building a wooden chute to take concrete delivery

[live4weekends]

need to pour 1.2m of concrete for floor slab inside (almost) finished house extension - there is a valid reason for not doing the oversite in this room before this stage, before anyone asks

the truck could back up to front door but the room is around a 90 degree corner perhaps a couple of metres in total. I was thinking of knocking up a chute out of some plywood and lining it with spare DPM to help it flow better.

anything I should worry about here, apart from making sure the structure is strong enough?

 

[Chukka63]

why not use a barrow???

yes,it will splash everywhere unless as dry as a nuns ****

 

[noseall]

You have it sussed really.

So long as the ply is thick enough, has enough fall and is adequately supported then give it a go.

We have used scaffold boards coupled with dpm in the past and it works well. Make sure you secure the dpm adequately or it will slip down the chute.

The concrete will tend to bunch up at the chute bottom so get your shovel warmed up.

 

[Thermo]

why not use a barrow???

yes,it will splash everywhere unless as dry as a nuns ****

habit?

 

[Chukka63]

The concrete will tend to bunch up at the chute bottom so get your shovel warmed up.

or if its not too far from the chute to the placement area use a good rake.

 

[live4weekends]

reckon a chute will save a lot of mess that barrowing will cause, plus I'm on my own doing this

thanks for confirmation

 

[Nige F]

You have it sussed really.

So long as the ply is thick enough, has enough fall and is adequately supported then give it a go.

We have used scaffold boards coupled with dpm in the past and it works well. Make sure you secure the dpm adequately or it will slip down the chute.

The concrete will tend to bunch up at the chute bottom so get your shovel warmed up.

Having one as shiny as a Scottish Coppers Buttons helps too NOT Clegged up with old concrete

 

[thomasw]

why not just get it punped in

 

[^woody^]

What about one of those trucks that mixes just the amount you need on site and comes with 5 Eastern Europeans who barrow the stuff for you

 

[Watshot]

Imagine it's gone off since February......

 

[^woody^]

LOL.

Why don't this bloody site archive or mark old threads as dead or something

It will stop all the idiots replying

 

[IJWS15]

LOL.

Why don't this bloody site archive or mark old threads as dead or something

It will stop all the idiots replying

It lets us know who the idiots are!

 

[plstering]

pump it in m8

 

[noseall]

let us know who the idiots are!

pump it in m8