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 jeepdave
     
Location: Anderson, SC
Gender: Male
It's also a gun.
 |  | Re: Questions about floors
<Reply # 20 on 8/17/2010 10:05 PM >
|  | | | I've came thru a floor or 2. Had the joist break once while making my way across. Should have known better, since there was no floor left but meh. Oh, and I deal with concrete for and if the concrete structure is in a northern climate with LOTS of freeze thaw cycles and near salt water, it can give just for the hell of it. Rebar used inside of them can rust to the point of being dust, and then that thick many thousands of pounds of concrete is relying on its own strength to be there, and concrete is not that strong when it comes to leverage if it has no rebar. Food for thought.
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Avius
  
Location: Washington DC / NOVA
Gender: Male
Wow you guys!
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<Reply # 21 on 9/15/2010 5:42 PM >
| | | | Posted by jeepdave
I've came thru a floor or 2. Had the joist break once while making my way across. Should have known better, since there was no floor left but meh. Oh, and I deal with concrete for and if the concrete structure is in a northern climate with LOTS of freeze thaw cycles and near salt water, it can give just for the hell of it. Rebar used inside of them can rust to the point of being dust, and then that thick many thousands of pounds of concrete is relying on its own strength to be there, and concrete is not that strong when it comes to leverage if it has no rebar. Food for thought.
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Very true. Reminds me of this thread from a while back- a huge collapse at a reinforced concrete building in Detroit- probably just due to age and weathering.
http://www.uer.ca/...urrpage=1&pp#post0
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jinx13
Location: Peninsula, San Francisco Bay Area
Gender: Male
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<Reply # 22 on 9/29/2010 7:07 PM >
| | | | Whenever I've been unsure I usually just extend my tripod and use it as a probe.
I've never had anything collapse on me yet so I don't really know what warning signs to look out for.
If I'm on the lower floor and I can see the beams for the floor above I try to remember how those are laid out and try to keep to them as much as possible.
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Kitten of Doom
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Curled up in a box.
| | | Re: Questions about floors
<Reply # 23 on 5/26/2011 12:39 AM >
| | | | Posted by Gutter Monkey
There's an old brewery in Melbourne which has been abandoned for decades, open to the elements and partially demolished in places. The floors are pretty nasty in some areas, like this catwalk:
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Hey Gutter Monkey, I've been over that bit about ten times, you kinda get complacent after awhile. I even convinced someone who is scared of heights to walk over it, which is probably pretty bad of me. I've been up to top bit out onto the ledge; now walking across that rotted wooden floor was pretty scary! I haven't been right up onto the very top part though, just the ledge beneath it. The very top staircase was just too impossible to get to without risk of falling and dying!
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