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| Davo J:
Just a thought if this is going to be an island type bench, a hole somewhere for your electrical plug/s to go down through instead of running it over the side. Dave |
| 75Plus:
--- Quote from: 75Plus on July 01, 2011, 10:08:56 PM --- The concrete guy assured me that there were 3 positives about concrete. 1. It will get hard. 2. No one will steal it. 3. IT WILL CRACK :bugeye: :med: Joe --- End quote --- Last INSIDE JOKE I'll post here. :palm: :palm: :palm: Joe |
| dickda1:
John, Cnczone has an insanely long lived thread on concrete bases and concrete-epoxy. http://www.cnczone.com/forums/epoxy_granite/30155-epoxy-granite_machine_bases_polymer_concrete.html -Dick |
| DaveH:
Hi, All concrete will crack, especially with reinforcement bars. Guess why the stones are put in - crack stoppers. Vibrations will also cause cracking. Well thats my 2p's worth :coffee: :beer: DaveH |
| John Hill:
Pekka, I wont be doing this job at home. It is not the mixing of the concrete or the lifting up in buckets to fill the form, nor is it the building of the forms and the cleaning up of the mess afterwards, it is all of those and considering we have a local concrete casting company interesting in doing the job I intend to let him do all the hard work! There is a type of reinforcing now where they mix short steel 'staples' and it will be interesting to see what the experts have to say about that, so far I have only heard of it being used in building foundation pads etc nonetheless I expect we will be using .6mm mesh and if we decide to cast in one piece there will be reinforcement between the parts. |
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