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PKWATERFORD · 10-09-2009 4:35pm #1

Hi

Looking for a bit of info. We are doing a self build at the minute renovating an old farmhouse. We are now ready to pour the floors over the insulation and u/floor heating pipes. Whats the best way round this. There is poor access round the house so the biggest we could get in is a mini mix and I dont want to barrow the cement over the pipes/insulation if I can help it. I dont think minimix lorries can pump the cement.

Is there an easy solution?

dazzlermac · 10-09-2009 9:53pm

unfortuantly not...good old fashioned hard work should do the trick

PKWATERFORD · 11-09-2009 8:09am

Hard work is not an issue. Will I damage pipes etc barrowing cement over them?

Poor Uncle Tom · 11-09-2009 12:05pm

PKWATERFORD wrote: »

Hard work is not an issue. Will I damage pipes etc barrowing cement over them?

Yes you run the risk of damage. Use a concrete pump.
What thickness is your slab with the UFH pipes?

PKWATERFORD · 11-09-2009 1:06pm

The slab is 3" on top of pipes and insulation

Poor Uncle Tom · 11-09-2009 6:14pm

Thank you, that is the maximum thickness it should be to work efficiently for UFH.

ronboy · 11-09-2009 9:14pm

Well pk, what you can do is if you cant get a pump is to barrow it in but to put down 10mm ply on top of pipes from door way in.
Barrow in as far as you can using the ply as your walkway and then shovel and wrake after that. As you start to fill floor pull up a sheet and so on.
2 or 3 sheets will do you. And make up a few tampers out of 4x2 for settling concrete when you have it poured

PKWATERFORD · 14-09-2009 7:55am

That sounds like a plan. It had been suggested to use planks for it but I thought that left a lot of room for error. Sheets of ply (which I have left over from another part of the job) sound like the plan.

Is is just me or do these old renovations sound like the best idea ever until you are in the middle of one? Hopefully this is the last of the tricky jobs.

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