| Fingers77 - 11/10/2015 22:35
Are you an ACI certified flatwork tech?
Yes I am......basic and Commercial/Industrial.
And yes, in theory, wire could be considered an acceptable method of reinforcing, but only in a perfect scenario. What they are meaning when they say that is that unless you are pouring in a situation where no one will be in the concrete, you have people walking thru the mud or a laser screed driving thru it, it gets pushed to the bottom. I have a good friend who is on the board and he's showed me the tests they've done with it.
The ideal floor design for an average building is a 6" 4000psi floor on a super hard packed base with a grid of #3 bar 18" o.c. The only thing you are trying to do with reinforcement in a 4-6" floor is hold your control joints together. Look at any Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, a large distribution center.....almost every one of them will have dowel baskets along the control joint lines and nothing else. |
Concrete question: use old hog panels as reinforcement?
