It won’t be plumbers doing most of the work — various contractors needed to rip out channels through the concrete of the main floor, excavate, and rebuild everything afterward. Chain will no doubt include a remodel of these stores.
if this were a more or les isolate incodent I could get my head arount it
“weird Walmart plumbing problem shutting down stores across America, “
that just doesnt make any sense..unless somebody bought a whole lotta junk pipe from Red CHina or something
For sure. It will take some time just to clear out the inventory and fixtures before the concrete cutting starts. Then resetting the store back up after the work is done. I’m surprised the problem is quite limited, big chains tend to recycle prints/plans from location to location.
Still a little odd. Our local Wally World was completely remodeled, while the store stayed open. They just shifted stuff around. And I’ve seen them move product, install close to an acre of tile, and put product back in one night. And periodically, if you shop at night, you can witness major installs of security equipment, with the store still in operation.
Most of the water is on the edges of the building...and it can’t all fail at once. For example, most have public restrooms in both the front and the back of the store - hard to imagine what could happen to close both at the same time, unless its the main line into the building...which takes a day to fix.
The only thing I can think of that would close everything down is the fire sprinkler system - but it probably only takes a few weeks to install that in the first place.
Sounds like a building I once worked in.
It was 25 years old, when the toilets at one end of the building began backing up. It turned out that a sewer main tile in the bldg. was installed backwards, so after 25 years of sludge building up on the backwards joint the pipe clogged.
Contractors had to excavate down the middle of the hallway, 6 feet deep, to replace the tiles.
Major time lost on a 200 million dollar contract. The building was leased, so the owner took it in the shorts.
Hell, they excavated the site, built the store, and opened for business near me in less than six months. No way they take that long for repairs.