NC coastal condo building - condemned for steel corrosion 1

[SLTA]

http://www.islandgazette.net/news-1...ina-surf-condo-building-for-structural-issues

Absolutely watch the video. Yowza.

Please remember: we're not all guys!

 

[byrdj]

Just a point of irony to me...
I use to visit that area decades ago and there was a large test facility (acres) for environmental exposure corrosion testing on that beach front strip. I guess the property values got to great and condos replaced it!

 

[dik]

They're doing 14 storeys in wood... and with the cladding they are using on Grenfell Towers, it could be interesting.

Dik

 

[MacGyverS2000]

Nah, plenty of all-wood ties in use... have been for centuries. I imagine with some creative design, joints could be made that are just as strong as wood-to-metal ties. They may be bulkier overall, but just as strong.

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

 

[JedClampett]

As far as parking my car under there, I would for sure. But I'm looking to get rid of it.
I would of never thought that steel encased like that, even in stucco, would corrode that badly. I can't help wonder if there's another issue causing the problem. Is the stucco of extremely poor quality?

 

[HamburgerHelper]

Isn't the problem with stucco is that it doesn't breath? If water gets in, it will rot out and rust up whatever is there? You don't know you have a problem unless you test it or actually see visible problems but by then it is too late?

I have been looking at houses here in Houston, which is very humid and stucco I am told is not good in moist environments. People have stucco houses here because they like the look but you have to watch them. There is a townhouse complex down on montross that you can literally peal off the stucco wit your hands. There is another place we thought about bidding on and then passed when our realtor got a hold of a stucco report for the house and it looked like it needed 100k of work. Maybe, I am wrong but why would you put a stucco building on the shore?

 

[SLTA]

There have been fortunes made in coastal NC off repairing screwed-up stucco.

Please remember: we're not all guys!

 

[Spartan5]

And subsequent development on story:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20170713/caroli...

Looks like a friction fire to me.

The insurance policy got to rubbing up against that engineer's report.

 

[stevenal]

I understood traditional stucco breathes okay, it is the modern look-alikes that don't.

 

[itsmoked]

That place has been in a couple of hurrycanes. I'd bet the wind has driven salt water right thru a bunch of crappy stucco that has modern crappy paint as its only protection.

The poor building has been in a collision where; unprotected steel, bad stucco, saltwater, hurricane winds, and modern paint all came together.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[MacGyverS2000]

Coincidentally, this popped up in my FB news feed a few hours after my earlier comment about all-wood ties:

http://www.core77.com/posts/67922/T...e-Wood-Joints-Make-Buildings-Earthquake-Proof

Dan - Owner

http://www.Hi-TecDesigns.com

 

[EdStainless]

The LaQue corrosion test lab had two components, outdoor lots for exposure testing (25m and 250m lots) and a lab with both indoor and outdoor seawater exposure racks. The lab is no more. But the 250m lot is still there, with some coupons from the 1950's when Francis LaQue built the site for INCO.

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[FreddyNurk]

As an aside: HurryCane. Sounds like a project management tool for beating subordinate staff and suppliers with.

EDMS Australia

 

[itsmoked]

HurryCane

Someone noticed!

Interesting history EdStainless.

Keith Cress
kcress -

http://www.flaminsystems.com

 

[byrdj]

Thanks EdStainless, the site was much bigger than 1.5 acres in my memory

 

[btrueblood]

Interesting Ed. I know I've seen references in various alloy data sheets and articles to the site.

 

[MikeHalloran]

There was a very large corrosion test site in SoFla, before Hurricane Andrew.

Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA