Browse Forums Owner Builder Forum 1 Oct 27, 2020 7:43 am Hi, I am owner building my house and have a structural question. We have put down the main slab and a strip footing for our alfesco. There is an infill slab that will be going down for our alfresco floor. There will be some brick veneer that sits on the strip footing. My question is the framing by the brick veneer, does this sit on the strip footing or the infill slab? Ideally I want to pour the infill slab at the end together with front porch. What is the normal practice here? I am getting conflicting views. Thanks for your help. Re: Infill Slab 2Oct 27, 2020 4:55 pm Hey rickprop What type of slab/footings are they? Infill slabs can be poured at a latter date providing you can connect them with z bars or similar to the footings. The inside leaf generally sits on thickenings on top of the footings ie raft slab BTW you should have construction Engineering details Cheers Chris Designer,Engineer (Civil,Const & Envir),Builder,Concrete & Masonry Contract.Struct Repairs Re: Infill Slab 3Oct 27, 2020 5:27 pm Thanks Chris, infill slab is 150mm thick with 50mm sand under, SL82 25Mpa. I spoke with the engineer and he said it sits on the strip footing on the one side 150mm in for brick veneer that sits on strip footing directly. The infill slab is to be chemset with starter bars into the other side main slab. Framing then goes on top of infill slab above footing section to support the roof beams. I am trying to leave the concreting for later so I can get a pump in and do it on one day. yep you need a joint, foam is easiest, will look fine once rendered with a joint. 2 4348 Hi all, Trying to workout the minimum stepdown required between slab for my house and the outdoor alfresco area. Garage is 100mm lower than rest of the house and plan was… 0 3655 Thanks for the insights, that makes perfect sense, and yeah, I will be leaning on the experience of the excavator operator entirely. 6 11045 |