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Originally Posted by LMH
Just a note in case you don't already know, rebar is sized in 8ths. #4 bar is 4/8" or 1/2". #6 is 6/8" or 3/4" and so on.
Depends on what the wall is made of course but 8" of concrete is not thick enough to support a block wall. Local code here would need 16" of depth (I think that's current local code) for a block wall plus two #4 bars. Here, it would also need rebar/concrete vertically in the block voids every four feet and a bond beam above the window lentals. It gets pretty crazy in Tucson for codes sometimes!
Larry
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Ya, and block is what everything is made out of down there which gets real heavy when building a wall. My garage will be built out of your typical wood framed walls, plywood, vinyl siding, yadda yadda. I was going to sketch the idea I have in my head out autocad but my laptop keeps saying things like "hey idiot, your hard drive is crapping out!" So I have to wait a week or 2 till my new hard drives get here.