WALL STRENGTH:
Todays topic is going to be wall strength. This is something that Alan discussed when we visited, and gave strict advice that I found very helpful. He explained to us that if you remove any part of the wall, that the wall would lose quite a bit of core strength and become somewhat weak. He explained that the wall would wobble and not be able to hold it's original form. He stated that it would bow out. What Alan did was to build the frame on the side of the box and tack weld the wall to the frame using L brackets. This seemed to be a great resolution to the problem. On the other hand I spent a good time that day after we left thinking of what I could do to stop the problem altogether. I decided that I would build the frame first, then tack down the wall to the frame. Then after that is all in place, we could cut out any doors or windows that we needed. My other thoughts were that since we planned to have floor to ceiling windows at the ends of the containers, maybe cutting the doors and windows was really not necessary. Why compromise the integrity of the wall, when you don't really need to? There is a lot of creative thinking in this realm that we are going to do in the planning stages. I am sure that once we get together with Candid, he will have some genius ideas to implement and our ideas will not seem so incredible. But then again, he is a great architect. Only time will tell...
Todays topic is going to be wall strength. This is something that Alan discussed when we visited, and gave strict advice that I found very helpful. He explained to us that if you remove any part of the wall, that the wall would lose quite a bit of core strength and become somewhat weak. He explained that the wall would wobble and not be able to hold it's original form. He stated that it would bow out. What Alan did was to build the frame on the side of the box and tack weld the wall to the frame using L brackets. This seemed to be a great resolution to the problem. On the other hand I spent a good time that day after we left thinking of what I could do to stop the problem altogether. I decided that I would build the frame first, then tack down the wall to the frame. Then after that is all in place, we could cut out any doors or windows that we needed. My other thoughts were that since we planned to have floor to ceiling windows at the ends of the containers, maybe cutting the doors and windows was really not necessary. Why compromise the integrity of the wall, when you don't really need to? There is a lot of creative thinking in this realm that we are going to do in the planning stages. I am sure that once we get together with Candid, he will have some genius ideas to implement and our ideas will not seem so incredible. But then again, he is a great architect. Only time will tell...
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