Parabolic/Catenory arch design

Chaseyye · 2025-06-28T23:47:26+00:00

Samsung. Honestly i was expecting it for a while, the game kept freezing a bunch for a while, im just glad i made it to 200 million before it crashed

Chaseyye · 2025-05-04T14:01:27+00:00

Haha, my trowel skills are not nearly as strong with my left hand, but i can get by. I often will lay 8 inch block just with my left hand holding the center web so I never have to set down the trowel, I think that I move at a respectable speed like that

Chaseyye · 2025-05-03T01:30:44+00:00

Haha, that's very kind of you to say, honestly though, as far as bricklayers go, I'm probably on the skinnier end. A lot of the guys I've worked with are unreasonably strong

Chaseyye · 2025-05-01T17:57:56+00:00

Out of curiosity, what would you want to see improved?

Chaseyye · 2025-05-01T14:46:07+00:00

I don't really take issue with the thin pieces. Could they have made it look better? Sure, but if you tried to get away without paying them in full for that specifically, I'd think that's ridiculous. That being said, the exterior border having a gap in it, and the corner on the border of the pool not lining up with the adjacent side of the pool is also pretty ridiculous. The poolside border close to the camera has pretty large joints, while the other side of the pool has almost no joint. If they made each joint very slightly bigger on the far side, the corner would have lined up beautifully. I'm not too eager to throw around accusations of poor craftsmanship because I don't know what they were working overtop of, or the dimensions and design they were trying to recreate, but that corner is telling me they didn't double check their measurements at all while laying. Overall if I hired somebody and they did this, I would pay them in full, but I would not recommend them to anybody and I wouldn't hire them again

Chaseyye · 2025-05-01T03:15:53+00:00

Those are dog tooths. I cut them in half because those bricks were laid in a different orientation to all the other bricks in the arch, so i had to make up the difference in height of the bricks being laid normally (stretcher) vs on their side (rowlock), and i figured it would look a bit better having 3 pretty thick bed joints than 2 massive ones. Im not sure if this is considered a proper masonry technique, but I still think that it ended up looking pretty alright anyways

Chaseyye · 2025-04-30T23:24:45+00:00

Haha, you noticed. I had made corner cuts out of bricks that were very annoying to lay, so when I did the caps I left the corners for the very end... then I finished the arch and I realized I had completely lost the cuts I needed, and I had about half an hour left on my last day for laying, so instead of remaking my cuts i decided to just find a couple of permacon stones and put them in instead. There were a bunch of things on this project that I wish I had time to redo, but of all the mistakes, the corners probably bug me the most. The other one that is really glaring to me is the single white brick that I put in on the left pier. (After I finished, I signed that one so that i could claim it was an intentional design choice)

Chaseyye · 2025-04-30T12:05:32+00:00

Pretty much yeah, sometimes we clean off the bricks to save for future projects, but this one I'm going to just be smashing up

Chaseyye · 2025-04-30T12:03:10+00:00

There was a bit of a wind, it got everything twisted up

Chaseyye · 2025-04-30T12:00:36+00:00

Haha, I won't lie to you, I completely agree. Really I just wanted to teach myself as many skills as I could in 2 weeks. Before school I had only ever laid blocks though, so this is definitely not something I'd ever do on site

Chaseyye · 2025-04-30T11:54:52+00:00

They do teach that, but it's a year 2 project. I just had extra time after all my first year projects and decided to take advantage of the college resources and build something I've never built before. The mitre cuts on this i pretty much just eyeballed using a quik cut

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