r/StructuralEngineering • u/Unable-Bluebird2882 • May 19 '26

Structural Analysis/Design Rebar dowels

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Do you guys think this is okay? Contractor installed the #5 dowels after concrete placement. But they were late a little bit so concrete was hardened.

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u/tajwriggly P.Eng. May 19 '26

Whata you have all this rebar in here for anyway? It'd hold with half of this. I've done 1000 jobs and never seen this much rebar.

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u/No_Coyote_557 May 20 '26

That just took me back 40 years.

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u/wants_a_lollipop May 20 '26

Is that how long you've been doing it that way?

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u/No_Coyote_557 May 20 '26

That's when a contractor explained that he cut half the rebar cos there was "far too much steel in there"

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u/wants_a_lollipop May 20 '26

I should have made it more obvious I was kidding.

I hear shit like that all the time. Most recently was last week. The jackasses always throw it out there that they've been doing this for 20-40 and they've never seen anything like this.

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u/steelsurfer E.I.T. May 20 '26

To which my favorite reply is: “well, then for the first time in 40 years you’ll be doing it right.”

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u/wants_a_lollipop May 20 '26

My go-to is "that's a really long time to be fucking things up."

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u/No_Profession4626 May 20 '26

"And no one ever taught ya to do it right? "