Block-Wall Reinforcement With
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The East wall of the Garage is an
exterior wall and the ground slopes on the outside towards south by
some eight feet.
The wall footing is pretty much at grade
level, and the ladder cracks in the wall indicate that the wall is
settling towards the South.
The East and the South walls are
both unreinforced block masonry and retain soil pressure from
backfill for the Garage floor on the inside.
I needed to
reinforce the walls, and I chose the practical method of reinforcing
the wall from the outside with NSM(Near-Surface-Mount)
Carbon-Fiber/Kevlar-Grid tape from Fortress Stabilization.
Here we are looking at the removal of wood waler of
the failed tie-back system -- Mr Johnson of Argon Construction is
hard at work grinding and cutting off the steel bolts ... Picture 1
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
In this picture we are looking from a little further back at the
Garage wall -- Mr Johnson is grinding off the bolts hoding the waler
of the failed tie-back system, Justin, also of Argon Construction is
looking for a metal blade, while Jack Tarry, of Andrews Renovation
Co, Project-Manager for the job is providing moral support ...
Picture 2
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
This is at the South-East corner of the Garage wall -- this is where
I opted to go in for drilled-piers diagonally across the corner of
the wall footing under which I want to insert a needle beam that
would rest on the drilled piers to stabilize the wall footing at the
corner ... Picture 3
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
We can see that the location of the reinforcement and the surface
preparation for applying the reinforcement is in progress ...
Picture 4
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
Another shot of the surface of the South wall is being prepared for
application of the reinforcement ... Picture 5
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Surface preparation by grinding the surface of the block masonry on
the East wall ... Picture 6
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
Here we see Mr Johnson applying a generous helping of epoxy on a
strip of the Carbon-Fiber/Kevlar-Grid for mounting it to the surface
locations that have been thoughly cleaned by grinding off the
surface and blowing off all the dust and debris ... Picture 7
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
Here we see the Carbon-Fiber/Kevlar-Grid reinforcement being applied
to the West-End of the South Wall ... Picture 8
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
A close up of the application of the Carbon-Fiber/Kevlar-Grid
reinforcement -- that generous helping of epoxy that was applied to
the strip is being pressed on to effect bonding the reinforcement to
the prepared surface of the block masonry wall ... Picture 9
ANAND
Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
Here we see Mr Johnson applying the final touches for that
reinforcement on the South-West corner of the Grage wall -- yes, it
takes both art and science to get a good feel for when the job has
been done right ... Picture 10
ANAND Enterprises project ARC_1yae-101 House Addition
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