Dale, same as here in my part of new yYork. the only thing made of concrete that holds up if layed thick enough and with re rods is side walks and years ago it was the fashion to have concrete runners in ones driveway..Lee
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 07:36:42PM -0400, Dale Leavens wrote: > Ray, > > How many yards of concrete did you have poured? > > Where you live, do you have to form relief cuts in a slab that size? Is there > reinforcement necessary? > > We couldn't pour anything nearly that size on grade here without it beginning > to crack up probably within the first year. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Ray Boyce > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 7:08 PM > Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Concrete Project Now Completed. > > > Hi All > > Well the 44 x 18 concreting slab has been completed yesterday and according > to the wife looks great. > > We will have to wait until it cures before we can inspect it closely but so > far so good. > > The boys are here removing the boards and then I will inspect around the > edges. > > After that I have a lot of work to do removing the piles of soil and > levelling off around the slab. > > We are going to start a new garden from the space left between the slab and > the fence so lots to do. > > Ray > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > -- Historical Slumming: The act of visiting locations such as diners, smokestack industrial sites, rural villages -- locations where time appears to have been frozen many years back -- so as to experience relief when one returns back to "the present." -- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture" .
