Browse Forums Paving & Concreting Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 2Feb 05, 2011 7:56 pm The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 3Feb 05, 2011 8:10 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 5Feb 06, 2011 12:00 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 6Feb 06, 2011 6:25 am The Harder You Try - the Luckier You Get ! Web site http://www.anewhouse.com.au Informative, Amusing, and Opinionated Blog - Over 600 posts on all aspects of building a new house. Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 8Feb 06, 2011 8:41 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Driveway specifications - a bit confusing 9Feb 07, 2011 8:51 am Thanks guys, and those links are fabulous. What bothers me is these superficial joints - the text says: if the cracking happens, it should happen along the cut. I don't like the word "should". Would a proper full depth joint be better (but I suppose that would be called "expansion joint" and according to the doco http://www.concrete.net.au/publications%20...%20veways.pdf, they are only required for very large concrete areas). Are the "control joints" (as per the term used in the doco) full depth or also only cut in with a saw? Or, are they created in some other way?? Are the saw cuts done while concrete is still wet, or when it cures, like the following day or so? Anyway, I always thought that new concrete, when laid against any existing concrete, should be separated with foam expansion (I understand that the doco above actually says against any rigid structure). One concretor (who we thought to employ) told us that they would use some kind of plastic against the house and then just cut the surplus later - didn't like the sound of that. Onc, the shape is really weird and it's hard to calculate the area exactly because of the shape, but as I said, the "core" driveway itself would be, very roughly and following the most obvious shaped areas, about (3m x 4m - area on the nature strip) + (5m x 7.5m - area from the nature strip to garage). Then, into left and right from the garage, it joins the pathways (approx 1-1.2m wide) along the front and the sides of the house. My signature is distracting people from my wise posts ... Thanks for your reply! All valid points and I agree with you on many of them. I am in QLD, any recommendations on a construction lawyer would be helpful 3 2629 Hi, we live in an area where the black soil is prone to a lot of movement. We have an old 50's house with masonite everywhere and nails popping out, warping, rusted etc.… 0 4499 To my understanding early saw cuts are to control shrinkage cracks, so doing them now would be pointless. Control joints may reduce ugly cracking during periods of soil… 3 9830 |