2000 Gallon Tank

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After Two Long Weeks Of vacation And Play Time We're Back To Work On The Tank. The Rest Of The Blocks Arrived Yesterday And We Got To Work. Now That We Have Ran Out Of Cement, We'll Just Have To Get More Tonight.
Here Are Some Pics Doesnt Look Much Differnt Just A Bit Higher.

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I have built an indoor pond from cinder blocks before, but it was only two cinder blocks tall. I didn't put anything inside of the blocks for reinforcement and it held for a year until I had to move and sell everything.

How did you guys determine how much reinforcement to use with the cinder blocks?
 
khayman218;811762; said:
I have built an indoor pond from cinder blocks before, but it was only two cinder blocks tall. I didn't put anything inside of the blocks for reinforcement and it held for a year until I had to move and sell everything.

How did you guys determine how much reinforcement to use with the cinder blocks?
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We Didn't Really Determine Anything Why Not Just Play It Safe. We Deceided Atfer Seeing So Many Cinder Block Tanks Being Bulit In The Past That Are Only Three, Four Blocks At The Most Beeing Fine. We Are Alomost Eleven High I can Just Imagine The Weight At The Bottom Of The Tank.

To Play It Safe We Thought Rebar Would Be Are Best Friend In This Project. The Rebar Is Sunk Into The Basement Floor And Comes Up Through The Cores Of The Blocks, SO Thats A 10" Cement Wall. If You Read Some Of The Post A Few Have COmment Saying We Don't Know What Were Doing. I Say A Basemt Foundation Doesnt Even Have The Cores Cement Filled And There Still Standing. Think Of All The Preasure On The Foundation Wall From The Out Side.......
On Another Note To Them "Were's Your Cement Tank......"

khayman218 - Thanks For The Post... We Just Thought It Would Be Good Idea.
 
Cleod99;811781; said:
We Didn't Really Determine Anything Why Not Just Play It Safe. We Deceided Atfer Seeing So Many Cinder Block Tanks Being Bulit In The Past That Are Only Three, Four Blocks At The Most Beeing Fine. We Are Alomost Eleven High I can Just Imagine The Weight At The Bottom Of The Tank.

To Play It Safe We Thought Rebar Would Be Are Best Friend In This Project. The Rebar Is Sunk Into The Basement Floor And Comes Up Through The Cores Of The Blocks, SO Thats A 10" Cement Wall. If You Read Some Of The Post A Few Have COmment Saying We Don't Know What Were Doing. I Say A Basemt Foundation Doesnt Even Have The Cores Cement Filled And There Still Standing. Think Of All The Preasure On The Foundation Wall From The Out Side.......
On Another Note To Them "Were's Your Cement Tank......"

khayman218 - Thanks For The Post... We Just Thought It Would Be Good Idea.
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I still don't like the idea of you filling the cores one row at a time. I think it might buckle at the bottom. I know it's hard to imagine, but concrete has no shear strength. It probably will hold, but I wouldn't trust it. Filling them from the top to create one monolith is a safer option IMHO...
 
Wizzin - I Think We Might Have A Mix Up The Cores Are Not Filled One Row At A Time Sorry. The Cores Are Just Poured Here And There. Never To The Top Either. Sorry For The MIx Up.
 
oh thats the way to do it or even to poar them half wat up too, but after the first three rown you dont need that support, asonly the lower blocks will be forced outwards at the bottom, the others would rely on the mortor to hold onto the row above and below them, im not a brick mason or a structural engeneer, that said you are doing a great job and i would fill them all in at once and vibrate the HELL out of it all...



On a side note, the last place i worked at i was a parts guy for a volvo/mack truck dealership. they/he/the-dutch-jew owner erected a box of cinder block deviding the shop and wherehouse, one wall devided the washbay and the wherehouse, this was to expand the parts side of it. Well they didnt drill down and didnt fill the blocks, and they didnt tie the new blocks in to the existing wall... Well one day the guy that washes the trucks hopped into the truck and started it, the truck was very long, a mack truck, a mack dump truck... it was parked 1" from that wall, and it was in grar, the key was turned and the truck lunged forward. moving the wall at the bottom and dissconnecting it from the existing wall and making it lean 3 feet at the top. it was slowly dissmantaled and no one was hurt...

The second time around when a new wall was to be put up they drilled down 1 foot every three blocks and pounded down rods, and filled the first three courses compleatly and tied in the new blocks to the onld wall, i garantee that the next time a mack truck tries to take that wall down it will have to be going at some speed... Also i was behind "said" wall as the truck came through and now i OVER-DO EVERYTHING!!!
 
i dont know if this stuff is just a marketing ploy...but they have on their website a video of a 600gal tank constructed only out of stacked cinder block(not even interlocked) glued together with their product called blue max... i know 600gal aint even half of cleo99's tank...but just to give you an indication of water pressure if your not in the game of calculating things..!!

http://www.amesresearch.com/bluemax.htm


good luck with your tank...i can only dream of building 1 one day...!
 
Thank You Portabuddy For Your Thoughtful Story... I'm Positive That Are Tank Is Going To Stand Strong.

Chill - Fan I Like The Idea With There blue Max We Found Almost The Same Product.
 
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Your tank kicks the ace. (thats a good thing....like kicks a** but a cleaner way to say it......LOL........you know...forum friendly if you will. and I do think you will!!!)
 
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