Building my last shop

That looks great!
Must be very satisfying to get past this stage after so many delays.


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I can only imagine how good you must feel finally seeing floor come to fruition. Congrats!
 
pontiac428 said:
You're getting a damn fine pour. Lots of steel, looks like a solid 4" minimum. Color me jealous, I got the extreme opposite on mine, and was left with the decision to keep it and live with it, or hammer it out and pay again. I chose to live with it, and it hasn't been pain-free. Anyway, that looks like you're going have a very nice slab.
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What were your problems?
 
Dhal22 said:
What were your problems?
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The crew was in a slam-job rush. It was a sub contract company. They pumped it in by hose, washed down the walls just for kicks, and worked so fast to keep up with the pump that they left me with up to 3/4" in a running yard worth of slope within the six sections of the slab. Moving equipment around and having a wheel lift off the ground hurts my feelings every time, and placing things on the floor requires shimming. Plus I got no steel mesh, just fiber, so it cracked to hell when it cured. My build contract allowed for it, so that's that. When I get a vehicle lift I'll have to cut out the concrete underneath the hoist posts and pour it back proper in order to feel safe. I thought it was understood that expensive concrete should be good concrete... Truth is, it's so darned expensive to do business in greater Seattle, it's hard to find contractors anymore. If you can get one to show up, you're lucky... but sometimes you are stuck with what you get. That's all I've got to say about that, Forrest. Now, NCjeeper's got himself a fine slab. That there's like old iron, made to last a lifetime and then some.
 
So you think it cracked due to no mesh or rebar? I thought fiber was used in place of those things.
 
ddickey said:
So you think it cracked due to no mesh or rebar? I thought fiber was used in place of those things.
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The fiber that I have experience with is fine, long, and leaves "hair" on a broom finish. That stuff works. The fiber they mixed in here looks like rice, it's short, thick bundles of fibers, and I'm not convinced it does anything. I do think mesh would have helped against cracking. This was my recent experience, a cautionary tale. There was too much going on during my shop build that I didn't keep up with my own thread... Please message me with questions on my build, I don't want to hog up space in NCjeeper's project thread :barbershop:.
 
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