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Tech/Engineering - Real Estate / construction/real estate | | French term or phrase: désafleurant | If someone could help me with a definition / translation of this adjective I'd be very grateful
In a geotechnical report about a villa that has suffered waterdamage
"Au sol, en partie arrière de la terrasse on observe une fissure plurimillimétrique
désafleurante indiquant une cassure de la terrasse dans le sens de la longueur."
if "fissure" is "crack" what is "désafleurante"? |
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| | English translation:offset | Explanation:
If you hold two boards of wood in the horizontal plane, one in each hand, so that their top surfaces form a continuous plane, the boards are said to affleurer, i.e. they are flush with the other.
Now, take a deep breath and keep holding those boards in that position. I will assume that one arm is stronger or, rather, has greater stamina, than the other, and that eventually one arm will drop slightly, causing the boards to désaffleurer, i.e. form a step or offset with respect to each other.
What has happened to your patio is rather more than just subsidence which, in theory at least, is a purely vertical movement, since in addition to the vertical offset (caused by subsidence), part of the slab has moved a number of millimetres horizontally. Though in practice subsidence will be said to cause this.
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A less tiring exercise would involve putting your two boards on pieces of dough so that they are perfectly plane and level. You then stand on one of them, compressing the dough beneath and causing one board to sink to a lower level than the other. This is your offset.
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Shrinkage cracks are not offset. That is, if you place a straightedge against them, there is no gap on either side of the crack against the straightedge. An OFFSET CRACK is an indication that perhaps there are some horizontal [what he means is "vertical"! – shrinkage cracks (above) involve horizontal forces, in floor slabs at any rate] forces at work that would warrant investigation. Common sense will tell you that a 1/32nd inch offset is probably not worth worrying about, but a ¼ inch offset is going to be a problem.
http://www.c2bforensics.com/concrete.htm
A: I was looking at a property that was for sale and it has a significant SETTLEMENT CRACK, so half the room is a little lower also. The gap difference in the crack is 1/4in and the heigh difference probably 3/8in
B: What you have is an OFFSET CRACK which means that the slab is severely compromised. If I were looking at this condo, I'd run - not walk - for the door.
http://forums.redfin.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/board...
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Void under concrete foundation slab due to rain water run-off pattern on the property. A large/OFFSET CRACK (indicating a VERTICAL FAILURE OF THE CONCRETE SLAB) was ...
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DÉSAFFLEUREMENT - Décalage de niveau ou de nu entre deux parties d'un ouvrage, entres [sic!] deux pièces de bois assemblées, entre deux lames de parquet, etc.
DÉSAFFLEURER - Former saillie par rapport à un niveau de référence
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7 mins confidence:   uneven
Explanation:
my dictionary translates this as "out of level" or "projecting". I don't know about you but it sounds awkward to me, so rightly or wrongly I prefer "uneven", which is the translation given for "désaffleurement"
P.S. There should be two Fs
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12 mins confidence: subsiding/subsided
Explanation:
Doesn't seem to be an official word, it's not in my dictionaries, nor is it in the online version of the "Trésor de la langue française".
But apparently it means that a side of the terrace has subsided.
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33 mins confidence: de-laminated
Explanation:
Means the layers of the material have separated
Delamination - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Water leaks, delamination (ceiling material peeling off of the surface), scrapes, gouges, etc. need to be repaired immediately. Outside contractors are usually not as well ...
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Current and reliable Boards & Panels news stories
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38 mins confidence: displaced crack
Explanation:
when one side of the crack is higher than the other
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30 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +1 offset
Explanation:
If you hold two boards of wood in the horizontal plane, one in each hand, so that their top surfaces form a continuous plane, the boards are said to affleurer, i.e. they are flush with the other.
Now, take a deep breath and keep holding those boards in that position. I will assume that one arm is stronger or, rather, has greater stamina, than the other, and that eventually one arm will drop slightly, causing the boards to désaffleurer, i.e. form a step or offset with respect to each other.
What has happened to your patio is rather more than just subsidence which, in theory at least, is a purely vertical movement, since in addition to the vertical offset (caused by subsidence), part of the slab has moved a number of millimetres horizontally. Though in practice subsidence will be said to cause this.
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Note added at 32 mins (2011-10-04 14:59:20 GMT)
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A less tiring exercise would involve putting your two boards on pieces of dough so that they are perfectly plane and level. You then stand on one of them, compressing the dough beneath and causing one board to sink to a lower level than the other. This is your offset.
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Note added at 42 mins (2011-10-04 15:09:39 GMT)
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Shrinkage cracks are not offset. That is, if you place a straightedge against them, there is no gap on either side of the crack against the straightedge. An OFFSET CRACK is an indication that perhaps there are some horizontal [what he means is "vertical"! – shrinkage cracks (above) involve horizontal forces, in floor slabs at any rate] forces at work that would warrant investigation. Common sense will tell you that a 1/32nd inch offset is probably not worth worrying about, but a ¼ inch offset is going to be a problem.
http://www.c2bforensics.com/concrete.htm
A: I was looking at a property that was for sale and it has a significant SETTLEMENT CRACK, so half the room is a little lower also. The gap difference in the crack is 1/4in and the heigh difference probably 3/8in
B: What you have is an OFFSET CRACK which means that the slab is severely compromised. If I were looking at this condo, I'd run - not walk - for the door.
http://forums.redfin.com/t5/forums/forumtopicprintpage/board...
1. shamrockrealestatellc.com/contact_us
Void under concrete foundation slab due to rain water run-off pattern on the property. A large/OFFSET CRACK (indicating a VERTICAL FAILURE OF THE CONCRETE SLAB) was ...
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Note added at 50 mins (2011-10-04 15:17:25 GMT)
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DÉSAFFLEUREMENT - Décalage de niveau ou de nu entre deux parties d'un ouvrage, entres [sic!] deux pièces de bois assemblées, entre deux lames de parquet, etc.
DÉSAFFLEURER - Former saillie par rapport à un niveau de référence
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