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Ron Beard CCS
Senior Member
Username: rm_beard_ccs
Post Number: 282
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 02:16 pm: |    |
Why is proper grading around a foundation wall always referred to as "positive" grading? Proper grading dictates that the grade slope down away from the wall which is negative.
[I know the answer is dependent on where your starting point is, but if one reads the wording of most uses of the term it is written backasswards.] |
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Unregistered guest
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 02:21 pm: | |
Because regardless of where you are standing (your starting point), when you are speaking of an object in the way of the grading you always refer to the grading from the point of view of grading against/towards it.
That's the default, unless you specifically state otherwise - and doing so is unconventional.
Archived mentally from my surveying class in university, 1970. |
D. Marshall Fryer, CSI, Assoc. AIA
Senior Member
Username: dmfryer
Post Number: 68
Registered: 09-2003
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 02:31 pm: | |
Because you can be positive the contractor will do it wrong? |
Wayne Yancey
Senior Member
Username: wayne_yancey
Post Number: 125
Registered: 01-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 02:35 pm: | |
Positive slope to drain away from the foundation.
Negative would be a positive slope draining back to the foundation, or bassackwards.
You want the shit to positively, absolutely slope away from the foundation. |
Philip R. Carpenter AIA
Senior Member
Username: philip_carpenter
Post Number: 28
Registered: 08-2008
| | Posted on Friday, October 17, 2008 - 08:05 pm: | |
Yes, as my visiting engineer mentioned to us acolytes in school:
there are 3 things you need to know about plumbing:
1) #?!@ flows downhill
2) payday is on friday
and
3) the boss is an #@!-hole |
John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: john_regener
Post Number: 418
Registered: 04-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 - 04:29 pm: | |
You forgot, "Never lick your fingers." |
Don Harris CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA
Senior Member
Username: don_harris
Post Number: 211
Registered: 03-2003
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 09:16 am: | |
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? |
Anonymous
| | Posted on Monday, October 20, 2008 - 09:25 am: | |
That's a Gallagher joke. |
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