(9) It is cheaper to install . Requires less labor than any other mesh or system of rods. It is 

 not sufficient to have the requisite amount of steel embedded in every 100 ft. of pipe. It must 

 be properly distributed in every foot of the length. On the other hand the cost of installation 

 must be reasonable. "Steelcrete" arrives on the job in flat sheets of standard lengths. It is 

 easy to handle. Requires very little room to store many tons of it. The contractor does not 

 have to install a small plant to bend and cut the steel to the required shape. This material is 30 

 well known everywhere that it is sufficient to call attention to the fact that the bending into a 

 circular shape or any round bend is an exceedingly simple operation. 



(10) It is easy of inspection. What this means to the engineer and contractor, the average 

 man will never fully appreciate. No more unsatisfactory and trouble-brewing system can be 

 found than the complicated network of bars sometimes attempted in the effort to save the first 

 cost of steel only. The inspection incumbent on such method if honest results are to be attained, 

 is an endless source of delay, anxiety, and worry to all parties concerned. The situation is 

 serious enough in a flat floor slab and the difficulty of placing the reinforcement even there is 

 recognized, but the complications encountered in a circular or egg-shaped sewer where the 

 reinforcement has to cross the neutral axis and lay close first to the inside circumference then to 

 the outside, crossing at critical points, makes the use of a positive system of reinforcement an 

 essential feature of first class work. 



(11) It can be placed quickly. This means a saving in overhead charges. This feature has 

 been overlooked by a great many engineers and architects in the past. The injection of modern 

 business methods and book-keeping by the large contracting firms into ordinary construction 

 work has brought forward this important point to the prominence it is entitled to. The saving 

 in labor by the use of ' ' Steelcrete ' ' mesh is only half of the total. A real and true saving exists 

 in the cutting down of the overhead charges which may easily and often does exceed the totai 

 labor charges. This saving is effected by the consequent speed of the construction. In other words 

 if a contractor can lay a certain number of feet of sewer a day with a given number of men by the 

 use of "Steelcrete" mesh and in doing so he cuts down the time by twenty or thirty per cent, to 

 the labor saved must be added saving in overhead charges which consists of superintendence, 

 interest on investment of plant, office expenses, etc., all of which are real and vital expenditures 



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