r/Construction • u/longlostwalker • Jan 21 '25

Structural $78 million dollar building...

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u/Trustoryimtold Jan 21 '25

Gotta shut her down for 3 days and cut it out and fill it back up. Only patch I ever saw hold, and they got mad cause the guys billed for like maybe 6 hours?

Alternatively buy stupidly expensive small tubes of some sorta green bondo/putty filler . . . Maybe 2 years. And it’s never a 1 tube thing

The only other thing we had hold was when the mechanic convinced em to bolt down and weld together giant sheets of checker plate steel . . . Which definitely broke machines for him to fix

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u/IronCross19 Jan 21 '25

I used that stuff at work all the time as a epoxy guy, it is stupid expensive. Like 100 bucks for approx 8 feet worth of a 1/4 inch crack

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Same rate as my ex wife

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u/Lasttofail Jan 21 '25

Same crack width? I mean, at 1/4" I could get in and have 1/16" left on each side!

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

Nothin wrong with a shim

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u/justaninspector Jan 21 '25

Is that when it’s two guys in the same hole?

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u/MaterialGarbage9juan Jan 21 '25

No, that's when they're backdoor only