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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #100 on: July 01, 2018, 06:21:50 pm »
Quote from: corbe on July 01, 2018, 06:14:57 pm
   So @jpsb, @Fantom and I share with you that we have all been in the Masonry industry at one time.
   Loved the sense of accomplishment at the end of the day, unlike being a Coder the rest of my Life.

I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #101 on: July 01, 2018, 06:23:23 pm »
Quote from: jpsb on July 01, 2018, 06:21:50 pm
I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.

   We had a national contract for about 20 Stop an Robs in Houston did a few homes in the Heights and Roman Forest.   Good times indeed, was never healthier.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #102 on: July 01, 2018, 06:28:55 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 01, 2018, 06:12:16 pm
I just moved to North Dallas in 79 near the TI campus. 

I'm aware of your story. It was very interesting.....

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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #103 on: July 01, 2018, 06:33:19 pm »
Quote from: Frank Cannon on July 01, 2018, 06:28:55 pm
I'm aware of your story. It was very interesting.....



I worked with Cliff Harris brother back then. Had a chance to play basketball with him and Staubach and a few other guys. That movie was pretty true for the NFL in general.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #104 on: July 01, 2018, 06:40:15 pm »
It's a few degrees hotter than usual here in FL as well.  I don't think it's a newsflash that it's summer and it can get hot.  Good grief!!  Damn these weather cycles!
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #105 on: July 01, 2018, 06:58:21 pm »
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #106 on: July 01, 2018, 07:03:07 pm »
Quote from: jpsb on July 01, 2018, 06:21:50 pm
I got a great deal of satisfaction out of writing good tight code that got the job done and done well.
But is fun to drive around Texas City, League City and Bacliff and see the building I built/helped to build.

This wasn't some of your work, was it?

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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #107 on: July 01, 2018, 07:17:30 pm »
Quote from: Elderberry on July 01, 2018, 07:03:07 pm
This wasn't some of your work, was it?




LOL, nope, what an ugly building
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #108 on: July 01, 2018, 07:19:22 pm »
   Looks like they used dirt instead of sand or one of the Bricklayers was to hung over to get more Lime.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #109 on: July 01, 2018, 07:20:22 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on July 01, 2018, 06:33:19 pm
I worked with Cliff Harris brother back then. Had a chance to play basketball with him and Staubach and a few other guys. That movie was pretty true for the NFL in general.

That you?
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #110 on: July 01, 2018, 08:03:12 pm »
Quote from: corbe on July 01, 2018, 07:19:22 pm
   Looks like they used dirt instead of sand or one of the Bricklayers was to hung over to get more Lime.

Honest to God, we had a guy out here stacking up cinder blocks with no mortar... stuccoed over, and no one caught it. All that was holding them together was the wire mesh for the stucco. Twenty homes made it about 5 years, and by then he was long gone.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #111 on: July 01, 2018, 08:13:31 pm »
So I bought a personal "mister" that you hook up to a hose. Wow, these things rock! Easy way to beat the heat.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #113 on: July 01, 2018, 08:20:08 pm »


In the mid 1970s, the Lewis Family (the owners and operators of catalogue company BEST Products) hired Sculpture In The Environment (SITE) to create a series of facades for nine showrooms across the US. Regardless of the project’s relative financial benefits, the clients gave SITE the one thing all designers crave and fear: full creative reign.

https://failedarchitecture.com/the-ironic-loss-of-the-postmodern-best-store-facades/

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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #116 on: July 02, 2018, 12:25:25 pm »
We here in southern Missouri have had these temps most of June and the next 10 days says more of the same so get a grip a week won't kill you I am surviving and I hate the heat I am a fall winter type of gal. When I moved here it was not like this it was more of a normal cycle with a nice spring but for the last 5 years the heat starts in May and June and doesn't quit till the end of October my A/C runs all the time but you also have to have fans running to be comfortable in the heat of the day. My electric bills almost make me cry.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #117 on: July 02, 2018, 12:46:57 pm »
Quote from: roamer_1 on July 01, 2018, 08:03:12 pm
Honest to God, we had a guy out here stacking up cinder blocks with no mortar... stuccoed over, and no one caught it. All that was holding them together was the wire mesh for the stucco. Twenty homes made it about 5 years, and by then he was long gone.

Years ago there was a product called Surewall and that is exactly how it was used. I hated the stuff
and considered it an insult to my trade. But it did work and all of the buildings I built with it are
still standing some 40 years later.

The blocks had male and female ends so they interlocked and you used little plastic wedges to
keep the blocks level. The "stucco" was white Portland/white sand with lots of fiberglass fibers in it.
Not sure if they still make it.


Yup they still do https://www.hunker.com/13414507/surewall-directions
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #118 on: July 02, 2018, 12:49:26 pm »
@raml, I have to admit it's nice not to live in St. Louis anymore. The heat and humidity there can be brutal, but you're right - it can be survived! This, too, shall pass.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #119 on: July 02, 2018, 12:50:28 pm »
Quote from: Weird Tolkienish Figure on July 01, 2018, 08:13:31 pm
So I bought a personal "mister" that you hook up to a hose. Wow, these things rock! Easy way to beat the heat.

I knew a girl in college with a personal "mister". Called him BOB and kept him in the bedstand bottom drawer.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #120 on: July 02, 2018, 12:58:41 pm »
Prediction here today is 101 feels like 104. Woohoo! Summertime baby!
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #121 on: July 02, 2018, 07:45:09 pm »
Quote from: jpsb on July 02, 2018, 12:46:57 pm
Years ago there was a product called Surewall and that is exactly how it was used. I hated the stuff
and considered it an insult to my trade. But it did work and all of the buildings I built with it are
still standing some 40 years later.


@jpsb
I don't get the percentage. I mean, I have hauled enough hod in my life to have earned my trowel by right (though in fact I am not a mason, I surely do know how it works)...

What is the possible percentage in *not* mortaring? The cost of mortar is a relative pittance, so I guess it is about the labor, or making money on the rise w/o the wait for the mortar to dry... But the labor part of that is the hauling the cinder around part, not the mortaring... And a staggered rise around the building means you never really stop to wait on the mortar (on a decent sized job)... So what the heck is the savings?

The landscaper in me appreciates a dry stack - Properly done, and properly interlocked, it can withstand more than bricks and mortar. And that Surewall product you are talking about seems to lean on that idea (interlocking) , or incorporates it. But the beauty of a dry stack, it's ability to withstand nature, is found in the fact that it is NOT rigid. It can move and settle, and the interlocking keeps it in relative shape - The most magnificent example of that being the ancient cyclopean style of the megalithic era.



But if you coat the thing in stucco, it becomes rigid, and that capacity is lost. Makes no sense to me.

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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #123 on: July 02, 2018, 11:20:17 pm »
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 Makes no sense to me.

It made no sense  to me  either, but I got paid (well) so I built the buildings.
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Re: A long-duration heat wave is beginning in Washington when it will frequently feel as if it’s 100
« Reply #124 on: July 03, 2018, 01:55:59 am »
Quote from: raml on July 02, 2018, 12:25:25 pm
We here in southern Missouri have had these temps most of June and the next 10 days says more of the same so get a grip a week won't kill you I am surviving and I hate the heat I am a fall winter type of gal. When I moved here it was not like this it was more of a normal cycle with a nice spring but for the last 5 years the heat starts in May and June and doesn't quit till the end of October my A/C runs all the time but you also have to have fans running to be comfortable in the heat of the day. My electric bills almost make me cry.

@raml

Yeah, Virginia summers are hot and humid so it's a lot more than a week.
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