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Concrete pour choice?

  • 30-05-2014 10:17am
    #1
    Treloh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭


    Hi I am currently doing a self build and it's soon time for a sub floor, I'm being given conflicting advice on the concrete. I will be back filling the strip foundation with stone/gravel and whacking it, then I don't know weather to pour a sub floor or to leave it and do a one pour finish floor? Any advice would be appreciated!


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  • #2
    4Sticks
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,155 ✭✭✭4Sticks


    You need a structural engineer. One who will "sign off". No other opinion matters.


  • #3
    ryan101
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,671 ✭✭✭ryan101


    Treloh wrote: »
    Hi I am currently doing a self build and it's soon time for a sub floor, I'm being given conflicting advice on the concrete. I will be back filling the strip foundation with stone/gravel and whacking it, then I don't know weather to pour a sub floor or to leave it and do a one pour finish floor? Any advice would be appreciated!

    Have you got a current, up to date, home bond manual?
    That's the first basic place you need to start.
    When did you commence construction on site, and are you aware of the new building regulations ?
    Are you going to have a mortgage on this property and/or do you ever intend possibly selling it again sometime in the future ?


  • #4
    sydthebeat
    Subscribers Posts: 42,169 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Treloh wrote: »
    Hi I am currently doing a self build and it's soon time for a sub floor, I'm being given conflicting advice on the concrete. I will be back filling the strip foundation with stone/gravel and whacking it, then I don't know weather to pour a sub floor or to leave it and do a one pour finish floor? Any advice would be appreciated!

    Thats a pretty major choice to make, so many knock on effects.

    Your engineer, armed with all relevant information, is the one to make this call.


  • #5
    Treloh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30 ✭Treloh


    Thanks folks, phone call to the engineer it is


  • #6
    rampantbunny
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 907 ✭✭✭rampantbunny


    [/SPOILER]
    Treloh wrote: »
    Thanks folks, phone call to the engineer it is

    Did you not get this sort of detail from your engineer already Treloh? Seems a bit amiss if you have to ring him to find out.


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