Posted on 02/28/2014 8:57:00 PM PST by Wolfie
there’s even more extensive wisecracking than concrete cracking, maybe.
i hope they make the contractor make it good. there is no excuse for 3 year old concrete to fail that bad.
Still... you’d have thought they would have dug deep enough not to leave the structure vulnerable to that.
As long as Alex's FReepathon check clears the bank, it'll go on nicely, thank you...
Well, he DID echo a common sentiment about the current state of the US public school system. To say it without crudity: they are sex-obsessed and incompetently run. The only trouble, he did it as an expat.
It is not a wrong statement for sure
Dude, do you EVER stop with the Anti-Americanism?
You’re like a broken record.
:..BTW, some of you guys make me real proud to me here in the U.S. I have my down days about the future but you all bring me back and lift me up out of the doldrums of the bad time we are going through...”
Ditto, raybbr.
We had it good for a long time. Now it’s a test of our mettle.
We’re up to it. We’re still HERE, after all...
Life is a wheel. What comes around goes around.
No, but the foundations of those 100 year old buildings were not poured during a drought like the one we had the past 3 years in TX.
Once concrete is cured it is not damaged by drought. But the cure process is damaged if it dries quickly after being poured. Truth me, I know about foundations. My father was a general contractor, I worked for him growing up and have spent my life around Lumber Yards and Building Supply companies.
Ok so you know
If they figured out how to build a bridge over the tempestuous east ever 120 years ago and it’s used every day by many thousands, and they knew how to go down and build a foundation for a 105 story building, and they know they can’t do the same in London, the ground is not right, and up the Hudson, just 40 miles away, the bridge built out of city limits without city funding has to be replaced, what’s the difference
If one guy’s house, built in the 1930s is in 18 inches of water during Sandy, and over by the.beach the house built in the 1890s has no water in it because the guy who built it looked at the ocean and said I can’t control that and I’m not going to pretend it can’t jump
The jetty in a storm
What’s the difference there?
I read one article that indicated the cracking was appearing before the stadium
opened. There are serveral possibilities I’d guess from bad mix, foundation/pilings
error, iron/wire problems, cure problems, specification/design error,
who knows what else, etc.
http://espn.go.com/dallas/story/_/id/10528972/cracks-force-closure-60m-stadium-allen-texas
Ben Pogue of Pogue Construction, which built the stadium, told reporters that the
cracks range from a quarter-inch to three-quarters of an inch wide.
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Cracks-force-closure-of-Allens-60M-stadium—247645591.html
The school district says it first noticed the cracks before the stadium even opened. The
cracks have continued to deepen. For now, it appears they are isolated to the concourse area.
Regarding the drought.......
You perhaps overlooked Abrams Law.
“Within the limits of workability,the 28 day compressive strength of Portland cement concrete is inversely proportional to the water cement ratio”
That is, for a given Portland cement mix design, the less water, drier, the greater the compressive strength. The ramifications of the law are that if there is too much water or too little Portland cement for given mix design the compressive strength will be reduced.
On most structures of this importance, various batches would be sampled and tested for compressive strength.
Giraffe? Better put your glasses on. I said: As to the patriots in the pound I think we are participating in something akin to watching a graffiti artist sneak around painting obscenities on the wall and then sitting back and getting his jollies watching us react.
Compared to what, Alex? The oh-so-highly-rated public schools in your new country? What do the school stadiums in the Philippines look like? I imagine they're bolt together bleachers surrounding a dirt track.
You know, I've really had it with you sitting back in your beach chair, incessantly criticizing the country you turned your back on. And on a patriotic forum such as Free Republic, no less. Never do I hear you say anything good about America, either past, present, or future.
You hate this country, which makes you a de facto enemy to nearly everyone who gathers here. I have no idea why your presence is even tolerated, but as long as it is, my Dawgs and I are going to make things real uncomfortable for you.
Oh yeah.....I caught what you did in your vile slam on America's public schools. Thought you were being cute, didn't you? Not.
The stadium is owned by the city, not the high school, even though it's Allen High's home field. The city will be renting the stadium out for lots of other profit making activities.
Yeah, I caught that, too. Which reinforces my growing suspicion that Alex may actually be an young punk kid agent provocateur, working in the Obammunist Ministry of Propaganda. His sense of "humor" certainly isn't that of a man who should have matured over his many, many years.
Hey Alex...where's the quote, you miserable, lying, worm? Bald-faced, stinkin' liar. Chicken crap, verminous, yellow-bellied, sniveling, cowardly liar.
Woof, woof! Dawg soldiers rule!
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
I think the guy's an infiltrator of some type. Sits in his beach chair all day while his wife unit hand washes his clothes - sipping his mai tais and ragging on America. Best of all, he gets to do so on the premier patriotic forum on the internet.
And no one but us Dawgs complains about it.
Yeah, ol' Alex must feel quite proud of himself as he cashes his U.S. government check every month. 'Laughing all the way to the bank', as it were. Those American suckers actually pay him to talk sh!t about them.....fancy that.
Did you notice his little play on the word, 'public' above? Cute, eh?
Yes, less water stronger bond. But cure rate does the opposite.
One has to do with mixing before placed.
The other has to do with cure rate after poured.
They are not contradictory.
Glasses on, I see my error!
That’s what I get for speed reading without enough coffee!
Still, I do see the little man/boy as a hyena :)
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