Fiber is a secondary reinforcment, and not intended to replacde steel. We use fiber when price is a big deal.
Uniform well drained fill is utmost important if cracking is a concern.
Some wil argue with me, but if anyone does not care of the cost we place 1/2" rebar 12" OC, wired together, using chairs to keep it where it belongs. We consider it best placed in the lower 1/3 of the slab. After years of practice, I can tell folks pretty much where it is going to crack.
I have not poured less than a 4,000# mix for the last fourty years, even footings.
I lost alot of bids due to price, but they never bat a eye when they ask me to tear it out and do it my way, and perhaps it is a overkill.
Often a person has the comnt, we must have gotten some bad concrete when we poured this project. Lets just say, I have been lucky and never got any of this so called bad concrete ever. I can't manage to drive in the yard and then call for the trucks like alot of the so called --FAST GUYS do.
Concrete work is a art, and often there are bum jobs, usualy because someone thinks they can chew off as much as they bite off. You get to see it all. A friend of mine borrowed my compactor, for a hr, and compacted his entire project with one tank of gas. He had sixteen foot of fill, and run my compactor across the top--it is rated for 6" lifts, not 16 ft lifts.
That was about four years ago, and you should see it now. A very expensive rock pile looking slab.
Mesh in my opinion is a waste of money, because even if you pull it up while pouring you simply can not walk over it otherwise it goes to the bottom. In our area 10 guage wire will snap when it gets rusted in a slab.
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