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name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side
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name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

(OP)
Does anyone know the name of the CMU type that has a section of the block missing on one side to allow forming before pumping with grout?  (unable to pump from the top.)

Thanks!

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

Can you describe this a little better?

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

(OP)
Half high on one of the long sides only.

Similar to a header block but with the short sides full height.

I'll see about posting a sketch.

Thank You.

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

Based on your description, it is a header block. a header block is half way high along one of the long sides and the webs are cut in half as well.

Let me know

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

Seems "Header Block" is a class of it's own, separate from the other styles of block, at least according to this site:

http://www.fizzano.com/specs20.html




http://www.infodotinc.com/engbas/7-22.htm



Here are some additional images, none show a header block.
http://www.northfieldblock.com/blockpages.pdf

http://www.airvolblock.com/masonry/bloks_pr.htm

http://www.fracoinc.com/bond_beam.htm

http://www.fizzano.com/specs09.html





RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

In some areas, these are also known as "shoe" blocks.

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

SteveBausch,

Please explain how you pasted the block pictures in your message - it is really COOL!  (Cool: a word in use during the decade of the 1950's meaning neato, keen, crazy man, out-a-sight, its-the-bomb)

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

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It's pretty simple, I invoke the "img" tag

The tag is put within square brackets, if I used square brackets the tags might not show.



To include an image in your post:
{img http://www.mysite.com/images/happy.gif}

Replace the wavy brackets with square brackets.

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

Wow!  Images are what's been missing all along.  I have ignored some postings because without a picture I was not sure what was being asked.  You have broken new ground here.

Thanks,
Dave Adkins

RE: name for cmu that 1/2 is open to grout fill from side

Well, you know, we engineers cannot explain anything without sketching or drawing... LOL... otherwise we would have been reporters and or writers....

I think this picture/image posting is neat as well.... right on!

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