My first job was at a fruit supplier company. I was in the orange and citrus department and loaded massive barrels of fruit every single day at work. It was an honest living, but I ended up hurting my back during a normal work procedure one afternoon and it put me in the hospital for […]
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My region is constantly hit with rain and thunderstorms year long
Before I moved into this area, I was used to having very little precipitation throughout the year. In the winter the temperatures hovered in the high 30s and only snowed every now and then. As far as rain was concerned, that was almost always confined to the late summer months, with perhaps a few thunderstorms […]
I have an artist friend who buys new rebar wire for crafting beautiful furniture
My friend Michelle has been an artist her entire life, but she hasn’t always stuck with the same medium. While she prefers handcrafted visual art these days, she was a budding young musician and poet in college. She just happened to be brilliant at ceramics after sculpting with clay in her early childhood with her […]
I warned the apartment manager against not using rebar in the sidewalk construction
It’s always hard when you sign leases on apartments that get sold while your contract is still active. You are six months into your annual lease and suddenly you are renting from a new company altogether, often one that is seeking to run the same business with lower operating costs to squeeze what little profit […]
There are solutions for rust-resistant rebar wire in coastal construction applications
I moved to the ocean after years of living up north and subjecting myself to worsening winter freezes. Temperatures at negative thirty degrees fahrenheit are no joke, especially when the wind chill is even colder than that. I asked myself how much more of this I could subject myself to before losing my mind of […]
Some building materials have been outlawed over the years for various reasons
The corrosion can spread into areas where the epoxy coating remains intact, making it harder to diagnose the areas that need repair I understand that building materials are often outlawed after decades of widespread use, often growing out of a former misunderstanding of the safety and danger in long term human exposure. This happened in […]
I was talking to the lumber man at the hardware store about building supply chain issues
I like to chat with the guys at the hardware store whenever I’m picking up building supplies. I’ve been trying to finish a mother-in-law suite for the past year but I had no choice but to finish it incrementally when supply chain backups prevented me from accessing the wood and supplies I needed. Things haven’t […]
My grandfather’s company is building new condominiums with galvanized steel rebar wire
I’m proud to be from a family of business owners. My parents for instance own an outdoor recreation company that specializes in renting canoes and kayaks to people wanting to traverse our coastal waterways. They make the majority of their money for the year during the peak of tourist season, which for us is during […]