I have a two story house with 8" cmu exterior walls and all the cells are filled solid. These walls are on top of a 6' cmu stemwall. The interior slab on grade also has load bearing walls on monolithic footings on the imported compacted fill.
The loading from the exterior walls has a range of...
Thanks JAE for the detailed checks.
Asixth - The wall is supporting a pre engineered shingle roof truss system with varying spans less than 30'. I suspect the wall will pass as 6" cmu and I will take a look at it that way first.
I spoke with the mason today and he claims in the past another...
I am the EOR on a residential house in Florida. The mason fixed an out of line monolithic slab by overhanging the cmu up to 1" off the edge of the slab. This allowed him to keep the walls straight and plumb. The building department has stopped construction pending a fix from me.
I have not been...
