WHAT DID YOU DO TO YOUR HOME TODAY?

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Apparently they inspect the wire mesh placement, I joke you not. You'd think they'd be available immediately for inspection all the time considering the permit cost $300 and took 4 months to approve. I hate this county.

I'm surprised you can pour a driveway with just wire mesh.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I'm surprised you can pour a driveway with just wire mesh.

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

[humfrz]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I'm surprised you can pour a driveway with just wire mesh.

Hell, he ain't pouring an airport runway -

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by humfrz

That reminds me of my plan to reduce the peak where my driveway meets the sidewalk. I just wanted to knock in down so that my cars wouldn't scrape going into and out of the driveway.

I applied to the city for approval/permit. They sent out an inspector to check out my plan. He said he couldn't approve that modification because is was against the disabilities act. I restated my case that I wanted to reduce the grade (peak) and that would make it easier for disabled folks to cross it!

I said that he understood but "rules are rules".

Back in my drinking days, I would have just gone out there about midnight with a jackhammer and a couple sacks of sac-crete and "fixed it"!

Needless bureaucracy imho

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by Sapphireho

I'm surprised you can pour a driveway with just wire mesh.

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.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Wally86

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.

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”

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

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”

Dang, using 2x4s for the form is REALLY shorting people.

[blsfrs]

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.

[NoHaveMSG]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Dang, using 2x4s for the form is REALLY shorting people.

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

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

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

Imagine buying some anchors for the safe that expand into dirt under the slab

Originally Posted by blsfrs

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.

Expansion joints and all

Now to wait for the final inspection on... tuesday

[Sapphireho]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Expansion joints and all

Very nice!

[Dadhawk]

Originally Posted by Wally86

Expansion joints and all Now to wait for the final inspection on... tuesday MG]

Looks nice.

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.

[Wally86]

Originally Posted by Dadhawk

Looks nice.

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.

I hope it's cheap cus this was 1000sqft with a small sidewalk towards the house and a tiny pad for two trashcans that ended up at 10k. But for the area, it's cheap. My neighbor did their driveway last year for 25k and it's the same size. I was shocked by his price but he had gotten quotes for even higher.

[Sapphireho]

We got a quote for all the tree work on our property. $7300 and change. Yikes!

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