AHha,  NOW I GET IT!!!!!!  Just like those who have CONCRETE  ideas!!!!!!  Ruth





At 4:06 PM -0500 2/3/02, Ralph Walter wrote:
In a message dated 2/3/2002 3:39:21 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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this is not a block wall, it
is poured cement, concrete, I don't know what the proper name for it is.



Ruth, Ruth, Ruth.

Has all our learned colloquy, all our witty repartee, all our horseshit,
all gone for naught (or nought)?

Do you really want to be thought of as as wrongheaded as William Safire?
Say it isn't so.

There is no such thing as a cement wall, a cement sidewalk, or a cement
truck.  One could have a cement plant, a truck loaded with cement, a bag of
cement, a handful (or a shitload) of cement.  But in order to have anything
more.... shall we say, concrete (or even liquid) than a powdery mess, one
must add water and aggregate, at which time the whole mess
becomes...concrete!

In regard to your concrete retaining wall, your description makes it sound
as if there are no (or inadequate) weeps or drains to release water trapped
in the soil behind the wall, and/or inadequate vertical and horizontal
reinforcement within the wall.  The wall itself could also be too thin (a
wall can be too thin, and a concrete mix can be too rich), but that seems
less likely.

We will all make a field trip to inspect your wall, and give you 5000
opinions about what to do with it.  You'll be sorry.

Ralph

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