Comments on: Concrete Construction

By: Rain, Rain, and More Rain | Cosmic Variance

Rain, Rain, and More Rain | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 21:43:48 +0000

[…] I am in a continuous state of monitoring my own house. Right now, water is seeping in underneath the house, it is coming in through the foundation all along the front and one of the sides, the roof is leaking, water is pouring through one of my windowsills and running down a 1.5 story wall (inside the wall as well), I lost power, and my hillside is saturated, soggy and mushy. My neighbors lost a large Eucalyptus tree. The one bright spot is that my spiffy new drain is working well, otherwise I would have even more water flowing under the house! […]

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Fri, 02 Dec 2005 02:56:30 +0000

It’s raining like hell tonight, and I wanted to report that the drain is working extremely well! Such a pleasant sound to hear the water gurgling down the drain.

By: Bear

Bear — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 15:14:04 +0000

Ah, finally a site that proves the metaphysical does intersect with the concrete. Me, I do the concrete everyday and dable in the metapyhysical. You did a fine job on this project. I am proud of you. Keep up the good work! Many people think but do not do. You think and take action; that is proof of higher intelligence. What a woman!

Bear

By: Mixed Greens | Cosmic Variance

Mixed Greens | Cosmic Variance — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 07:37:30 +0000

[…] JoAnne, give your recent post, here’s the proposal then: Let’s start a series of physicists-do-DIY TV shows. Dead certain hit! We build a house from scratch every week. You can do the heavy fancy stuff like driving trucks and pouring concrete and building gutters and decks and the like, and I’ll mix the paint colours and do a bit of painting and sort out the gardens. Sounds like a plan? […]

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 06:51:00 +0000

Did - thanks much for the tip! Next time I will look like a pro!

CapitalistImperialistPig - that made me laugh! Thank you.

Clifford - mixing paint does seem kinda wimpy compared to concrete. (insert smily face here. Note that I can pour concrete, but can’t insert a smily face!)

almostinfamous - I gotta google Luca Brasi, sorry.

Plato - Sean fixed the picture size. I can pour concrete but the web thing is still a bit of a mystery.

By: Plato

Plato — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 05:42:24 +0000

Most of you admins should be aware of the space you have in order to keep your index on the side. I calculate about 420(?) so if you specify your picture widths to 2@210 then you should be alright, or 3@140

Resizing, does that to the picture sometimes and makes them blurry.

By: almostinfamous

almostinfamous — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 03:44:31 +0000

What does one do with left-over concrete?

ever heard of Luca Brasi?

yeah. that’s where leftover concrete goes.

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:42:43 +0000

Wow! I was about to prepare a post on my paint colour mixing exploits over the weekend. Sounds so wimpy compared to your impressive concrete mixing…. Will do it later tonight.

-cvj

By: CapitalistImperialistPig

CapitalistImperialistPig — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 02:37:04 +0000

Sounds (looks) like ya done good. You didn’t have any mathematicians helping did you? They are OK in the abstract, but not in the concrete;)

By: did

did — Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:28:37 +0000

They were asking you how wet the mix should be - stiffer is ultimately stronger, but it’s harder to get it where you want it. The technical term is “slump,” they make a lump of the stuff in a special mold, set it out on a board, and measure how much the mix sags in a certain amount of time. Next time, tell them you want a 4 inch slump, and tell them you want stealth fibers in the mix at 1 lb. per yard, to help minimize cracking. You’ll be pouring concrete countertops, in no time.

I hang around contractors too much…

did