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On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:48:49 -0600, "GraceCat"
wrote:


"Steve Touchstone" wrote So, since you
don't say if it's a problem that the builders caught, or
something that they were ignoring and/or trying to hide, I don't
know if you should worry or not.
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They just haven't caught it yet. The contractor hasn't done his
final walkthrough and the foreman is a perfectionist. I have no
doubt it'll be fixed to our satisfaction (everybody's). I've calmed
down, the purrs and prayers helped. It is and was just a bit
upsetting to walk in and see a wall wobble.

And Dad is knowledgable in this sort of thing too and he reasoned
that the structure and construction was sound, it was due to the
height, it would bow out slightly. So we need a beam going crosswise
to pull that slight bend when the door would shut. It sounds scary,
and believe me, seeing it was but it wasn't exactly unforeseen,
hence the reason they looked for it in the first place.

Grace
repeating the logical explanation over and over and over


I worked as a security guard while I was in college. Most of my time
was spent at a particular factory and the adjoining scrap-metal yard
(owned by the same company), but I had some days at other locations.
On one occasion, I spent a night guarding an office building that was
still under construction. The building, all on one level, had
aluminum-stud-and-sheetrock interior walls (non-load-bearing) about 8
feet high, and about 4 feet of open space above the walls, reaching
up to the building's roof. Presumably they were planning to put in a
suspended ceiling, with air ducts and the like above it. The floor
was plywood. I was not impressed with the sturdiness of the
construction, particularly given that, everywhere I walked in the
building, I could see the walls visibly vibrating to each step. I
felt like I was walking through one of those traditional Japanese
houses with sliding paper walls.

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