On this 14 plex theater project were working on, all the walls are block, some extending 40′ below grade. well all the CMU is done and the iron workers are there with their crane setting bar joints. On the 4 largest auditoriums, they must have set the block on Friday or Monday as the bar joists are 3″ too long to fit the embeds. They have to whack 3″ off every joist and they are none too happy. I need to start taking pics.
ML
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So was that the Block guys fault or a typo on the plans?
Block guys problem. They dropped a plumb line down the side of the wall. Now that would make a good picture.They are eating the backcharge from the Iron workers on T & M for recutting all the joists.ML
this is really normal for the job around here
You saying the block walls are 3" out of plumb?
Sh!t a D-9 will adjust that!!.
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well the 80' boom didn't help it any when the Sprinkler fitter clipped the wall and pulled the hollow metal jamb out of the opening.ML
yep.
Wow, I've seen iron pretty far out of plumb along with concrete too, but we can usually depend on the block mason's work to be very accurate. I wonder what happened, why it didn't show up at intersecting walls.
I work for a drywall/ framing sub, we are the ones that usually find and point out these type of "oops" situations when we set up lasers and control lines for our work.
Then it is the ceiling guy that points out our mistakes later on. ; ^ ) Mike
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Iron workers on the project I'm on are setting exterior wall panels. They are so behind ,the parapet walls have been redesigned so we can frame them and get the roof on before the rains start. About 4000+ ft. of parapet wall, we are about half done.
Mike
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Somebody better check with the fabricator's engineer before hacking the bar joists. We had joists too long once, checked with fabricator about cutting and got a huge no. Our choices were new joists at about eight thousand or cut 18" high by 1 ' wide by 8" deep pockets into a concrete roof deck with #8 rebar everywhere. We only needed to cut 6" off. My elbows hurt thinking about that day.
Good point. Never a good idea to alter an engineered item, especially a truss. Mike
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