Thank you for the advice, I think I will go without the fibre as I’ve laid plenty of normal pads without fibre but never any with fibre and would rather no have my first one being such a big pour encase it goes wrong and just put two layers of steel into the pad and use an RC45 mix.
As for drainage slopes, I was going to aim for about 10-12mm per meter which may still be a little too much as its got to have a single course of bricks put around where the stable will sit and don’t want it to far out of level for that.
As for the control joints I would normally put them about 30x the thickness as that’s what I was taught but, in this case, to make cleaning the stables easier I am aiming to put them under the separator walls (unless there is a reason I shouldn’t do that?). everything that is going to take a fair bit of weight that I have laid in the past has come with a design drawing but apparently these stables don’t which is why I am asking for a little advice to make sure I get it correct.
