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Metal mesh in place, cement truck incoming this Wednesday (thelemmy.club)
submitted 2 days ago by a4ng3l@lemmy.world to c/homeimprovement@lemmy.world
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Now is time for some panicky wait time. I’m really hoping I did not forget anything critical. If everything goes to plan we’ll be 4 to man the gigantic pump I requested and reel the cement mix in place. I have some shovels, rakes and I rented a vibrating ruler to help the finish.

weather is back to seasonal normals at around 25 after too many weeks over 30+.

Still I’m pretty sure I’m forgetting something.

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[-] Proprietary_Blend@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Concrete

[-] QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

me and my sister have a several year long inside joke of going "fuck yeah conkrete!!" whenever we see a cat sitting on concrete

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

ah yeah concrete and not cement in this case you're right =)

[-] CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Well there is cement, just not 100%

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago

Make sure to add those pizza topper looking things to keep the metal held up in place when the concrete is poured.

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Like the outrageously priced cement cast thingy I added everywhere under the mesh? It’s like cement snake thingies 2 inches high, 4 feet long. I laid down like 60.

[-] sik0fewl@piefed.ca 1 points 2 days ago

What are those snake things? Are they just to hold up the rebar? They must do something else?

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yup. I saw some talented dudes doing without but I’m absolutely not confident to pull that so snake things it is.

[-] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

Oh nice that's what those are? Nice!!

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

€240 of them yeah :(

They showup better with the night mode;

[-] Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

What do they do?

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

They just make sure the metal meshing stays in the middle of the slab and doesn't go straight to the bottom. Also they go sssSsSSSsssss.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The mesh should be about 1/3 of the way up from the bottom, not in the middle. The point of the reinforcement is to resist tensile stress, and the stress in the middle is 0.

Tensile stress increases linearly to the bottom of the slab, but you can't put the metal all the way at the bottom because you need enough concrete under it to embed it properly.

(I realize you probably didn't mean "middle" literally, but just in case...)

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

That’s actually a welcomed confirmation :) They are 4cm up the bottom and the slab is 12cm itself. So we are tight at a 3rd 🎉

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Don’t forget to hide something cool in pour for someone to find in the future.

Get a little Han Solo action figure from Amazon or something.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 days ago

Italian construction workers drop in coins for luck.

[-] sepi@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago

Bodies too

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Now that's a fun one :) I'm definitively putting something in there now. I'll shove a mini or something in a small section of conduit I have left over and put it in.

[-] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 days ago

Jimmy Hoffa action figure.

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Jimmy Hoffa

Damn that's cold xD

[-] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 2 days ago

Be nice and buy a case of water or if you want to be fancy Gatorade/poweraid for the workers. It won't help the concrete directly but being nice to workers typically means they will go the extra bit to make it actually nice instead of the minimum.

[-] a4ng3l@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

It won’t help the concrete directly but being nice to workers typically means they will go the extra bit to make it actually nice instead of the minimum.

Ho for sure I'll have water, various drinks, beers and french frises for everyone when it's over :)

[-] vrek@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

Offer water as they work too, beer hold off till they finish but water should always be available

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