mister mac
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I assume you are planning to fix the reinforcement yourself.I cant see why tying the reinforcement with cable ties would be any faster.Also would the cable ties hold the reinforcement in position as the slab is being pokered (vibrated).Steel tying wire is tried and tested and if there was a faster way of doing it would have become the norm in the last 10 years of craziness.
Agreed. I really can't see cable ties being any quicker and i doubt you'll get as strong a 'bite' as with tie wire. Are you planning on tying the rebar yourself? If so after the first thousand or two ties you'll soon get the hang of it.
Am planning on tying the steel myself. My main reason for considering the cableties is that it would be quicker to loop round a cable tie and pull it shut compared with wrapping round a bit of tying wire cutting, clamping it in the nips/cutter twisting and cutting off excess.(imho)
In the raft drawing there is enough steel to hold up a skyscraper never mind the dormer that wer building so I would imagine that if a cable tie is used at every steel overlap and juncture of the frame it surely could not move.
There is a specific tool for twisting the wire ties (which should be purpose made with a ring at each end). The tool has a hook which engages the rings and is then pulled to twist the wire ties. Fast and much simpler that twisting and cutting wires to length.
Can't remember what the tool is called as it is over 40 years since I saw one, but I'm sure they must still be about.
Have a look t this. http://www.ecplaza.net/product/137011/788229.html. I just whipped this from google, it's from china I think.
I saw one of these at the ploughing in Kilkenny last year. Expensive at about €1500 - 2000 but if you tie stell all day every day it will save some heartache.
if you tie stell all day every day it will save some heartache.
Aswell as not giving a proper tie, you certainly won't be tying steel all day as you will spend a good portion of your time unclogging it, charging it, hitting it with a hammer in frustration......
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