• efficient building • warm and sturdy feet • a must for any body |
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advanced foundation |
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ringbeam reinforced slab fully insulated outside and underneath |
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cutting and filling; the aim is a levelled site |
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levelled, set up and prepared for casting the ground strips back |
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900 mm wide and no less than 200 mm deep |
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shuttering concrete stones at their best |
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the shuttering stones prior to being filled with concrete, reinforced with steel rings and rods anchored into the slab |
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filling and compacting the inside of the now concrete casted ringbeam fixing the outside insulation and preparing the insulation underneath the bridging slab |
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the wooden boards help to shutter the outer edge of the slab |
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the dp membrane on top of the insulation and the first layer of steel on distancers going in |
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the second layer of steel is in and |
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casting the concrete and compacting it enlarge |
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coming closer |
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| some details about the warm foundation, as above: concrete shuttering stones: 250 mm wide ring beam reinforced by 3 layers of 10 mm steel rods steel mesh 8 mm, mesh 100 by 100 mm distancers off the dp membrane 30 mm distancers between the two steel meshes 100 mm floor area app 160 sqm ring beam filling app 6 m³ concrete slab 250 mm thick, app 44 m³ of concrete insulation material: overlapping rigid PU foam 60 mm thick underneath the slab and othogonal Please feel free to contact us for details, anytime: info@rockenergy.co.uk
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