[@shashankshambharkar918]

Everyone is gangta until....😂

[@rpx8699]

Does anyone know what the black filler is in those bricks? 15:11

[@noniboo1521]

Keep exposing the truth the world needs to see this.

[@RodrigoPalma700]

Thanks for sharing.

[@TimothySBurnes]

All the ball valves are closed 🤣🤣

[@diplomacy21]

4:45 there is a yellow handle that is closing that valve, its pointed up not parallel with the hose, its a safety so the water is not just sitting open.

[@KyleRuggles]

Didn't you show this a few days ago? i could have swore I saw this already. With the fire issues, guy taking staged pictures, the building diagram etc. It' amazing to me how you lived there, man. Glad you got out and thanks for educating us! I was so ignorant prior to finding your channel a few months ago, keep up the great work.

[@Chris-ev6cp]

This was a clip from his Livestream

[@nadrewod999]

The "China Show" channel is their podcast channel. This "China Fact Chasers" channel uploads shorter videos using clips of segments from the podcast.

[@KyleRuggles]

@@Chris-ev6cp Oooooh! I watch that show too lol, it didn't occur to me until a few days ago, thanks!

[@KyleRuggles]

@@nadrewod999 Oooooh! I watch that show too lol, it didn't occur to me until a few days ago, thanks!

[@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953]

A lot of buildings have a dry riser that would only become "live" when the fire brigade arrive and connect to it. I don't know if it's something to do with elimination of the risk of the riser pipe bursting and flooding the building, or people tampering with it when not in use? I'm not an expert but I have worked in a lot of large commercial buildings with such systems in place.

[@tikkasen_urakointi]

I see nothing wrong with that fire extinguisher. A CO2 fire extinguisher doesn't work properly outside if there is even a little bit of wind. Also when extinguishing burning wood, the wood also needs to be cooled or else it lights up again when it gets oxygen, which is clearly what happened in the video. They should have used foam or powder type of extinguisher.

[@nehemiae.2066]

I was living in Zhaotong, Yunnan for 3 months. Top building, great view, just finished construction. They had to renovate again before we moved in cause the walls were so wet from the beginning because water was filling up behind the walls.

[@stickyfox]

In defense of the fire extinguisher, it worked pretty well for the couple seconds she was aiming it at *the base of the fire* like the instructions tell you to.

[@richardb4313]

Also CO2 in open spaces doesn't work all that well. The gas just blows away without blanketing the fire. That burning pile really just needed water.

[@stickyfox]

@@richardb4313 no for sure I wouldn't even be surprised it was filled with air or some industrial waste gas. But it definitely doesn't look like the extinguisher training video from Taco Bell or Walmart!

[@captainscarlett1]

This actually reassures me. As China rattles it's sabre I think that the sabre might fall apart, bend and break with the first strike. Tofu military equipment? Munitions filled with best Chinese concrete?

[@matthewmosier8439]

I've stated that I think half of their military vehicles are shells with motors mounted inside. That country is as low-quality as its exported products. Its power lies in western traitors selling out countries to it economically

[@theboone3848]

These shorter format videos are much easier to watch, hope you do more of them.

[@BIGBADBOY9112]

This really makes me appreciate the safety systems I see working on critical infrastructure here in the UK. I guess H&S regs aren't all just for show xD Hotels will usually have a combination of dry riser and sprinkler system where larger office high rises have Both dry and wet risers, sprinklers then gas suppression and heat insulation on steel structure in plant rooms.

[@mirceazaharia2094]

Ooooh man, so much redundancy. Makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. Superb.

[@jfverboom7973]

Grenfell. There is still a lot of unresolved claddIng issue in the UK.

[@BIGBADBOY9112]

@@jfverboom7973 oh for sure, I also have nothing to do with residential buildings so can't say anything about those

[@Langevloei-NL]

With standing pipes, you must open the main valve first, and it needs a pressure pump connected because of the weight of the water column. The pipes are not connected? How is that a shortcut?

[@guyolive1071]

in the video of the 6th floor there's a water valve, bet you move the lever with the yellow handle you get water

[@matthewmosier8439]

The valve wouldn't turn on the water. There's no water in the main

[@hemaccabe4292]

What I want to know is how they got their BYD car into the apartment?

[@BrutusAlbion]

I can't imagine installing these things knowing they don't work 💀

[@gladiammgtow4092]

Chinese lack of good character.

[@findingmypath493]

The scene with the bricks at 15:15 makes me feel a lot less impressed with the 1 inch punch guy 😂😂

[@scottphillips7108]

The 4th little pig died in his tofu dregg home...

[@kevinleesmith]

I am pretty sure that a dry riser is called a dry riser because it's dry, there won't be any water coming out of the dry riser until the fire brigade connect their hose to the bottom of the dry riser

[@JohnLawley24v]

Like they had which was shown in the video by the drone.

[@matthewmosier8439]

This was not a dry riser.

[@kevinleesmith]

@@matthewmosier8439 what was it?

[@matthewmosier8439]

@@kevinleesmith This system was supposed to be "charged". There is no water in it and there likely was no way it could safely be charged as it was because you can see the fitting move in the video. This is a fake fire supression system , in some ways

[@deadlysquirrel5560]

Thank you for your continued dedication to the well-being of the people of China.

[@In-Marty-We-Trust]

Hey Winston, we’ve seen so much along the theme of China and cost cutting thanks to you. However it’s all been parts of commercial projects. What about their national strategic assets? E.g their supercomputers, space program, mass surveillance along with more traditional defence assets. Is this rot reserved for companies wishing to save money and time? Or is the rot part of everything in China?

[@alllivesdomatter2298]

Love your content just a quick question. All these people being recorded wouldn’t they be tracked by the government and then be arrested? Since this always seemed to be pushed.

[@MySteamChannel]

Wonder if their military equipment is built to the same high standard?

[@lukecat3825]

This reminds me of New York City and their inspections.

[@sashamoore9691]

Yeah right. It’s never fly in USA

[@matthewmosier8439]

This doesn't happen nearly to that extent in the U.S. For one thing, a building collapse goes viral and gets tons of attention/ criticism if it happens in the U.S. In China.. the media just ignores some of it, I expect

[@karolinakuc4783]

​@@matthewmosier8439Oh yeah? Then how fome I watched Americ reality show about building houses for people who lost their houses to hurricanes and each time hurricane blew houses made by them got destroyed coz it was made of wood. At the same time in Poland in news I heard about a simmilar hurricane that destroyed only half of a house because it was made out of bricks. You really don't plan much ahead coz your whole model of cities is different from European and causes ghost towns on its own.

[@tommywolfe2706]

4:51 That little yellow handle sticking up belongs to something called a "valve" and in the US it being flipped up means that it is closed, but I guess its the opposite in China. Here in the States, to get water flow, the handle should be flipped down so it is going the same direction as the pipe or hose, then water can flow.

[@tommywolfe2706]

@wischmopps293 If you take that valve off of anything at all, who gives a fuck what its connected to, and you move that little handle, you will see that inside of the valve there is a little thing that opens and closes with the direction of the handle. It doesnt matter what its fucking hooked up to, the valve functions a certain way regardless. It doesnt matter what its connected to, the valve functions in the same manner, and the handle in the same direction as the pipe universally means open, and perpendicular to the pipe means closed. This is universal and standard in construction for any industry and any application. Its true for gas lines, water lines and anything that uses valves, if installed correctly. Holy fuck you are wrong. Get a clue before being so damn arrogant.

[@tommywolfe2706]

@wischmopps293 works independently? To what? For what? Its literally right on the hose, for controlling the water going to the hose. Its not connected to anything else and serves no other function. Did you even reply to the right comment? You dont know what the fuck you are talking about at all.

[@lowfatlatte0]

hey guys, im an avid watcher. Just wanted to point out that the valve to the right is perpendicular to the pipe meaning they are shut. I wouldnt be surprised if all they needed to do was turn those on :P. still insane that they are closed though.

[@RebeccaCampbell1969]

I think that pipe to left on the first clip is for electric cables, not water... mad man designed these buildings... criminals constructed them

[@lowfatlatte0]

@@RebeccaCampbell1969 nah I'm talking about the valve and pipe connecting on the right in both . Which, if they are off, means water won't reach higher levels until all lower ones are turned on.

[@toolegittoquit_001]

​@@lowfatlatte0Oh, that sounds like a feature 💀

[@Deargodwhat]

​@lowfatlatte0 the erected bar is for the floors personal hose valve, not the water line that goes up. It's a very basic system. You turn the crank for the main line and then press the erected bar down for the personal floor hose. Nothing needs to be on previously other than the main line in the basement. It's basically a feed system with ports.

[@bersig]

The ball valve clearly connects to the fire hose in the enclosure. It does need to be parallel with the pipe for water to flow through the hose (and from there out of the other end of the hose onto the fire), but for that to happen there has to be water IN the main vertical pipe in the first place! Obviously that is not the case here.

[@billllllllllllllly]

Ive used a lot of extinguishers, and that fire extinguisher looked fake af. 😂

[@kekistaniattackhelicopter2242]

In defense of a fire extinguisher. Those things, even tho their size, have very short operation time. You get just a couple of seconds of CO2 stream. It's extremely important to properly prime the extinguisher before you pull the trigger. And you have to keep that trigger pulled until the content is spent. Also, those extinguishers can only put out light fires that are on a surface of things. In this demonstration source of fire is deep in the material, and such fire extinguisher is hopeless here. CO2 can only block off oxygen, but in this case you have to also get rid off heat that is coming from inside the material. This demonstration could only end up in failure, because you are using inappropriate tool to put out this fire.

[@ct5625]

Method is also important. Too many people aim fire extinguishers at the flames instead of the fuel. That's not going to do anything. She kept aiming it at the flames, not the thing that was on fire. A CO2 extinguisher is intended to deny oxygen to the fuel, but she obviously either wasn't told that or didn't understand it.

[@jimwelch4481]

@@ct5625 Proper use of a CO2 extinguisher, per Navy training, is to come in close with a sweeping motion, sweeping the flames away from the surface, while simultaneously cooling the surface, preventing further flare up. This works great on a flat surface, with an oil fire, probably not so much on a pile of debris.

[@jppalm3944]

All electric parts i bought in Homedepot failed. Replaced a 50 year old light switch with china made laste 6 weeks. Trouble is its China or nothing now

[@kristinfrostlazerbeams]

In China, the story of the 3 Little Pigs ends with all the pigs being eaten. 😂

[@matthewmosier8439]

And the wolf being crushed to death after he mistakenly ate the pigs INSIDE the brick house instead of taking his meal outside..

[@timbrindley451]

notice on 6f there is a red lever close to the round handle that is pointing up , it is s shutoff valve ,when it is horizontal the valve is open . it could be that is the reason for no water coming out

[@rebapuck5061]

That valve is to direct water to red hose. No water to direct.

[@vectorm4]

In my mother in laws apartment building, the stairwells are free of rubbish/ debris; but the walls are covered in painted on advertisements - for travel and female companionship.

[@Redmanticore]

sounds economical place to live.

[@vectorm4]

@@Redmanticore Well, the CCP took her land and gave her two apartments; she lives in one and gave the other to her son (my brother in law).

[@wintersbattleofbands1144]

So, your mother advertises in her own building? Awesome!

[@vectorm4]

@@wintersbattleofbands1144 I'm sure you know all about such solicitation.

[@duMaurier15]

How do you not have a fire extinguisher in your house.. especially when you are on the TOP floor. But then again they could have had one but it was a TOFU fire extinguisher..

[@Apoc5k]

As you've informed us before Winston, the Chinese government reacts, it doesn't plan.

[@patrickt49]

It also doesn't think

[@arya8165]

Do both dudes in the video at 2:00 know the fire hose is not hooked up and the place where the hose is suppose to go is covered at the moment right ? So of coarse no water is going to come out.

[@Azathoth4444]

Chinese construction is the worst.

[@BucketBoatable]

Even normal modern cement is pretty tofu dreg compared to the superior Roman cement.

[@killmozzies]

Fire extinguisher fanned the fire and caused it to burn more.

[@miss3305]

Makes me think about the Belt and Road initiative. Exporting their awful practices to third world countries and giving them huge loans to build like this. What could possibly go wrong....

[@edsloan8535]

The whole loan system is a scam. The local officials agree to the loan by bribery that has horrible terms for the local citizens. So, they are making money via several channels. The savings from cutting corners during the project and the CCP favorable terms that the citizens will be underwater for years.