Both earlier publications are now superseded.
First floor suspended concrete slab detail.
Some slabs have hollow channels running through them these hollow core slabs are used to help reduce weight and also to allow cabling and piping to be run through the slab.
The ground floor is made up of suspended concrete slab or beam and block floor supported by the external and internal load bearing walls which transfer the loads to the foundations below.
Suspended floors are also used when the water table is high or when aggressive chemicals are present in the soil that may attack the concrete slab.
Installation of the first floor slab system is simple and cost effective.
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Slab on ground floors in detail but contained only a limited outline of the alternatives available for suspended floors.
When renovating rooms with timber floors it is often possible to replace the timber with a concrete slab for added thermal mass and quietness underfoot.
Pouring concrete slab on the first floor.
Beam and block floors systems.
They are normally pre fabricated offsite and transported by truck.
Prepare and place reinforcement for slab3.
Before the concrete can be poured in situ to create the suspended first floor concrete slab formwork and shuttering must be erected as follow.
Concrete floor slab construction process includes erection of formwork placement of reinforcement pouring compacting and finishing concrete and lastly removal of formwork and curing of concrete slab.
First floor slabs is a well established company specialising in all concrete work specifically suspended in situ cast concrete structures.
Detail 21 shows a suspended slab with no beam.
Contents concrete floor slab construction process1.
Added rooms can use slab on ground or suspended slabs.
Suspended slabs are made of concrete and steel mesh the same as a ground slab.
Renovations can often incorporate concrete slabs even when the original building does not.
Established in 1999 first floor slabs has a broad portfolio with a multitude of successful projects since then.
Comprehensive information on the latter was at that time provided in the association s companion publication guide to suspended concrete floors for houses t40 published in 1991.
The exact thickness of the slab will be calculated by the engineer that designed the reinforcement for the concrete slab.
Assemble and erect formwork for slab2.
To form this type of slab requires temporary beams columns and plywood as floor supports for the concrete.
Suspended concrete floors can be constructed using different methods.