Concrete Pour
By mati. Filed in Uncategorized |Tags: Concrete pour
We used a conveyer belt with a long sock!
Looking good, isn't it?
The first thing to do is to calculate the concrete. If you are mathematically inclined, you can do it yourself with a simple calculator. Just remember to calculate everything in feet, so if your slab is 4″ thick, that is 1/3′. If this doesn’t appeal to you, CLICK HERE to get access to a concrete calculator that will do it for you.
Before calculating the amount you need, you have to try to get the pad as level as possible. We actually got down on our knees with a large level and scraped and raked until it was as flat as we could get it. A little over the top? Not really. If you are trying to calculate the concrete for a 42′x42′ square, and you are 1/4″ off on your measurements across the whole pad, that adds up to 1.4 cu yards! It doesn’t take more that a 1/4″ discrepancy to screw up your calculation!
This is why people end up either short, or they’ll have 2 yards of concrete sitting somewhere on their property, and I tell you, 2 yards of concrete is hard to hide!
Anyway, on our pour, we ended up with half a bucket left over! We did the measurements as accurately as we could, after flattening everything with a level, and then we added about 1/2 yard to that, and it worked great!
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