RE: RE: Mazunte Build - Starting The Long Finish
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RE: Mazunte Build - Starting The Long Finish

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Looks like there´s a mistake in your steel work! 😘
It is difficult for me to explain in English, because I never did any construction work in English, but I try, and you understand German, don´t you?
In a Sturz (lintel/ beam) you put the Bügel (brackets?), the rectangular iron things which hold the bars in place, in a way so that the Schlösser (locks?), the parts of the Bügel where the steel is overlapping to close the Bügel, are at the topside of the beam, and you swap between right side and left side.
The logic behind is that the lintel, when it gets load from the top, bends more at the bottom side, so you don´t want to put the locks there, because they are the weakest part of the bracket.
On your first photo the lock of the third bracket is at the bottom left side.
In a vertical column you put the locks in all four corners and alternate evenly between them, because pressure force acts equally on all corners.

At least that´s what we used to do 30 years ago.
And it was in Germany not Mexico. 😘