Concrete mix for footings...

[noseall]

The fact that there are planks on top of the rebar mesh, presumably to walk on or to roll barrows, gives away the fact that the concrete beneath has definitely gone off.

The opposite is true.

Stick to painting, decorating and gardening, pal.

 

[noseall]

Or it was a stiff mix around the 0.45 water cement ratio as opposed to the runny mix some use to make things flow easier?

It wasn't like pish, no, but not stiff enough to stand the weight of the barrow between mesh spacing - hence the planks.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

LOL

You're not going to get any fresh concrete mix to hold up a plank with a wheelbarrow on top. Or in the unlikely event any of this is true then it's bone dry and definitely won't flow and encapsulate the steel.

You've made a sandwich of two brittle biscuits with some rusty metal in the middle, it's not reinforced concrete.

Just admit you're a cowboy, apologise and promise not to do it again.

There are blokes who spend their entire life careers tying together reinforcement on building sites, usually called Steel Fixers. Someone needs to tell them they're all out of a job, some jobbing builder's just invented a miracle new method that requires zero talent and is just as good.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You're all on the dole lads, the company's adopted the super-efficient "Noseall Chuck it in and run method".

 

[Deluks]

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Bloody hell, that's a big extension. Must be using all that steel to support the granite worktops and American style fridge freezer.

 

[Dereekoo]

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You're all on the dole lads, the company's adopted the super-efficient "Noseall Chuck it in and run method".

Thats definitely going to be structural reinforced concrete as opposed to a bit of mesh to control early shrinkage and cracking on a mass concrete floor slab

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

You'd probably be better off without the steel vs this method. It just breaks the concrete into two slabs so weakens it and will rust, expanding and cracking the concrete around it.

 

[noseall]

You're not going to get any fresh concrete mix to hold up a plank with a wheelbarrow on top.

Your lack of knowledge regards the building trade is staggering. Don't ever give up that paintbrush pal.

 

[stevie888]

You'd probably be better off without the steel vs this method. It just breaks the concrete into two slabs so weakens it and will rust, expanding and cracking the concrete around it.

Ignore the clown Ivor, he thinks he knows better than SEs too.

 

[noseall]

he thinks he knows better than SEs too.

Not until you can find one that can find a difference between wet concrete being forced under mesh and wet concrete being placed under mesh, no.
Stick to teaching boyo.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

Awww bless. Kind of cute watching someone utterly unable to admit to being wrong. As normal, out come the playground insults.

 

[noseall]

Awww bless. Kind of cute watching someone utterly unable to admit to being wrong. As normal, out come the playground insults.

Correct, I wouldn't call it cute though. Just ill informed. And I have been disregarding 'the clown Ivors' posts for a while now.

 

[noseall]

Ignore the clown Ivor, he thinks he knows better than SEs too.

Clown Ivor is just overly keen is all, no need for playground insults.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I can't work out what SEs are.

The tone round here sometimes reminds me of Cell Block H. Don't mess with the scowly one, just pretend they're right then they don't have a stroppy tantrum. He used to give me roses...

I'm sure you'll have quietly taken my advice on board and will stop making whatever thing you were doing that you thought was reinforced concrete. Obviously you're not going to admit it, way too much ego in the way. Just omitting the rebar would be better than doing what you're doing, you're weakening it doing that.