Forming LARGE Concrete Walls

Figure it's worth 200 bucks an hour for such demonstrable knowledge as a consultant. Figure an hour minimum whether it took you 15 minutes or a full hour. So the GA may be rated as worth 200 bucks. I'm sort of going by my experiences, as a designer, director, and inventor, on a particular job, where I got to where I made 1 hundred and 96 dollars an hour, after practice.

Most money I made per hour, was about 1,750, but that was for acting, which proves you can make a lot of money if you are willing to make a fool of yourself.

Around here on CR4, it is extremely unlikely you will get paid.

How things are valued, and what there real value is, and whether or not you get the money, can be very different things.

Couple of weeks ago a painting I did was sold for 20 bucks. Depending on how much of a fool I make of myself will determine later how much the buyer, or their family might find the investment to be of aid.

Around here I do hope I have helped people, for I have been helped, so I figure it is a wash, mostly, sort of, other than in those cases where I was outside the place contacted, and actually worked to a point where I said, "Either pay to play, or go away." Typically then they go away without paying.

It would be interesting to value every GA on the site at a rock bottom of 15 bucks, and add it up, to see what that figure was as far as any reflection of the overall value of the site.

We can be sure that now and then, sometimes, we en masse have either helped people get jobs done correctly for nothing, and on occasion prevented deaths or fires.

A product, or set of products that CR4 could sell day in and day out would be Grounding Rods, for instance.

The various postings about consulting with the form work manufacturer's is dead-on solid.

IF you've already been hired to do the foundation work then I would strongly advise that you somehow obtain in advance the Geotechnical Engineering Report and all finalized foundation plans and details from the Engineer of Record. IF the work is going out to bid and you're one of the bidders, then I would doubt you'd get the necessary information from the EOR.

Also, please keep in mind that each of these reinforced concrete foundations most likely could be classed as a large monolithic concrete placement, which dictates that you're going to have to provide some means of keeping the concrete cool-----please refer to ACI code regarding this matter as it'll factor in heavily in your final cost tally.

Just my 2 Cents for what it's worth.....