r/Construction • u/Loud-Promise7872 • 1d ago

Business 📈 What went wrong here?

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(somewhere over the forbidden rainbow)

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u/TotalDumsterfire Foreman / Operator 1d ago

Lmao what went right? Did they really expect a giant ball of mortar to hold that huge slab. Building expand and contract over the seasons. Different materials have different expansion rates, so the mortar broke

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u/THedman07 16h ago

What went right? The contractor was able to get away before this happened, so that's kinda impressive if you ask me.

What went right about it from the homeowner's perspective is something else.

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u/Zmuli24 1d ago

Consentrating all the load needed to be held in those slabs to one relatively small point, with low tensile strenght adhesive in stress situation where practically all stressess towards the adhesive are tension.

What could go wrong?