An average day

[mmmarvel]

I build a lot of banks, and the spec for the slab under the vault is 18" of concrete with minimum 4 layers of #6 bar 6" OC both ways. The concrete sub has to be careful about using the vibrator propery to get the concrete to fill all the gaps between the rebar.

The mats need to be off-set from each other so that someone trying to drill in from the bottom will encounter rebar, followed by rebar, followed by rebar. It was the only vault that I did, but I found it very interesting.

 

[mtlogcabin]

Thanks for that. How about the walls.....and the ceiling.....what can you tell me about those?

[h=2]The Future[/h]Bank vault technology changed rapidly in the 1980s and 1990s with the development of improved concrete material. Bank burglaries are also no longer the substantial problem they were in the late nineteenth century up through the 1930s, but vault makers continue to alter their products to counter new break-in methods.

At issue in the twenty-first century is a powerful tool called a "burning bar" or "thermic torch." Burning liquid oxygen ignited by a oxyacetylene torch, this bar burns much hotter than an acetylene torch, getting up to 6,602-8,006°F (3,650-4,430°C). The torch makes a series of small holes that can eventually be linked to form a gap. In the future, the vault manufacturing industry will likely come up with a means to combat the burning bar. Then perhaps criminals will find a more powerful tool, and the industry will change its products again. Vault manufacturers work closely with the banking industry and law enforcement in order to keep up with these advances in burglary.

Read more: http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Bank-Vault.html#ixzz38Odb00Yi

http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Bank-Vault.html

Here you go ICE. My advise is find an older bank

 

[ICE]

3 Banks jobs in my time. (Construction ICE, CON-STRUC-TION).Same grid as before, extended 3 feet out on all sides past the vault line, something like 2 feet deep. Steel and concrete layered wall and roof panels, like composite armor. All welded at the seams. The vault door and jambs were impressive.

I heard the good stuff is in the casinos though.

Thinking about pulling The Italian Job, but in Orange County. Gonna use a murdered-out 68 Camaro for the geteway.

You in?

Brent.

You need to rethink that. Go with a white Camry.

 

[e hilton]

There's nothing secret about bank vault construction. We use reasonable measures to keep the good people honest.

Modern vaults now have modular walls and ceiling, precast sections of very high strength concrete in sections about 2 ft x 8 ft or the height of the vault. Cast in place walls are a thing of the past. There are pieces of angle iron around the perimeter that is used to weld one section to the next. Typical walls are 9" thick, and the vendor is careful to include all necessary conduits when casting them, the word is that they are almost impossibble to drill when cured.

But the real security is cameras and alarms. We spend a ton on cameras, and the images are crystal clear, nothing like what you see on the news about the perps that stick up the local c-store, where you're lucky to tell if they are even looking at the camera.

 

[ICE]

the word is that they are almost impossibble to drill when cured.

I love a challenge Brent.

 

[ICE]

7-24-14

8.5 feet deep



Brent, I got the phone # of the kid that dug the hole...can you speak Spanish?

 

[ICE]

7-24-14

A serious lack of motivation.

 

[ICE]

7-24-14

It went from this:



to this:



I can't decide which one is worse.

 

[MASSDRIVER]

I love a challenge Brent.

He said "almost".

Brent.

 

[MASSDRIVER]

7-24-14It went from this:



to this:



I can't decide which one is worse.

Dude, you gotta stop.

That made me blow boogers on my keyboard.

I wanna say they are just cheap, but damm, That's 100 bucks of gorilla snot.

Brent.

 

[ICE]

Service upgrade

The contractor was really old the last time I saw him and that was ten years ago.

He used to do passable work.

He must have sold his company.

He packed the abandoned roof jack with tar. By the looks of it, that tar never gets hard. So eventually it will dribble inside the wall.









This is a new one on me. If it were done correctly it might not be a bad idea. I wrote a correction that said: "Automotive wire splices are not allowed"

 

[ICE]

Another inspector sent this to me with a question about the handrail. I would have been laughing too hard to take a picture.

 

[TheCommish]

ICE do you pass anything and have photo to prove it?

 

[ICE]

ICE do you pass anything and have photo to prove it?

Eventually everything passes. Well maybe not everything. Now and then a contractor will bail and the owner is left with a mess and not enough money to make it right.

The same thing happens with owner builders. They become overwhelmed and give up.

The electrical job just before this post is a good example. There were a dozen corrections and one of them was that the cabinet can't be over the old flush mount cabinet. Knowing that he will have to start over may push him over the edge. He's probably collected a down payment that's large enough to cover the material and figures it's not worth working for minimum wage. And away he goes....but not before convincing the owner that the installation is safe and the problem is the inspector.

If nobody asked Edison to spot the meter, they are in the clear until they try to get a permit for something else. If they did ask Edison for a meter spot, Edison will send them a letter telling them that the service will be stopped unless the Building Dept. approves a hookup.

I've seen plenty of those Edison letters but I'm not aware of anyone actually being shut off. Edison's usual approach is to never shut off anyone's power unless they quit paying the bill or are stealing electricity. You know, electricity is energy. Energy can't be destroyed. So how can they call it stealing?

A couple times a year I get a call from an Edison planner asking me to inspect a property because they think that it's dangerous and want to shut it off. Guaranteed it's one step from being on fire.

 

[ICE]

I am curious to know what Edison will do with this one.

 

[Msradell]

Well they can't complain about it being too close to the roof!

 

[TheCommish]

Maybe some #10 to the vent stack will solve the physics problem

 

[e hilton]

7-24-14A serious lack of motivation.

What is that stuff on the roof? Looks like busted open sandbags.

 

[ICE]

What is that stuff on the roof? Looks like busted open sandbags.

That is correct. The sand bags held down the blue tarp. All have rotted. I can't remember the last time we got a good soaking.

 

[ICE]

7-29-14

Final inspection for a re-roof

 

[ICE]

7-29-14

Service panel upgrade. The contractor was there to meet me. This is the old service enclosure that is now a j-box. This was the only thing wrong.

 

[ICE]

7-29-14

This job had been lathed without a framing inspection. I asked them to remove the lath.



So then I asked them to go a little further and remove the flashing.

 

[ICE]

7-29-14

The foundation plan sends you to detail #9 on page A5.



Detail #9 has two sections. A PLAN and B DETAIL.

A plan has this:



B DETAIL has this:



Well they thought that they had a choice ....and picked the wrong one.

 

[ICE]

7-29-14

The contractor works for HD.

I wrote a correction to raise the vent two feet above the adjacent roof. I wasn't sure if two feet is the right number....I still don't know.



This is the result.



I wrote a correction to raise the heater 3" above the adjacent dirt. That number I am sure of.



This is the result.



Not only is it styrofoam, it's only 1.5"