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On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 02:00:39 -0400, wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 00:23:56 -0500, wrote:

In other words, can anyone provide photos or a
website, or suggest books or videos?

Look at Simpson Strong tie products.


This is the rebar we use in CBS construction. It continues up through
the block to the top course, thse cores are poured solid and then the
top 2 courses get notched block, rebar across the top and poured
solid.

(the picture was really to illustrate the ground electrode, the green
one, but you can see there is also a #5 every 4 feet along each wall
and in evey door and window opening)

http://members.aol.com/gfretwell/ufer.jpg
Thanks, this explains why one of my renters used 16 penny nails to
hang some small pictures. Oh yes, they were in plaster walls.