Thank you for your perspective, would you mind offering your thoughts on the windows at the bottom right and the supporting beams installed into them? I can only assume that that would not be standard ops for neither new construction nor for operations focused on securing the integrity of a building’s foundation.
Don't need much more than a shovel on this project. Bricklayers need a hand trowel and some string, or a level.
i have multiple steel lintels! this seems like sound advice that i never thought about...
There is no way to say that definitively without much more information. If the ground is stable bedrock (we know it isnt), 1 inch is excessive. If it is silty clay, might not be deep enough. If it's loamy sand soil, it's probably about right.
Direct to metal paint, like rustoleum. Followed by caulking. Something rated for exterior use. I like silicone, but an acrylic is probaby more recommended in this application, ymmv. If it's already started to crack, you can't really reverse the process, but you can slow it down until it stops, then patch the crack. Don't use mortar unless you know it's matched materially with the existing mortar, or you're asking for trouble. It's generally not structurally concerning at all, but it is one of my pet peeves and looks like he'll.
Well, to be pedantic, since you are saying otherwise, there are two windows in size that are directly above the on the upper section of the building, as I had eluded to in my previous comment. And, to say unequivocally that that doesn’t meet the design aesthetic, especially merely because they are not arched seems a bit disingenuous. There are plenty of examples of buildings with arched windows only on the uppermost sections, to be sure.
That holds to the basic design layout, but there is more to the aesthetic than just the layout. Primarily the style. Further, if you look at the finished product there are no windows in that location. They have what looks like an exhaust vent or a makeup/combustion air intake there, and some kind of rectangular panel above it, but nothing matching those "windows". Maybe they are to be additional beam pockets, or maybe something to do with a boiler or octopus system install. I don't know.
Again, thank you for your input, but I find no interest in arguing what may or may not be construed as a design aesthetic. I will respectfully disagree that these windows could be ruled out as evidence of such.
In picture #3 of the OP I can see, what I think are the original dug out window slots. Obviously, it can be argued either way, but to me they look like window slots, and not like recently added wall extensions.
If you mean picture #4, I thought so too, but I found it to be on the wrong part of the building. If you did mean picture #3, i'd be curious to see what you're seeing, as I can't make it out.
Well I've never seen a pyramid built. I have seen buildings lifted and new foundations put on, and lots of brickwork.
I can't tell anything definitive from that photo.
Ah, thank you for the screenshot. As you can see in picture 8, that is the scaffolding that is up one level and to the right of where the windows that I am referring to are located. Picture 3 still has them obstructed by uncleared land, if we were to assumed that they were already a part of an existing structure. Picture 8 shows it unobstructed.
Looking closer, I do see a few things that don't make sense. I'll have to get to a computer and Mark up a couple photos to show what I mean.
Pics 10, 11, 12 show no windows in that location.
Thank you for setting me straight. My mind was having trouble reconciling the location from those photos. At first, I could not figure out why I had such troubles and had initially assumed that I was looking at the wrong location, but now I see why.
Yeah I mentioned those three holes. Look closer and you can see the end of the I beam that was installed in them. The beams were probably at least 50 feet long, and wouldn't fit through the door, so they had to open a hole and send them in through the wall. (Yep seen this done too)
The fact that there were 3 I beams there was already clear. I was referring to the two windows that are now there that weren't before. Thank you for your input, I'm gonna seek the perspective of others from here.
You are correct on that one. That is weird. Can't have a beam pocket and a window in the same spot. Either beams are temporary, or windows are false, and I don't think the windows are false, but I never found a good pic of them, to be sure.
I certainly agree with your assessment, except when you look at the grading of Omaha at that apparent time. The hills do not line up (literally) with the story. Not to toot my own horn, but what I posted originally is trying to say something about the grading in the roads compared to other buildings (or not) still there. It is hard to tell, but the "hills" in the story make no sense.
