Getting Ready To Pour Concrete

It took a day to rip out the old collapsing retaining wall to dig farther into the hill to provide room for the backfill gravel and to help unload materials.

Getting ready to pour concrete.

The ground should be dug to a depth of 3 to 5 inches with a trench dug on either side. Materials tools and site. You made it to the final step of this complex process. You can sometimes get a truck to pour concrete straight into your form.

Get ready to pour. If the ground is mostly clay an additional 2 inches of depth is needed to hold gravel which will aid in drainage. The best time to pour concrete is when temperatures are expected to remain above 50 degrees for five to seven days but plans can go awry with the arrival of. It will walk you through pouring the concrete slab.

It s tempting to just squirt water into the dry concrete mix with a hose and mix up a soupy batch of concrete. Preparation is the most important aspect of pouring a concrete slab. Concrete is porous so you need to erect a concrete slab where drainage is not an issue. Making a concrete surface level is best accomplished if the subsurface is properly prepared beforehand.

It s time to have a truck come to deliver and pour your concrete. If the mixed concrete looks like the mix in step 9 it s ready to pour. I teach you how to pour the slab just like we do it for our customers the price of the course is 97 00. Reschedule delivery if it is hot windy or rainy.

Don t let new concrete get too cold. Subsurface water can cause the ground the flex creating stress cracks in the cement. After all it s quicker and the runny concrete is easier to pour. Start by placing concrete in the concrete forms farthest from the truck.

Slabs that develop cracks are probably the biggest headache and the folks who pour such slabs are prone to say things like concrete is always going to crack don t believe it. I have a 6 step process i use when i form my slabs. We go over all the necessary steps for your concrete slab to come out perfect. How to build a concrete wall prep work.

Pour the concrete into the mold. While doing this enlist some helpers to spread out the concrete with shovels rakes and come alongs which is a special concrete rake. The concrete slab course will teach you all you need to know about forming the concrete slab and getting it ready for the pour. Otherwise mix in additional dry mix or water until you get the right consistency.

Properly preparing the subsurface helps to limit the potential for cracks in the finished concrete slab. You ll need several strong helpers because you need to work fast. The wall we built was a weekend long project and an exhausting one at that.