Browse Forums Building A New House Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 22Apr 01, 2013 11:58 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 23Apr 02, 2013 5:50 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 24Apr 02, 2013 8:30 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 25Apr 03, 2013 4:12 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 28Apr 07, 2013 2:29 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 29Apr 07, 2013 9:21 am Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 30Apr 07, 2013 10:05 am Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 31Apr 07, 2013 10:39 am Kitty is talking about aggregate and colour, fair assumption that it is exposed polished aggregate finish. Either way the point about control joints is valid. As a subbie you will know that it does not matter how well you do your job, if the slab is crappy the finish will be crappy, and then they may blame you for it. I am sure you will have a beef about that. Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 32Apr 07, 2013 11:25 am Fresh from HIA Home Show VIC. Smallish floor grind company were quoting $35 p sq m for a levelling grind, and $85 p sq m for full polished ( Hiperfloor ) standard. Samples and photo albums showed good results Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 33Apr 12, 2013 9:52 am Blotchy colour is from using water to 'finish' the slab. Aggregate separation usually happens when the concrete has 'fallen' from a height greater than 1 metre and has a slump of greater than 90. We have polished several slabs that we didn't pour and that were less than ok. In one instance the slab had 3 x 20mm deflections over 3 mtrs, the polished concrete finish ended very well http://www.australianecoformations.com. ... idwood.jpg Where you are coming from is where you are going to...
Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 34Dec 09, 2014 8:59 pm Hi Building Expert, I will have my slab poured just before Xmas in Melbourne, and I'm a little nervous about hot, windy weather. I intend to pond the slab, since I live close by, and it won't be any trouble to fill up the water levels. But, just wondering how long do I wait for, after the slab pour, to build the dam walls and flood the slab? Thanks David Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 35Dec 10, 2014 6:19 am akapacker Hi Building Expert, I will have my slab poured just before Xmas in Melbourne, and I'm a little nervous about hot, windy weather. I intend to pond the slab, since I live close by, and it won't be any trouble to fill up the water levels. But, just wondering how long do I wait for, after the slab pour, to build the dam walls and flood the slab? Thanks David The sooner the better (the whole point of curing is to stop slab from drying out in hot windy weather). I have done it as soon as final power trowelling with helicopter was done. Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 36Dec 10, 2014 6:49 pm Thanks Building Expert. Will the dirt wall I put around the perimeter get stuck in the concrete? Does it matter? The concreter might look at me a bit funny when I start shovelling mud onto his freshly levelled slab! Cheers David Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 37Dec 10, 2014 10:15 pm no it won't stick but it may stain. you will have to 'bund' the wet areas too or it won't pond. Plastic can be an option but does become waste though could be used for drive way and alfresco or other (WPM) for concrete, doubled up. Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 38Dec 10, 2014 10:31 pm Hello, this is very interesting. I intend to pond my slab and want to know roughly how big the "dam" should be that one creates around the end of the slab to pond the water. Are we talking a little (less than 5cm) type bund, or higher? Please to see from comments above that it can be ponded pretty much after the helicopter is done I'm not keen on using plastic due to securing it from the afternoon winds, and also excess waste. Se Re: Did you wet cure your slab? 39Dec 11, 2014 4:33 am Beazley77 Hello, this is very interesting. I intend to pond my slab and want to know roughly how big the "dam" should be that one creates around the end of the slab to pond the water. Are we talking a little (less than 5cm) type bund, or higher? Please to see from comments above that it can be ponded pretty much after the helicopter is done I'm not keen on using plastic due to securing it from the afternoon winds, and also excess waste. Se 25-50 mm of water cover as your slab is unlikely to be perfectly flat and some tolerance is allowed. Another advantage of ponding is that as you flood the slab it will show up low and then high spots. This will be important as you need to know how much levelling compound you need to use before laying porcelain tiles or similar and also if there are high spots that need to be ground off. If you are just carpeting you may not have to be doing any additional levelling. Foremost Building Expert in Australia,assisting with building problems/disputes, building stage inspections,pre-contract review advice for peace of mind 200 blogs http://www.buildingexpert.net.au/blog Did you wet cure your slab? 40Dec 14, 2014 7:50 pm building-expert I think that the thread was most relevant to OB's When the concreter has poured and finished the slab he is usually paid then gone. Then you as OB got to take care of the curing. Hi there, My pad was poured on Sat morn and I was told to pond it in the afternoon. Im in WA so the water doesn't hang around long with the Freo Doctor rolling in. I went back and hosed it sat night and Sunday morning. It seems to have developed this blotchy appearance over night in dark grey/black. Is that perhaps because the guys had an accelerator added to the concrete mix and its leaching to surface, or it's just uneven curing? Just wondering if its likely to be on surface or all the way through as was thinking we might have a go at retrospective polished concrete in a couple of rooms...on the plus side it seems pretty level with only a couple of little high points which will be under beds so who cares Looks like this All sorted guys. Just needed to buy a blade with the correct bush. Dunno how to delete this post, can't find any help file. Cheers. 1 3688 Thanks mate. Yeah good points! Leaning towards Option 3 to get a bit extra space in the cabinets but not going too crazy high (and expensive). Would require a mini… 13 39851 No the fireplace doesn’t work. It’s been enclosed. I’m not sure what was removed, as it was done quite some time ago - well before what I can see with photos online… 2 11624 |