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Due to my architect being a complete spaz, I've got to sink my ring beam further into the ground. Though it is annoying I'm not overly worried about digging it out another 4 inches - what does bother me though is the thought of trying to cut down 10 more piles
The piles are 225mm diameter, the rebar cages are 300mm apart - is there any reason I can't just "coerce" the rebar cages down over the piles by 3 inches? By my reckoning it'd only mean spreading 2 of the square formers by 25mm and jobs a goodun - just have 4in more of pile sticking into the beam than intended?!
If I can get away with that I won't have to take all the shuttering out, I'll just scoop below it down to depth and tack on strips of ply beneath the existing shuttering!
The piles are 225mm diameter, the rebar cages are 300mm apart - is there any reason I can't just "coerce" the rebar cages down over the piles by 3 inches? By my reckoning it'd only mean spreading 2 of the square formers by 25mm and jobs a goodun - just have 4in more of pile sticking into the beam than intended?!
If I can get away with that I won't have to take all the shuttering out, I'll just scoop below it down to depth and tack on strips of ply beneath the existing shuttering!