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A 4" thick concrete slab reinforced with 6 x 6 x 10 welded wire mesh placed over a 6 ml vapor barrier on 6" of levelled and compacted gravel or sand is common for many residential applications.

I'm assuming there are no point loads anywhere in the slab interior and the slab is used for general purposes such as a residential basement, workshop, or garage floor. Any special circumstances should be engineered.

All steps in the process are important, but one often overlooked is that the base needs to be properly compacted and prepared. A good base will be very level and very well-compacted. If the base is poor, the slab may need to be thicker or engineered. Slabs will crack where the thickness changes and stress forces become concentrated while it's curing and then while it's settling. If you have posts coming down anywhere in the field of the slab, be sure to cut control joints around them and across the slab to direct the inevitable cracks during curing and settling. Control joints are best when they are saw-cut to 1/3 the depth of the slab after the slab has set, and generally spaced 10-12' apart is good. Trowelled-in control joints do not work nearly as well as saw-cut.

Also, remember to use an isolation material such as conventional felt strips at the slab edge to prevent mechanical bonding to adjacent walls and allow for slight differential movement.

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How many yards of crushed concrete do you need for a 150'x12' driveway?

Crushed concrete is sold by the ton. One dumptruck will haul between 13 and 15 tons. Your driveway should take around 30 tons if covered 4" thick.


How much does 30 square foot of concrete weigh?

It is all dependant on how thick the concrete is. You take the square footage and turn that into cubed feet (where the thickness comes in) if its 1" thick you multiply the square footage by.083, if its 2" thick you multiply by.17. To come up with this number you take the thickness say 3" and divide that by 12 (12 inches in a foot), so for 3 inches you get .25. So back to the question at hand, say your 30 square feet of concrete is 6 inches thick, your equation would look like this: 30 X .5 = 15. So 15 is your cubed footage. You then multiply this number by 150 which is the weight in pounds of 1 cubic foot of concrete. The number you come up with is 2,250. That is the amount in pounds of your 30 square feet of concrete assuming it is 6 inches thick.


What is m 30 concrete?

It is the grade of concrete which indicates the strength of concrete after 28 days curing. M #) means the strength of concrete after 28 days of curing will be 30 N/mm2 .


What area will 1 ton of crushed concrete cover?

It depends on the thickness and the density. One ton should be about 15 cubic feet when compacted, so it would cover 30 square feet 6 inches thick or 45 square feet 4 inches thick or 60 square feet 3 inches thick. It would make a driveway four inches thick, 9 feet wide and 5 feet long or a footpath 3 inches thick, three feet wide and 20 feet long.


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