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L bars into concrete foundations

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You can pour from the front of the whole site - pick any set of points along the front and keep pouring. 

 

Get a flowing concrete NOT one just with a lot of slump in it ..!

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Is it normally a lot more expensive for flowing concrete?

  • 2 years later...

@Vijay I'm in a similar situation. I'll need to put L bars in the foundation to essentially link with the ICF wall concrete. How did you do it in the end? 

5 hours ago, dzhou11 said:

@Vijay I'm in a similar situation. I'll need to put L bars in the foundation to essentially link with the ICF wall concrete. How did you do it in the end? 

Hmmmmm from memory I had to do some thing similar. My L bars were tied to the frame so poked up through the slab . Then my stepoc ( like icf ) went over it . I then tied all the steel up through each layer . 1 pour with pump on long arm and it was done .

Looking at the drawing ( unless I’m missing something) why not some mesh in the trench ? . Stronger and something for the L bars to tie too. This is what I had 

Best to have it all prepared before the pour ! . No adding afterwards !!!!!

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My ICF supplier (Polarwall) ended up speaking to the SE where they then said they went overboard with the rebar and IIRC, 400mm straight bar was fine. Made life easier getting them in, but my mate who was installing them did comment that it was getting harder as the concrete went off - quick whack with a club hammer got them in fine though

  • 1 month later...
20 minutes ago, fjallravn said:

[...]there's a cheap and fast method called rebar coupling systems.[...]

 

Wish I'd known about that system;  I seem  to be thinking that quite often, recently.

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