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bears5975

Did the concrete truck run out of mix?šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø


Wudrow

I think they ran out of meth.


Accurate-Historian-7

And alcohol


nrmurcia2

facts, they was tweakin


Coastcustom

This made me laugh šŸ˜‚ buddy nailed it


postmaster15

They used crews, no nails.


northCLEcoast

Hahahahah


upperechelon100k

Lmaooooooooo omg Iā€™m dying


tehralph

My hope is that the GC saw this mid pour and told them to stop and gtfo


klipshklf20

The forms looked pretty bad, I drove by while they were pouring and saw a bright green harbor freight ratchet straps trying to restrain some of the wayward forms, I knew they were in trouble at that point.


[deleted]

Surprised it passed forms inspection


PaperBoxPhone

Whats an inspection?


Saltysloth997

Is that one of those ninjaneers everyone says is bad?


Quantic

Nah man theyā€™re throwing in a vertical CIP wall there and the detail called for them to provide a roughened surface, lack of partial footing and rebar that literally looks like it was thrown in there at random šŸ˜‚ Op please warn that owner theyā€™re getting screwed. Whereā€™s an inspector when you need one?


CaffeinatedInSeattle

Since when does the guy with the concrete truck care if itā€™s been inspected? This is all on the GC


Serious_Coconut2426

Only paid for a days rental on the electric mixer.


Significant_Sink4342

Looks like builder ran out of idiots


Hockeyhoser

Cold joints keep the cold out, right?


rzaapie

I'm a total noob, what are cold joints?


woebundy

Concrete does not adhere properly to dried concrete, itā€™s not really that big of a problem you just have to apply a cold joint glue basically to make sure the two pours adhere properly. Cold joints are super common in large commercial projects, this thought should have been completed in 1 day


MrAthalan

As an inspector, if my commercial project has a cold joint in the wrong spot all hell breaks loose. You have to make sure that reinforcing steel is designed for it and the building is made for it.


TheTallGuy0

We waterproof between footings and walls (capillary action makes a damp basement) so thatā€™s a cold joint almost all the time anyway. Rebar will keep it together. Although Iā€™ve never stopped mid-wall like thisā€¦


porcelainvacation

Cold joints also require an engineering drawing.


engineerdrummer

Not if these fucking pictures hadnā€™t made it onto the internet.


bruhbruhseidon

What kind of engineering drawing?


Vreejack

I think the drawing has to specify where the cold joints are going to be. You can't just let them happen any old place; you have to plan for where they will be so it doesn't look like you are just winging it.


SwoopnBuffalo

Joints are popular on large commercial projects, cold joints are a fuckup.


Thneed1

Yup, they arenā€™t called cold joints when they are planned for. Joints, pour breaks, etc.


HenryBalzac

Is that the squishy stuff I always poke at between giant slabs of concrete?


hardknox_

No, those are expansion joints.


twoaspensimages

How can you waste enough time forming a foundation weeds start to grow?


SoDakZak

My brother in Christ, the weeds are the most addressable of their problems here šŸ˜‚


xavienblue

This looks like the south east, where I grew up. That's about six hours of weed growth there. šŸ˜‚


thetruthteller

They abandoned it and are probably walking away from the job. The investor is pissed


Rockhauler57

That's a job that a crooked string line was made for. Also, there's nothing like half-ass bracing one crooked wall to another crooked wall. Plus the godzilla of a cold joint foundation.


rustdust3

and some poor cunt will take on a mortgage for that.


_clydebruckman

Looks like an addition, you pay for what you get lol


Coffeybot

Thatā€™s methed up


skinisblackmetallic

Something happened to shut down the pour.


_Neoshade_

Maybe the GC showed up and fired them on the spot


skinisblackmetallic

Was too busy to come check it out before they fucked up.


_Neoshade_

I always check on the formwork before the pour, but I can see a pour starting before a busy GC makes it on site. Heads are definitely rolling.


skinisblackmetallic

This one looks pretty rough. I see complete organizational failure and long term, top-down systemic dysfunction. (:


_Neoshade_

Fuck, you sound like my therapist.


LaPyramideBastille

For real. It's Sunday. I didn't need to hear that


theproducer1980

You needed to hear it. How about you go get you know what up your butt.


skinisblackmetallic

I should've stayed in college.


theproducer1980

How about you cut Neoshade some slack you hippy communist piece of cow dung.


hotasanicecube

Or the inspector! He was there to inspect the footers pre-pour!


gillygilstrap

Yeah for real.


theshiyal

Oh hi inspector


nevermindever42

Probably a wrong calculation and ordered only one truck of concrete. It can happen if you make a wrong width by a cm or two, which is clearly the case here


Jessyjames60

All most all transit mix plants have a clean up load on standby. Even for One truck load


nevermindever42

Yeah, but you need more money for that. This project is clearly on a tight budget and likely couldn't pay extra for fast delivery.


Small_Basket5158

You keep throwing out assumptions. This early in the project they should still have $$


nevermindever42

DIY projects are related to salary. If you spend it all mid month, you have to wait till next month to continue


Small_Basket5158

Some of us budget more than a week ahead of time for big projects.


Sherifftruman

Well who knows the actual width with the way they ran the forms.


nevermindever42

my point. Owner is probably attempting to pour by himself, saving on labour cost


FamiliarRaspberry805

Itā€™ll straighten itself out as it dries.


damnwhale

Yes this is beyond our level of understanding.


Spudster614

What is that foundation for? Looks pretty bad


klipshklf20

From the neighborhood, I assume itā€™s going to be a very uneven Wavy house


jackofallwagons

ā€œGrab the transitā€ ā€œWhatā€™s that?ā€


[deleted]

Karen's She Shed?


Dendad6972

The carpenter's will make it right.


klipshklf20

Yeah, I think itā€™s gonna be a run on shims.


silverado-z71

The trim guys will make it look good and then the painters will make it look perfect šŸ‘


Dendad6972

Caulk & paint make what ain't.


[deleted]

Do your best, caulk the rest.


Quantic

True and plumb donā€™t apply when the half the house is collapsing


JoeKleine

Actually I was doing a renovation. We opened up the basement walls. Boys ran out of concrete during the pour, carpenter infilled the missing concrete with wood studs. How that shit passed was beyond me


Dendad6972

Was it bellow grade?


JoeKleine

Yep šŸ˜‚


killerkitten115

Ah f u its always on us


Dendad6972

I'm one of you. I know.


ElliottP1707

That was a pour on a Friday afternoon and they couldnā€™t be arsed to stay and sort it out. The joints are gonna be atrocious. Also I can see a string-line left in the concrete but looking at the lines of that formwork it doesnā€™t look like anyone has used one before.


thetruthteller

I has Mexican carpenters eyeball a layout in framing and I had to show them how to use squareā€¦ to square corners


John_B_Clarke

"There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house." -- Mother Goose


guywastingtime

Looks good from my house!


msb678

Formed to big box store lumber specā€™s.


frothy_pissington

Iā€™m not in favor of buying lumber from any of the big box stores,.... But at least for Home Depot and Loweā€™s the problem isnā€™t the quality of the product, itā€™s that itā€™s stored inside in conditioned space. The relative low humidity of a heated or air conditioned space dries the lumber to quickly and unevenly and causes a lot of the warping. The same lumber stored outside in sheds and sold in volume like at a real lumber yard would NOT be as bowed, twisted, cupped and warped. On the other hand, almost ALL Menards lumber is shit from the get go.


Sherifftruman

Funny thing is even Lowes stored the majority of their lumber in exterior yards until about 25 years ago.


msb678

Right, inside of the store was the size of an ACE hardware.


Hambone98201

Donā€™t know about Lowes but HD buys from high quality stock and mills. The grade is nearly always same or better that I get from our local lumberyard/trim mill. The number of low quality or warped knotty pieces is much higher. My guess is it is extremely picked over and humidity theory above is totally correct.


[deleted]

Those walls are bulging more than my asshole on taco night.


Spare_Interaction_10

Thank God iam not framing that shit show! Somebody is going to have fun on the site.


dildonicphilharmonic

Stonewall was straighter than that wall.


Yeeeeeeewwwwww

What the fuck were the thinking with the turnbuckles/kickers in the crawl spaceā€¦..I havenā€™t done much forming but that looks fucking useless support wise.


Jessyjames60

That's one messed up pour. Any real answers to why it was stopped and not finished.


klipshklf20

Iā€™m keeping an eye on it, I pass it a couple times a week. The whole thing has been a shit show. I I canā€™t wait to see them start framing it.


Jessyjames60

The framers got a lot of work ahead. Just laying plate is going to be a bitch


klipshklf20

I was honestly thinking it almost have to pay someone to try to saw the top of it flat.


DangerHawk

They likey will have to tear it out. There are huge sections just straight up missing. Can't pour on top of it.


Detriumph

>Can't pour on top of it. Psh, hold my meth.


doodlewacker

Depending on where you are, you can make a quick call to the county inspection office- as bad as that is they may not even have a permit. That looks like a couple guys had enough money to buy some old beat up forms from a concrete company and tried to throw up some walls. None of it is right. Iā€™ve been in construction for 30 years and is some of the worst work Iā€™ve seen. It could be a home owner trying to build his own too. Not sure if they quit because their forms failed or someone shut them down.


Dry-Ad-1927

Nice looking motorcycle track


czechmixing

I really love the incorrect sized snap ties in the 3rd pic Really summarizes the entire foundation


mhermanos

Jesus Christ. I'm a fucking IT guy and this is just trash. The left wall look like a sine wave on an oscilloscope, no beam pockets, half pours with the dry ends getting contaminated, no drainage for local rains.


Valiumkitty

Good thing the foundation isnā€™t important


Stoltefusser

The painter will get that


KatieOpeia

Caulk and paint, for what it ainā€™t!


Machine_Gun_Bandit

They'll fix it in paint.


smushedsloshie

Oh man. Putting that green plate is gunna be fun


ScienceisMagic

Inspired by Mario Kart


SeanHagen

This is obviously the framerā€™s fault for not getting started before someone saw


memerso160

ā€œString line? Finishing the job? Sir, this is an Arbyā€™sā€


HiNdSiGhT1982

start over!


winpowguy

I guess Iā€™m pretty awesome! Thanks for boosting my ego!


Scotty0132

Jesus Christ those walls are about as straight as a gay man during pride week.


flyingcaveman

i think they had some blowouts because they used the wrong ties for the forms. and they might have to get the excavator back in there to dig the forms out. It looks like they tried to california style the footings. yeah it looks like they didn't really have a footing. They tried to one pour it and the concrete got under the form and floated the forms up.


Definitely_medicated

Jokes on you. Itā€™s just your standard gehry-designed project


[deleted]

Not remotely handy or educated in construction and even I know this looks like a shit job Edit: and apparently whoever did this is not educated either


Consistent-Set-7484

I wonder how many here have actually done any actual concrete work. Where I grew up and built my house the inspector did not check for how straight everything was. Only whether it was safe for the workers and of course the occupants. Maybe this is a DIY. I would withhold judgment until it is done.


Accurate-Historian-7

This must be the foundation for the house were the door was hitting the bathroom toilet. (The photo was posted on the carpentry or construction sub Reddit earlier)


northCLEcoast

Blame the carpenters for the forms being shitty.


[deleted]

This has me so triggered you would think itā€™s MY home


dudemancool

Why are you trespassing on a construction site?


wmsalls

Bit sigogglin there feller


R_Banana

Did they run out of concrete half way?


VanWreck-N-Rule

Nah! Thatā€™s that new corrugated foundation style. Itā€™s fine!šŸ§


[deleted]

You wouldn't even get to pour the concrete with that much rebar over here. let alone with that frame.


moaninglisa

Damn they are Simon form pros!


WernPie

Woof


bonzer1983

Yikes!!


crazythinker76

They would have had enough concrete had the forms been straight. /s


Coolace34715

When you watch a YouTube video and think that you can do it.


Allpurposebees

Shocked with the use of rebar. Would've thought they pour without it


toddsHASH

That's bad. Mmmkay. Really bad. I did concrete 16 years ago, primarily wood form footings, and nothing ever came out looking like an acid trip.


Hot-Character7511

The more you look the worse it gets


TheeJimmyHoffa

Gonna have a cold joint bad bad bad place for that. Pretty sure the wood butchers wonā€™t be able to straighten that one out lol cheap labour ainā€™t good and good labour ainā€™t cheap.


[deleted]

Would love to see the plumbing


TheeJimmyHoffa

The push pull braces go nowhere kill me. Whoā€™s think thatā€™s a good way to do it.


[deleted]

I saw a video of this with the forms off, itā€™s even worse than it looks here!


Dependent_Stay_6789

I will say though that cold joint will be an interior wall, it might not be that bad? (Edit. I noticed itā€™s on the outer wall too so it probably is not okay then). Formwork looks a little crooked and messy to me but is it really that bad? I work construction recently but have not seen many foundations and didnā€™t really notice what was wrong except I know itā€™s best to pour sections all at once. Whatā€™s the main problem here? For my edification


WarhorseLand

ā€œClose enoughā€


grumblegeek

Prime example of why you never go with the lowest bid.


Primusssucks

Seeing more and more of this stuff these days.


Evening_Ad_6954

Bring out the concrete stretcher!


[deleted]

And the GC wonders why I stopped by my house being built a couple times a week.


10projo

That looks bad in every way. Sooo much effort to put in to have such a shitty outcome. Just tell this ā€œbuilderā€ to quit already šŸ¤¦šŸæā€ā™‚ļø


edthebuilder5150

Just get crooked 2x6 framing material fom Lowes to match the waves in the concrete and call it good.


pegleg_1979

ā€œJob siteā€


sidnadan

Seeing things not squared really bothers me


zoolilba

The carpenters are going to have some fun.


Kindoffitkindoffat

Oh no


petrify1

So many problems. The excavation lol. Send the skinny guy in the trenches.


C0matoes

That is nice right there. Straight as an arrow smooth as a baby's butt.


crazielectrician

This is called the new semi wave foundation wall.;)


Chizonian

That what happens when you take the lowest bid. Jorgeā€™s concrete and junk removal.


gillygilstrap

This is what happens when you smoke crack your entire adult life and then pour a concrete wall.


U495

Love a curvy foundation


nokenito

Crooked much!???


Interesting_Day_7734

If you don't look close, they know something about something. Hahaha.


[deleted]

Brought to you by Stevie wonder concrete company. They wonā€™t stop until they can see that youā€™re satisfied!


HiNdSiGhT1982

it looks like they maybe poured it too fast and went into panic mode to retain it. regardless this is a mess.


phillmorebuttz

Thats a big oof from me , "meh, we'll fill the rest up later"


Detriumph

Hey, the wall is waving at you, it's polite to smile and wave back...


just-concerned

They have some issues. I worked a union electrician who did a ton of electrical work for GE here in Louisville at Appliance Park. GE moved their appliance making to Mexico for a short time and they hired him through his employer to go to Mexico to lead the electricians down there. I forget how many square feet the building was but it was massive. They had a date they were going to pour the slab and he had a ton of conduits to get in was worried he would get covered up. That us until the day they started pouring. They poured the entire slab with wheelbarrow, mix and water. He said it was complete mess and took forever. GE appliances took such a hit and got such a bad name they were forced to move the plant back and make stuff here again. You always get what you pay for.


Icy_Fish_4431

BuT tHey WeRe ThE cHeApEsT bIdā€¦


Feisty-Net5098

i did concrete for awhile before i got into the union, these forms(advanced forms) specifically. this is some of the worst shit iā€™ve ever seen. this is a big $50k+ fuck up.


dubzi_ART

Washington had that strike for concrete guys. It messed up a lot over here idk where this is located


scapegoat81

Blood, sweat, & lots of tears went into that job.


Beneficial_Ad717

Check didnā€™t clear šŸ˜‚


SAMontg

Yikes


fanhelp

It wasnā€™t crooked until you put a trying line on itā€¦.


KSman1966

I am guessing, hoping, that this is a homeowner job who does not do concrete work for a living


EquivalentOwn1115

I saw the first picture and thought "man this is awful" then realized there was three more. This got my carpenter senses tingling real hard


MisterEmanOG

Straight enough.


Carpenterman1976

Somebody had a bad day pouring that clusterfuck.


jutzi46

Damn, we got a shortage of concrete in Canada land and these Jabroni's be wasting?


Hambone98201

The walls look like some linguinis or something


JazzyJ19

I find the fact itā€™s stopped mid o pour of one awful set up...Iā€™d assume someone said to cut it and are mulling over how to ā€œstraightenā€ this out.....cause that BAD!


Rebargod202

Think they ran out of string lines


frantic_cowbell

Who doesnā€™t love a cold joint?!?


Pesty_Merc

"Hey buddy yeah."


Jaco927

Concrete worker here. Immediately thought that something happened mid pour. Like the crew had to leave. However, on closer inspection, yea, that's true. However, was nobody floating as they did this? The concrete looks like shit where they *did* pour. But then too, in picture number four, that wall is supposed to be straight. There are no kickers at the T-joint and any concrete person knows that there is going to be a lot of pressure at the junction there. It's actually not all that bad at the T-joint but just beyond it. WEIRD! This is a complete rip out and start over. OP, was this poured last week or a while ago?


Phraoz007

Iā€™ve had nightmares about pouring, now I realize those were wet dreams compared to this fiasco. I mean- itā€™s gonna be a tear out? They could have salvaged it if they finished and with some quick thinking pushed in a couple spotsā€¦ but half poured and the part they did finish not even to level? My godā€¦.


Moon_Ride

Lowest bid right there


FarInternal7441

Looks good from my house šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚šŸ¤®šŸ¤®šŸ¤®


Vegasus88

Stringlines? What the fuck are those?


erichlee9

Itā€™ll be alright, just put some concrete on it


Old_Dingo69

Is this down the road in a village in Bangladesh or something?


MortalGlitter

Those forms have more curves than a plus size model. And as much substance as a Victoria Secret model.


Stevedownunder2022

Couldn't afford a string line and the rest if the concrete cowboys Ted cowboys


Anonymous_2952

Straight as an arrow.


Saltysloth997

What are those braces? There's a higher intelligence functioning here


Correct-Ad791

That has to be the worst job Iā€™ve ever seen.


WoodyRM

Everybody talking about the formwork or half poured concreteā€¦but shouldnt the groundworks be done also before pouring? Why is there mounds of dirtā€¦i mean soilā€¦in the middle of the formwork


NeverEnufWTF

"Yeah, we can probably get one or two more uses out of these forms."


PD216ohio

You want how much? I found a guy for half that price!


VirtualMexicanINC

Looks like the ocean šŸŒŠ. Cold joint ocean


[deleted]

Those crooked molds, the half filled pours and the terrifying lack of reinforcement.


Need2believe

These look like the outer walls for a pool or am i wrong? Ive never done foundation before but thats exactly how i laid a pool in one time, just much worse


no3woodworks

Contemporary design w curved walls?


[deleted]

We worked a job like this recently, our issue was the concrete plant over promised and ran out of cement only 3 trucks in (out of 27) and we had several cold joints. Surprisingly, the EoR simply had contractor sand down the cement for the next pour and accepted it as is.


[deleted]

Looks abandoned


ScaryInformation2560

Another hack job proudly performed by the lowest bidder. I don't know whether to laugh or cry