Meshed up.(Reader Response)

From: Concrete Construction | Date: October 1, 2004| Author: Burch, Leon A. | Copyright information

The cover photo of your August issue most eloquently illustrates one of my pet peeves. If you look closely, you will see that all of the wire mesh is lying on the ground, and there do not appear to be enough laborers to pull the mesh up, even if they were so inclined.

I have been in the concrete construction industry for 56 years. It has been my experience that over 90% of wire mesh reinforcement winds up on the ground doing the concrete virtually no good. The only thing ...

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