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Help Please: Concrete Block House Design Nicaragua John 12-20-2006
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Posted by Nicaragua John on December 20, 2006, 9:11 am
I am hoping for some basic advice for constructing a small two room
house here. Engineering help here is only for huge projects and of
dubious quality.

Size: 12' X 24' with a divider wall to end up with two 12' X 12' rooms.
One room will have an added wall for a small bathroom.

Foundation: The ground here is very solid with little or no water
penetration. 12" X 12" foundation below ground level reinforced with
two 1/2" rebar ???

Walls: About 8' to 9' high. Support a fairly light sloped flat roof
composed of 2" X 4" beams with nailed corrugated sheet metal roof. 2" X
4"s will be connecter to vertical rebar in walls to provide added
lateral support for walls.

Only block available is standard 8" X 8" X 16" with two holes.

Vertical rebar: Single 5/8 rebar in block holes at corners
intersections, and window/door openings. 5/8" rebar will extend three
feet into ground with poured concrete in 6" diameter holes.
3/8 rebar on 24" centers in the rest of the walls connected to rebar in
foundation and top bond beam ???

Horizontal rebar for "bond beams":
1/4" rebar every other course in grout lines.
Bond beam at top of openings and continuos poured concrete beam at top
of wall 8" width X 4" height reinforced with two 1/2" rebar ???

All rebar holes in block filled with concrete . Should empty holes be
filled too ???

All rebar securely tied & interconnected with "standard" methods at
foundation, corners, openings, & top of walls for sheer strength.

Is this in the ball park or way off?

Could I get by with less or smaller rebar since it is imported and very
expensive?

Thanks!

John



Posted by Michael Bulatovich on December 20, 2006, 9:48 am

>I am hoping for some basic advice for constructing a small two room
> house here. Engineering help here is only for huge projects and of
> dubious quality.

So you resort to anonymous people on the *Usenet* ?



Posted by Bob Morrison on December 20, 2006, 10:33 am
In a previous post Nicaragua John wrote...
> I am hoping for some basic advice for constructing a small two room
> house here. Engineering help here is only for huge projects and of
> dubious quality.
>

Send me $4000 and I will design and draw it up.

--
Bob Morrison, PE, SE
R L Morrison Engineering Co
Structural & Civil Engineering
Poulsbo WA
bob at rlmorrisonengr dot com

Posted by Nicaragua John on December 25, 2006, 8:30 am
SpamFighter@junk.com says...
> In a previous post Nicaragua John wrote...
> > I am hoping for some basic advice for constructing a small two room
> > house here. Engineering help here is only for huge projects and of
> > dubious quality.
> >
>
> Send me $4000 and I will design and draw it up.
>
Thanks but NO thanks Bob.

Your request for $4000 for simple basic advice like this tells it all.
Your post demonstrates that there are three ways to describe you:
A) You are seriously mentally ill with Delusions of Grandeur
B) You are totally incompetent and this job would be difficult for you.
C) Both A & B above.

My bet is answer C !

Posted by Matt Whiting on December 25, 2006, 8:45 am
Nicaragua John wrote:
> SpamFighter@junk.com says...
>
>>In a previous post Nicaragua John wrote...
>>
>>>I am hoping for some basic advice for constructing a small two room
>>>house here. Engineering help here is only for huge projects and of
>>>dubious quality.
>>>
>>
>>Send me $4000 and I will design and draw it up.
>>
>
> Thanks but NO thanks Bob.
>
> Your request for $4000 for simple basic advice like this tells it all.
> Your post demonstrates that there are three ways to describe you:
> A) You are seriously mentally ill with Delusions of Grandeur
> B) You are totally incompetent and this job would be difficult for you.
> C) Both A & B above.
>
> My bet is answer C !

And what does that make you? A cheapskate troll looking for free work?
Just remember the old adage about free advice, you get what you pay for.

Matt

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