As a professional contractor, you depend on your ability to buy your materials right, and get the job done quickly & professionally. The use of Synthetic Fiber as secondary reinforcement has come a long way in the last few years, and provides an enormous opportunity for you to generate significant savings in materials and time – not to mention the improved safety, plus the elimination of delivery, special handling, and storage.
Let’s face it. If you’re going to truly get the job done quicker & easier – while making more money, you’re going to have to stop buying and standing on the WWF.
The IRC has changed their reinforcement code [effective 9-1-09] to say that if you’re going to use WWF, it must be positioned according to manufacturer’s specifications – which means chaired up.
Even the WRI [Wire Reinforcement Institute] won’t recommend the WWF unless it’s properly chaired up. Quite honestly, even then, the data demonstrates that properly selected fiber still outperforms it!