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 12-15-2016, 19:48 Post: 24450
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Cutter, I would strongly suggest that you rent some type of compacting machine to settle your pad before the concrete pour. The dozer should be able to compact the deeper layers, but even that top layer after you finish grade will probably continue to settle after a month. A 5 hp plate compactor will effectively compress up to about 6" of material and will take 3-6 hours to do a 45x70 area real well. A day's rental of one of these units is $40-70 in my area, depending where you go. That's well worth it to save big cracks and heaves in your floor, plus you don't have to wait a month to continue your work. I've had very good luck with the fiber-reinforced concrete in the house/garage we recently built.






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 12-18-2016, 01:47 Post: 24549
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There's a new one on me... what's a "rat wall"?






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 12-18-2016, 16:30 Post: 24556
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Thanks for the "rat wall" definition. I really have never done any true slab contruction because I've always had a "frost wall" foundation around the perimeter. In my area the frost wall has to go down 48" so I automatically have a "rat wall". I know the problem though because the last house I bought had a second garage that was built on a piered foundation and the chipmunks kept getting under the slab floor. They would build caverns in the sand there. Finally got rid of the problem (but that's a different story) with minimal settling and damage to the floor.






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