Concrete towers

dazza b

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Lancaster

• Dec 5, 2017

• #1

Has anyone had problems with new concrete towers cracking and weeping?

 

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grass man

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• Dec 5, 2017

• #2

friend has 2 macrete stores only a few years old that have cracked every panel and are leaking. they are big about 1 million gallon each. I suggested standing a long long distance away from them. have you heard something similar?

 

dazza b

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Location

Lancaster

• Dec 6, 2017

• #3

Yeah I’ve heard of a few doing it is it normal then and what are they thinking of doing to sort it out?

 

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grass man

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• Dec 6, 2017

• #4

cant be normal to have a liquid storage tank crack and leak. haven't heard the outcome but I cant see how they can be repaired. I think they will have to be demolished. extremely unsafe. how are the manufacturers dealing with the ones you heard about and what make are they?

 

dazza b

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Location

Lancaster

• Dec 7, 2017

• #5

Think they are marcrete think they are just wanting to paint them?? My worry would is say it freezes hard what will happen to these cracks

 

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grass man

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• Dec 7, 2017

• #6

that's the most pathetic response ive ever heard. these manufacturers supply something to do a simple job and instead they construct a bomb that's likely to explode and destroy/kill everything in its path and the best solution they can come up with is paint over the cracks. what a joke. they need to be made to offer full refunds and remove the damaged structures off site before someone gets hurt

 

MickMoor

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Location

Bonsall, UK

• Dec 10, 2017

• #7

Sadly, bulk storage is a very complicated matter, and just for the record, I have only my own experience to help me understand. When you fill ANY silo or tank, it stretches because of the contents. Concrete, is weak in tension, so is not able to accomodate this stretching, so concrete stores should always be over designed, with some sort of pre-tensioning mechanism, more than capable of resisting the stretching pressure of the contents. Concrete is very strong in compresssion, so this pre-tension can be, and needs to be, very high. If not enough additional tension is included in the structure, concrete being low in tensile strength, cracks.

 

Kevtherev

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Welshpool Powys

• Dec 10, 2017

• #8

Similar with the old concrete reco silage towers most have been demolished

 

MickMoor

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Location

Bonsall, UK

• Dec 11, 2017

• #9

Kevtherev said:

Similar with the old concrete reco silage towers most have been demolished

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Exactly! Best work we used to get. There are still a two or three about, but they don't seem to want them knocked down.

 

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tjzservices

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dorset

• Dec 25, 2017

• #10

dazza b said:

Has anyone had problems with new concrete towers cracking and weeping?

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dude, seriously!!
get on the email(paper trail) to the lot who supplied and erected you with what is now little more then a disaster waiting to happen and if they won't make good, threaten them with reporting to everyone from trading standards to the pope.
as long as you adhered to any curing time for panels/footing concrete works or any other 'get outs' laid out in small print