Hi there, a newbie in the UK here. I came across this list whilst looking
for info about concreting. I hope my questions are relevant and if its all
been done 100 times please point me at archives etc. now to my questions...
I have a 30 foot square barn in a (boggy) field that I that I am converting
into a car/farm workshop.
I have reclaimed alot of the bog and made good hardstanding leading to the
barn so I can get the digger, dumper etc down there. I've now started on
digging the barn floor out for concrete.
I have a 3-tonne 4 post lift to go in, and if possible I also want to dig a
pit to work under farm/plant stuff that is too heavy for the lift. I dont
want to commit to the location of the lift so I need to do the whole floor
strong enough to take it.
I have been planning on a worst case of 8 inch hardcore and 8 inch of
reinforced concrete, but that is going to cost a lot and is based on my
having no idea what I'm doing. Is there a standard spec for this sort of
thing that I should work to? I will probably mix the concrete myself as I
cant see a readymix type truck getting down there - what mix (weight??)
should I aim for?
I'll leave it at that for now, but I have a huge number of questions to do
with the proposed inspection pit, lifting gantry, the fact that a river runs
very close by etc. is that the sort of thing you guy talk about in here?
cheers,
Conrad
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