ToughButterCup
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I hate to try and be fair. Often, good builders just hate paper work, and handling information. We all concentrate on what we love doing best. It takes guts and self-discipline to do the ancillary tasks. Which reminds me: I must get that paperwork done.................
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Cant wait to hear Debbie's reaction to your comment. When she retires she swears shes going to become an ' [...]olgist' , copy and paste content from the Internet, submit it to an overpaid official and get paid for it.
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I bumped into this a few days ago
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Systems and people show themselves for what they really truly are when things go wrong. When all's well or just OK, or there's no contest for resources (the most common stressor) we can make good progress. The trick for me (us) is learning how to react appropriately to many challenging events, often with little time separation between them. It's the lack of control that gets to me. Many of us here came from an environment where we were quite senior - if not in rank then in terms of control. We knew (know) our jobs very well indeed. In research terms, we are experts by experience. (Usually occurs at 50,000 and over hours on the job). We can handle exceptions, we have the contacts, we have the in-depth of knowledge attitudes and experience sufficient to handle most things. House building strips that 'expert status' away. So, the challenge is the thing. It's our reaction to challenge that really matters. And we all know how we individually do that. Just look back at how you've faced other challenges. Chances are you'll do the same or (importantly) nearly the same as you've done before. We've all had challenges, so we know how we've faced them. Sometimes well, others not. They are, therefore, a huge resource which we can mine. How can we adapt the way we faced previous challenges to this one? Cherish them.
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Right, got the go-ahead for the threaded bar: now which resin should we use in which to embed the bar. Durisol say 2 Part epoxy resin for High Loads, and 'ask the architect' Yeah, but what do you say? -
The trick is to try not to both be stressed at the same time
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Ave! Oh Sage of the South: all Hail ! One Land One King! You did speak, I did ask, From the cloud, the Sage of Structures did answer And, lo! All was well ! Just off to polish me threaded bar. I have a job for it.
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Must confess, my (our) hearts are in our mouths at the minute. And the real irony is that for a few years, I gave lectures to 200 students at a time on Resilience in the Professional Context ! Ha! Good deal of careful thinking and discussion due this weekend.........
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Today's challenge (should I wish to accept it) is to get to the bottom of all of these issues. (This post will not self-destruct in 5 seconds.) It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good - remember? Now that I have extracted more than a hundred single meters of M12 threaded bar with nuts and end-plates (washers) from the grip of the concrete, they are lying on my stillage. Waiting for a project. Well, here it is. Just got to make a couple of phone calls.
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@JSHarris, there isn't a week goes by without me remembering that post of yours (Link to it here for those who are interested:) When I re-tell that story of yours: everyone winces. But it's the repeated re-telling of your particular story, and the telling of similar stories here on BH that, frankly, puts a bit of lead in my pencil. It puts our hiccup into perspective. It's the reality mixed with honesty that hooks you. And so inspires. Then re-kindles resilience. And we all need a bit of that.
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Folks, truly, why the price differential when there appears to be so little real difference?
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Steamy, we're still at the spreadsheet stage. But there's a growing determination to get the job done one way or another. Looking round the Fylde, you can see a handful of housing projects which have (apparently) stalled. HERAS been up for a couple of years and no real progress evident. My problem is not unique. But we do live next door, I can do stuff anytime I like, I am retired with nowt else to do except think and be as creative as I can. I can plan. I can network. I can beg. I can steal. I can borrow. I can earn more money than I am at the moment. Where's the hardship in that? Why it would be as difficult as the average BH member working all day and coming back at night to get on with it Every day I see faces of local people walking past the site green with envy, some sneers, some smiles. How many hundreds of couples would give their back teeth to have my problems? I am very very lucky.
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Thanks for the nudge. Its important to keep an eye on whats new because we all need to set budgets; and as you say, they aren't cheap.
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Here's too much detail. But worth the read.
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Right then. Time for a brief discussion with the SE and Durisol with your post to hand so I can sound as if I know what I'm on about... Mindful of @Construction Channel's very informative post, I'll give you a nudge if I may, please. Ian
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My God! Frankly this makes my little fight with some blocks blowing down look minor, really minor.
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Yes, @joe90, thanks. Someone had mentioned that to me earlier this month, but I had forgotten it. So thanks for the nudge.
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Ah, that's genius @Alexphd1. After curing, you've cut away the inside of the ICF to expose the concrete (and some more of the threaded bar), but you had the foresight to embed your threaded bar during the initial pour. Your method interests me because (for different reasons) I embedded M12 bar into our last pour(s) and then took the bloody stuff out again. The process of taking it out again showed me that the M12 sometimes bends a bit during the pour (@Onoff is a bit skeptical about that), and so might well 'twist' (usually upwards because of falling wet concrete) your wall-plate a bit. Nothing a lump hammer couldn't cure, though, I expect. Thinking about it for a bit.... what about cold-bridging? Might your wall-plate (rim joist) be subject to an increased risk of interstitial condensation? Ian
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Hmm, Well, I am proposing two M12 threaded bars (encased in resin) per 500mm going through a wall joist hanger> wall plate (rim joist)> concrete M12 is about double the diameter of any coach bolts I've seen. But I note the architect's reference to SE and Durisol approval. Had you not written your post @JSHarris, I would have missed that. Thanks indeed. Ian
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Wooooaaaah @MikeSharp01, yer not inviting yer-self round fer an Acid House party are ya? Despite how daunted I feel about this task, it's bloody interesting
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So that would be two threaded bars per 500mm instead of 1 per 400mm (but twice the fitting time.... how else is Debbie to keep me off the streets?)
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[...] Rim Joist [...] Glad you told me that because that's what it is. And I've just realised that I'll need to seal the holes made by the screws from the temporary roof batten (or similar) Thanks @Russell griffiths Ian
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Noted. 'Nother phone call to Hillard. Ian
