Recent content by niceflipflop

Thanks, I hope you're right. I'll probably take the other commenter's advice and excavate opposite the slab first, then as soon as I get the near side done, immediately fill and compact. Clean cut: I hear you. If I'd had the time to really think about it, I would've asked them to do a clean cut...

Yeah, that was my thinking as well. However, the plan is to lay down a sleeper floor, then install a full-width threshold in this spot, under new carriage doors. Undoing all that would be a PITA, for sure. I think I'll split the difference....go ahead and lay the brick so I'm not dealing with a...

Yeah I saw the same thing, but couldn't tell if it was just a fluke. No matter, I don't plan on using imgur here again. It obviously doesn't work as well as the built in attachment manager. I used to belong to several vBulletin forums back in the day. Now I only frequent two. These days, I've...

Sigh. Yeah, I'll admit this isn't a very sound patch. I slept on it some more last night and I've now come to terms with the fact that I should've dug much deeper, laid a much more substantive base, and mechanically fastened into the existing slab. Tho I did clean the edge and coat it with a...

Thanks for the reply. Yeah I hand tamped the dirt pretty tight then tamped the gravel before pouring. But it just kept moving with every pass. Didn't really feel crazy solid. Does fresh concrete actually seep into the gravel and give it any structure at all? I'm not really worried that the...

Fair enough, and I'm happy to use the attachment here from now on, but..can you really still not see them? Only one of the links were bad. Here they are. Yeah that's not so bad. I'll start using that. Thanks.

Ehhh...maybe I just haven't tinkered enough with the attachment tool here, but every time I've used in the past, the resolution keeps going wonky. It's either too small or it goes native and is way too big. I'm just used to posting from imgur, because it's the standard for reddit, which I'm on...

Hmm....the second pic's link was definitely bad...I pasted the wrong one. Fixed. But the others should already be working?

Yesterday, I finally got around to taking the first step of what (I hope) will continue to be a long-term garage reno project: patching the edge of the slab. Up until a few weeks ago, my slab and apron looked like this: https://imgur.com/TJKuT4C.jpg Had a foundation guy out to repair a leak in...

Looking forward to installing a sleeper floor over the slab in my small detached garage this spring. Treated 2x4 frame with rigid insulation and ply/OSB. As is often suggested, I plan to lay a 6 mil vapor barrier either directly below or above the frame. Haven't decided which yet. Anyway, I...

I'm not sure if this was meant for me or someone else in the thread, but if you're disputing my original question... Yes, I would agree that technically, a 'wythe' can be several inches thick. But given the context of my post and the pics provided, it was fairly obvious I was talking about...

I'm obviously not that experienced, but I've always known a wythe to be a single unit thickness of any masonry block. It's not specific to CMUs, it applies to brick, too. I don't know any of other word to describe that concept. A course is a row that increases the wall vertically, and a wythe is...

Thanks, guys. Feeling way more confident about this now. I still have this (uneducated and unfounded) feeling that when I jack up the wall and remove the load, this stem will just come tumbling down. But I don't have any real masonry experience and I'm getting the sense that these brick are far...

This is incredibly helpful (and reassuring). Thank you. There's some damaged brick at the main door, yes. But it looks intentional, to accommodate the overhead door hardware, which I'm guessing was installed later. No other damage in that area that I see. But who knows what I find once I start...

Yeah I'm mentally going back and forth between, "REBUILD ALL THE THINGS!" and, "the brick is ugly, but mostly fine." Interestingly, the exterior of the wall looks really good. It's hard to believe those are the same brick on the inside. But I guess that's just what spalling and effloresence...