Hi all. I'm new to the forum. I just have a quick query before buying some concrete.
I am putting up a green house and have dug some footings for a concrete base. The base will just be a ring of concrete, not the whole floor. The foundation trench is a total of 12.6m around all four sides of the green house by 0.30 m wide by 0.25 m deep except the front which will be 0.60m wide by 0.25m deep
The greenhouse is 8' x 6'.( 2.44m x 1.8m)
i envisage putting 0.15 m thick layer of hardcore in the bottom of the trench then filling the rest up with concrete. 0.10 m thick
I calculated the concrete required to be 38 cubic meters and weighing in at about 2.3 tons . This seems like a lot of concrete.
I'm just after a sanity check really to make sure this is around the right figure.
If this figure is about right, is it feasible to mix this by hand in a wheelbarrow and lay it in one day ?
Thanks
Rob
I am putting up a green house and have dug some footings for a concrete base. The base will just be a ring of concrete, not the whole floor. The foundation trench is a total of 12.6m around all four sides of the green house by 0.30 m wide by 0.25 m deep except the front which will be 0.60m wide by 0.25m deep
The greenhouse is 8' x 6'.( 2.44m x 1.8m)
i envisage putting 0.15 m thick layer of hardcore in the bottom of the trench then filling the rest up with concrete. 0.10 m thick
I calculated the concrete required to be 38 cubic meters and weighing in at about 2.3 tons . This seems like a lot of concrete.
I'm just after a sanity check really to make sure this is around the right figure.
If this figure is about right, is it feasible to mix this by hand in a wheelbarrow and lay it in one day ?
Thanks
Rob