Whoops

[Chad Fabry]

So I arrive to do a footing inspection and the dialog occurred as follows:

Me: that looks like a footing, so you've decided on a trapezoid shaped addition?

Contractor: blank stare

Me: seriously- can't you see that the footing isn't square?

Contractor: Blood leaves his face

Me: I'm pretty sure this is embarrassing, right?

Contractor yells to crew: Measure the diagonals

Crew: within an 1/8 inch

Contractor smugly: That's perfect in my book

Me: your guy held the tape to the inside corner on one side and the outside corner on the other side.

Contractor: lack of blood leaves face stark white

The photo is the next day for the second footing inspection.

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[Marc]

What I'd give to have witnessed that...

Marc

[John Kogel]

Trap a zoid? Who you call a zoid, bitch? []

[Jim Katen]

In my experience, when things begin like that, they don't improve over the course of the rest of the project.

[Steven Hockstein]

Just curious, do you make them tie the different pours together in any way? Unlikely that there would be an issue, just wondering. Also, how do they anchor the block if there is no keyway or rebar.

[Chad Fabry]

I made them install foot long pieces of #5 rebar into 6 inch bored holes in the messed up footing on two foot centers. In the first photo you can see Vern and Cletus drilling the holes.

There is #5 bar on 4 foot centers to tie the poured in place wall to the footer. I stuck around for the pour and watched them place the vertical bar.

I followed up with the architect and advised him of the situation and he was OK with the fix.