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John H.[_5_]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 13:39:07 -0400, wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 08:47:20 -0400, Wayne.B
wrote:

On Fri, 24 Jul 2015 02:11:36 -0400, wrote:

I know the unions hate the idea of snap together conduit and
preassembled electrical boxes but that is the way the industry is
going. Plumbers are not packing cast iron drain pipe joints with Oakum
and lead and roof trusses come in on trucks from factories instead of
framing rafters with hand cut lumber. It may be sad that we are losing
some of those skills but we are also losing the skill of using a
typewriter, operating a slide rule and navigating with a sextant.
It is not the 20th century anymore.

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Well said.

It may be that the building trades are going to the assembly line
model because we are trying to reemploy all of those auto workers ;-)

It is interesting when you see the road warriors selling these new
plug and play products. They seem very expensive on the face but when
he starts talking about labor cost and cycle time, they start looking
good to the builders.

CBS has pretty much made the traditional bricklayer obsolete. You can
do "Berlin wall" quality block work if you are insulating and dry
walling the inside and putting 1/2" of stucco on the outside.
All you see is the drywall and stucco finish. That is usually textured
to hide even more defects.
Strength is not much of an issue when you are doweling at least 16% of
the cells and the top 16" is solid concrete with four #5s in it.

Explain the 'Berlin Wall' analogy, please. I spent some time with a three pound
hammer and chisel trying to get some chunks from the wall right before it came all
the way down. That was one tough son of a bitch!
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