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Is it healthy to live in a load-bearing structure rather than a frame structure?
Healthy isn’t a quality that pertains to load bearing-ness. Also, a frame structure is a load bearing structure.
Can you wrap pressure treated wood with aluminum?
Most likely, no. Granted there are a number of different materials used to pressure treat wood. Unfortunately, many, most really these days, contain copper which is reactive with aluminum. So, if you want aluminum at your pressure-treated wood you either need to change to a different type of wood (redwood or cedar, but neither does …
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How can an earthquake have a negative magnitude?
There have been some great technical answers, so let’s see if I can dumb this down further. Basically, a magnitude 0 earthquake is a very small earthquake that scientists use a baseline. Just as the number goes up for a more powerful earthquake going down below 0 just means that it is less powerful than …
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What roof pitch is walkable?
We usually don’t define pitches as walkable, but rather how accessible they are. Generally, the range is as follows: Less than 1/4:12 can be considered flat for walking purposes. 1/4:12–1:20 is considered an incline where even a disabled person can ascend without aid. 1:20–1:12 is considered to require handrails to assist a disabled person. Normally, …
Does welding aluminum weaken it?
No, but a lot of people weld aluminum incorrectly. Enter the TIG welder. This uses a heated tool called a wand rather than a torch (though it is still called a torch in some areas) with your rod as a separate tool. The problem with aluminum is that if welded by conventional means it forms …
How is it possible to break down concrete filling between red bricks without doing much damage to the bricks themselves, preferably without using jack hammers, drills, and alike too much?
Typically recovered brick (used brick) is recovered after normal demolition practices. This means using a backhoe or such to tear down the wall, though this can also be accomplished using hand tools. That will remove most of the mortar through mechanical action with the rest chipped off by hand. This leaves a lot of rounded …
Why don’t they do construction at night?
Depends on where the construction occurs. In residential areas there are curfews on when construction can take place. In areas were you get less usage and construction noise won’t bother anyone it tends to be more acceptable. Large industrial sites may operate at night due to isolation. Freeways can because they are designed to direct …
How thick should you lay River Rock?
If you are using the river rock as veneer most will come in around 4″-6″ thick. Smaller and you start to get more into the pebble area of rocks. If you go more than 6″ thick you might as well construct the wall out the rocks as tying to a wall starts to get tricky …
What is the difference between wood pulp-based materials and rigid materials?
Maybe it’s the way the question was asked, but these two aren’t mutually exclusive. Wood pulp-based materials are any composite using wood fiber. Fiberboard, cementitious fiberboard, OSB, plywood… There are materials people still call fiberglass when the fiber is actually wood fiber. Rigid can be tough as it doesn’t have a universal definition. Some materials …
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