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I'm surprised you can pour a driveway with just wire mesh.
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11-16-2023, 01:20 AM | #534 |
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You’d be surprised how often they don’t even do that. My buddies driveway doesn’t have anything. His wife works sales for a huge global concrete company. They have some fancy fiber reinforced stuff that is supposedly not quite as strong but is more crack resistant and can handle being flexed a bit without cracking. However much concrete flexes
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Apparently full on rebar is overkill for a residential driveway. I definitely asked and the concrete company owner definitely seems to know his stuff.
EDIT: This is the second time I've had some residential work done by a company that specialized in commercial work and is still overdoing it on my house. We're going 5" of concrete for a residential driveway.
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That’s cool he’s doing it right. A lot of guys do 4”, and 4” to them is a 2x4 on edge as a form so it’s not even 4”
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Dang, using 2x4s for the form is REALLY shorting people.
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Rebar, wire , and/or fiber give concrete added tensile strength and prevents some of the shrinkage as the concrete cures.
Are there any "expansion" joints across the drive way. If not, you may end up with cracks. Years and years ago, I did construction inspection. The basic principles don't change that much. |
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Yeah, and they are contractors doing that. I went over to a friend's house a while back who lives in a cookie cutter subdivision to drill in anchors in his garage to bolt down his gun safe. That slab was only around 3 inches thick
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Now to wait for the final inspection on... tuesday
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I need to do this but continue to put it off. Our driveway is about 50ft long and goes up a decent grade (enough you can sled on it on the rare occasion we get snow) into a pad larger than a 2 car garage because our basement door opens in the back of the house. I'm thinking that will be cheap.
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We got a quote for all the tree work on our property. $7300 and change. Yikes!
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