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HeliFix PatchPin

HeliFix PatchPin

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After completing a recent parking garage that used over 30,000 HeliFix PatchPins with the contractor eventually saying “I wouldn’t use anything else!” I wondered how many of my concrete repair contractors are still spending $4-7/pin using the old resin and threaded rod method compared to about $2 installed for the PatchPin. Please confirm or dispute my numbers but watch the “17 second” installation video and consider – time to install, no waste of plastic or epoxy, use 1 or 10,000 at a time, NO CLEANING OF THE DRILL HOLE, it’s a DryFIx!, carry a days supply IN YOUR POCKET, bend easily as required, tie SS wire as needed. Think about it.

 

SSD – Just How Important

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SATURATED SURFACE DRY – Gives new meaning to the term when you have to hit several repeated times with a hose. Think the brick was a bit dry for this interior application?. A 3 gallon spray can is definitely not the preferred method of application to get an SSD surface on this brick, prior to the application of our RureGold Cement Based Carbon Fiber at the King Juan Carlos Tower at NYU. Skyline as always did an impeccable job. Link – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-EXzToIzkQ 

Saturated Surface Dry

ConSpec SIPvsROAR

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Logic dictates that Stabilization in Place is fundamentally more sound than Rip Out and Replace for restoration projects as well as needing less time and at reduced cost. It also provides less insult to the structure providing a more sustainable solution.

Rainscreen Version 2

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Think about a rainscreen with the facia panels providing relief, color, texture and definition. With Darwen a simple change from extruded to slip cast gives the architect and the owner the best of both worlds and supports our mason contractors as well.

Innovation in Real Time

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Recently  saw this as a post on LinkedIn from one of my specifiers. Immediately thought two things;

  1. This is a firm that gets what I do and I need to work with them even more in the future.
  2. Having introduced new Means, Methods and Materials to the restoration segment of the construction industry for 45 years this is a pictorial view of the way we look at traditional methods and how to improve on them.

MASONRY RESTORATION/STRENGTHENING SOLUTIONS

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Have any masonry restoration or strengthening situation that you might need an alternative or even primary solutions for? With one email, whether you are a contractor or an engineer days, weeks, months or even years could be cut off solving the problem. I have the horror stories that have in fact lasted years. It’s only an email, what have you got to lose. pjm@conspec-rep.com – Cindercrete weak, Drop Ceiling requires 1000# ultimate pullout, for example.Ceiling Anchor

Anchorage Fixing for Hollow Core Plank

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Cintec AnchorsHollow Core Plank – Retrofit anchor solutions. It has been over 12 years where one project in NYC had hollow core plank specified on 5000PSI CMU block walls. Problem was the job was built with 3000psi CMU resulting in compression failure of the brick at every floor line. In lieu of tearing down the structure we supplied custom Cintec anchors to allow the reskinning of the brick after we strengthen the connection for the plank to the block. Attachment to brick, CMU Block, Speed Tile or even steel is a typical application.

Vintage Blind Side Membrane Injection Waterproofing

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Almost 30 years since we did blind side injection into an overhead NYC Subway platform sandwich slab on Roosevelt Avenue to re-establish the waterproofing of the original felt paper/tar membrane, circa 1904, over a drop down electrical room. Those were the good old days when as usual we were told it couldn’t be done but when some says it “cannot be done” it means they cannot do it, it doesn’t mean that we cannot do it.

Fire Resistance/Concern for Anchors

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ENGINEERS, PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING – I just spoke with a national anchor testing lab. They told me that to get the test anchors out of the concrete, THEY USE A TORCH! Think about it. Ever wonder why resin anchors aren’t allowed over 6 stories in the UK, something else to think about.

Firte Resistance

GROZNY, RUSSIA. APRIL 3, 2013. A fire at a 145-meter-high building in Chechnya’s capital Grozny. This is the Olympus (Olimp) Tower in the Grozny City compound. (Photo ITAR-TASS / Murat Kazbekov)

When New Construction Turns Into Restoration

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Cintec while primarily used as a retrofit high capacity cement based fireproof anchor is rarely considered for new construction so most designers are not familiar with the 50 year track record of this system. However when there is a deficiency in new construction or an anchor fails, it them, by definition, becomes a restoration project. The problem now becomes, most structural engineers are not restoration/adaptive engineers and are not familiar with this type of retrofit solution. It is however a common solution in the restoration, stabilization, strengthening community. Please reach out to www.cintec.com or our site www.conspec-rep.com for your repair/restoration needs.

Cintec Socked Anchor