Posted by paul on December 07, 2011 at 07:29:40 from (76.77.196.252):
In Reply to: Shop floor is dirt posted by 37Chief on December 06, 2011 at 18:12:46:
I have always heard, and makes sense to me:
Good drainage & packing is what makes a good concrete pour.
Concrete cracks eeventually, no matter what.
Fiber helps keep the small cracks & chips in place, but nothing for the big ones.
Mesh is a neat idea, but it often falls to the bottom & stays there, not embedded where it is supposed to be, and here in MN and the rest of the salt belt as the salty road snow drips off & runs into cracks, the thin mesh rusts away quickly.
Real rebar is the best. It keeps the crack joints lines up & keeps your floor in one piece, even as the concreete cracks.
Dad was too cheap to use rebar he just poured extra concrete. Good enough the first 10 or 20 years, but now I have a lot of old buildings and floors that are cracked with inch gaps here & there, things shifting up & down an inch or 2.... Woulda been better with some good rebar in there, the cracks would be there the same, but the crete would be better lined up yet.
I realize there are different opinions on this all, and I'm sure no expert.
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