24' x 50' Shop Build in VA

   / 24' x 50' Shop Build in VA #51  
Fill finished, screet poles in places, fill compacted and remesh in place. Should be pouring as I'm typing.


Here's what the slab prep for my 24x42 ft shop looked like before the pour. That's 10 mil plastic vapor barrier (Visqueen) on top of the gravel.

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   / 24' x 50' Shop Build in VA #52  
Wire mesh in a slab is one of those things that I consider a no no. While in theory it's great, it's impossible to install properly. To work, it needs to be somewhere between the lower third of the slab, to the middle. To do this, it has to be supported and then not walked on. What they contractors tell you is that they pull it up as they spread the concrete, and in most cases, they will do this at first for pictures. Once the job gets going, they quit pretending, and focus on getting everything smoothed out.

Look at it this way, a 200 pound man walking on wire with a six inch spacing is always going to be standing on wire while working. It is 100% impossible to stand on it and pull it up into the middle of the concrete, and keep it there while walking on it. '

When the job is done, the wire will be at the bottom of the slab and totally worthless.

If it was my barn, I would either fire the contractor and find another, or tell him to remove the wire and use rebar.

I agree with this. I just had a slab poured and i choose to order extra rebar for the project to help. 24x40 shop with 75 pieces of #3 and 30 of #5 for the beams. I will have a car lift one day along with alot of other heavy stuff.
 

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