Button ties, they go with 3/4" form ply and 2x4 walers. Has a wedge that gets pounded onto it to clamp the waler tight to the plywood.
Edit: you're supposed to snap them off and fill the holes after.
Do you think OP knows what 2x4 walers are if they don't know what form ties are?
[Here's a visual](https://i0.wp.com/theconstructor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Snap-Tie-System.jpg?resize=675%2C369&ssl=1) for those that don't do concrete.
Once you snap the ties, the plastic cones come out easily since the concrete won't bond to them. They're really rigid so the concrete doesn't crush them either.
There used to be a dictionary for construction website that had photos and diagrams I’d share but they took it down years ago. Anybody know of anything else like that?
>you're supposed to snap them off and fill the holes after.
I've literally never seen a pour where they filled the holes afterward. It's rare they even bother removing them. Contractors are literally the worst thing ever invented.
>Sounds like somebody always goes with the lowest bidder.
you'd think so, but no. The more expensive contractors just do a better job of hiding how they've fucked you.
I don't know too much about concrete but I worked for a small business right out of highschool and used these ties with wood form boards (practically ¾" plywood with a laminated sides). We'd have to drill holes at certain intervals, run these ties through then clamp them on each side of the form with 2x4s.
Seen both types in residential in Canada, not sure the difference but both at different companies. Both were on townhome developments above grade walls. (Ie not footings or perimeter walls)
Snap ties, they snp off if you swift them. those are used to hold the forms together when the concrete is poured. They usually snap them off after the forms ate stripped though.
Work in large commercial construction and this correct. Best practice is to snap the ties and patch with non shrink grout to prevent the metal from creating a corrosion pathway.
I always wondered about that, because I can see the ends of rusty metal sticking out of my foundation.
Is it too late to grout now? The foundation is 50 years old.
It's unlikely that yours are the recessed ties like the snap on in this picture. Yours are likely stripez or duraform, grout shouldn't be used, but patch or dap with tar, hopefully the exterior was done, we typically don't touch the living space as it should be climate controlled.
Only use tar if it's below grade(backfill/dirt) above grade, use concrete patch, then the exposed concrete should be parged all the way up to the drip edge. You should definitely patch exposed ties on the exteriors of homes. Unless it's on a garage, then it's not super crucial.
I know they do. That, and they leave their fucking piss bottles in the wall. At a new house, we were fixing ductwork that the sprinkler guys crushed putting in sprinklers and happened to be there when the customer was cutting a wall out to add a swinging door,. The guys were sawsalling the drywall and hit one of their piss bottles in the wall. The customer was furious and made the builder replace the carpet because there was rotting piss in the bottle that was now soaked into his carpet. This was phase 1 of a 4 phase build and because of it, the builder fired all the drywallers on the spot and got someone else to come replace them. Builder said this company just lost a 1.4 million dollar contract with all the work to finish up phase 1 and then do phase 2 through 4.
It’s exceptionally common among dry wallers, I bet someone on the new crew will just keep doing it, odds are it will be more then one depending on the size of the crew
Don’t listen— This guy has no idea. These are invasive southwestern steelhead worms. They are moving north due to climate change and are outcompeting their northern cousins.
I was breaking these off one day, in a shitty mood. It was a huge form pour for us, did a rather large house/shop combo.Wellll, I was using a piece of pipe so slide it over spin and then press it and it'll break off usually. Well one just broke way easily and I smashed my ring finger tip right on the fucking corner of the form wall between the pipe. Insta destroyed my fingernail and broke my fingertip. Probably the single most painful injury I think I've had still to this day. Even breaking my wrist and needing surgery wasn't a drop in the bucket to the agony and throbbing.
Ya, got my first knuckle on middle finger smashed by a sledgehammer no glove, reached in to adjust a pipe right when my buddy was going to tap it over at the same time. Just walked away, couldn't talk it hurt so bad. Wanted to cry like a bitch no lie. Finger tip swelled up like a purple grape. At the moment I wanted to be anywhere else but there ha.
I smashed my finger with a sledgehammer last week. Blood was dripping all over the new concrete while my coworkers chanted “it’s just a flesh wound.” Thing swelled up like a tick
I recall one time when I was serving in the Marines loading rounds into my magazine, and something happened where I smacked the hell out of my thumb, got a blood blister, and nearly fainted.
The bottom row are knee gougers, the middle are elbow snaggers and the top are head stitches. The middle row can also be head stitches if you’re bending over.
Snap ties, bend them over, twist and they break off, then remove plastic cone and patch back with cement mortar mix. Apparently, someone didnt finish the last step....
Back when I did crawlspace insulation, one of the guys said those things were to attach our vapor barrier to the side of the foundation and most houses in the PNW have it on foundations like this. Didn’t know there were from the concrete forms. Learn some new everyday huh
We had a batch that wouldn’t snap. So I was cutting them flush with a Demo saw and one flew 30’ and stuck in a guys lower leg!Crazy shit happens sometimes. He was ok but had some nerve damage for a few months.
These are simply called snapties w/metal washers. If this job would have been done correctly. The contractor would have broken them off and covered the hole with mortar.
They are called snap ties. They add strength to concrete form work when build walls or stem walls. Someone will come by and snap those off. Piece of pvc works great
I’m scrolling, see the question and think form tie. I click just to confirm what I know to be fact. Yup seems every one agrees it’s a picture of form ties. So yeah, there’s that.
Some basements are built using cinder blocks.
Some basements, like this one, are built by pouring cement into forms that create a mould for the walls. These forms are built using sheets of plywood and these button ties. Essentially there is the outer plywood wall connected to an inner plywood wall and held apart at a uniform distance using these button ties.
Cement truck pours the wet cement into the basement forms and it is left to dry. When sufficiently cured, they pull the plywood walls away, leaving the hardened cement walls with the button ties sticking out.
This picture was snapped before a worker got around to clipping them.
I know you may be young but those are nails. I know screws are pretty much all you see now but people use to burn down barns to collect nails because they were so labor intensive to make.
I wasn't thinking anything of it but actually, this looks old. The green shit growing on the walls and the plant growth and dead leaves. I'm not sure it's freshm
Form ties for Mod-U-Forms or standard cleat style forms. Keeps the plywood from buckling. Concrete pushes the middle of the plywood out when
poured without these, resulting in a “fat” wall pour.
They are snap ties. They hold the form work together and should be removed at this point. Easiest way to break them off is with a 2 foot metal pipe just big enough to fit over them. Push it on and raise/lower the pipe flat against the wall.
These are snap ties, used with 2x4s/4x4 to hold plywood for concrete forming, you can bend it flat into the wall and then rotate and it will snap right at the concrete, they usually have a plastic orange piece on them as well which you will see right where it meets the concrete on both side
Snap ties, you can break them off by bending them 90 degree against the wall then rotate until they snap off. Once they snap off the plastic cone should come out of the concrete wall, fill the holes l ft by the cone with some grout
Ahhh. Memories, sweet memories. Snapped enough of those to smelt a sword and chain mail
I seriously believe ferro-cement is the most awesome building material in the world. I mean, you build a freaking boat outta the stuff!
Form ties
Wack them off with your hammer
Twist them off
Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew
Rack em stack em eat em from a shoe!
Lick em, flick em, throw em in some poo
Dye em, fry em, taste em in blue
Pick em, click em, dip em in goo
peel em, steal em, give em to the crew
What? No. That’s just…eww!
COVID, herpes, give em flu, too.
Taters, precious!
This also works but I find the hammer to be so much more satisfying
>wack them off This is your answer to everything
Instructions unclear; emergency room visit in immediate future….
Or wack your hammer off with them?
That guy who's camper you were wacking?
Way to not end your sentence with a preposition
You're a federal agent!
You guys have no ideal how happy I am that someone got this
Like you.
Whacking off, on the job site. Just wear your hard hat
Button ties, they go with 3/4" form ply and 2x4 walers. Has a wedge that gets pounded onto it to clamp the waler tight to the plywood. Edit: you're supposed to snap them off and fill the holes after.
Do you think OP knows what 2x4 walers are if they don't know what form ties are? [Here's a visual](https://i0.wp.com/theconstructor.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Snap-Tie-System.jpg?resize=675%2C369&ssl=1) for those that don't do concrete.
Thank you
Nailed it
Nicely done.
Google is a wonderful thing. With the proper terms, OP can wander down the right path.
Agreed but Hence the inherent issue they dont and relies on possibly flawed term logic get the wrong advice
Why are the cones made of plastic? Won't they get crushed by the surrounding concrete?
Once you snap the ties, the plastic cones come out easily since the concrete won't bond to them. They're really rigid so the concrete doesn't crush them either.
There used to be a dictionary for construction website that had photos and diagrams I’d share but they took it down years ago. Anybody know of anything else like that?
Did Mike Tyson make that?
They’re called ‘Snap-Ties’ because…
>you're supposed to snap them off and fill the holes after. I've literally never seen a pour where they filled the holes afterward. It's rare they even bother removing them. Contractors are literally the worst thing ever invented.
Sounds like somebody always goes with the lowest bidder.
>Sounds like somebody always goes with the lowest bidder. you'd think so, but no. The more expensive contractors just do a better job of hiding how they've fucked you.
Those don’t look anything like the ones I’ve used. What system are they from?
Form system
Homie has a commercial kitten wrangler flair. King of construction.
What do you call dealing with full grown children on site? Sure ain't managing professionals 😂
I've always heard the term "permanent teenagers" lol
I refer to all of my trades as my "kids". Concrete kids, rebar kids, framing kids, drywall kids... none have objected yet.
We make fun of people who say they're "professionals ".
What do you call directing dump trucks "Herding Kittens" because they have the same attention span and object permanence
I don't know too much about concrete but I worked for a small business right out of highschool and used these ties with wood form boards (practically ¾" plywood with a laminated sides). We'd have to drill holes at certain intervals, run these ties through then clamp them on each side of the form with 2x4s.
Oh interesting… here the ties are flat and the holes for them are pre drilled
There is a couple different types of forms some use these and some use the flat ones like you are talking about
Seen both types in residential in Canada, not sure the difference but both at different companies. Both were on townhome developments above grade walls. (Ie not footings or perimeter walls)
"I may not know much about nuclear reactors, but I know a lot about concrete."
It’s use with the Bruke bracket system. Ties goes through 3/4” plywood and use 2x4s for whalers and strong backs.
Slotted wedge goes under cap. The rods are supposed to be removed after concrete sets by cutting or breaking.
And then hydraulic cement...or at least that's how we do it
Out West we call those wedges Mule Pussies
We call them cow cunts
Moo muffs.
Plywood
Snap ties, they snp off if you swift them. those are used to hold the forms together when the concrete is poured. They usually snap them off after the forms ate stripped though.
Work in large commercial construction and this correct. Best practice is to snap the ties and patch with non shrink grout to prevent the metal from creating a corrosion pathway.
I always wondered about that, because I can see the ends of rusty metal sticking out of my foundation. Is it too late to grout now? The foundation is 50 years old.
Do it, better late than never
It's unlikely that yours are the recessed ties like the snap on in this picture. Yours are likely stripez or duraform, grout shouldn't be used, but patch or dap with tar, hopefully the exterior was done, we typically don't touch the living space as it should be climate controlled.
Bummer, the exterior is where I see it. I have some tar, I'll try that. Thank you.
Only use tar if it's below grade(backfill/dirt) above grade, use concrete patch, then the exposed concrete should be parged all the way up to the drip edge. You should definitely patch exposed ties on the exteriors of homes. Unless it's on a garage, then it's not super crucial.
Naw just cut them off with a cordless 3 and a 1/2 inch grinder. Makes your day way easier and you get a nice flush cut
It’s for the drywallers to hang their shitpails during construction
Ha drywallers use the corner bruh
Drywaller use the tub and toilet with no water
Plumber here, can confirm
I have actually had them take the bowls out of the box use them and put them back in the box .
I know they do. That, and they leave their fucking piss bottles in the wall. At a new house, we were fixing ductwork that the sprinkler guys crushed putting in sprinklers and happened to be there when the customer was cutting a wall out to add a swinging door,. The guys were sawsalling the drywall and hit one of their piss bottles in the wall. The customer was furious and made the builder replace the carpet because there was rotting piss in the bottle that was now soaked into his carpet. This was phase 1 of a 4 phase build and because of it, the builder fired all the drywallers on the spot and got someone else to come replace them. Builder said this company just lost a 1.4 million dollar contract with all the work to finish up phase 1 and then do phase 2 through 4.
Need to find their jars of screws and fill 'em with piss.
It’s exceptionally common among dry wallers, I bet someone on the new crew will just keep doing it, odds are it will be more then one depending on the size of the crew
Northwestern steelhead worms!!! You've got an infestation. Attack them while they are dormant in their cocoon...
Don’t listen— This guy has no idea. These are invasive southwestern steelhead worms. They are moving north due to climate change and are outcompeting their northern cousins.
No no you're thinking of the Alaskan bull worm, it often drives communities out of their natural habitat due to their aggressive nature
Nah, your all wrong, they installed coat hooks for the men.
And the women and children too
You forget, the southwestern steelhead worms have slight ridges under the head
oh no — I think they may be crossbreeding! We’re doomed.
Lol wtf
Silly questions deserve silly answers
Why is this a silly question? Like, obviously they're nails of some sort, but what is their function? Why are they like that?
Negative on nails
They're cross dressing as nails.
Donde es la biblioteca
Coat hooks, you simply tap them up and you can hang your coat.
And your tool belt!
And myself!
Bad day buddy? wanna talk about it?
Not in the slightest!
You ever ask me about my feelings on this site again and I’ll hang you up from these ties
And my axe.
And my bow
And my gun
The amount of times I’v got caught walking to close to these gave that “coat hook” comment a whole new meaning
Snap ties for the form work. They should have been twisted off and the holes patched with grout.
I was breaking these off one day, in a shitty mood. It was a huge form pour for us, did a rather large house/shop combo.Wellll, I was using a piece of pipe so slide it over spin and then press it and it'll break off usually. Well one just broke way easily and I smashed my ring finger tip right on the fucking corner of the form wall between the pipe. Insta destroyed my fingernail and broke my fingertip. Probably the single most painful injury I think I've had still to this day. Even breaking my wrist and needing surgery wasn't a drop in the bucket to the agony and throbbing.
Ya, got my first knuckle on middle finger smashed by a sledgehammer no glove, reached in to adjust a pipe right when my buddy was going to tap it over at the same time. Just walked away, couldn't talk it hurt so bad. Wanted to cry like a bitch no lie. Finger tip swelled up like a purple grape. At the moment I wanted to be anywhere else but there ha.
Oh yeah, well i once stubbed my baby toe on the corner of the couch.
Did you die?
Damn near…! Still collecting benefits.
I smashed my finger with a sledgehammer last week. Blood was dripping all over the new concrete while my coworkers chanted “it’s just a flesh wound.” Thing swelled up like a tick
[удалено]
I recall one time when I was serving in the Marines loading rounds into my magazine, and something happened where I smacked the hell out of my thumb, got a blood blister, and nearly fainted.
Thank you for the sympathetic sphincter tightening.
Snap ties. Bend it flat to the wall and twist it. It will snap off an inch inside the concrete. The holes can then be patched
The bottom row are knee gougers, the middle are elbow snaggers and the top are head stitches. The middle row can also be head stitches if you’re bending over.
Insert baby dynamite sticks. They have to be baby.
Back scratchers.
Those are Ouchy Makers.
Snap ties
If you have to ask…. Don’t touch
Back scratcher
Snap ties, bend them over, twist and they break off, then remove plastic cone and patch back with cement mortar mix. Apparently, someone didnt finish the last step....
Nails
Back when I did crawlspace insulation, one of the guys said those things were to attach our vapor barrier to the side of the foundation and most houses in the PNW have it on foundations like this. Didn’t know there were from the concrete forms. Learn some new everyday huh
Form snap ties that weren’t snapped.
Wi-Fi antennas
Hex head snap tie. Works with cow pussies or a brackets.
Lazy foremans
Lazy
It’s where you hang shoes and cow pussies for concrete forms.
Snap ties
They’re so you can climb up the wall
Normally they get broken off.
Look man, it's cold. They're normally bigger and don't droop like that.
We had a batch that wouldn’t snap. So I was cutting them flush with a Demo saw and one flew 30’ and stuck in a guys lower leg!Crazy shit happens sometimes. He was ok but had some nerve damage for a few months.
Tie rods
Shit that can kill you.
Ingrown toenails
Those are nails.
Nails
Form nails or “nails” they will break off or come out if bent back and forth enough
These are simply called snapties w/metal washers. If this job would have been done correctly. The contractor would have broken them off and covered the hole with mortar.
Wall ties they should just be broken off
Ties
They are called snap ties. They add strength to concrete form work when build walls or stem walls. Someone will come by and snap those off. Piece of pvc works great
I’m scrolling, see the question and think form tie. I click just to confirm what I know to be fact. Yup seems every one agrees it’s a picture of form ties. So yeah, there’s that.
Why do you care what they are. Break em off or leave em be
Powder actuated nails. What ever they were holding gas been ripped off.
Look like nails chief
Some basements are built using cinder blocks. Some basements, like this one, are built by pouring cement into forms that create a mould for the walls. These forms are built using sheets of plywood and these button ties. Essentially there is the outer plywood wall connected to an inner plywood wall and held apart at a uniform distance using these button ties. Cement truck pours the wet cement into the basement forms and it is left to dry. When sufficiently cured, they pull the plywood walls away, leaving the hardened cement walls with the button ties sticking out. This picture was snapped before a worker got around to clipping them.
Cement is an ingredient in concrete.
Plumbuses.
Nails from the form job
I know you may be young but those are nails. I know screws are pretty much all you see now but people use to burn down barns to collect nails because they were so labor intensive to make.
An example of a lazy formwork contractor
Or one who hasn’t gotten to removing them yet…
I wasn't thinking anything of it but actually, this looks old. The green shit growing on the walls and the plant growth and dead leaves. I'm not sure it's freshm
They hold whalers John clamp or hair pins.
Those look like studs, although they're usually shit on steel members( beams n such)
Form ties for Mod-U-Forms or standard cleat style forms. Keeps the plywood from buckling. Concrete pushes the middle of the plywood out when poured without these, resulting in a “fat” wall pour.
Cenobite
They are snap ties. They hold the form work together and should be removed at this point. Easiest way to break them off is with a 2 foot metal pipe just big enough to fit over them. Push it on and raise/lower the pipe flat against the wall.
Snap ties. Loose leaf forms is what we’ve called them. Basically building a studded wall out of plywood and 2 bys
Snap ties
It's growing. Soon it will encompass the entire wall. Then it will burst free.
Time for some whack the mole!!!
Limp dicks?
Snap ties go ahead and bend them twist them and they snap
Mule Pussy Pins
Unsnapped snap ties. This is the old school plywood forming method I poured my basement with. Should be snapped off and tarred.
Nails any other questions really
These are snap ties, used with 2x4s/4x4 to hold plywood for concrete forming, you can bend it flat into the wall and then rotate and it will snap right at the concrete, they usually have a plastic orange piece on them as well which you will see right where it meets the concrete on both side
Dewey-dags
Nails
Coat hangers
Steps
Form board nails
Wall ties
Sad nails
Quills.
Washer ties. Use a conduit and spin them and will snap off
Snap ties
Snapties used for pour in place walls holts the width of the wall with 2x4 waillers and hair pins
Short and long tail snap ties, what a bunch of hacks, they didn’t even pull em?
Oh wow, those are all little lawsuits waiting to blossom!
Form ties.
Anchors/ties that hold the forms together during the pour. Twist/break them off if you’re bored.
Tetanus machines or trespass blinders
For timber
Nailed it! Things is correct.
Nails
Snap ties, you can break them off by bending them 90 degree against the wall then rotate until they snap off. Once they snap off the plastic cone should come out of the concrete wall, fill the holes l ft by the cone with some grout
Those are spines, don’t startle the wall or it’ll tense up and shoot them out at you as a defense mechanism.
My dad use to pay me a penny for every one I snapped off for him when I was a kid. It was a big job for me at the time.
Ahhh. Memories, sweet memories. Snapped enough of those to smelt a sword and chain mail I seriously believe ferro-cement is the most awesome building material in the world. I mean, you build a freaking boat outta the stuff!
Dehydrated nails, need to water them before they die completely.
Rotary girder joint inverters
Snap ties
Nails
Dats my ass
robot dongs. sticking through robot gloryholes.
Screws
Nine Inch Иails
Call em snap ties in Florida. Snap and fill.
Snap Ties