This piece of concrete used to fit in here something like this.







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So, obviously, the green dashes represent the cut which produced the hole in the wall where the piece of concrete used to be. The pink arrows point out the extra area which had to be cut out to get to the damaged electrical wires and the remaining section of pipe which was left, still partially enclosing them. The blue arrows point out old, kinda worn metal, while the red arrows point out the kinda shinny new stuff which now replaces the section of pipe that was cut out by accident. The yellow arrows point out the burn spot that resulted from the electrical sparks that happened the moment the wires were cut and hit each other and the metal blade and metal pipe and temporarily wiped out power to the building.




I'm not really sure of all that's involved with such a project. So, I'm not picking on anyone here by having this on my site. The only thing I can think of that I might do differently if I were involved is to check any and all available blueprints or whatever to find out what's behind the surface before I start cutting into a wall like this. Due to my ignorance of this trade (and I'm not even exactly sure which kind of construction/destruction crew needed to make this kind of hole in the wall), I'm not even sure if such a thing could be done, but it sure seems like the way I'd rather go about it if I had the opportunity.