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Make sure to add those pizza topper looking things to keep the metal held up in place when the concrete is poured.
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.
What are those snake things? Are they just to hold up the rebar? They must do something else?
Oh nice that's what those are? Nice!!
€240 of them yeah :(
They showup better with the night mode;

What do they do?
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.
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...)
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.
Italian construction workers drop in coins for luck.
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.
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.
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 :)

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