inspection

[brownbagg]

one of the jobs that i do daily is rebar inspection. that is a task that contractors cannot do, install rebar to specification, no matter how many time you explain and show them, they just cant do it
3 inches on bottom and sides, 1 1/2 on forms in soil 1/1/2 on top. 3/4 on slabs.
minimum 2 # five in footing, class b splice 48X diam that be 30 inches on #5

they just cant do it

 

[FMB4]

Maybe they can't read?

 

[jack stand]

No habla

 

[rk_tek]

Same here. I go out and check footings and the mat has one side jammed into the dirt and they’ll have a mix of #4 & #5

 

[billspit]

Well, I don't understand some of what you wrote, but I'm not a contractor either.

 

[JWILLIE1977]

ACI CCI here.

My favorite is the "contractor" that installs one side of form work, then sprays the form release on. . Coating the rebar in the process. Form oil prevents the concrete from sticking to the forms. . And whatever else it's on. Concrete most surely should be bonded to the rebar.

That. . And wet sticking the verts. There is no agency that permits wet sticking of verticals in footings. Wet sticking prevents an inspector, code guy, engineer. . Or anyone from being able to verify that the tail of the vert is under the horizontal footer bar. . . But everyone does it.

Unfortunately, for one to be a "concrete contractor", it requires only two things. . A low bid, and credit at the readymix plant.

 

[Rural53]

I've worked with some fairly good contractors. Generally they get it right. The consultancy I work for are the bridge managers for a Highways Agency. Until recently I ran the bridge maintenance contract. The issue I had occasionally was the contractor not actually being able to fit the rebar in the bridge deck, particularly when breaking the deck out to fit a new style of expansion joint. When our designers give me something to look at to see if it is buildable I now give it back to them and get them to draw it up with the correct bending radiuses shown to make sure it is all going to fit, particularly when using D16 and D20 (#5 & #6 ) bars.

 

[Ohio Auto]

Then there's the inspectors that have the swagger thinking they're always the smartest guy in the room.

Door swings both ways sometimes.

 

[Pen & Wrench]

I used to be a lender for homes and buildings, and I totally agree, and I think it really comes down to three words, Can't or Won't". I've known inspectors who had the swagger. I was the lender, but sometimes wore the inspector hat, and vowed never to be the guy with the swagger. But I will say that there were a few contractors I worked with regularly that played by the rules and were fantastic to work with.

 

[mikegt4]

You say "3 inches on bottom and sides, 1 1/2 on forms in soil 1/1/2 on top. 3/4 on slabs.
minimum 2 # five in footing, class b splice 48X diam that be 30 inches on #5"

They hear "somewhere between the form boards"

BTDT

 

[nadogail]

Many suffer from Selective Hearing.

 

[rburke65]

Not experienced with rebar installing, but when you see a job done by a pro, it’s a thing of beauty!