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Oh.. They must have a fast belt conveyor then so. Then in my humble opinion I wouldn't ask any of my concrete to pour a slab unless there was extenuating circumstances at anything less than 120 slump. It's unnecessary hardship that if you get hot weather and not enough help could facilitate a disaster. We pour circa 2000 -3000m3 a week at work as a rule. Chat to your GW's tell them what you've been advised in case there is some particular quirk to your slab but as I say if I said I was getting 80 slump concrete my crews would baulk at me ..... plus they will only end up flooding it with water to get it workable and weakening your concrete anyway

Great to see these companies held to task. Fair play to you ???

Sorry only seen your using a conveyor ?. That's why the GW's are looking a low slump, can't run a high slump mix of a conveyor... Poor groundworkers ?

Absolutely you want an S3 mix for a slab anything else is nearly unworkable and definitely wouldn't get through a pump. Target 120 ish and it's nice and workable, 70 slump is crazy low slump and will be damm near unworkable. P.s if it's going through a pump fell the plant you want a pump mix.

Yes that recycled gear would do grand, 2 to 3 inch clean and your flying

Any stone will if it's not graded as clean, I like using limestone as a rule it's a good hard rock that binds well and I like it for free drainage too in either a 20 to 40mm clean or a 3"clean. The secret is some terramm and clean the area your backfilling first to hard ground

Chalk is fairly permeable as an in place stratum. Once crushed if there is too much fines it can hold water and slow it's release hence my comment above 're grading

Something like a 20-40mm clean (503). This finer grading can be harder got with some chalk hence why it's worth asking.

What has the rock chalk been graded to ? I'd say shingle would be very expensive option for the volume around a basement rock chalk would do the job IF it's graded suitably

Are you talking about inside the footprint of the building ? I.e under the floor slab ? A quick hand sketch would clarify.

Yes hopefully, I might put a call in tomorrow to see of there is anything to worry about but to be honest I can't see it but I suppose you just never know ...

Ah good I'll just assume it's down to the fella I know pushing it on from the inside, he was hopefully that it should be through in a couple of weeks when I spoke to him on Tuesday so here's hoping ?

Ah great stuff Conor, did you have to do anything about these small issues or where they ever communicated to you ?

No issues raised at any stage ? It's only been in since April 21st and it's flown through the previous 3 phases and I was under the impression that the next one was decision but then I seen this so confused, I can't see this wording anywhere online either. Just don't like seeing the word issues..

What does the above mean on a pending planning application . I just got a notification that my ammended planning application status had changed to this, I had talked to a fella I know who was trying to keep a push on it for me so hope that this is what it is and not as menacing as it sounds

I've been talking to the guy that will supply my doors and he has suggested either 3 or 4 !!!!!!! I thought this sounded a bit OTT. The doors will be 2200 x 915 which is a bit taller than normal but after this I think 3 should be fine ??

70k does sound expensive unless the ground is pure swamp or your building has some very high loadings. Hard to tell without knowing the full details but I'd go out to a few piling companies for prices and definitely wouldn't take that one price.

Sounds like there will be plenty of slewing about Cornwall this week too...

Should have read slewing ?

Yeah your correct but if I remember conversations at the time the big pressure came from the slewing movement from the tracks as oppose to point loads

I've done a maintainance yard for tanks for the Army a right few years back, the yard slab was 300mm thick with 3 layers of A393 mesh and had a 450mm build up underneath. BUT obviously the build up would be ground dependant, I can't be positive now as it's 10 years plus but I think the build up was dependant on CBR results on formation of greater than 5%

Lovely looking house and seems to be a nice looking location.

Cut and bent steel now at €890 a ton now...... that up from €520 a ton a year ago

This figure looks high to me, very high actually especially you plan on spending 150k on a turn key building unless you have a very complicated site for new rounds and an aweful lot of asbestos. Architect fees should be able to keep low especially if your going TF route.

If it's solely for load transfer to the basement wall then you could simply dig you strip footing down vertically to a depth where the 45 degree line misses the basement wall. You should then have alot less of a dog and massively simpler also you should be able to trench fill the strip with leanmix up to underside of require footing depth which would further save money. *Caveat* this is only if it's is due to load transfer from the loads on the strip to the basement wall. But he should be able to give you a proper explanation the generic crap about regs sound well like crap