Asked a guy, to put in a pad, to set my RV trailer on .. He called Friday, and showed up at 9am yesterday finished at 5PM never big enough 18 ton of gravel underneath!!!!!
looks big enough to keep the mother-in-law suite (steves term for anything the rolls for sleeping) on. congrats on the slab. i remember when i had my slab poured i couldn't believe the amount of soil they took out and then gravel they brought in.
Having paid recently for the slab for our shed, I feel your pain.
It would be nice to have the talent and equipment to do a person's own concrete work. However, the worst part for us was drilling down 25 feet to pour piers and then dump all that product down the hole!
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
25 feet down! wow We dug down 2 feet, and ran into concrete and asphalt from 1975, when lot was backfilled by town... 18 ton of gravel, and we are good to go.. Hope to park trailer, on it this week.. I was surprised, that the concrete cures 50% in 7-10 days, and not fully for 28 days..He told me to keep 8000 lb trailer off till Wednesday.. 33x14 =2925.00 plus tax plus gravel = $3300.00 guaranteed to last til ,day after my funeral..
4 inches no rebar !3283.45 start to finish He probably felt bad for me when he say the old car in the garage Actually he did our first pad in 05 for 12x24 was 1200.00
We have to do piers here cause when our famous floods come through we are sunk, literally, if we don't have piers and lots of rebar. Our ground shifts a tremendous amount in a flood. People's basements do crazy things when there is water under them.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Our basement is called a "structured floor", poured on styrofoam. It's a slab poured on about 22 piers if I recall right. The idea is that it won't be affected by shifting or excess seepage under it when the house gets surrounded by water and a lot seeps in to the weeping tile.
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1966 Strato Chief 2 door, 427 4 speed, 45,000 original miles
1966 Grande Parisienne, 396 1 of 23 factory air cars
Yeah depends where you are, what type of soil conditions, Carl your basement is done the right way, and will last forever... people/developers cut too many corners on homes being built, then people wonder why their basement walls have horiz cracks, or the floor heaves... then theres the good ol 'new home warranty' program to protect builders... dont even get me started!