THe NAC Lots-O-BFG KO2 Thread

[cmelo]

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ooof. Yea that's not good for you guys. That's a lot of load going to that pier. It SHOULD already be fully grouted and reinforced with rebar, but my guess is it's not.

It's gonna be a PITA to fix with the roll-up door rails and shit on the back of it. My suggestion is to make a small hole about 3" from the edge of the block to see if the cells are grouted or not.

If they are already grouted, it needs to be replaced entirely to fix it properly, which would involve temporarily supporting the lintel angles above both doors, and some of the roof structure above.

If they're not grouted, you may be able to get away with just knocking some holes in the face of the block and slurrying in some grout to fill the cells.

Either way it's more complicated that just "fix the crack" - without seeing it in person that's the best I can tell you. You may want to have a local structural engineer come put eyes on it.

Sounds like basically what we were expecting. I mean, it's pretty clear to see that you can't just pull out that section of the wall and expect the building not to fall over. The blocks are pretty messed up as you can see, the first time it got hit, blocks got knocked out in pieces. From what I can tell from your lingo is the blocks middle sections are supposed to be filled with cement and rebar at the bottoms at least. They definitely aren't, I still don't think it can be fixed by knocking holes in the blocks and filling them up though, just due to it having been spot repaired once before, essentially a guy just slathered the gap up with cement. The top as well as other areas I assumed would be fixed like my dad was told they are, by chipping out the cement between the blocks and injecting new cement in there, if of course it doesn't have to come out when they repair the bottom.

 

[sheepjeep]

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I found Adam and Sheep on reddit

cool story bro

 

[XJLI]

THe NAC Lots-O-Post Thread

I found Adam and Sheep on reddit

Sheep is easy, you only know me bc of what i posted yesterday.

 

[sheepjeep]

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i do not like having to remember different usernames

 

[dukie564]

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Sounds like basically what we were expecting. I mean, it's pretty clear to see that you can't just pull out that section of the wall and expect the building not to fall over. The blocks are pretty messed up as you can see, the first time it got hit, blocks got knocked out in pieces. From what I can tell from your lingo is the blocks middle sections are supposed to be filled with cement and rebar at the bottoms at least. They definitely aren't, I still don't think it can be fixed by knocking holes in the blocks and filling them up though, just due to it having been spot repaired once before, essentially a guy just slathered the gap up with cement. The top as well as other areas I assumed would be fixed like my dad was told they are, by chipping out the cement between the blocks and injecting new cement in there, if of course it doesn't have to come out when they repair the bottom.

we've done details for partial repair before where we had a contractor cut vertical slots in the cmu cells, insert rebar, and fully grout thought the slots. If the grouting is done correctly it essentially turns the pier into a solid concrete column. The damaged blocks can be individually removed and replaced without rebuilding the whole thing if you do them one at a time.

It's a repair that will need to be carefully detailed with a procedure however, and again not something that can be done by the average contractor - you'll need a specialty masonry repair contractor most likely.

And yes the top blocks it just looks like they need to have the mortar between the blocks replaced, which is minor while the other repairs are being done

That being said it's not THAT bad - VERY rough price i'd guess about 1200 for engineering services and about 2000 for the actual repairs.

 

[Luke95]

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The grey one is the car I was helping with

It had sex with the tire wall

 

[cmelo]

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we've done details for partial repair before where we had a contractor cut vertical slots in the cmu cells, insert rebar, and fully grout thought the slots. If the grouting is done correctly it essentially turns the pier into a solid concrete column. The damaged blocks can be individually removed and replaced without rebuilding the whole thing if you do them one at a time.

It's a repair that will need to be carefully detailed with a procedure however, and again not something that can be done by the average contractor - you'll need a specialty masonry repair contractor most likely.

And yes the top blocks it just looks like they need to have the mortar between the blocks replaced, which is minor while the other repairs are being done

That being said it's not THAT bad - VERY rough price i'd guess about 1200 for engineering services and about 2000 for the actual repairs.

At that price I'm willing to bet he'd spring to have the whole addition looked over for the other cracks. The other side of the building is original from when my grandfather bought it. Ugly, but rock solid. Brick work looks gross, never cracks, roof is AT LEAST 50 years old, never leaks, just no problems at all. The other side was added on, lots of problems over there.

 

[ktm racer 419]

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you redditors are so trendy

 

[sheepjeep]

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you redditors are so trendy

your jeep is up there

http://www.reddit.com/r/JeepMemes/comments/169mek/99_problems/

 

[asp]

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Sheep is easy, you only know me bc of what i posted yesterday.

I only went to r/jeeps for the first time at lunch today.

 

[XJLI]

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I only went to r/jeeps for the first time at lunch today.

Oh you fancy

 

[ktm racer 419]

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your jeep is up there

http://www.reddit.com/r/JeepMemes/comments/169mek/99_problems/

about half of the memes up there are mine lol

 

[5spd_xj]

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Sounds like basically what we were expecting. I mean, it's pretty clear to see that you can't just pull out that section of the wall and expect the building not to fall over. The blocks are pretty messed up as you can see, the first time it got hit, blocks got knocked out in pieces. From what I can tell from your lingo is the blocks middle sections are supposed to be filled with cement and rebar at the bottoms at least. They definitely aren't, I still don't think it can be fixed by knocking holes in the blocks and filling them up though, just due to it having been spot repaired once before, essentially a guy just slathered the gap up with cement. The top as well as other areas I assumed would be fixed like my dad was told they are, by chipping out the cement between the blocks and injecting new cement in there, if of course it doesn't have to come out when they repair the bottom.

I sent scott a message a couple hours ago, hopefully he gets back to ya soon. Do you have his number? I'll text it to you in case ya don't. feel free to text/call/annoy him. he's a silly goose and oftentimes forgets to return a call.

 

[sheepjeep]

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about half of the memes up there are mine lol

your like so internet famous will you sign my chest

 

[ktm racer 419]

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your like so internet famous will you sign my chest

My like?

 

[XBoBJ]

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My like?

bob h. likes your like and this post.

 

[billyjp2]

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you'll have to fight through all of his fur first.

 

[XBoBJ]

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you'll have to fight through all of his fur first.

brand it in:flamemad:.:smoker:

 

[billyjp2]

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Thats hott

 

[chedisme]

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so I blew up the switch om my welder again. It must act as a fuse and burns out when the welder is pushed too hard.

I cant afford the 2 week down time that's going to come with warranting a new switch. so Im going to go pick up a new/bigger welder.

I saw a pretty good hobart at tractor supply thats 110/220 for about 800$. I think Im going to pick up that.