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Do you have any trouble in passing the concrete for
ground floors, in new buildings ?
A.
Sometimes we have to serve notices, after it is done,
to get it redone.
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Do you inspect buildings in course of erection, before
they are finished ?
A.
Yes, daily, as far as time will allow.
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Q.
Now, would you know, as you pass a building daily, 17226
A.
and they are laying concrete down, do you go in and ses
that concrete while it is being laid ↑
Yes, and it is then that we condemn it, if it is bad.
You dont wait for it to be completed ?
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27 Q.
A.
No.
28
Q.
A.
What did you mean a little previous, about it being (7328
done again,
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redone ?
Very often a portion has been laid, and they are still
at it.
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Now, what do you think of the concrete that is generally
used here for the floors, with your experience as a
practical man?
30 Q.
28
A.
Some of it is fair. It a great deal depends on material.
Now, what is the cause of the great number of defects
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in concrete floers that we find here ?
A.
Bad material.
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Which material ↑
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Bad lime, and too great a proportion of red earth.
What about the size of the stone ↑
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A.
The size of the stone is sometimes larger than it
should be.
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How, did you carry out public works at home,
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superintend the erection of large buildings ?
Yes, I have been in the building trade the whole of my
life.
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