got a call from my pops apparently he is working real late this week. He works for a restoration company, who was called to a real nice tract of custom homes on Newport Coast, in NPB. $7M+ range. Apparently the builder installed the gyp before the LW concrete was pumped on the 2nd & 3 floors. Needless to say the place is a mess with mold. They are tearing out all the gyp and supposedly $300K in cabinets.
So why would a GC allow the walls to be rocked before the LW concrete floor is poured?
this took place on 2 homes on the same street both under construction.
Curious who is paying for this one.
ML
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most likely the builder's liability insurance
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What is LW concrete?
light weight concrete. it mostly a slag instead of an aggregate so it doesnt absorb water but release water. its wet and a mess, since its need to be pump, it will be very wet
Doesn't really seem like the right order to do things (how do you set your base cabinets?). But sometimes you have do things a little out of order. Don't they have windows or fans or air conditioning to help deal with all the extra moisture?
Something is missing here. Just doesn't seem like the whole story
I telling you what my father told me as he was running the crew that was ripping out the gyp. There was mold everywhere. I'll try and get some pictures you can all see it for yourself.Sounded like a home I wouldn't want.ML
Something is amiss with this story. On commercial and multi-family work, while it standard operating procedure to go with gyp-crete before the GWB, it is not unheard of to do the reverse. Somebody is getting unnecessarily #### here
took a labor materials clean up short cut and used the installed DW as daming for the LW to keep the LW out of the chases, framing bays and penetrations...
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I dont know about short cut.
That is hardly worth the short cut. It only takes a few minutes to dam up the house prior to the pour.
I had intended upon rocking my house prior to pour so that I could be insulated and heated so the gypcrete would not freeze.
We were behind schedule and had a warm week so we poured the floor and it worked out but I dont see a problem with the gypcrete after sheetrock.
I think something is amiss here.
Someone was asleep on the job.