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Engineers on the board need advice: Boobies included
Dec 20, 2019, 8:58 AM
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Using quikrete to patch the large hole in the septic tank. How long will I have to wait before using any of the facilities in the house while the concrete is setting? Should I put something over the hole then the quikrete?
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28 days
Dec 20, 2019, 9:01 AM
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not really, probably 8-12 hours.
Is the hole in the top? How are you forming it?
Sides? Need forms and possibly dowels to hold it in place.
Bottom? Don't do nothing, just pour and let set for 8 hours.
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top corner***
Dec 20, 2019, 9:02 AM
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How are you going to form this? Are you just going to pour
Dec 20, 2019, 9:13 AM
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it on there and hope it stays? I am kangfused unless we are talking small hole.
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The hole is probably 6 inches by 8 inches.
Dec 20, 2019, 9:14 AM
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A foot at the most.
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A hole, on the top, 8" to 1' wide, and you are just going to
Dec 20, 2019, 9:17 AM
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pour quickrete on it and hope it sets before it falls through? No dowels, no forming, just mix with water and pour? I hope it works, but gravity is a real #####.
Maybe I am missing something though, make sure you don't mix the quickrete too thin.
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My plan was to mix it pretty thick. Like PB thick***
Dec 20, 2019, 9:19 AM
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probably won't work.
Also thought about getting a piece of metal sheet and putting over the hole first
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metal sheet, LOL***
Dec 20, 2019, 9:20 AM
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Nevermind, that was for riser tops? Remove concrete one,
Dec 20, 2019, 9:22 AM
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get a new slab one and put a riser on it, maybe.
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It's not the lid that's crumbled it's the top corner of the
Dec 20, 2019, 9:23 AM
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tank itself.
I can't draw a diagram on here.
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Is the top still on or are you just patching from the
Dec 20, 2019, 9:27 AM
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outside? Spread it thick and hope it sticks, that is my motto
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Top is still on. Patching from outside
Dec 20, 2019, 9:29 AM
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keep in mind this isn't your one piece tank.
This is cement blocks stacked and mortared into a tank. One of the blocks crumbled away over time. Gonna replace with another block and cement the whole #### thing around it. #### mortar
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You're going to need to do
Dec 20, 2019, 10:29 AM
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A slump test and test the compressive strength of the concrete by breaking a cylinder.
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Why not just poop in the hole?***
Dec 20, 2019, 9:03 AM
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This is why we need you here
Dec 20, 2019, 9:04 AM
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We don’t get quality advice like this when you’re gone.
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Dec 20, 2019, 9:20 AM
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If it's in the bottom half of the tank I'd wait 30 days.
Dec 20, 2019, 9:29 AM
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If it's on the upper side you might get by with a week. If it's on top of the tank 24 hrs is plenty. Water doesn't stop portland cement from curing. It actually helps. 24 hrs would be ok to cover the tank if the patch is on top but I wouldn't compact it for a week.
My concrete class in Lee Hall didn't cover studies on concrete curing in a poop environment.
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Lee Hall....ahh the memories.***
Dec 20, 2019, 10:02 AM
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Spring of 88 I got the horrible headaches which...
Dec 20, 2019, 10:29 AM
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turned out to be bending my neck to look down during study sessions. I had 24 semester hours so I was usually up at 4am and either in class or in a book until 11 or 12pm every night. I used weekends to catch up.
In order to remedy this and prevent it I used the drafting tables which tilted. I set up shop in that classroom in the back and often studies while other classes were held. I was almost a permanent fixture in there. I must have had 40 or 50 semester hours in that classroom.
I begged Liska for one of the offices in the basement but he was a turd and reserved them for grad students. I think three remained empty that semester. Steve Schutte would have given me one.
Oh the memories, is right.
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the obvious question...
Dec 20, 2019, 9:35 AM
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Who blew out the septic tank?
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