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Be carefull how you draw it.........

Stress Co_
Advisor
Just what you don't want to see at a site inspection .......

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Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

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Anonymous
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Now that is an incompetent contractor!
Dwight
Newcomer
While it is funny to think that a bubble connector line could be made into a stair tread, how do you think they did it and still matched the height and number of risers?
Dwight Atkinson
Stress Co_
Advisor
Dwight wrote:
While it is funny to think that a bubble connector line could be made into a stair tread, how do you think they did it and still matched the height and number of risers?
Simple..... 4-1/2" Risers
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

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Dwight
Newcomer
Precisely!

You can forgive a builder for mistaking a line for an edge, but not for sitting down and recalcualting the stair.
Dwight Atkinson
Aussie John
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The ironic thing is the guy doing the work was probably muttering to himself about what a dumb @@ the Architect is!!


An old boss once told me he arrived on site to find all the windows with diagonal glazing bars which matched the hinge/opening chevron on the drawings
Cheers John
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Dwight
Newcomer
This is a good example of bad graphics - double checks of the riser math aside - it is like an optical illusion: once the diagonal is seen in the mind as a step, it is impossible to eradicate.

Sometimes i think the drafting board was a safer place to work because bad overlaid graphics like this could never happen. Almost never. There was the time a coffee ring on my drawing was built as a spiral stair, but that should have been easy to catch.
Dwight Atkinson
Stress Co_
Advisor
Dwight wrote:
Sometimes i think the drafting board was a safer place to work because bad overlaid graphics like this could never happen. Almost never.
I once had a project with a concrete walkway that had a scored-gridline layout.
A dimension string's leader line crossed the walkway.....and you guessed it....... They scored it in the conc.
One oblique line bisecting the grid.

This was on a drafting board
Marc Corney, Architect
Red Canoe Architecture, P. A.

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Dwight
Newcomer
Stress wrote:

This was on a drafting board
This explains your avatar, then.
Dwight Atkinson
KeesW
Advocate
I once drew a wobbly line to indicate a craftwood panel behind a reception desk to find it built on site. The builder had made a full size template of my scribble and cut it out with a jig-saw. Funny thing was - it looked OK!
Cornelis (Kees) Wegman

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