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Porch slabs jam6444 01-17-2007
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Posted by on January 17, 2007, 8:29 pm
I've got several porches/patios which will project from the main
structure of my house. The side walls will each be roughly 6-7 block
courses high. The floors will be concrete slab with some sort of
tile/stone topping. I'd rather not try to fill these rather large
boxes with dirt in order to pour a slab on top. Is there an
alternative method of supporting the concrete floor that won't break
the bank?


Posted by Michael Bulatovich on January 17, 2007, 8:37 pm
Reinforcing steel.
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MichaelB
www.michaelbulatovich.ca

> I've got several porches/patios which will project from the main
> structure of my house. The side walls will each be roughly 6-7 block
> courses high. The floors will be concrete slab with some sort of
> tile/stone topping. I'd rather not try to fill these rather large
> boxes with dirt in order to pour a slab on top. Is there an
> alternative method of supporting the concrete floor that won't break
> the bank?
>



Posted by tbasc@bellsouth.net on January 17, 2007, 9:39 pm

jam6444@yahoo.com wrote:
> I've got several porches/patios which will project from the main
> structure of my house. The side walls will each be roughly 6-7 block
> courses high. The floors will be concrete slab with some sort of
> tile/stone topping. I'd rather not try to fill these rather large
> boxes with dirt in order to pour a slab on top. Is there an
> alternative method of supporting the concrete floor that won't break
> the bank?

Permanent metal forms.
Light weight deformed metal sheets used as concrete forms and left in
place.
Some are available with studs or other mechanical connections to the
concrete.
TB


Posted by Lou on January 17, 2007, 9:45 pm

Why not use dirt? Find yourself an excavator that needs to dump some
dirt.
He'll have to pay a place to dump it or give it to you for free. If
you do this method
make sure you use rebar in the slab because as hard as you try, you
will not
compact the dirt enough to keep the slab from cracking. An alternitive
is stone,
that you will not find for free. How ever you may be able to find a
local black top
contractor who has some left over that he will give you a deal on.
Lou


Posted by on January 17, 2007, 9:41 pm

the largest will be roughly 12' wide by 23' long.


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