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Pavement Light - Cellar
A difficult one ...
The light-well to my cellar is currently capped with a steel plate and concrete. The level of the path (which incorporates this capping) is too high for the damp course so I'm having it dug up and having clay pavers laid at a lower level. It seems to me a wasted opportunity not to install some sort of 'pavement light' into the new path to provide natural light for the cellar below (I'll add more air bricks for ventilation). Limitations: The pavement light needs to be flush with the block paving and able to bear the weight of someone walking obliquely over it because it's very close to an outward opening door (having an inward opening door is not part of the solution space!) ________________________ | | -- kitchen door | well | |__________| | | | | The void to be spanned is about 3' * 4' and I've been quoted £90 a square foot for a reinforced concrete solution that incorporates glass blocks - that's over a thousand squid. DIY concrete solution: Put in shuttering from below, Two layers of rebar (?) mesh separated by spacers Place waisted glass blocks in the spaces within the mesh matrix Pour concrete, cross fingers, and wait a couple of weeks Questions: What diameter do the rods that comprise the mesh need to be? What is the cost of such mesh? For very light pedestrian traffic is two layers of mesh overkill? How thick does the concrete need to be (obviously as thick as the glass blocks)? Is this a dumb idea? Is there a better solution? Lots of questions I know :-) Best wishes, Rob ] |
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