Honey combed concrete

[Chris Bernhardt]

Would you comment on honey combs in concrete basement foundations even when there has been no history of moisture intrusion thru them? Or so they say.

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Chris, Oregon

[chrisprickett]

Looks to me like air pockets in the form when the wall was poured. Its hard to tell from that picture, combined with the paint.

[kurt]

In my market (old inner city houses), something like that wouldn't get a mention. If it was a brand new house, it would. In the broad picture, it doesn't look all that serious either way; I could argue it both ways, but it would mildly pedantic.

After that, if there was water coming through, you'd see the paint blistering & peeling.

[Les]

it is not honeycomb. It was a dry pour or a "lunch-line". Does not mean squat if it does not leak.

[hausdok]

Originally posted by Les

it is not honeycomb. It was a dry pour or a "lunch-line". Does not mean squat if it does not leak.

Or, instead of dumping that last trough load of washed out tailings on the ground they dumped them into the fresh mud.

OT - OF!!!

M.

[kurt]

Have you ever seen how, if the mud isn't shot down clean into the form, i.e., it bounces and ricochets back & forth off the opposite walls of the forms, it separates?

This wouldn't be that, would it? It's sort of a similar look, though, isn't it?

[Les]

Naw, likely just a little too much holy water added by truck driver and the worker folded it on top of concrete of the correct slump. Or there was a delay between two loads or it was a cold weather pour. Regardless it really does not mean much.

[Jim Katen]

Originally posted by Chris Bernhardt

Would you comment on honey combs in concrete basement foundations even when there has been no history of moisture intrusion thru them? Or so they say.

Chris, Oregon

Completely unimportant.

- Jim Katen, Oregon