How long should I wait before I can get onto a 5 inch thick slab of
newly laid concrete.

Its not raining but its been plastic sheeted just incase, and there is
no imminent frost.

Would a week be OK, as I want to remove the shuttering and get the
soil and grass laid around it. And then a shed put ontop of it.

After serious thinking thelane wrote :
How long should I wait before I can get onto a 5 inch thick slab of
newly laid concrete.

Its not raining but its been plastic sheeted just incase, and there is
no imminent frost.

Would a week be OK, as I want to remove the shuttering and get the
soil and grass laid around it. And then a shed put ontop of it.

It should certainly be hard enough in a week for most purposes.

24 hours should see it hard enough to walk upon gently, with perhaps
some board to spread your weight and hard enough to remove the
shuttering with care. Two to three days should see it hard enough to
gently build a prefabricated hut upon.

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On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:24:34 GMT, Harry Bloomfield
wrote:

After serious thinking thelane wrote :
How long should I wait before I can get onto a 5 inch thick slab of
newly laid concrete.

Its not raining but its been plastic sheeted just incase, and there is
no imminent frost.

Would a week be OK, as I want to remove the shuttering and get the
soil and grass laid around it. And then a shed put ontop of it.

It should certainly be hard enough in a week for most purposes.

24 hours should see it hard enough to walk upon gently, with perhaps
some board to spread your weight and hard enough to remove the
shuttering with care. Two to three days should see it hard enough to
gently build a prefabricated hut upon.

A grand designs said a few days for concrete compared to the 3 weeks
it was going to take for some limecrete base (which they had to
insulate with straw to keep the winter frosts off it)

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thelane wrote:
How long should I wait before I can get onto a 5 inch thick slab of
newly laid concrete.

Its not raining but its been plastic sheeted just incase, and there is
no imminent frost.

Would a week be OK, as I want to remove the shuttering and get the
soil and grass laid around it. And then a shed put ontop of it.

If just walking, at this time of year, two days.