Product overview the snap tie is use to connect or strap the wood panel for molding when you build a concrete wall.
Concrete wall snap ties.
This snap tie forming method is used for retaining and standard walls batter walls bridges concrete signs footings etc.
Snap ties make the installation of concrete formwork and the subsequent removal extremely easy and efficient.
Excellent use for commercial or residential.
Top edge of the lower sheet of plywood.
Install snap tie a brackets and wale and then the upper sheet of plywood.
There are various systems you can use to create the form system you require depending on your needs.
Alternate b install snap tie in the joint between the panels.
The hex head allows short end snap ties to be broken back with the form work still in place.
When properly fitted with cones or other they hold the wall forms at the proper distance to create the desired concrete wall thickness.
Ocm inc hex head snap ties are manufactured with integral heads.
Snap ties cannot be removed completely from the hardened concrete hence they contain weaker cross sections which are easy to snap.
Snap ties are used to vertically form concrete walls that can have a wide variety of widths and heights.
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They are designed to resist the lateral pressure of fresh concrete on vertical forms.
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Add double wales and a c bracket.
The breaking of tie should be done after complete hardening of concrete otherwise they do not break and turn inside the wall by spanning the concrete.
They are held in place by a snaptie wedge or jahn bracket.
Concrete form snap ties are basically tension members.
Nail the upper sheet of plywood to the wale.