setting steel mesh in foundations
Hi all
Just putting steel reinforcing mesh in my 150 by 600 foundations about 13 metre run. My brother in law-a civil engineer said just set the bottom layer on some bits of broken paving slab then use u shaped upstands to wire on the top layer both must be bedde 50 mm from the exterior. I mentioned my method to the brickie he was horrified for gods sake dont put any lumps on the foundation base. How is this supposed to be done--there must be a simple method. |
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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 00:14:29 GMT, "tom patton"
wrote: Hi all Just putting steel reinforcing mesh in my 150 by 600 foundations about 13 metre run. My brother in law-a civil engineer said just set the bottom layer on some bits of broken paving slab then use u shaped upstands to wire on the top layer both must be bedde 50 mm from the exterior. I mentioned my method to the brickie he was horrified for gods sake dont put any lumps on the foundation base. How is this supposed to be done--there must be a simple method. You can buy some "plastic feet" to put under the bottom layer, they are not as good as half bricks. I used both, both passed building regs inspection. Rick |
tom patton wrote:
Just putting steel reinforcing mesh in my 150 by 600 foundations about 13 metre run. My brother in law-a civil engineer said just set the bottom layer on some bits of broken paving slab then use u shaped upstands to wire on the top layer both must be bedde 50 mm from the exterior. I mentioned my method to the brickie he was horrified for gods sake dont put any lumps on the foundation base. How is this supposed to be done--there must be a simple method. I went the half brick route on my shed base - and wired together the rebar at some of the crossovers to keep it all in place. -- Cheers, John. /================================================== ===============\ | Internode Ltd - http://www.internode.co.uk | |-----------------------------------------------------------------| | John Rumm - john(at)internode(dot)co(dot)uk | \================================================= ================/ |
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