Metal Buttresses For Existing Concrete Walls -- Readiness For Guniting Of Walls -- ANAND Enterprises Project GSK_J1201

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I visited the project site located in Southeastern Michigan today. The existing concrete walls needed to be reinforced to act as retaining walls. After studying a number of alternates that met the project constraint it was decided to provide walk-through metal frame buttresses -- well, let me depict the situation with some pictures.

The walls are ready to be gunited -- I will post some pictures of interest of the guniting operation.

Structural Integrity Review And Recommended Repair -- Church Steeple Support Steel -- ANAND Enterprises Project FarR1J1303

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I visited the project site morning of Sep-17-2013 and Richard Fair of Faron Roofing Company, General Contractor, had made all the preparations by uncovering the church steeple support steel -- so we lifted ourselves up to the base of the steeple to look at the condition of structural steel -- we found considerable rusting of support steel and a large split at the bottom of the bottom wrap-around structural tube of the support system steel. During my field inspection I took a number of pictures ... in the following I have presented the pictures in the order in which they were taken.

Condition Of Existing Drain Tile For Addition To House In SouthEastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project AdvB1J1301

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I had the contractor expose the drain tile at a couple of locations and a visual inspection showed that the vitrified clay pipe drain tile is in good shape.

Structural Integrity Assessment For Addition To Existing House In SouthEastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project AdvB1J1301

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In response to a call from the General Contractor I visited the project site to assess the structural integrity of the existing house with basement for proposed addition of second floor above and possibly an addition on the West side to the back of the house. In the following I present some pictures that I had taken during my field visit

Shotcreting Walls Over Slab -- Deepening Basement -- ANAND Enterprises Project KouR1J1201

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 SHOTCRETING WALLS OVER SLAB 

 We poured concrete in the slab on Aug-22-2013 and then finished shotcreting of the walls over the slab on Sep-16-2013.

Condition Of Existing Drain Tile For Addition To House In SouthEastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project HolJ2J1301

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The contractor helped expose the drain tile at a couple of locations and a visual inspection showed that the vitrified clay pipe drain tile is in good shape.

Pergola Structure For House In SouthEastern Michigan -- ANAND Enterprises Project DalY1J1301

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Beautiful Pergola At The back of The House

Verifying Structural Integrity of Basement Beam Prior To Client Purchasing An Existing House -- ANAND Enterprises Project SecM1J1301

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BEAM IN BASEMENT SUPPORTING FIRST FLOOR JOISTS