On 05/04/2021 08:49, alan_m wrote:
On 04/04/2021 18:47, Mark Carver wrote:
A knackered old 1950s bungalow near me has been demolished in the
last few days.

I went to look at the remains. Rendered block construction, and a
large pile of steel reinforcement rods ?

Was that a standard construction method back then for small houses,
and why ?


Concrete raft?

Having made a second visit, this might be it. The footprint left is only
the exterior walls, and huge chucks of concrete slabs piled up.
Mrs C reports two days of concrete 'smashing' noise last week. So a
suspended reinforced concrete floor ? The interior walls were block,
and presumably also contributing to supporting the roof structure, so
quite a load on it in total ?