Workshop Floors (Flat Work Construction)

  • The task to complete the 600 square meters of workshop floor using 40mpa concrete 200mm thick slab.
  • Steel fixing double layer of reinforcing mesh RF82.
  • Footing with reinforcement tied into concrete slab with N12
  • Concrete apron formed and reinforced with RF82 double layer and N12 bar every 1.2 meters.
  • Compacting concrete using Poker Vibrator.
  • Apron formed and reinforcing ready for placement of concrete slab using 40mpa concrete 200mm thick slab.
  • Screeding the concrete flat; even and to the required level. Using an aluminium screed takes some practice.
  • Backing up agitator truck to concrete pump.
  • Crack control bars 1 meter in length paced every 400 mm along footing.
  • Setting out the wet areas.
  • Finishing may require three or four trowelling passes of the surface.
  • It is important to commence finishing at the right time.
  • Finishing concrete with trowelling machine and trowelling edges by hand.