Posts by Michael Fowler7

Bradley Nelson2 said:It's definitely worth a watch. The sheer willpower displayed by the guy was incredible. I heard some people back in the States were actually criticizing the second guy for cutting the rope 😕 personally, I thought they would have just abandoned him the moment his leg snapped. And that third one is a total psycho 😁

The third guy is a legend; he went up that mountain with them knowing essentially nothing more than "Joe and Simon"—he didn't even know their last names—just knowing they'd all be waiting for him at the base. 🙏 😕

The film itself is excellent. It’s been a long time since a movie gripped me like that and kept my undivided attention from start to finish... a true triumph of the human spirit.

Linda Gonzalez58 said:I mostly focused on his more lighthearted phase... 😁

I get what you're getting at, but I had to take issue with grouping him alongside those two. They have their own certain charm, granted, but even Clint Eastwood's "unserious" work is light-years ahead of Chuck Norris or Steven Spielberg... whether it's a good guy, a bad guy, or just plain evil. 🙏 🙏 Dirty Harry 🙏 🙏

Clint Eastwood is a far more serious filmmaker than what you’ve made him out to be... not to mention the absolute sacrilege of even grouping him in the same conversation as those two.. honestly

I'll sketch that out for you tomorrow morning once I've actually had my coffee and cleared my head. It should be ready by around 2:00 or 3:00 PM, and I'll shoot you an email then.
And just so we're clear, putting those sketches together might take an hour, maybe two at most, so I really don't see what all this panic is about. 🙂

Those bricks are essentially acting as structural support to prevent the masonry from collapsing; otherwise, this thin layer of brickwork, lacking any direct reinforcement to the concrete, would buckle quite easily.
I was simply curious about the foundation, as I wasn't entirely sure how the floor terminates in that corner, which might affect whether that specific detail ends up being perfectly accurate.

And while I realize this particular thread isn't exactly the venue for art critiques, had you not posted it here, you wouldn't have received a response from me, given that I rarely bother browsing the other subforums.😁 😁

Haha, we were stuck doing everything by hand during our freshman year too... thank God for AutoCAD. 😁 😁
Alright, then why don't you tell me exactly what this Irish guy is talking about?

I can send that over to you tomorrow as an AutoCAD file... or maybe a PDF. I'm just not in the mood to be drafting right now.
It shouldn't be much trouble for you, but let me try to walk you through it. It isn't even a matter of joining a brick wall to a concrete slab; just connect the slab to this wall and extend the ventilated facade further up. Just make sure you include masonry anchors at roughly one-meter intervals—if that sounds like too many, let me know. You'll embed them into the concrete as indicated in the plans. It wouldn't hurt to have those anchors equipped with drip edges, but that’s just getting into the weeds. Below that, the floor at the base of the wall should be a floating floor; the insulation runs alongside the wall, followed by the polyethylene sheeting, and then the screed. On top of that, you'll have that needle-punched flooring (whatever that specific material is called), but if we were using hardwood, you'd just install a baseboard at that corner to hide the joint. Hopefully, that makes sense.
And there aren't any seismic ties here (at least not in the joint you provided); those are used in brick walls for structural rigidity and earthquake protection.